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PANASONIC
DEBUTS PLUG-IN COMPUTER WITH SCALA
SOFTWARE BUILT-IN TO FACILITATE PLASMA DISPLAYS
USAGE IN DIGITAL SIGNAGE SYSTEMS
 SECAUCUS, NJ (March 22, 2004) - Panasonic announced
today the availability of the PLUG-VC250XS, a plug-in
computer with SCALA InfoChannel Player 3 software
pre-installed, that provides a turnkey solution for digital signage applications.
This turnkey solution teams Panasonic’s industry-leading, high-contrast
plasma displays, the PLUG-VC205XS “computer on a board” and SCALA’s
InfoChannel Player 3 software for 24/7 playback on local or remote displays.
SCALA is well known for its popular digital signage and content creation and
management software.
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Panasonic is pleased to cooperate with SCALA to offer a totally integrated digital
visual messaging solution in a wide range of multimedia display applications,
including retail, corporate communications, cable television, education, and
government,” said Stuart English, Vice President, Marketing, Panasonic
Broadcast.
 “
SCALA is pleased to support Panasonic’s new plug-in computer. This is the
world’s first truly integrated display for digital signage,” said
Jeff Porter, Executive Vice President, SCALA.
Eliminating the cumbersome requirement of additional hardware, the
PLUG-VC250XS “computer on a board” installs easily in the interchangeable
multi-function slots of Panasonic’s 42” and 50” 6-series plasma
displays. The PLUG-VC250XS is equipped with a Pentium-M 900MHz CPU, 256MB RAM
memory, 30 GB Hard Drive and network interfaces including two PCMCIA slots, two
USB ports, a serial control port and an Ethernet LAN port. The PLUG-VC250XS is
pre-installed with the Windows XP Embedded Operating System and SCALA InfoChannel
Player 3 software.
In a conventional system installation (minus the PLUG-VC250XS), the user would
need to install the InfoChannel Player 3 software into a standard PC and then
locate the PC 2adjacent to each display. Additional hardware is often required
to house the PC, and power and additional cabling are required between the PC
and the display
(VGA, Serial control, etc). The PLUG-VC250XS eliminates all these cumbersome
requirements.
The operating system is carefully pre-configured to maximize the capability
of both hardware and software, and the InfoChannel Player 3 application is
already installed in the PLUG-VC250XS. Users just plug it into the interchangeable
slot of a Panasonic plasma display and connect it with an Ethernet cable. The
power is supplied by the plasma display to the PLUG-VC250XS internally. After
a couple of initial set-up steps, the display is ready to work in the SCALA
network environment.
About ScalaSince 1987, Scala has been developing and delivering end-to-end
software solutions for visual communications messaging systems and networks.
Today, the third
generation of Scala's InfoChannel software platform is the world's leading
digital signage platform. The InfoChannel software platform offers field-proven
24/7 stability and scalability and is used in many thousands of locations around
the world. Scala has multiple operations in the United States, Europe and Japan,
with headquarters in Philadelphia, PA. For more information, please visit their
website at: www.scala.com
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