Digital Signage

Keywest Technology Friend and Partner, Jim Collins, 55, Dies in Wichita

Written by David Little Friday, 16 May 2008

James George Collins, a long-time friend and business associate of Keywest Technology, died this week in Wichita, KSjim_collins

Lenexa, KS (Mar. 16, 2008) Long-time friend and business associate with Keywest Technology James George Collins II (Jim), age 55, died May 19, the victim of a botched armed robbery in Wichita, KS.

Collins is survived by his wife Jane, son James and daughter Taylor. Collins was a principal partner in DSX Media in Wichita, a division of Keywest Technology focused on the production of content for digital signage display.

Among Collins’ many business successes is advancing from a middle management position to CEO of an independent oil and gas exploration company. In that capacity, he built the 75- year-old business from a small independent to a medium-large independent and sold the company. Other successful entrepreneurial endeavors include starting, building and ultimately selling an adventure travel business and an aircraft interior manufacturing company.

“Jim was a true friend and will be missed deeply,” said Keywest Technology president Nick Nichols. “On a personal level, his gift of gab, sense of humor and deep generosity made him a gem in his community of Wichita. As a business partner in DSX Media, Jim tenaciously pursued solving the digital signage content needs of customers.”

Collins took great interest in his daughter’s and son’s activities as they were growing up. He took up horseback riding to accompany his daughter on rides as she pursued her equestrian interests. He also became a dedicated fan of the Wichita Collegiate High School football team where his son played football.

Hundreds of friends and associates visited the memorial service held for Collins May 15. Memorial contributions may be made to Wichita Montessori School Future Fund, 8311 E. Douglas, Wichita, KS 67207, or to Wichita Collegiate School Football Program, 9115 E. 13th Street, Wichita, KS 67206.

 

TotalCARE offers unsurpassed digital signage support and service--worldwide

Written by David Little Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Renew your TotalCARE service today, even if your MediaXtreme is out of warranty.

 

Keywest Technology offers four convenient ways to extend TotalCARE coverage beyond the initial year of coverage.

Being a MediaXtreme customer means having access to the best in factory support. Adding a year of TotalCARE support from Keywest Technology ensures that you:  
  • get the latest software,
  • get quick access to our support team via telephone,
  • have your hardware covered under warranty,
  • have access to our remote diagnostic system for the quickest possible troubleshooting.

With TotalCARE, you'll never feel alone. Whether you're experiencing a hardware issue, software concern or some sort question about how to use our digital signage software, help is at hand.

Through TotalCARE, Keywest Technology delivers on its pledge to make your digital signage or  community television experience easy, productive and satisfying. But don't just take our word for it. Look at what our customers are saying:

"I just wanted to let you know how wonderful your [TotalCARE] technician has been to me...providing invaluable technical assistance when I have run into difficulties. I just want to let you know that he provides great service to customers." --- Joel High, Alegent Health Lakeside Hospital

and

"I wanted to thank you for the excellent [TotalCARE] support we received... Based on this experience, I have decided to standardize any installation I have on your MediaXtreme product - for someone starting a new venture like me, support makes all the difference." --- Wilber Williams, Ad Optics Marketing

You may extend your TotalCARE coverage now for only $1,095 for an entire year! Simply call Lisa at 800-331-2019 or  

As always, if we can be of any help with any of your digital signage needs, just ask!

Keywest Technology retires Big VooDoo line of television products

Written by David Little Tuesday, 15 April 2008

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Keywest Technology retires Big VooDoo line of television products 

The company will focus its efforts on serving the manifold needs of the evolving digital signage market.

Keywest Technology will continue to develop its comprehensive MediaXtreme Digital Signage and MediaXtreme Broadcast product lines as well as the LogoSTAR line of logo and text inserters.

Keywest Technology announced this week that it is discontinuing its Big VooDoo line of television products, which includes time base correctors/frame synchronizers, picture-in-picture devices, STAR-8 crawl and text inserter as well as the Keywest Technology 440 Quad Channel picture-in-picture inserter.

Retiring the product line tracks the evolution of the broadcast market as it transitions from analog to digital and will let Keywest Technology focus its resources on the growing, ever-changing requirements of the digital signage market.

"Now is the right time to retire the Big VooDoo product lineup," said company president Nick Nichols. "With the ongoing explosive growth in the digital signage market, discontinuing our legacy analog Big VooDoo products will permit us to devote our internal resources to meeting the demanding requirements of digital signage."

Keywest Technology will continue to sell Big VooDoo, STAR-8 and the 440 Quad Channel PiP until its inventory of the items is exhausted. The company also will continue to honor its warranty on Big VooDoo, STAR-8 and Keywest Technology 440.

"We built a tradition of superior performance, ease of use and customer satisfaction with our Big VooDoo, STAR-8 and 440," said Nichols. "We have carried those qualities over to our digital signage products, which our digital signage customers appreciate and have come to expect."

Keywest Technology will remove discontinued items from its Web site as inventories of those items are depleted.

As always, if we can be of any assistance with a video or digital signage need, simply email us or click on the Ask an Expert button to the right or call 800-331-2019. We'll be happy to help.

Keywest Technology ships MediaXtreme MediaZone turnkey digital signage solution

Written by David Little Friday, 11 April 2008

 Keywest Technology Press Release

The new turnkey digital signage solution includes a factory-configured hardware and software system that's ready for use out of the box.

Lenexa, KS (Apr. 11, 2008) Keywest Technology has announced the immediate availability of MediaXtreme MediaZone , a new turnkey digital signage solution that provides all of the hardware and software needed to produce and schedule playback of professional digital signage channels.

MediaZone eliminates the hassle of sourcing third-party hardware and loading digital signage software tools by providing a tightly integrated hardware and software solution that comes ready to use right of the box.

"MediaZone is a direct response to that segment of the market needing a digital signage system that can be plugged in, turned on and ready for immediate use," said Keywest Technology president Nick Nichols. "This factory-integrated solution delivers all of the software and computer hardware needed to create professional digital signage results without the headache of loading your own software."

Keywest Technology makes MediaZone available with four hardware configurations, each matching the specific requirements of different types of digital signage users. Each is loaded with powerful, yet easy-to-use MediaZone software that makes building, scheduling and managing professional digital signage pages fast and easy.

MediaZone software functions include:

  1. MediaZone editor, which blends common PC media, graphics and audio files in real time in up to four "media zones" plus a background zone.
  2. Template-based media management.
  3. Broadcast-quality 24-bit graphics character generation with support for all standard PC graphic extensions and TruType fonts.
  4. Built-in logo, crawl and scroll functionality

 
An optional RF tuner adds ATSC, NTSC, PAL and cable reception to MediaZone for integration of picture-in-picture television channels into digital signage pages.

About Keywest Technology
Lenexa, KS, -based Keywest Technology develops and markets a wide variety of digital signage products, including hardware, software and content development services, designed to produce professional communications results. The company is also a pioneer in interactive digital signage, which couples the appeal of digital signs with the interactivity associated with interactive kiosks.

MediaXtreme Gets Specialized for New Markets

Written by David Little Tuesday, 19 February 2008

Flexibility, choice drive Keywest Technology's new MediaXtreme direction

The Lenexa, KS, -based company has split the MediaXtreme media server into two separate product lines intended to give digital signage network managers and broadcasters the flexibility they require for their distinct endeavors.

LENEXA, KS (Feb. 19) --On the heels of Keywest Technology's historic reorganization of its MediaXtreme products into two distinct lines -namely, MediaXtreme Signage and MediaXtreme Broadcast- the company has announced the reason for the move is to deliver unprecedented flexibility to two separate, distinct types of users.

"Keywest Technology's new MediaXtreme Signage lineup is all about flexibility," said company president Nick Nichols. "It delivers a wide variety of products and services geared toward giving customers the flexibility to select the components, software and service options they need to meet their specific needs."

Specifically, that flexibility means MediaXtreme Signage customers have the ability to choose:

--Software-only digital signage solutions
--Software enhancements specifically designed for digital signage application
--Turnkey digital signage systems
--Server control options
--Support variations to meet a range of requirements

MediaXtreme Signage gives customers a la carte selection of the hardware, software and support options they need to meet their specific requirements.

MediaXtreme Broadcast is the other newly announced MediaXtreme line. As a totally turnkey automated playout server for the CATV, IPTV, and PEG markets, MediaXtreme Broadcast offers all of the functionality and features needed to program, playout and manage audio, video, graphics, text and logos in support of channel playback. MediaXtreme Broadcast support options are tailored to the needs of the broadcast market.

MediaXtreme Broadcast offers flexibility in I/O configurations to meet specific user requirements and works with a wide variety of add-ons to meet the need of local-origination channel control.

About Keywest Technology
Keywest Technology is a leading manufacturer of software, turnkey systems, and custom products that are solutions for interactive digital signs, digital signage and related narrowcast video markets.  Based in Lenexa, Kan., the company is dedicated to delivering content technically as easy as a day at the beach. www.keywesttechnology.com

Keywest Technology unveils MediaZone digital signage software

Written by David Little Wednesday, 06 February 2008

The company charts a new direction with the introduction of a professional, software-only digital signage solution while maintaining its commitment to offering turnkey systems for customers requiring a complete digital signage solution.

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Lenexa, KS (Feb. 6, 2008) Keywest Technology today has introduced MediaZone , a new, digital signage software-only editor that delivers all of the content blending and multimedia playlist development and management tools required for professional applications.

MediaZone is a user-configurable template-based digital signage editor that runs on low-cost Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP/Pro or VistaTM -based personal computers. With MediaZone, users build and schedule digital signage media in easy-to-use templates with built-in "media zones" where elements, such as video, graphics, animation and text, are blended. Media elements are accessed from a browser directory, dragged and dropped into place in template zones.

"MediaZone is the result of more than two years of development to build a rock-solid digital signage software solution that offers our customers the chance to source their own PC hardware while maintaining all of the features and functions they need to blend media and manage content playback on their digital signage networks," said company president Nick Nichols.

"While we recognize certain customers demand the best turnkey digital signage systems and will continue to support them with our MediaXtreme media server, MediaZone gives the vast number of customers who have told us they want a software-only digital signage editor a powerful, affordable software application that delivers professional results."

MediaZone supports common PC and Apple multimedia files, which can be added to media zones, where content ranging from graphics and text to HTML, XML and RSS feeds are aggregated in real time from various sources and managed for play out on the network. MediaZone is resolution-independent and can blend graphic and video elements from standard video to HD.

The new software-only digital signage solution also provides all of the tools to easily schedule and manage content playback. Multiple sets of media can be scheduled to playback from minutes to months in advance. MediaZone also makes it easy for users to set up playback for various dayparts to deliver appropriate content as digital signage network audiences change throughout the day.

MediaZone also comes bundled with Keywest Technology's MediaCreator professional character generator to provide all of the tools needed to create graphic pages advanced color box zone layouts, text crawls, logos and CG text.

Keywest Technology's new MediaZone digital signage editor application runs on cost-effective Windows® 2000, XP, or VistaTM PC platforms. Full preview of media sets can be viewed on PCs equipped with ATI® Radeon or equivalent graphic cards that have 256MB of video memory.

About Keywest Technology
Keywest Technology is a leading manufacturer of turnkey and custom products that are solutions for interactive digital signs, digital signage and related narrowcast video markets.  Based in Lenexa, Kan., the company is dedicated to delivering content technically as easy as a day at the beach. www.keywesttechnology.com

Keywest Technology names Preferred Technology Solutions as newest value-added reseller

Written by David Little Wednesday, 22 August 2007

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LENEXA, KS, and RICHARDSON, TX, (August 22, 2007)-- Keywest Technology today announced that Richardson, TX, -based Preferred Technology Solutions has been named a value-added reseller of its full-line of digital signage hardware and software solutions.

As a value-added reseller, Preferred Technology Solutions will play a consultative role in helping clients identify their specific digital signage requirements and recommending and designing systems to meet those needs based on Keywest Technology's extensive digital signage product lineup.

"Preferred Technology Solutions is perfectly oriented to take advantage of the direction the digital signage market is headed," said Keywest Technology president Nick Nichols. "With its strong IT orientation and market presence, Preferred Technology Solutions is well positioned to help businesses extend their repertoire of digital communications into the digital signage realm. We look forward to assisting Preferred Technology Solutions in meeting the digital signage requirements of its customers."

Founded in January 1994, Preferred Technology Solutions is nationally recognized as a leading technology solutions provider with solid reputation for partnering with its clients to help them achieve their goals. The company has extensive knowledge of computer networking, Microsoft Windows software and HP computer solutions.

"Every bank lobby, every school hall, every clinic and hospital lobby, there is an opportunity for businesses to market their services within the confines of their own four walls using digital signage technology," said Preferred Technology Solutions president Neil Nedwed.

"We were particularly drawn to Keywest Technology's digital signage solutions because they can combine live composite video feeds with computer-based digital files," he said. "The market is hungry for that combination."

Preferred Technology Solutions' new value-added reseller status is effective immediately.

About Preferred Technology Solutions

Since 1994, Preferred Technology Solutions has served the diverse technology needs of businesses and institutions throughout Texas with technology and service ranging from basic computer needs to advanced networking, converged technology (VoIP), Wireless, Storage, Security and Mobile Computing.

About Keywest Technology

Keywest Technology is a leading manufacturer of turnkey and custom products that are solutions for interactive digital signs, digital signage and related narrowcast video markets.  Based in Lenexa, Kan., the company is dedicated to delivering content technically as easy as a day at the beach. www.keywesttechnology.com

Keywest Technology extends TotalCARE technical support hours

Written by David Little Wednesday, 25 July 2007

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The move means customers in virtually every time zone worldwide have a window during their day to reach live technical support.

(LENEXA, KS) July 26, 2007 - Keywest Technology today announced it has extended its TotalCARE technical support hours so customers in nearly all time zones worldwide can reach live technical support during their work day.

Live TotalCARE support hours now run from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Central DST) Monday through Friday. The extension means the company's U.S. customers now have a 15-hour window for live technical support. Globally, extending the TotalCARE technical support hours will let customers have a window during their work day to reach live support.

"TotalCARE represents our very real commitment to delivering the utmost in service and technical support to our customers," said company president Nick Nichols. "By extending our live technical support hours, we deepen that commitment."

TotalCARE is Keywest Technology's revolutionary FREE no-worry warranty that covers parts, labor and technical support for one full year after the purchase of the company's MediaXtreme media server or Media POD point of decision player. Technical support is available to customers via the company's toll-free telephone number, interactive Web support and training, online messaging, live chat and email.

Keywest Technology also offers packages to extend the TotalCARE warranty beyond its initial year.

About Keywest Technology
Keywest Technology is a leading manufacturer of turnkey and custom products that are solutions for interactive digital signs, digital signage and related narrowcast video markets.  Based in Lenexa, Kan., the company is dedicated to delivering content technically as easy as a day at the beach. www.keywesttechnology.com

Keywest Technology announces MediaCreator II

Written by David Little Friday, 15 June 2007

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The Keywest Technology has announced its next-generation MediaCreator II digital signage page creation and character generator software application with support of HDTV and aspect ratio flexibility.

ANAHIEM, CA, (June 15, 2007)-- Keywest Technology today announced at InfoComm International 2007 MediaCreator II, the latest release of its popular character generator/digital signage page creation software application.

The new MediaCreator II adds a host of new features, including text effects, aspect ratio flexibility and page templates, in addition to support for high definition television to the core application.

"MediaCreator II picks up where our MediaCreator left off, offering digital signage content creators the tools they need to most effectively communicate with their audiences at a time when HD displays are becoming more commonplace," said company president Nick Nichols.

"We have always said that content creators can use our original MediaCreator to build digital signage pages that are as good as anything viewers see on network newscasts. MediaCreator II extends that promise to encompass whatever they see on HD newscasts, as well."

Since its introduction in 2002, MediaCreator has set the standard as the premiere digital signage page creation and professional character generator application. Thousands of digital signs worldwide playback pages created with the application every day.

Keywest Technology's new MediaCreator II supports:

  • HD support at 1080i, 1080p and 720p
  • Text rotation and animation
  • Page template creation
  • Aspect ratio flexibility, including landscape 4:3 and 16:9 as well as portrait 3:4 and 9:16 modes
  • Project Folder support to simplify content and folder management

MediaCreator II runs under the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system. It will be available in Q3 2007 as an upgrade for existing MediaCreator user at $995 and as a standalone application for new users at $1,995.

About Keywest Technology

Keywest Technology is a leading manufacturer of turnkey and custom products that are solutions for interactive digital signs, digital signage and related narrowcast video markets.  Based in Lenexa, Kan., the company is dedicated to delivering content technically as easy as a day at the beach. www.keywesttechnology.com

Keywest Technology debuts MediaXtreme-HDMI

Written by David Little Friday, 15 June 2007

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The Keywest Technology MediaXtreme-HDMI brings the same power and flexibility of the company's highly successful digital signage media server to customers wishing to use HDMI connections.

ANAHIEM, CA, (June 15, 2007)-- Keywest Technology today at InfoComm International 2007 introduced the MediaXtreme-HDMI digital signage media server offering HDMI output to support the burgeoning number of HDMI displays and sources.

Supporting up to 1080p resolution, the new MediaXtreme-HDMI comes with easy-to-use software to create, schedule and manage digital signage playback as well as the power to layer multiple on-screen events, like graphics, Flash animation, MPEG-1, -2, -4 and -4 AVC video and text.

The addition of an HDMI-only output version of MediaXtreme positions the digital signage media server to serve the needs of a growing segment of communicators. While HDMI originally emerged as the high definition connection of choice on consumer HDTVs, it more recently has entered the computer domain. For instance, HDMI Licensing LLC recently reported that more than 50 PC products are available with HDMI connectors.

"HDMI offers users a number of benefits and is quickly becoming a de facto standard on many of today's plasma and LCD flat panel displays," said Keywest Technology president Nick Nichols. "Adding support for HDMI to our line of MediaXtreme media servers is a natural evolution of the product that serves as an example of our unwavering commitment to keeping pace with the needs of our customers."

The MediaXtreme-HDMI comes with Keywest Technology's Editor and MediaCreator II software. Editor, an advanced digital signage sequencer and management tool, allows users to blend content and develop playlists by dragging multimedia clips and files onto one of six timelines.

Keywest Technology's MediaCreator II software puts the same tools a professional broadcaster uses to create on-air titles in the hands of digital signage content creators. With MediaCreator, users can create and display high-def fonts, create text and text crawl overlays and build video-in-graphic and wide-screen video displays.

The MediaXtreme-HDMI comes with Keywest Technology's industry-leading TotalCARE warranty, which includes complete customer support, including one-on-one response to technical, operational and software questions, for the one-year period of the product's hardware and software warranty.

About Keywest Technology

Keywest Technology is a leading manufacturer of turnkey and custom products that are solutions for interactive digital signs, digital signage and related narrowcast video markets.  Based in Lenexa, Kan., the company is dedicated to delivering content technically as easy as a day at the beach. www.keywesttechnology.com
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