Matrox InfonetTV Showcased at InfoComm 2002
Reprinted from a Matrox press release:
MONTREAL, CANADA - June 12th, 2002 - Matrox Video Products Group showcased Matrox InfonetTV at infoComm 2002. Matrox InfonetTV is an integrated information delivery system designed for cable and community television, corporate communications, digital signage, and hospitality channels. It gives users the power to create and communicate their messages, with maximum impact and minimal effort; to any target audience they choose, via cable channels, closed-circuit TV, and the internet or an intranet. Matrox InfonetTV provides an intuitive, multi-zone, multimedia content creation environment and true broadcast-quality video playout concurrently, from a single, affordable PC. Content can be easily created and managed remotely over the internet, by any number of authorized users.
Matrox InfonetTV is the result of a close collaboration among three leading providers of digital video solutions to broadcasters, cable operators, post-production facilities, and corporations around the world. Matrox Video Products Group is an Emmy award-winning technology and market leader with over 25 years of experience in the field of digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, and web streaming applications. Capital Networks Limited, founded in 1991, integrates, markets, and supports software products from DiGiMATiON incorporated, a developer of advanced broadcast and place-based multimedia authoring solutions. Matrox InfonetTV combines software and hardware components from these three companies into approved systems sold through a network of Matrox authorized resellers.
“This is a new market opportunity for Matrox that capitalizes on our expertise in broadcast video hardware along with our long-term partnerships with Capital Networks Limited and DiGiMATiON incorporated” said Spiro Plagakis, Matrox vice president of sales and marketing. The low price point and ease-of-use of Matrox InfonetTV makes network-quality information and advertising channel production accessible to a vast new group of users.”
Matrox InfonetTV is ideal for public, educational, and government access (PEG) channels; classified advertising channels; community information channels in multiple dwelling units, retirement villages, hospital complexes and university campuses; as well hospitality channels in resorts, hotels, theme parks, cruise ships, and exposition centers.
Matrox InfonetTV also provides cost-effective corporate communications in lobbies, offices, factories, call centers and tradeshow exhibits. In addition, it can be used to drive dynamic digital signage for malls, retail outlets, airports, train stations, bus terminals, outdoor billboards, and scoreboards in stadiums, arenas, and gymnasiums.