New Stand-Alone System Serves as All-in-One Solution for Single-Display, Single-Site Installations

PRINCETON, N.J. — Triveni Digital, a subsidiary of LG Electronics (LGE), today announced the release of a new version of Ensignia™ Digital Signage Lobby, a stand-alone, self-contained system for digital signage deployments requiring just one display screen. Integrated with LGE’s M4210N flat-panel HDTV LCD display, the new Lobby system provides an economical solution for high-quality content display in a broad range of applications.

“Digital signage systems provide a flexible platform for quick, efficient delivery of advertising or informational content, and this latest addition to our Ensignia product line serves as the ideal solution for single-screen deployments,” said Ralph Bachofen, director of product management and marketing at Triveni Digital.

“One of the main customer or reseller challenges is the complexity of installation and configuration of a digital signage system, including player, screen, and cabling,” continued Bachofen. “The Lobby system solves that problem by providing a digital signage solution in a single box. It is easy to use and supports industry-standard, third-party digital content-creation tools, providing a turnkey solution for scheduled content playout. All the user must do is install the screen, plug in the power cable, and connect an existing PC to the system to run its MediaManager application.”
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Scala will launch the new release of InfoChannel 5 Version 3.0 at Digital Signage Expo February 27 - 28, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV.

The  highlights of the new version include A new high-performance video-playback engine and A new Broadcast Server module, as well as other new improvements such as handling large files (4 GB) and better audio control, enhanced Content Manager and more.

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BEAVERTON, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 19, 2008–Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLNR), a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, today announced its CoolSign offering is the first digital signage software platform to integrate with Google Calendar(TM) web-based calendaring service and Google Docs(TM) word processing and spreadsheet applications. The new integration allows users to easily update and control digital signs using Google Calendar and Google Docs, providing CoolSign with superior technology in digital signage. This new solution achieves an unparalleled level of creativity and ease-of-use not available on the market today and illustrates Planar’s commitment to the growing digital signage market.

Providing an ideal interface for both technical and non-technical users, this platform enables immediate changes to key content including calendars, agendas and schedules rendered in CoolSign digital signage content. Concurrent with the launch, Planar is also announcing its first customer deployment with a leading global sports apparel retailer, which will integrate CoolSign, using Google Docs and Google Calendar, into their retail stores.

The new interface using Google’s free Web applications addresses the retail customer’s creative requirements that required being able to display up-to-the-minute information generated by store personnel and the community. The customer required a simple, but secure, way to display and update dynamic in-store digital signage content. In addition, they wanted to be able to drive and update a community events calendar from an internal Google Calendar, as well as provide up-to-the-minute details regarding sporting and community events using Google Docs.

“The key to truly compelling digital signage is to make it relevant and engaging with dynamic, up-to-date content,” said Brad Gleeson, vice president of business development and general manager, CoolSign. “CoolSign’s capability to work with Google applications, as well as other industry-standard applications, is truly revolutionary because it makes this form of customer communication universally accessible to virtually anyone.”
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Feb. 19, 2008 by Ritesh Gupta - New Delhi-based TruKnox launched Tru-I-Suite during Screen Expo Europe, recently held in London. The software is also compatible with Windows XP.
The suite comprises TruDesigner (a presentation creator, pictured), TruScheduler (enabling connection to single or multiple players) and TruPresenter (for playing back the presentation produced in TruDesigner).

Licence fees will be based on the scale of the TruPresenter deployment, TruKnox’s managing director Rajesh Monga told SCREENS.tv. “Our focus has been on coming up with a clean and intuitive interface, smart scheduling and minimising the bandwidth required for transfer, and delivering an internal self-healing mechanism which checks itself and repairs accordingly,” said Monga.

TruKnox has also created two management products: TruBooking Agent, which is designed to determine the availability of space, time and position both demographically and geographically, as well as generate the pricing, and TruBilling Agent, which helps to generate an invoice for advertisers from playback records.

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Feb. 17, 2008 Screen.TV - InfoSignz Technologies is eyeing an aggressive push for its InfoSignz digital-signage platform, available on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, in several markets including India, the U.S. and the UK.
The company, headquartered in Pune, India with offices in Mumbai, San Francisco and the UK, recently made its system available for free.
The free version has all the features necessary to create an enterprise-scale digital-signage network, according to InfoSignz, allowing users to create, schedule, publish and manage content on multiple screens remotely from any PC via the Web. (A typical interface screen is pictured.)
CEO Siddharth Sethi told SCREENS.tv: “During our soft launch we have seen sign-ups from locations across the globe. The SaaS model that we have developed this platform on is precisely about reach. We hope to take this product to places where a physical sales force will find hard to reach. We are looking for meaningful alliances in all geographies.”
InfoSignz’ revenue-generation model involves charging small amounts for premium, pay-per-use services or products. Advertisement-based revenues generated through partnerships will also be key.

Said Sethi: “The pay-per-use model…is not for the system itself but premium components. Even in the free version, customers would be able to access components and content and pay if and only if they choose to use the premium components and for the time duration that they choose to use. That is a big advantage for all types of businesses – they do not have to invest upfront for components/features they are not sure whether they will use or not. (more…)