signagelive launches new $10 per month virtual player with support for IAdea SMIL open standard digital signage players at ISE 2010 stand #12F80
signagelive are excited to launch the “signagelive virtual player” enabling full support for the latest low cost SMIL (www.a-smil.org) open standards digital signage hardware developed by IAdea (www.iadea.com)
The signagelive virtual player enables a low cost solution targeted at the gap in the digital signage market between the ‘lock and load’ compact flash media players and the full functionality offered by the “signagelive display edition” running on a PC or Display with integrated Windows PC.
Now ultra low cost, solid-state digital signage players and small format LCD devices can be managed remotely alongside PC devices using the signagelive platform over a standard fixed line or mobile Internet connection.
With major hardware manufacturers developing and launching SMIL devices including Advantech, Mitsubishi and Viewsonic, the range of products available for use with the signagelive virtual player is growing daily.
Signagelive enables video and still image content to be scheduled, deployed and played back on the SMIL devices including dynamically updated content from Screenfeed (www.screenfeed.com), Signchannel (www.signchannel.com) and Sky News in the UK.
In addition, the new “signagelive message manager” feature enables simple textual changes to preset templates to be made by multiple users contributing to the content displayed on the SMIL range of players, creating a truly dynamic digital signage solution.
To compliment the support for the IAdea SMIL devices, the signagelive virtual player client (developed using Adobe Flex) can be downloaded and installed on any Windows, Mac or Linux device and will emulate a SMIL device 100% with playback and logging of all Media.
For local sites with SMIL devices that are installed standalone without networking, the signagelive virtual player client will enable a USB storage device to be inserted and media content to be transferred, enabling local USB update of multiple SMIL devices updating media content and retrieval and upload of playback log files to the signagelive platform.
With a suggested End User Price of $10 per month per signagelive virtual player, the combined offering from IAdea and signagelive provides an extremely cost effective and scalable digital signage solution.
Signagelive will be officially launching the signagelive virtual player at ISE 2010 on Stand #12F80 and is interested in meeting potential resellers keen to become approved partners for this exciting proposition.
Having worked closely with signagelive on the development of the virtual player, Rex Chen – Executive Vice President of IAdea commented on the signagelive virtual player launch:
“IAdea actively supports open standards in designing digital signage media appliances. Last year we saw tremendous sales growth in our Full-HD appliance, which supports the W3C SMIL standard for advanced scheduling and screen layout management. This year IAdea is rolling out with multiple new devices, including the XDS-101 photo frame-based “Digital Signboard” appliance supporting SMIL programming. We are excited to see leading software and services, such as the paradigm-shifting signagelive cloud services, actively embracing the Open Standard approach for digital signage. We believe open standards will allow users to select and combine the best products in the ecosystem to significantly improve the return on investment.”
Jason Cremins, CEO of signagelive added:
“We are really excited about the launch of the new ‘signagelive virtual player’ and extending the power of signagelive to support the IAdea SMIL range of non-PC digital signage devices. The collaboration between IAdea and signagelive offers an unrivalled price performance for delivering multi-site, networked and managed digital signage through a standard web browser anywhere in the world without the need to install and manage your own servers and software.
With a suggested end user price of $399 for the IAdea XDS-101 10″ LCD SMIL device and $10 per month for a signagelive virtual player licence, end users can finally realise the full potential of remotely managed digital signage at a price unobtainable from any other solution.”
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