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It's been very busy at Scala recently, with tradeshow season in full swing. Here are some updates on how we've been doing. It's an exciting time in the digital signage industry, and the development in tradeshows in general reflect this!June 29, 2007 -Scala Demonstrates Global Leadership at the 2007 In-Store ShowMay 28, 2007 - Scala to Attend Computex Taipei 2007May 24, 2007 - Aquaria and Scala

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Today, while working on some new additions to the Scala web site, I realized that "Scalability" begins with "Scala". You, like me, know how some seemingly trivial coincidence can set in motion a whirlwind of thoughts and ideas. And the more you think about this phrase like I just did, the more you can see how true it really is!Scala InfoChannel is known in the industry for its rock-solid

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According to The Register, a new directive this week orders the federal government to only deploy Windows with certain specified security measures implemented, with the level of detail going right down to the level of specific registry settings. Resellers and system integrators that intend to sell Windows-based solutions to the federal government will have to ensure that their solutions meet the

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DailyTech seems to think so. They are trickling on to the market, currently at a high cost, but as the technology evolves and economies of scale come into play, we might have some fast, cool (temperature-wise), and energy efficient storage in our own equipment.As the tech is still in its early forms I don't know how long it will be before they can be used in digital signs, but their resistance to

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Visit APB News for this artcle pontificating the proliferation of digital signage worldwide, now and in the fhttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifuture.One passage in particular jumped out at me:The Malaysian networks mentioned here all use Scala equipment “because it is an enterprise-strength system that can be [either] used for one location or scaled to hundreds of locations country-wide and

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Not intented for digital signage, but the gadget featured in this CNet article shows promise as an ebook reader. The distinctive characteristic of Polymer Vision's Readius is that its display is rollable! This is the kind of form factor I'm hoping will find its way to digital signs sometime in the future. Currently, the eInk displays only have 16 shades of gray and update too slowly for what the

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The report linked above is only available with a subscription, but according to their summary page "Western European Resellers expect a price decrease of 10.7% for LCDs and 8.4% for PDPs in 2007 and there is no change in sight for the next years."I risk sounding like a broken record, but it bears repeating: we're headed for a perfect storm in the digital signage industry. If predictions like

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Intel has revealed a bit about their forthcoming 45nm chip technology. New materials are being used to reduce transistor leakage, a limitation that increases as transistor densities increase. In the digital signage industry, we tend to push the envelope. Our ideas and concepts sometimes outpace the development of available hardware necessary to make our ideas into reality and it's nice to see

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Recently we had reports going around that claimed outdoor advertising is a roadside distraction but in the headlines yesterday and even on Good Morning America today we see a case study in outdoor advertising gone wrong.Small electronic LED signs representing characters from the Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force have been placed in cities across the United States for about two weeks,

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Scala will be present at the Screen Expo Europe, Earls Court, London. Come check us out at Stand B23. From the press release:Scala will be teaming with Scala Certified Partner DigiSigns.co.uk to present the world's most widely deployed Digital Signage software platform in the world. With over 30,000 licenses in use around the globe, Scala's InfoChannel® is recognized as the leading Digital

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I've added a new area to the Scala home page called "Resources". This will serve as a repository for all kinds of information about the digital signage industry from various sources. The inaugural content concerns "Retail Signage" and is a great starting point for this area, so please head on over to the Scala home page for more information.There will be more resources being added to this area in

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Check out the Scala Home Page and take a look at the new videos available for streaming. These videos will also be available for download at full size; stay tuned and I will update this post with the location.

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One of the advantages of virtualization that I did not mention in my last post about disruptive technologies is the remote administration possibilities. You can remotely log in to the guest operating system just like any machine, over RDP or perhaps VNC, but virtualization also allows you to connect to the host machine, if it's configured to allow it. The key advantage here is that it allows you

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David Strom from ITNews.com.au writes an interesting piece on 5 technologies he thinks we should keep an eye on during 2007, including a few of my personal favorites: RFID, advanced graphics, and server virtualization. Do they have the potential to be disruptive?Let's get back to basics and discuss disruptive technology, or really, disruptive innovation. This is a term dating back to 1997 when

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This article from Ryerson University's unofficial student newspaper (nice site, BTW) mentions how Scala digital signage is being used to keep the students informed. Most interesting, however, is the reference to a system they implemented in the 1970s, long before Scala came about:Brad Fortner, the RCC program director of operations & technology, who is responsible for the RCC screens said, “My

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New to Scala.com: Dick Trask, Scala's Director of Marketing, writes an informative article about planning for future expansion in your signage network. You may think you only need 10 players, but when choosing your signage platform be sure to take into account that you may have some growth in the future.For companies considering deploying a digital signage system it is very important to look into

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Mediox, Inc. mentions Scala in their press release discussing interactive multimedia restaurant trays. This sounds like an interesting concept. I have a number of questions though:How is durability achieved - these will be carried, dropped, shuffled around, soiled, cleaned, and possibly stolenWon't there be food placed on top of the tray? I'm sure they account for this, and it will be fascinating

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BBC News reports that a UK company is building a plant that will manufacture flexible plastic-based electronic circuits.The firm is working on "control circuits" that sit behind screens on electronic displays. In particular, it is working on the electronic circuitry for "electronic paper" displays.While I constantly hammer on the idea of ubiquitous displays that can fit any space large or small,

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Following up on a previous post about SMS and Scala digital signage, I thought I might point out an example of someone that has a solution: BlueFire Digital. Their approach seems to be to use Bluetooth and SMS to allow your signage network to send content to mobile devices, and I can imagine that their solutions can be used in many creative ways. While I haven't seen one in action yet, they are

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I'm still digesting this one, and I thought it interesting enough to pass along. Peter Gutmann wrote up an analysis of the costs to the computer industry that may stem from Windows Vista's content protection capabilities. His summary:Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order toprovide content protection for so-called "premium content", typically HD datafrom

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By now you've noticed that I adapted the Scala Blog to more of a Scala look. There are still some tweaks to be made (like moving the archive links from the bottom of the page) but overall this is much easier on the eyes that the default Blogger templates.And while making this change, I discovered that the Blogger Beta has taken to disliking our FTP server, so for the time being the Scala blog

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A short but interesting thread on our public discussion forum contains information about using SMS text messaging on your mobile phone to add or update content on your digital signage network.This sounds perfect for making small updates while you're on the run. Jump in on the conversation.

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Check out this video of the new "Lumalive" display technology from Philips. It looks like it will require some development in order to get the resolution up to meet the requirements for dynamic advertising, but just think of the potential!Tiny projectors, e-Ink, and other flexible displays such as these light emitting textiles could really take what we think of digital signage now (big

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Researchers at Cornell are investigating carbon fibers for use in electronics, and one of the highlighted uses is in tiny, highly-efficient display projectors that could be built into devices as small as mobile phones.This technology is a long way off, but it would be really interesting to see how such projectors could be applied to digital signage. Certainly a greater variety of display sizes,

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Another example of the power of Scala digital signage has gone live at the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. 16 Scala IC3 Players, a Network Manager, and a Designer are all working in concert to provide a display network capable of informing visitors depending on time of day and location.Additionally, use of scripting and predefined templates allows for simple text entry to spawn instant

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Many people are familiar with their local watering hole, and no doubt some of those establishments are known to have televisions placed in a prominent position so that patrons imbibing their favorite brew can enjoy the game that's currently airing. But when there is no football, baseball, or other sports scheduled on live television, we all know what happens: regular programming comes on.

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I recently attended a balloon festival. The event was surprisingly fun, especially considering the extreme heat of the day being quenched by an army of marketing booth folks handing out free samples of iced tea and energy drinks.In the evening, the mass inflation began, filling the sky with hot-air balloons which flew directly over the crowd and into the distance. Balloons were shaped like soda

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In Web marketing, analytics is a hot topic. How do you know whether your message is being seen, if it has any impact, and whether or not that impact is a positive one?Many tools and services have been developed to examime the contents of log files and databases to answer those questions. Making use of this web intelligence is critical to success in marketing online.But in the new era of

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We hear a lot about retail digital signage and POS/POP advertising displays, but following up on the SkiStar case study, we can now take a look at the Golf Channel. The Golf Channel is managed by Scala reseller ASVideo, providing a turnkey digital signage solution for the 18-hole Bonalba Golf Course in Alicante, Spain.With 42" NEC plasma screens placed at high traffic areas, and a projector in

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Check out yesterday's Digital Signage Update from Broadcast Engineering. They covered the SkiStar implementation (built by the Impact Europe Group) of Scala InfoChannel for use in a resort TV network, using InfoChannel's powerful media management and dynamic playback capabilities to display weather reports, ski lift and trail information, advertising, and more. All of this content is displayed

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NorgesGruppen, the Norwegian grocery retailer, has been running a network of digital menuboards in Shell FRESH retail locations across Norway. The concept behind the FRESH network of 400 Scala InfoChannel players is to promote a fresher image at the Shell gas stations, and to promote the healthier food selections now available.According to the case study, this network is a great example of

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Here's a larger streaming version of the InfoChannel 5 Trailer video that's viewable from our home page. I've put it up on YouTube in this case so you can send it around easily. Let ys know what you think!

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This isn't specific to digital signage, but I found it worth passing along. John Battelle reports that Google has launched dayparting support in the Adwords system. What is dayparting? Dayparting is the practice of scheduling advertisements, in this case Google's text ads, according to the time of day that your intended audience is most likely to be present where you're sending your message. It's

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Exciting news: Scala has announced its next-generation product suite, Infochannel 5. Unveiled at Infocomm 2006 last week, Infochannel 5 sports a "... streamlined interface/workflow, rapid template-based content authoring, sophisticated content management including new channel planning/scheduling modules, new 3D-based rendering engine for improved visual quality, better performance and multiple

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The 100-inch LCD display that LG Philips LCD announced back in March is set to be revealed to the world at the Society for Information Display conference in San Francisco, California.According to the LG Philips LCD press release:...the 100-inch panel is a wide screen (16:9) LCD TV panel which has a screen response speed below 5ms, 6.22 million-pixels, Full HD grade picture quality and the

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Congratulations to HSBC Bank for receiving their award at DRE this past weekend in Chicago:"Scala, Inc., the world’s leading software platform for digital signage, today announced that HSBC Bank in Dubai, UAE and Scala Inc. has won the prestigious ‘Best in Class Creative Content: Financial Market’ award at the 2006 Digital Retailing Expo in Chicago. The award, one of only six awarded, highlights

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"Located in approximately 40 store locations in major cities throughout the Russian Federation, the Ramstore Retail Network deployment of state-of-the-art digital signage networks represents a new era for in-store advertising."Thus begins our latest news release. The Ramstore network, spread throughout the Russian Federation, uses both satellite transmision and the Internet to keep the displays

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Scala's latest press release, M-Cube and Scala at Promotion Expo, relates the high level of interest in Scala InfoChannel digital signage software coupled with M-Cube's unique approach of combining visual and auditory information with olfactory stimulation... in other words, M-Cube's ability to have digital signs emit pleasing scent!M-Cube's Trisensor page explains: "This product can stimulate

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Although Scala is of course a pure "software only" company (we literally don't sell any hardware today and never have!), we of course keep close tabs on all the latest technologies that affect the Digital Signage industry in which we are still the gobal software leader.One interesting new display technology that we are watching with great interest are the the new "SED TV" displays that Canon and

Gerard Bucasnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23242743.post-1144263606742642572006-04-05T13:49:00.000-05:002006-04-05T14:01:51.223-05:00

We're accustomed to seeing case studies about digital signage and advertising, or education, but here's a special case that illustrates a positive impact of the growing medium of narrowcasting. Vizicast Multimedia built a digital sign network for Hopalong Animal Rescue as part of their non-profit fundraising efforts, and to help find homes for 35 orphaned animals from the Katrina disaster.

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Scala InfoChannel® now offers a new extension to support LED Banner functionality in your digital signage network. The LED Banner EX allows users to create digital signage content in very wide aspect ratios, for instance 4000 X 200, displays your content in a continuous stream. Be sure to visit the overview page for more information, and contact Scala with your followup questions.Technorati Tags:

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Everywhere we turn nowadays, "digital signs" are more and more prevalent. The advent of more affordable large format flat screen displays (plasma,LCD, LED, etc) are even allowing the typical printed "portrait mode" posters to be replaced by these so-called new "digital signs". We see them in banks, airports, retail stores, cruise ships, casinos, factories, call centers and even churches!However

Gerard Bucasnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23242743.post-1143821550583526472006-03-31T11:12:00.000-05:002006-03-31T13:31:09.603-05:00

Scala's Director of Training and Services, Marc Rifkin, has written a great piece on implementing a digital signage network with Scala InfoChannel 3. It's primarily intended for a technical audience, chock full of excellent advice and bets practice.We have an excellent collection of high-quality information in our whitepapers, so I figure it's a good time to feature them here:5.2 Million MPEGs...

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When choosing a digital signage network platform, there are a number of different content delivery architectures at the playback location that different vendors are proposing. The three major alternatives being heavily promoted by various digital signage network solution providers, are:1. Installing a "video server" at each store or location, which can support multiple video output streams from a

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Scala reseller Digiboard has built an impressive digital signage network at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport. Digiboard's 58 plasma screens are positioned at strategic locationsthroughout the airport, mainly at the Duty free shops, gateways,boarding areas, passport control and baggage collection areas. Theairport has a variety of 42" and 60" screens deployed. To influence the purchasing

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Digital Signs and digital signage are often associated with so-called "In-Store media" screens (aka "Retail TV") that are used to promote and re-enforce branding and advertise specific products and/or promote special offers in a retail store environment. Within the industry these type of digital signs are generally referred to as "customer facing" digital signs.Although the potential for "Retail

Gerard Bucasnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23242743.post-1142972027565461892006-03-21T15:13:00.000-05:002006-03-21T15:13:47.603-05:00

Scala's latest release, HSBC Banks on Technology to Advance Communication, reports on Scala reseller Specialized Software Services, LLC and their digital signage project with HSBC, the largest and most widely represented international bank in the Middle East.Interestingly, HSBC notes that once the project is implemented, they have little need for further assistance from SSS. How can this be?

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You may have noticed the flag icons at the bottom of every page; one linking to the English language home page (and therefore the entire Scala site) and one linking to a small set of documents in German. I'm proud to state now that we're moving forward in this direction! Our very own Helge Haarig (Business Development Central Europe), from the Kerkrade office, is providing content for the German

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Those of you who view our new home page with Shockwave/Flash installed are treated to a nice interactive selector which drops you into our market-specific "portal" pages for digital signage applications, and which displays streaming videos about digital signage in general along with how Scala InfoChannel really fills every need in that space.If you don't have the requisite plugins installed on

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Scala reseller ASVideo has launched "Campus TV" for Madrid Polytechnic University as a way to stimulate enrollment and student involvement via a campuswide digital signage network.Excerpt:AS Video, in a network manager role provides a turnkey solution, creating content, controlling scheduling, maintaining hardware and software and administering the system for the university. AS Video collaborates

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Welcome to the Scala Web Blog. It may appear to be a strange, almost redundant name, but really it's very accurate for now. The purpose of this blog is to inform users of updates to www.scala.com, the ultimate resource for digital signage software, and as a "think out loud" approach to site development. For now, comments will even be enabled so as to elicit feedback from our userbase.Obviously,

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