New FS-100 250GB model offers industry's Powerful software solution for out-of-home TV networks featuring extensive media format support
(Las Vegas NAB, Nevada--April 8, 2008) Focus Enhancements Inc (NASDAQ: FCSE), a worldwide leader in media management and ultra wideband (UWB) wireless technology, introduced today the MM-1 Universal Media Manager , a powerful application that makes it easy to create and distribute media to out-of-home networks for a variety of applications such as information display, digital signage, retail television, as well as private corporate, hospitality, and government television networks.
Focus Enhancements will demonstrate MM-1 and other media solutions at NAB 2008 from April 14-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth SL2605.
"MM-1 Universal Media Manager offers enterprise level performance at an all-inclusive price point that we believe will be attractive to our customers," said Michael Conway, senior vice president of corporate strategy for Focus Enhancements. "Most importantly, it addresses the top two requests from our integrators extreme ease of use and full support for popular compressed HD media formats."
MM-1 Universal Media Manager is a store-and-forward system that operates over broadband IP networks. The fully modular system enables users to:
- Import, preview, and trim media clips
- Design compelling dynamic signage with objects like backgrounds, video Picture-in-Picture
- Support RSS feeds, multiple text crawls, ODBC data and embedded HTML display
- Create channels, playlists, and schedules within minutes
- Monitor their media network in real time with manual or automatic status checks
MM-1 supports over thirty types of audio, image, video, and data formats, including 3GPP Mobile, Apple QuickTime, H.264/AVC-1, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Flash, and live video inputs via VFW or WDM-compatible hardware encoder cards.
Pricing & Availability
MM-1 Universal Media Manager is expected to be available in Summer 2008 through authorized Focus Enhancements dealers and integrators for a suggested price of $4,999 (US) for the server application, and $1,199 (US) for player software. The MM-1 server and player applications run on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista. Some media formats may require third party codecs that are not included with Microsoft Windows. Microsoft PowerPoint is required to be installed on the media player to support media in this format. For more information, please visit
http://www.focusinfo.com.
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