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Interestingly
enough, some of the most promising projects we are currently supporting operate
strictly outside the browser environment.
Internet
Explorer, Netscape and the other popular browsers are fine pieces of software,
and if all you want to do is view a few pages of text and images (like this
site) then they are perfectly adequate tools. But as soon as you start to use
heavy-duty content like video or high resolution graphics legacy problems arise
- the current version of browser XYZ might do what you want to do but you
have no idea which version of which browser your target audience is using, which
add-ins they have installed on their PC, etc etc etc.
So where
heavy duty content is required bespoke software is the only solution, and we are
seeing more and more of our clients following this path. Current examples
include:
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innovative software platform delivering highly compressed multi-channel
television via a small satellite dish across the existing corporate LAN
directly to a client software running on the desktop/laptop PC. Forthcoming
software releases will include word recognition in the audio and image
recognition in the video, so that the client software can be programmed to
listen for (say) the word "politics" or to look for the image of Tony Blair and open a
Window on the correct channel whenever they occur. The marketing spin is
"we watch the television so that you don't have to". |
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If you
let your graphic artists lead the design of your internet/intranet site
rather than your IT manager the result will probably be perfect in every way
.... except that it will occupy a couple of GBytes of space and be
incompatible with every browser on the planet. Contimediums™ are the
solution, software mediums for displaying heavy duty content. Our client
provides an end-to-end service, including the web site graphic creation,
hosting, broadband (satellite) distribution to download content and
weekly/daily/hourly updates, and the Contimedium™ software platform to run
on the client PC. |
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Delivery
of video clips in the form of MPEG files over a broadband network to a
playout PC at point-of-sale has been around for a few years, but one of our
clients is taking the technology to maturity. Their solution looks like a
"black box" satellite receiver rather than a PC, and is based on a
fully embedded solution providing all alarms and fault reporting required by
network operators and all the playlog reporting demanded by advertisers. The
next move is to take this into the mobile environment to support electronic
media in trains, buses, taxis etc |
If
you think we might be able to help you then take a look at the remaining pages
of this site, or simply click the "Contact us" link.
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