Scala Debuts InfoChannel 5 Release 3

IMS Audio Visual is excited to announce InfoChannel 5 Release 3. This new release shows Scala’s continued commitment to being the world leader in digital signage software. InfoChannel 5 Release 3 adds new features and modules, performance improvements and fixes.

Highlights include:

• InfoChannel now has a new high-performance video-playback engine that plays back videos much faster than before, including 60fps video, and HD video on suitable hardware.
• InfoChannel now supports playback of H.264 (MPEG-4) video files. H.264 offers high visual quality at a smaller file size than MPEG-2 or WMV files.
• You can create text in languages such as Arabic, Thai, Hebrew, Hindi, Vietnamese, and other complex writing systems.
• The new Broadcast Server module for InfoChannel Content Manager allows you to distribute content and plans to players using a multicast or package delivery network.
• Support for playing and controlling external audio sources from the "Line Input" of your sound card.
• When setting up a dual-channel player, you can now configure the PC's displays to be in spanning / stretched mode, which performs better and looks cleaner than using two independent displays.
• Support for text-entry field elements from the Buttons panel. This allows you to create interactive applications that take keyboard input.
• If your InfoChannel Player is behind a proxy server, you can now specify the proxy server's URL, username, and password.
• Publishing individual files that are bigger than 4GB is now supported.
• InfoChannel Content Manager is now significantly faster when dealing with larger networks.
• In InfoChannel Content Manager, sub-playlists can be easily created by multi-selecting media items and clicking Create Sub-Playlist.
• Text elements using variables, and text crawls now support inline and adjacent style changes for font, color, italics, size, etc.
• In InfoChannel Content Manager, you now "synchronize players" instead of "generating plans", and the new Distribution screen efficiently manages this for both conventional and broadcast connections.

These improvements are only some of the enhancements which continue to be released as InfoChannel 5 passes its 1 year anniversary.

If you are currently using Scala IC3, now is the time to consider upgrading to InfoChannel 5.

Please contact Jack Cary at jcary@ims-av.com or call 610-361-1870 to inquire how you can move up to the world standard in digital signage.

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Scala is the world leader in software for digital signage. With two decades of experience in the industry, Scala is committed to digital signage. Scala offers innovative, cutting-edge technology and Scala partners help customers integrate digital signage software, hardware, and technology resulting in the best possible digital signage network.

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