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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 35:38

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Every so often I'll get a call or email from an industry friend asking me about a software company called Zynchro, because they were in the mix, or the incumbent, on some sort of deal that was in play. Yes, I'd say. I've heard of them. But that was about it. Well, that's changed, as I had a good chat recently with Jose Behar, one of the two brothers who founded the company some 30 years ago. Zynchro has very quietly built up a nice book of business, mostly in the United States, with SaaS software marketed on the basis of flexibility, rock-solid reliability and low annual costs. By its own admission, the Dallas-based company operates very quietly. But the installed base is north of 50,000 devices, many of them involving a couple of giant global brands. Like most whale clients, Zynchro can't quite say who those are ... but have a listen, and it becomes fairly obvious. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Jose, thank you for joining me. I have heard about Zynchro, but we've never met, at least, I don't think so, and while I've heard about the company, I don't know a lot about it, and you're one of those companies that seems to be very active, quite successful, but kinda an old World War II submarine. You're running silent and deep. Jose Behar: Yes, we were silent for a long time. Even when my brother and I started a company 30 years ago, we started doing multimedia and CGI animation, and one of our ways to do business was to keep networking, being a little bit silent on the media, but having a lot of reputation among client to client, mouth to mouth. So if I bumped into you in an elevator, and I'm not in this business and asked, oh, what do you do? What does your company do? What would you tell them? Jose Behar: Zynchro is a digital signage platform SaaS, software as a service. So, our clients can use Zynchro for different kinds of applications and in a lot of vertical markets. Zynchro is not only a content manager. Maybe a lot of our clients, or the people that hear about us, look at us as content managers, but we have different modules. We now have four modules, and we are developing two more for health monitoring for all the players in the network. Also, analytics, all kinds of different analytics for interactive and non-interactive presentations. Of course, the content management, and we also have the campaign module. The campaign module is the monetizing area. One of our biggest clients is one the biggest retailers in the market. They are using this campaign module, and you can see different media and articles saying that they are making billions of dollars using their digital signage. and now all the stores and all their home office and some distribution centers are using our software to communicate and to control their digital signage. So the campaign manager is basically enabling a retail media network? Jose Behar: That's right. The idea is creating a TV network where our clients can sell their advertising spaces, and they can have all the inventory and all the reports that they need in order to show their clients all the information. There are a hell of a lot of companies out there that do what you do. You've been at it for a very long time, three decades. What is it about what you do that differentiates it from the scores of other companies who have a pretty similar offer. Everybody has their unique aspects to it, but what is it about yours? Jose Behar: We don't use other hardware or software APIs. For example, one of the players that we use is BrightSign, and we know all the insights of the player. We are able to be a standalone. We don't need their software to be useful. Another thing is that we are the owners of the intellectual property, and we develop everything completely. So our clients are able to ask us for different kinds of customizations, all kinds of customizations we have done with all of our clients, and connect directly to their systems or allow different kinds of peripherals. For example, right now, we were selected by Sony Semiconductor to integrate their AI camera Aitrios into our software as almost a plug and play. We are now the only software that can manage that and use that camera in digital signage without any additional development. So for BrightSign and for Sony as well, when you talk about not really relying on APIs and things like that, do you have your own specific operating system instead of working with BrightSign OS, or how does all that work? Jose Behar: In the case of BrightSign, we don't have an operating system because they have their own, but we can control the player without using almost any of their APIs, and only using their application, that is, an operating system. We are almost ready in about four to six weeks to release a new version for Android. So we have a partnership with C Labs, the players that are based here in Dallas too, and in that case, we are more into the players. So we work in that sense more like an operating system, and we can control and do more things with that kind of open architecture instead of a closed architecture like BrightSign. Is that a client, ask or demand that they want as much extraneous stuff and other hooks stripped out of it so that it's clean and therefore less of a risk security and stability wise? Jose Behar: Talking about stability and security, we have been proven to be the most robust and secure platform. That's why this client, that is one of the biggest retailers, but other clients that we have that are almost the same size don't have any issues regarding security or stability. They have even been looking for other platforms for redundancy, because in a critical income business like that, they can have another option in case something happens to Zynchro but Zynchro has been proving that it is more capable and it can show more data and more information to the clients than any other platform. Even showing and controlling the displays, the TV with serial commands, all that kind of stuff we can do, and of course, again, because of our capability of customization, we can add or remove any of the functionalities that our clients are asking for. Until the pandemic, we had a client, the biggest one in Entertainment Parks, and they asked us to have a special administrator. So nobody can mess with the imaging, nobody can mess with the pictures or with the animations, because for them it's their brand. So they used our server for all the information in the resorts, in convention centers, and even transportation. All the bus transportation, they had connected Zynchro to their main source for all the bus routes, and if the buses were coming in time or not, connecting the buses in real time. One of our other clients, the Central Ohio Transport Authority, has connected our system to their own system where at the bus terminals and bus stations, they can show the different routes and if the bus is coming on time or not with GPS on the buses. So that's one of the biggest benefits. The other, I think the greatest benefit here is also our pricing, which is very competitive. At this moment, looking at the market, now we are, if not the least expensive, one of the less expensive in the market because we want to have long-term relationships, not only one-shot deals. The challenge, of course, with competing somewhat on price is how do you make money? If you're not charging all that much per software license, part of it's obviously about scale, but how do you address that? Jose Behar: Two main things. One, as we are the owners, and we developed this 18 years ago. In the beginning, it was for the Windows platform. We are constantly creating new upgrades and updates in order to be more efficient and for the software to be more efficient as our operation to be most efficient and the second one is that the clients like the way we do support. In the market, one of the most costly areas is support. So what we do is to reduce the support infrastructure and the support area by creating well-tested software. And being almost perfectionist of course, we are going to have a problem some time and we are going to have some problems. But with our software, we try to have a quality assurance and a testing phase that may be longer than any other software. But with that, we can offer almost a support free platform: a platform that is very easy to use and also so robust that the client needs almost no support. We are one of the only ones that don't have 24/7 support. We have Monday to Friday, 9-5 support with a ticket system and that's it and even with worldwide clients, it has worked pretty well, so reducing that cost in support is one of the main things that we have achieved. You've understandably danced around the names and are only able to describe some of your larger clients. I get that the bigger the clients, the harder it is for them to give permission to talk about them and the last thing you wanna do is get on their bad side about doing that sort of thing. But can you give me some sort of sense of scale of the footprint of your installed base? Jose Behar: Right now, we are managing around 50,000 players in our network. 50,000? Jose Behar: Yeah, and we're still growing. We are at different gas stations. One of the clients that I can mention is in Canada, Lexus-Toyota dealers. All the Lexus-Toyota dealers in Canada are using Zynchro for the different areas like the waiting room or the service parts and that kind of stuff. One of the clients that I can mention in order for you to see the different kinds of verticals is The Omnia nightclub at the Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. So they are using our software for this nightclub. But also all the big screens that you can see from the Vegas strip, talking about Omnia, are managed by Zynchro. So you're all over the place. I mean nightclubs and theme parks and big mass merch retailers, and auto dealers. Do you have a vertical market that you focus on, or is it kinda more of a generalist offer? Jose Behar: Basically, right now, we are focusing on retail and hospitality, because principally, the monetizing tool is a tool that helps them a lot for self-pay projects or even generating a lot of income. But as I always say to my new clients or prospects, if you are uploading an x-ray or you are uploading a JPEG with coffee, for us, it's only a picture, it's only a file, and the same with videos. So, the only thing that we need from the client is the specific requirements in order to show them how to use Zynchro, logistically speaking. We have a lot of functionalities, like Smart Groups. With the Smart Groups functionality, you can program Zynchro and all the content based on logical variables. So with that,, you can upload only content with tags and automatically Zynchro is going to program the content depending on your programming. For example, with distribution centers, the administrator of the distribution center can upload images with the tag “distribution center one”, and automatically Zynchro is going to deploy all the images. In that sense, talking about administration, we have unlimited users, so those users can be organized by a matrix with different kinds of permissions. So you can even have your advertising agency only with the permission to upload content, or you can have the marketing director only to approve content, different kinds of directors only to see reports in real time, or a full administrator that can do everything on the platform. In that sense, we have clients that use our content management services because they don't have the personnel to do it, so the advertising agencies and the headquarters send us all the content. Or we have other types of clients that have a specialist area where they manage all the content with their clients and sell the spaces. What you offer is on a SaaS basis, right? Jose Behar: Yeah, we are SaaS based, but with an annual fee. With your larger clients, some of these “whale accounts”, are they also doing SaaS, or do you have a variation of an on-premise for them? Jose Behar: No. Because with that, we can be responsible for everything that is happening. We have experienced a lot of different issues in the past with having installed the server on premises where sometimes nobody takes the responsibility of any of the issues or it goes from the hardware to the server, software to the hardware, and with infinite meetings. We prefer to take all the responsibility, and when we have an issue, it's better and easier to detect where the issue is. For your larger clients, I suspect that almost every week, there's some competing company trying to work their way into your deal. Basically, take you out. How do you kind of address that with your clients? Jose Behar: Being the best, and always trying to do our best work solving their issues. One of the things that all our clients appreciate about us is that, as we are responsible for the whole network, we are able with our system to detect a lot of different issues, even with different kinds of hardwares, so our platform also can send automatic alerts via sms or emails, and we have developed different kinds of automated detecting and self-correcting functionalities. So each day, with every upgrade, we have fewer and fewer issues and our team that is in charge of detecting the different kinds of problems or issues is very specialized, and we have a long time doing this, so we have detected almost all the problems, and 90% of the problems in our experience are hardware related. And even though we are not in charge of the hardware, we are still able to detect even if a cable is broken. So in that sense, solving problems is the main thing that the clients like about us and being neutral as we don't sell hardware, we are not compromised to any brand. We are neutral and we can say anything and say everything that we need to say without compromising our commercial status. Does your software stack work with smart displays like the Samsung Tizen OS and LG Web OS? Jose Behar: Last year, we launched the Tizen application. For the Tizen application, of course, because of the hardware we have different restrictions compared to a full player. But yes, we are now working with Tizen. That idea was also to save money for our clients. That is our mantra. Our mantra is to create an income or to save money for our clients. With Tizen and with the service they support, everything is about saving money, because they make a playlist or maybe only show very easy content so they don't need to buy a full installation of players and splitters or whatever, only a connected TV, and that's it. So with the support that we are offering, they are also saving a lot of money without sending surveys or people to every store or every area only to see if the system is working. We have been able to detect black screens and automatically report the black screens, even when in parallel with our software, we are trying to solve the issue with automated functionalities. It's interesting because a lot of people generally in the industry and more broadly, just in general, would look at some of these very large clients to think, they're not gonna be all out concerned about hardware costs and month to month subscription costs and things like that because they're making bags of money and they're so big, but, they got so big because they worry about every nickel and dime, right? Jose Behar: Oh, of course. If you multiply only an SD card by thousands, you're gonna have to invest millions of dollars and with players or with even a cable, if you need HDMI cables, long cables with amplifiers or whatever, you're talking about millions of dollars, but it is also about buying the hardware, it also about the maintenance of the hardware. Once this hardware is installed, sometimes it's installed in an area that is difficult to access or is difficult for the IT department to be trained in a timely manner. Our first concern is always to have the correct installation. We also help our clients with defining all the engineering layouts so they can have the best maintenance through the years. We had some clients, for example, that at this time, they're not even able to change a player even though it's a very old area because of the architecture of the area, so they are finding ways to do what they need to do without opening the wall for that kind of stuff. Sometimes these people, as you said, don't even think about the installation or what kind of resources they will need in the ongoing activities, like with only energy, we have been able to detect that going black in the stores when they close or at different times we are able to save them millions of dollars in only energy. And that's why we can also control the TVs and we can have all the information about the TV, because with the idea of the displays, we can know how many hours they have left or when they are gonna need to replace the display or the splitter or whatever. You mentioned working with Sony Semiconductor earlier. What is that about? I believe it's a computer vision system called Aitrios? Jose Behar: Aitrios is a camera that added the layer for AI, so with that camera, we can detect gaze and face detection, not recognition. Recognition at this moment is illegal, and you need a database for a lot of phases or whatever. The idea here is to have a detection for two objectives, the first one is to have a report about how many people are in front of the display, their gender, age and also where they are looking because they can be in front of the display, but looking the other way, and they are one of the first hardwares that also can catch a lot of people at the same time, not only one person. So one objective is to have those kinds of reports in order for decision makers to have more contentless content because sometimes they have to pay royalties for the content, but if they don't have a lot of people, and adding the analytics that we have with the clicks and all the information about the experience was used, they can make better decisions. In my point of view, the best objective of that is reacting in real time. So you can trigger content based on your audience in real time. So if you have a male around 50 years old in front of the TV, and looking directly at the TV, you can program it to automatically trigger maybe a Black & Decker advertisement. But if it's a female around 30 years old, looking directly at the TV from a distance of four to five feet, you are going to trigger a female orientation advertisement. So, now, segmentation is the name of the game. So you have people at the store who are there to buy already, but if you can also show them something that it's segmented for, then it's more probable that they are going to buy it or get a promotion for. So this is Sony Semiconductor as opposed to the Sony Pro Display Business unit. Do they work hand in hand on this, or is it a separate thing completely? Jose Behar: Right now, it's a completely separate thing, Aitrios and Bravia, but also we are starting talks with Bravia to integrate Zynchro into Bravia like we did with Tizen, Samsung. Because I believe Sony has Android TV, I believe, right? Jose Behar: Yes, Bravia is based on Android, the commercial specs and we are looking into that, doing some research. In the future, we may be able to have both in the same application. All right, so your company's in Dallas. Is everybody working out of a Dallas office, or are you dispersed? Jose Behar: No, we are completely dispersed. It was like 12 years ago that we decided to start doing home office for all the programmers. They like it more because they can be with their families and also for some of them, it's like their hobby. They love what they do, right? So sometimes they work at night or sometimes when their family is watching a movie or whatever, they're still working, and as we have a lot of developers in Mexico, the idea was to help them avoid traffic, to avoid criminal issues. There are a lot of security issues in Mexico, so between traffic and all the criminal stuff, their efficiency went up more than 30%. How many people are in the company now? Jose Behar: We are a team of twenty seven. Wow. You've got some monster clients for a company that's in relative terms is quite small. Jose Behar: The thing here is that we have a lot of experience developing since the beginning of multimedia touch screens. So we have a lot of experience developing programming and how to do things more efficiently. All right. It was great to finally have a chat and understand a bit more about your company. It's one of those ones I've heard about here and there, and now I know more, and as do our listeners. Thank you very much. Jose Behar: Thank you so much for the opportunity and for your time. I appreciate it.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 70:52

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Annyira leszakadtak a nyugdíjak a fizetésektől, hogy az átlagnyugdíj kevesebb lett, mint az átlagbér fele

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 4:39

Annyira leszakadtak a nyugdíjak a fizetésektől, hogy az átlagnyugdíj kevesebb lett, mint az átlagbér fele Telex 2025-04-14 11:44:45 Gazdaság Nyugdíj Hiába emelték idén megint a nyugdíjakat, a fizetésekhez képest jelentősen csökkent az értékük. Technikai hiba miatt leállt a közvetítés 24.hu 2025-04-14 13:45:27 Belföld Egy technikai hiba miatt szünetel a közvetítés, noha alig fél óra telt el csak a parlamenti ülésből. Tiborczék tagadják, hogy övé lenne a 250 milliós Ferrari Forbes 2025-04-14 12:09:03 Gazdaság Ferrari Telex Hadházy Ákos Tiborcz István Marbella A miniszterelnök vejét Marbellán kapták lencsevégre a szóban forgó Ferrari SF Spiderrel, elmondása szerint azonban az autó nem az övé. Mi történt? Tiborcz István cége, a BDPST Group a Telex kérdésére válaszolva közölte, hogy a miniszterelnök veje mindössze bérelte azt a negyedmilliárd forintos autót, amiről Hadházy Ákos független képviselő posztolt Tizenötödször módosítja hétfőn az alaptörvényt a Fidesz, a Momentum blokáddal és tüntetéssel készül 444.hu 2025-04-14 11:06:07 Belföld Fidesz Drog Tüntetés Alkotmány Momentum Mozgalom Alaptörvény Az ember férfi vagy nő, készpénzhasználat, kábítószertiltás, települések önvédelmi joga és a gyermekek védelme – többek között ezek kerülnek be az alaptörvénybe. A momentumosok a Kossuth térre szerveznek tüntetést. Duplázná a tétet az uniós főképviselő Ukrajnával kapcsolatban Privátbankár 2025-04-14 11:00:05 Külföld Ukrajna Még nagyobb nyomást kell helyezni Oroszországra Kaja Kallas szerint. Az ígért lőszerek kétharmada például már megvan. Baba az első hazai őz, aki műlábbal kezdett új életet rtl.hu 2025-04-14 12:24:03 Bulvár Állatvédelem Baba, a gida tragikus balesetet szenvedett egy magyar udvaron, és majdnem elveszítette az életét. A drámai baleset után ő lett az első őz, aki protézist kapott. Mutatjuk, hogyan mentették meg az állatmentők! Trump nyert, amerikai kézbe kerülhet a Panama-csatorna vg.hu 2025-04-14 13:03:33 Külföld USA Olaszország Kína Panama Befektetési alap Hiába izmoztak a kínaiak, egy amerikai befektetési alap és egy olasz mágnás tulajdonába kerülhet a világ egyik legfontosabb hajózási útvonala. A Panama-csatorna két legfontosabb kikötője és a hozzájuk kapcsolódó létesítmények tizenkilencmilliárd dollárért cserélnek gazdát. Ukrán elnök: Kijev hajlandó vásárolni az Egyesült Államoktól tíz Patriot légvédelmi rendszert HírTV 2025-04-14 16:54:06 Külföld USA Ukrajna Volodimir Zelenszkij Kijev Az európai partnerek pedig 15 milliárd dollárral segítenének az ügylet finanszírozását - jelentette ki Volodimir Zelenszkij ukrán elnök egy amerikai tévéműsorban. Bombabiztos locsolóversek az idei húsvétra Vezess 2025-04-14 13:02:51 Autó-motor Húsvét Gumi parfüm Az autós locsolóversek új szintre emelik az ünnepi hagyományt: itt gumifüst keveredik a parfümillattal, és a nyuszis versikék helyett jönnek a lóerőben gazdag rímek. Külföldi Árulókkal bővül az RTL+ Media1 2025-04-14 10:51:17 Média Bár az Árulók – gyilkosság a kastélyban című krimi-relity következő magyarországi, celebes évadára egyelőre még várni kell, a formátum kedvelői addig is megismerhetik három nemzetközi változat szereplőinek életét és „halálát”. Veszélyes lehet nyersen a magyarok egyik legnagyobb kedvence Startlap Vásárlás 2025-04-14 10:43:14 Belföld Fogyasztás Tej Bár sokan egészségesebbnek tartják, a nyers, pasztőrözetlen tej fogyasztása mégis komoly fertőzésveszélyt jelent, ezért csak forralás után ajánlott meginni a házi tejet. Paksi vágy: legyen telt ház Böde Dániel 500. NB I-es meccsén! Sportal 2025-04-14 12:15:00 Foci Magyar foci NB I Paks Puskás Akadémia Böde Dániel A labdarúgó Nb I-ben a harmadik helyét elfoglaló Paksi Fc rangadót vív szombaton: az előtte álló Puskás Akadémiát fogadja. Hab a tortán, hogy a klubikonnak számító Böde Dániel csodás mérföldkőhöz ér: 500. élvonalbeli mérkőzésén játszhat. Ismét ripityára törte magát a MotoGP címvédője 24.hu 2025-04-14 14:39:40 Sport MotoGP Katar Jorge Martin éppen csak visszatért, újra nagyot bukott a Katari Nagydíjon. Mutatjuk, merre vonul a saras eső, óráról órára Kiderül 2025-04-14 16:38:28 Időjárás Csapadék Szahara Szaharai homok Éjjel csapadékzóna éri el hazánkat délnyugat felől, amelybe szaharai por is keveredik. A saras eső kedden délután északkelet felé távozik, mögötte egyre inkább felszakadozik a felhőzet. Mutatjuk a poros csapadék útját óráról órára. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2025 62:30

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Megint meghosszabbítaná a kormány a háborús veszélyhelyzetet Magyarországon

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 3:55

Megint meghosszabbítaná a kormány a háborús veszélyhelyzetet Magyarországon Telex 2025-04-02 00:00:13 Belföld háború A kedd késő este benyújtott törvényjavaslat újabb 180 napig, november 14-ig hosszabbítaná meg a veszélyhelyzetet. Meddig nőnek az árak? Pókerparti van az ingatlanpiacon, ahol sokan magukat is átverik Forbes 2025-04-02 04:15:09 Cégvilág Főszerkesztő Forbes Póker Itt az áprilisi Forbes, ez meg egy szubjektív ajánló a főszerkesztőtől. Az áprilisi lapszám azért lett igazán különleges, mert a szerkesztőség majdnem minden tagja írt bele. Meglepőnek hangozhat ez, de egyáltalán nem jellemző. Az online, a különszámok és az események is sok erőforrást igényelnek, így ritka, hogy ilyen sok Forbes-újságíró dolgozik e Harc a Generali irányításáért Azenpenzem 2025-04-02 05:32:00 Gazdaság Olaszország Generali Komoly csatározás előzi meg a Generali biztosító közgyűlését, a tét az igazgatóság összetétele. A háttérben a dinamikusan változó olasz banki szektor áll, a harcnak egész Európára kiterjedő hatásai lehetnek. Kormányrendeletek simították az utat Matolcsy Györgyék építkezései előtt mfor.hu 2025-04-02 05:54:01 Gazdaság Beruházás Nemzetgazdaság Jegybank Matolcsy György Kormányrendelet A jegybank Szabadság téri székházának felújítását is nemzetgazdasági szempontból kiemelt jelentőségű beruházássá minősítették. Mennyivel drágább valójában a Skoda Fabia, mint a Dacia Sandero? Autónavigátor 2025-04-02 06:32:30 Autó-motor Skoda Dacia Rendszeresen készítünk árharcokat az oldalon, amelyekben két modell alapfelszereltségét hasonlítjuk össze az áraik fényében. Ám ennek valamilyen szinten feltétele, hogy Tizenöt órán át nem fogyott ki a kritikákból Magyar Hírlap 2025-04-02 06:26:00 Külföld Szenátor Cory Booker, New Jersey állam szenátora a kormányzat tevékenysége elleni tiltakozásként beszélt addig, "ameddig fizikálisan képes volt rá". E-sport és kutatások: együttműködési megállapodást kötött a Széchenyi István Egyetem és a Budapesti Honvéd Sportegyesület Helló Sajtó! 2025-04-02 04:06:04 Gazdaság Oktatás egyetem Az ünnepélyes aláíráson elhangzott, hogy a nagymúltú klub egyebek mellett az egyetemi e-sport-oktatáshoz és -csapatfejlesztéshez nyújt majd szakmai segítséget, az intézmény pedig többek között kutatás-fejlesztési tevékenységébe vonja be a számos szakosztállyal rendelkező szervezetet. Csodás élményt kínál a Tapolcai-medence ékköve Sokszínű vidék 2025-04-02 06:02:59 Utazás Balaton Tapolca A község fő vonzerejét festői fekvése, a Balatonra és a Tapolcai-medencére tekintő csodálatos panorámája, valamint borospincéi és nyugalmat árasztó népi lakóházai adják. Olaszországban mesterséges intelligencia ír nyomtatott napilapot Privátbankár 2025-04-02 06:57:01 Külföld A legfejlettebb technológiát az újságíró szakma legrégibb eszközével, a papírral párosította az Il Foglio című olasz napilap, amely a mesterséges intelligenciára bízta a nyomtatott kiadás megírását kísérletileg április 11-ig. Kupacsoda a németeknél, kiesett a címvédő Bayer Rangadó 2025-04-01 23:10:46 Foci Németország Pedig a Bayer még vezetett a meccsen, de csodát tett a Bielefeld. Milánóban sem kérnek a korábbi 127 milliós támadóból Player 2025-04-02 06:27:02 Foci Olaszország Milánó A szezon végén egészen biztosan távozik Joao Félix az Ac Milantól. Legalább a napsütésben minden nap bízhatunk Kiderül 2025-04-02 05:15:15 Időjárás Hétvége Szeszélyes lesz a hét időjárása, hiszen kezdetben még enyhe, 20 fok közeli maximumoknak örülhetünk, de hétvégén markáns lehűlés körvonalazódik. A nap viszont hőmérséklettől függetlenül minden nap kisüt majd. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Megint meghosszabbítaná a kormány a háborús veszélyhelyzetet Magyarországon

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 3:55

Megint meghosszabbítaná a kormány a háborús veszélyhelyzetet Magyarországon Telex 2025-04-02 00:00:13 Belföld háború A kedd késő este benyújtott törvényjavaslat újabb 180 napig, november 14-ig hosszabbítaná meg a veszélyhelyzetet. Meddig nőnek az árak? Pókerparti van az ingatlanpiacon, ahol sokan magukat is átverik Forbes 2025-04-02 04:15:09 Cégvilág Főszerkesztő Forbes Póker Itt az áprilisi Forbes, ez meg egy szubjektív ajánló a főszerkesztőtől. Az áprilisi lapszám azért lett igazán különleges, mert a szerkesztőség majdnem minden tagja írt bele. Meglepőnek hangozhat ez, de egyáltalán nem jellemző. Az online, a különszámok és az események is sok erőforrást igényelnek, így ritka, hogy ilyen sok Forbes-újságíró dolgozik e Harc a Generali irányításáért Azenpenzem 2025-04-02 05:32:00 Gazdaság Olaszország Generali Komoly csatározás előzi meg a Generali biztosító közgyűlését, a tét az igazgatóság összetétele. A háttérben a dinamikusan változó olasz banki szektor áll, a harcnak egész Európára kiterjedő hatásai lehetnek. Kormányrendeletek simították az utat Matolcsy Györgyék építkezései előtt mfor.hu 2025-04-02 05:54:01 Gazdaság Beruházás Nemzetgazdaság Jegybank Matolcsy György Kormányrendelet A jegybank Szabadság téri székházának felújítását is nemzetgazdasági szempontból kiemelt jelentőségű beruházássá minősítették. Mennyivel drágább valójában a Skoda Fabia, mint a Dacia Sandero? Autónavigátor 2025-04-02 06:32:30 Autó-motor Skoda Dacia Rendszeresen készítünk árharcokat az oldalon, amelyekben két modell alapfelszereltségét hasonlítjuk össze az áraik fényében. Ám ennek valamilyen szinten feltétele, hogy Tizenöt órán át nem fogyott ki a kritikákból Magyar Hírlap 2025-04-02 06:26:00 Külföld Szenátor Cory Booker, New Jersey állam szenátora a kormányzat tevékenysége elleni tiltakozásként beszélt addig, "ameddig fizikálisan képes volt rá". E-sport és kutatások: együttműködési megállapodást kötött a Széchenyi István Egyetem és a Budapesti Honvéd Sportegyesület Helló Sajtó! 2025-04-02 04:06:04 Gazdaság Oktatás egyetem Az ünnepélyes aláíráson elhangzott, hogy a nagymúltú klub egyebek mellett az egyetemi e-sport-oktatáshoz és -csapatfejlesztéshez nyújt majd szakmai segítséget, az intézmény pedig többek között kutatás-fejlesztési tevékenységébe vonja be a számos szakosztállyal rendelkező szervezetet. Csodás élményt kínál a Tapolcai-medence ékköve Sokszínű vidék 2025-04-02 06:02:59 Utazás Balaton Tapolca A község fő vonzerejét festői fekvése, a Balatonra és a Tapolcai-medencére tekintő csodálatos panorámája, valamint borospincéi és nyugalmat árasztó népi lakóházai adják. Olaszországban mesterséges intelligencia ír nyomtatott napilapot Privátbankár 2025-04-02 06:57:01 Külföld A legfejlettebb technológiát az újságíró szakma legrégibb eszközével, a papírral párosította az Il Foglio című olasz napilap, amely a mesterséges intelligenciára bízta a nyomtatott kiadás megírását kísérletileg április 11-ig. Kupacsoda a németeknél, kiesett a címvédő Bayer Rangadó 2025-04-01 23:10:46 Foci Németország Pedig a Bayer még vezetett a meccsen, de csodát tett a Bielefeld. Milánóban sem kérnek a korábbi 127 milliós támadóból Player 2025-04-02 06:27:02 Foci Olaszország Milánó A szezon végén egészen biztosan távozik Joao Félix az Ac Milantól. Legalább a napsütésben minden nap bízhatunk Kiderül 2025-04-02 05:15:15 Időjárás Hétvége Szeszélyes lesz a hét időjárása, hiszen kezdetben még enyhe, 20 fok közeli maximumoknak örülhetünk, de hétvégén markáns lehűlés körvonalazódik. A nap viszont hőmérséklettől függetlenül minden nap kisüt majd. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Magyar Péter is kiment az orvosok tüntetésére

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 4:09

Magyar Péter is kiment az orvosok tüntetésére 24.hu 2025-03-08 15:00:36 Belföld Magyar Péter Tüntetés Szelfi Bayer Zsolt A Tisza elnöke is ott van a támogatók között a Kossuth-téren, ahol egy "Listázz engem is Bayer Zsolt feliratú" transzparenssel szelfizett. Megtartotta első nyilvános beszédét a jegybank új elnöke Telex 2025-03-08 11:58:54 Gazdaság Infláció Jegybank Varga Mihály MKIK Varga Mihály arról beszélt az MKIK évnyitóján, hogy fegyelmezett inflációellenes gazdaságpolitikára lesz szükség továbbra is. Rettegés az Autobahnon: így néz ki a 201 km/h éjjel egy Citroen Xantiában! Autónavigátor 2025-03-08 14:59:09 Autó-motor Citroen Félreértés ne essék, semmi problémám az idősebb autókkal. Sőt, a hidrós Citroen modelleknek külön hely jutott a szívemben, és egy Tizenöt év után először sortűzzel hajtottak végre egy kivégzést az Egyesült Államokban 444.hu 2025-03-08 11:11:29 Külföld USA A háromfős kivégzőosztag nagyjából négy és fél méterről, puskával lőtt a 67 éves férfira, akit 24 éve ítéltek halálra. Erdélyi Tímea keményen megdolgoztatta Mészáros Bélát - A mi kis falunk új epizódja mindent visz! rtl.hu 2025-03-08 12:00:35 Bulvár Románia Randi A mi kis falunk Erdélyi Tímea A mi kis falunk legújabb epizódjában egy titkos hotelszobás randi kavarta fel az állóvizet. Erdélyi Tímea és Mészáros Béla forgatása nem várt fordulatot hozott – nézd meg a kulisszatitkokat! Nagy Márton: visszakapta a lakosság azt amit a háborús infláció korábban elvitt? - itt a válasz vg.hu 2025-03-08 12:01:35 Belföld háború Infláció Béremelés A fő kérdés az, hogy visszahozták-e a béremelések azt, amit korábban a háborús infláció elvitt – tette fel a kérdést Nagy Márton. Az Egyesült Államok élesen ostrom alá vette Európát Magyar Hírlap 2025-03-08 13:17:54 Külföld Beruházás NATO A Fehér Ház vezetője elégedetlen az európai NATO-szövetségesek védelmi beruházásainak összegével. Olyat lépett a Trump-adminisztráció, amivel tovább fokozza a nyomást az ukrán elnökön HírTV 2025-03-08 16:22:00 Külföld Ukrajna USA Donald Trump Műhold Erővel kényszerítheti rá a békére az ukrán elnököt Donald Trump. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok elnöke ugyanis felfüggesztette bizonyos műholdfelvételek elérését ukrán felhasználók számára. Rosszalló üzenetet kapott Orbán Viktor Trump külügyminiszterétől Privátbankár 2025-03-08 12:51:07 Külföld Orbán Viktor Szerbia Bosznia-Hercegovina Marco Rubio veszélyesnek és destabilizálónak nevezte Orbán Viktor boszniai szerb szövetségesét. Karácsony Gergely felszólította Orbán Viktort mfor.hu 2025-03-08 16:06:01 Belföld Orbán Viktor Karácsony Gergely A főpolgármester a kormányfő szombati kijelentésére reagált. Azt írta Facebook-oldalán, hogy adják vissza a főváros pénzét. Hivatalos: minden 30 év alatti anya szja-mentes lesz a teljes jövedelmére Startlap Vásárlás 2025-03-08 16:42:14 Gazdaság Adóbevallás Szja Nemcsak azok az édesanyák vehetik ezt igénybe, akiknek a gyermekei az elmúlt két évben születtek, hanem a kedvezményt kiterjesztik minden 30 év alatti édesanyára. Carlo Ancelotti: Volt egy játékosom, aki egy törülközőt húzott a fejére, hogy ne hallja, amit mondok Sportal 2025-03-08 11:18:00 Foci Egy furcsa öltözői emlékét idézte fel Carlo Ancelotti, aki egy podcastban a saját jövőjéről is beszélt. Kiskorú elleni nemi erőszakkal vádolják az úszót 24.hu 2025-03-08 14:17:55 Sport Yannick Agnel 2016-ban, 24 éves korában keveredett viszonyba edzője mindössze 13 éves lányával. Nagyot változik időjárásunk a jövő hétre Kiderül 2025-03-08 14:11:55 Időjárás Csapadék Vasárnap folytatódik napos idő, majd hétfőtől nedvesebb léghullámok érkeznek fölénk, felhősebb, csapadékosabb időjárásra van kilátás. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

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Magyar Péter is kiment az orvosok tüntetésére

The React Native Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 4:09

Magyar Péter is kiment az orvosok tüntetésére 24.hu 2025-03-08 15:00:36 Belföld Magyar Péter Tüntetés Szelfi Bayer Zsolt A Tisza elnöke is ott van a támogatók között a Kossuth-téren, ahol egy "Listázz engem is Bayer Zsolt feliratú" transzparenssel szelfizett. Megtartotta első nyilvános beszédét a jegybank új elnöke Telex 2025-03-08 11:58:54 Gazdaság Infláció Jegybank Varga Mihály MKIK Varga Mihály arról beszélt az MKIK évnyitóján, hogy fegyelmezett inflációellenes gazdaságpolitikára lesz szükség továbbra is. Rettegés az Autobahnon: így néz ki a 201 km/h éjjel egy Citroen Xantiában! Autónavigátor 2025-03-08 14:59:09 Autó-motor Citroen Félreértés ne essék, semmi problémám az idősebb autókkal. Sőt, a hidrós Citroen modelleknek külön hely jutott a szívemben, és egy Tizenöt év után először sortűzzel hajtottak végre egy kivégzést az Egyesült Államokban 444.hu 2025-03-08 11:11:29 Külföld USA A háromfős kivégzőosztag nagyjából négy és fél méterről, puskával lőtt a 67 éves férfira, akit 24 éve ítéltek halálra. Erdélyi Tímea keményen megdolgoztatta Mészáros Bélát - A mi kis falunk új epizódja mindent visz! rtl.hu 2025-03-08 12:00:35 Bulvár Románia Randi A mi kis falunk Erdélyi Tímea A mi kis falunk legújabb epizódjában egy titkos hotelszobás randi kavarta fel az állóvizet. Erdélyi Tímea és Mészáros Béla forgatása nem várt fordulatot hozott – nézd meg a kulisszatitkokat! Nagy Márton: visszakapta a lakosság azt amit a háborús infláció korábban elvitt? - itt a válasz vg.hu 2025-03-08 12:01:35 Belföld háború Infláció Béremelés A fő kérdés az, hogy visszahozták-e a béremelések azt, amit korábban a háborús infláció elvitt – tette fel a kérdést Nagy Márton. Az Egyesült Államok élesen ostrom alá vette Európát Magyar Hírlap 2025-03-08 13:17:54 Külföld Beruházás NATO A Fehér Ház vezetője elégedetlen az európai NATO-szövetségesek védelmi beruházásainak összegével. Olyat lépett a Trump-adminisztráció, amivel tovább fokozza a nyomást az ukrán elnökön HírTV 2025-03-08 16:22:00 Külföld Ukrajna USA Donald Trump Műhold Erővel kényszerítheti rá a békére az ukrán elnököt Donald Trump. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok elnöke ugyanis felfüggesztette bizonyos műholdfelvételek elérését ukrán felhasználók számára. Rosszalló üzenetet kapott Orbán Viktor Trump külügyminiszterétől Privátbankár 2025-03-08 12:51:07 Külföld Orbán Viktor Szerbia Bosznia-Hercegovina Marco Rubio veszélyesnek és destabilizálónak nevezte Orbán Viktor boszniai szerb szövetségesét. Karácsony Gergely felszólította Orbán Viktort mfor.hu 2025-03-08 16:06:01 Belföld Orbán Viktor Karácsony Gergely A főpolgármester a kormányfő szombati kijelentésére reagált. Azt írta Facebook-oldalán, hogy adják vissza a főváros pénzét. Hivatalos: minden 30 év alatti anya szja-mentes lesz a teljes jövedelmére Startlap Vásárlás 2025-03-08 16:42:14 Gazdaság Adóbevallás Szja Nemcsak azok az édesanyák vehetik ezt igénybe, akiknek a gyermekei az elmúlt két évben születtek, hanem a kedvezményt kiterjesztik minden 30 év alatti édesanyára. Carlo Ancelotti: Volt egy játékosom, aki egy törülközőt húzott a fejére, hogy ne hallja, amit mondok Sportal 2025-03-08 11:18:00 Foci Egy furcsa öltözői emlékét idézte fel Carlo Ancelotti, aki egy podcastban a saját jövőjéről is beszélt. Kiskorú elleni nemi erőszakkal vádolják az úszót 24.hu 2025-03-08 14:17:55 Sport Yannick Agnel 2016-ban, 24 éves korában keveredett viszonyba edzője mindössze 13 éves lányával. Nagyot változik időjárásunk a jövő hétre Kiderül 2025-03-08 14:11:55 Időjárás Csapadék Vasárnap folytatódik napos idő, majd hétfőtől nedvesebb léghullámok érkeznek fölénk, felhősebb, csapadékosabb időjárásra van kilátás. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

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Multiple TV Platforms, One Codebase: React Native TV App Development | React Universe On Air #49

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 54:30

Eighteen TV platforms, one codebase—what could possibly go wrong? Tune in to find out how to tackle the technical and UX challenges of building for Android TV, Apple TV, Fire TV, Tizen, and more—all with React Native! In the 49th episode of React Universe On Air, Łukasz Chludziński (https://x.com/lukasz_app) teams up with Michael Khirallah (https://x.com/mkralla11), Senior Director of Engineering at DIRECTV, and Chris Trag (https://x.com/chris_trag), Developer Evangelist at Amazon, to discuss why cross-platform development is not just a time-saver but also a way to deliver a consistent user experience. You know that at Callstack, we're all about performance—and with devices like Samsung's Tizen TVs released in 2017 (running Chromium 47!), performance is a serious concern. That's why we asked our guests to share real-world techniques for optimizing TV apps, from architectural choices to strategies that avoid unnecessary performance hits on newer devices. The complexity of TV app development doesn't stop at coding, though. Our host and guests know it all to well, so they couldn't help but discuss how they balance unit, integration, automation, and manual testing, leveraging tools like AWS Device Farm and custom-built frameworks to ensure stability across all supported platforms. What's in it for you? Tips on automating QA without compromising thoroughness and why manual testing remains crucial for end-user experience. Want to get started with React Native TV app development? Download our guide

Zelenszkij: Soha nem fogjuk elismerni a megszállt területeket oroszként

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 4:18

Zelenszkij: Soha nem fogjuk elismerni a megszállt területeket oroszként Telex 2025-02-14 13:40:28 Külföld Ukrajna USA Németország Volodimir Zelenszkij München Az ukrán elnök is megérkezett a béketárgyalásokat forszírozó amerikai delegáció után a müncheni biztonsági konferenciára. 15 év Orbán mellett – képeken Havasi Bertalan 24.hu 2025-02-14 14:12:40 Belföld Orbán Viktor Havasi Bertalan Távozik posztjáról Havasi Bertalan, Miniszterelnöki Sajtóirodát irányító helyettes államtitkár, aki 2010 óta volt Orbán Viktor sajtósa. Egyetlen apró figyelmetlenség, és már jön is a százezres csekk! Autónavigátor 2025-02-14 11:51:13 Autó-motor Rendőrség Nissan Újabb jelentős sebességtúllépésről tett közzé traffifotót a rendőrség. A sebességhatár ezúttal 50 km/óra lett volna, a Nissan sofőrjét pedig 91 A DK nyomására az államtitkárság felvette a kapcsolatot a gyászoló anyával, akitől a babaváró hitel visszafizetését követelik Nyugati Fény 2025-02-14 14:04:35 Belföld Hitel DK Babaváró hitel A DK törvénymódosítást nyújtott be, hogy abban az esetben, ha a házastárs meghal, a babaváró hitelt ne kelljen visszafizetni. Hadházy visszaszólt Magyarnak: Aki a független sajtót ellehetetleníti, az Orbánt szolgálja! Media1 2025-02-14 10:22:50 Média Orbán Viktor Magyar Péter Hadházy Ákos Hadházy Ákos független országgyűlési képviselő szerint aki nyíltan a maradék független sajtó anyagi ellehetetlenítését tűzi ki célul, az valójában nem akar mást, mint Orbán Viktor. Az ügy előzménye, hogy Magyar Péter kritikus kérdéseket is kapott a Partizánban Gulyás Mártontól, ezért a politikus arra buzdította a követőit, hogy vonják meg a Partizá Zárt ajtók mögött hallgatta meg az EP jogi bizottsága Ilaria Salist HírTV 2025-02-14 12:33:03 Külföld A szélsőbaloldali aktivista és EP-képviselő Magyarországon előbb előzetes letartóztatásban, majd házi-őrizetben volt, miután a a gyanú szerint 2023 februárjában ártatlan emberekre támadt több aktivista-társával együtt. Tüttő Kata egy EU-intézmény élére kerülhet 444.hu 2025-02-14 15:13:18 Belföld Európai Bizottság Tüttő Kata Február 20-án választhatják meg a Régiók Európai Bizottsága élére a volt főpolgármester-helyettest. Uniós pénzeső hull az egyik vidéki magyar városra mfor.hu 2025-02-14 13:36:05 Gazdaság Fidesz Csongrád-Csanád Szeged Önkormányzat A szegedi közgyűlés 96,9 milliárd forintos nettó főösszeggel pénteki ülésén elfogadta az önkormányzat költségvetését. A rendeletet 21 közgyűlési tag támogatta, a Fidesz és a KDNP képviselői tartózkodtak. Agyő, Konyhafőnök! Forbes 2025-02-14 13:12:03 Cégvilág TV2 Konyhafőnök Idén biztosan nem lesz új széria A Konyhafőnökből, árulta el az RTL. A főzős verseny lassan három éve szenved a TV2 műsorai ellen. Nincs minden veszve: nagyon megdicsérte az EU Magyarországot vg.hu 2025-02-14 14:00:00 Belföld Csak egy ország tudta gyorsabban csökkenteni károsanyag-kibocsátását az unióban, mint hazánk. Simán lehagyta az uniós GDP-növekedés a magyart Privátbankár 2025-02-14 13:51:06 Gazdaság Európai Unió GDP Bruttó hazai termék Eurózóna Eurostat Az előzetesen becsült stagnálás helyett nőtt az euróövezet GDP-je a tavalyi negyedik negyedévben negyedéves összevetésben, míg éves szinten a korábbi becsléssel összhangban bővült – közölte felülvizsgált, de nem végleges adatként az Európai Unió statisztikai hivatala, az Eurostat. Bemutatta 2025-ös versenyautóját a Williams F1-es csapata! F1világ 2025-02-14 11:07:11 Forma1 Carlos Sainz Pénteken, Silverstone-ban mutatta be 2025-ös Forma-1-es versenyautóját a Williams. A patinás brit istálló idén az Alex Albon/Carlos Sainz-kettőssel vág neki a világbajnokság küzdelmeinek. Lázadás a mosonmagyaróvári kézilabdában 24.hu 2025-02-14 16:11:12 Sport Kézilabda Mosonmagyaróvár Tizenöten írták alá a közleményt, amely váratlanul érte a vezetést. Egy kis havat a hétvégén is láthatunk Kiderül 2025-02-14 13:15:00 Időjárás Hétvége Havazás Szombaton a középső országrészben, majd vasárnap az ország számos pontján alakulhat ki kisebb havazás, hózápor, de ezekből csak néhány centiméternyi átmeneti hóréteg jöhet létre. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

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Zelenszkij: Soha nem fogjuk elismerni a megszállt területeket oroszként

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 4:18

Zelenszkij: Soha nem fogjuk elismerni a megszállt területeket oroszként Telex 2025-02-14 13:40:28 Külföld Ukrajna USA Németország Volodimir Zelenszkij München Az ukrán elnök is megérkezett a béketárgyalásokat forszírozó amerikai delegáció után a müncheni biztonsági konferenciára. 15 év Orbán mellett – képeken Havasi Bertalan 24.hu 2025-02-14 14:12:40 Belföld Orbán Viktor Havasi Bertalan Távozik posztjáról Havasi Bertalan, Miniszterelnöki Sajtóirodát irányító helyettes államtitkár, aki 2010 óta volt Orbán Viktor sajtósa. Egyetlen apró figyelmetlenség, és már jön is a százezres csekk! Autónavigátor 2025-02-14 11:51:13 Autó-motor Rendőrség Nissan Újabb jelentős sebességtúllépésről tett közzé traffifotót a rendőrség. A sebességhatár ezúttal 50 km/óra lett volna, a Nissan sofőrjét pedig 91 A DK nyomására az államtitkárság felvette a kapcsolatot a gyászoló anyával, akitől a babaváró hitel visszafizetését követelik Nyugati Fény 2025-02-14 14:04:35 Belföld Hitel DK Babaváró hitel A DK törvénymódosítást nyújtott be, hogy abban az esetben, ha a házastárs meghal, a babaváró hitelt ne kelljen visszafizetni. Hadházy visszaszólt Magyarnak: Aki a független sajtót ellehetetleníti, az Orbánt szolgálja! Media1 2025-02-14 10:22:50 Média Orbán Viktor Magyar Péter Hadházy Ákos Hadházy Ákos független országgyűlési képviselő szerint aki nyíltan a maradék független sajtó anyagi ellehetetlenítését tűzi ki célul, az valójában nem akar mást, mint Orbán Viktor. Az ügy előzménye, hogy Magyar Péter kritikus kérdéseket is kapott a Partizánban Gulyás Mártontól, ezért a politikus arra buzdította a követőit, hogy vonják meg a Partizá Zárt ajtók mögött hallgatta meg az EP jogi bizottsága Ilaria Salist HírTV 2025-02-14 12:33:03 Külföld A szélsőbaloldali aktivista és EP-képviselő Magyarországon előbb előzetes letartóztatásban, majd házi-őrizetben volt, miután a a gyanú szerint 2023 februárjában ártatlan emberekre támadt több aktivista-társával együtt. Tüttő Kata egy EU-intézmény élére kerülhet 444.hu 2025-02-14 15:13:18 Belföld Európai Bizottság Tüttő Kata Február 20-án választhatják meg a Régiók Európai Bizottsága élére a volt főpolgármester-helyettest. Uniós pénzeső hull az egyik vidéki magyar városra mfor.hu 2025-02-14 13:36:05 Gazdaság Fidesz Csongrád-Csanád Szeged Önkormányzat A szegedi közgyűlés 96,9 milliárd forintos nettó főösszeggel pénteki ülésén elfogadta az önkormányzat költségvetését. A rendeletet 21 közgyűlési tag támogatta, a Fidesz és a KDNP képviselői tartózkodtak. Agyő, Konyhafőnök! Forbes 2025-02-14 13:12:03 Cégvilág TV2 Konyhafőnök Idén biztosan nem lesz új széria A Konyhafőnökből, árulta el az RTL. A főzős verseny lassan három éve szenved a TV2 műsorai ellen. Nincs minden veszve: nagyon megdicsérte az EU Magyarországot vg.hu 2025-02-14 14:00:00 Belföld Csak egy ország tudta gyorsabban csökkenteni károsanyag-kibocsátását az unióban, mint hazánk. Simán lehagyta az uniós GDP-növekedés a magyart Privátbankár 2025-02-14 13:51:06 Gazdaság Európai Unió GDP Bruttó hazai termék Eurózóna Eurostat Az előzetesen becsült stagnálás helyett nőtt az euróövezet GDP-je a tavalyi negyedik negyedévben negyedéves összevetésben, míg éves szinten a korábbi becsléssel összhangban bővült – közölte felülvizsgált, de nem végleges adatként az Európai Unió statisztikai hivatala, az Eurostat. Bemutatta 2025-ös versenyautóját a Williams F1-es csapata! F1világ 2025-02-14 11:07:11 Forma1 Carlos Sainz Pénteken, Silverstone-ban mutatta be 2025-ös Forma-1-es versenyautóját a Williams. A patinás brit istálló idén az Alex Albon/Carlos Sainz-kettőssel vág neki a világbajnokság küzdelmeinek. Lázadás a mosonmagyaróvári kézilabdában 24.hu 2025-02-14 16:11:12 Sport Kézilabda Mosonmagyaróvár Tizenöten írták alá a közleményt, amely váratlanul érte a vezetést. Egy kis havat a hétvégén is láthatunk Kiderül 2025-02-14 13:15:00 Időjárás Hétvége Havazás Szombaton a középső országrészben, majd vasárnap az ország számos pontján alakulhat ki kisebb havazás, hózápor, de ezekből csak néhány centiméternyi átmeneti hóréteg jöhet létre. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

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Video Deep Dive From the 2025 CES Show

The CEDIA Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 79:30 Transcription Available

In this episode of the CEDIA Podcast, host Walt Zerbe, senior director of technology and standards, explores the latest advancements in video technology with guest Michael Heiss, also known as "Captain Video." They discuss key topics from CES, including HDMI 2.2 and the Lip Latency Indication Protocol (LIP). Michael explains the significant improvements in HDMI 2.2, such as increased bandwidth for higher resolutions and frame rates. They also delve into AI's role in enhancing picture quality and the importance of understanding new technologies. The episode emphasizes continuous learning and staying informed about industry trends. Timestamps by PodSqueezeIntroduction to the Podcast (00:00:01) Lip Latency Indication Protocol Overview (00:00:07) An explanation of the Lift Latency Indication Protocol and its purpose in reducing sync errors. Introduction of Hosts (00:00:57) Walt Kirby introduces himself and guest Michael Heiss, highlighting their excitement about CES. Reflections on CES (00:01:18) Discussion of the overwhelming amount of information and advancements in video technology at CES. Consumer Insights on Video Technology (00:02:16) Michael shares insights on consumer interest in new video technology and potential purchasing recommendations. HDMI 2.2 Announcement (00:03:04) Discussion begins on HDMI 2.2, its improvements over HDMI 2.1, and implications for video transport. Technical Specifications of HDMI 2.2 (00:03:36) Detailed comparison of HDMI 2.2's speed and capabilities versus previous standards and DisplayPort. Market Impact of HDMI 2.2 (00:05:30) Exploration of HDMI 2.2's relevance in consumer markets and its potential applications in various industries. Challenges in HDMI 2.2 Adoption (00:06:06) Discussion on the timeline and challenges of implementing HDMI 2.2 technology in products. Future of Video Technology (00:08:24) Considerations for future-proofing installations with HDMI 2.2 and the importance of fiber optics. Introduction to Lift Latency Indication Protocol (00:09:35) A deeper dive into the Lift Latency Indication Protocol and its role in video formatting. Importance of Sync in Video Processing (00:11:12) Discussion of lip sync issues and the complexities of latency in video and audio processing. Complications of Latency Perception (00:13:05) Insights on how latency affects viewer experience, particularly in music and video synchronization. Humorous Take on Lip Sync (00:14:11) A lighthearted exchange about the naming of the Lift Latency Indication Protocol and its acronym. AI and Lip Sync Issues (00:15:08) Discussion on the potential for metadata-based lip sync solutions in video technology. AI Applications at CES (00:16:35) Insights into the emergence of AI applications showcased at CES, particularly by LG and Samsung. AI in Video Quality (00:18:40) Exploration of AI's role in enhancing video quality through background adjustments. Predictive AI and Daily Life (00:19:45) Discussion on the implications of predictive AI in everyday tasks and its potential downsides. AI Dependency and Privacy (00:22:46) Concerns about AI dependency, especially during power outages and its implications for privacy. Samsung Galaxy Phone Controversy (00:24:10) Controversy surrounding Samsung's moon photography feature and its implications for AI in consumer devices. Leading TV Brands at CES (00:25:39) Overview of leading TV brands showcased at CES, including LG, Samsung, Hisense, and TCL. AI Engines in TV Brands (00:27:54) Comparison of AI engines used by major TV brands and their implications for functionality. Sensors and AI Functionality (00:29:16) Discussion on the importance of sensors and microphones in smart TVs for AI functionality. Introduction to TV Technology Trends (00:30:29) Discussion on the shift in TV manufacturing and the rise of connected TV systems. Roku's Versatility in TV Market (00:31:27) Roku's functionality as a universal platform for various TV brands is highlighted. Operating Systems in TVs (00:31:45) Exploration of different operating systems like webOS, Tizen, and Roku in modern TVs. Consumer Awareness of TV Apps (00:33:03) Importance of understanding app availability on connected TVs for consumers. TiVo's Marketing Strategy (00:34:21) TiVo's new approach to marketing its operating system through partnerships with TV brands. Sharp's Return to the US Market (00:35:02) Discussion on Sharp's comeback in the TV market with a focus on its partnership with TiVo. Trends in TV Sizes (00:37:40) Analysis of the increasing size of TVs and the emerging market preferences. Direct View LEDs and Market Dynamics (00:39:25) Insight into the competition and advancements in direct view LED technology at CES. Challenges of Large TV Installations (00:42:47) Addressing the logistical challenges of installing large TVs in homes. Brightness Improvements in OLEDs (00:44:11) Overview of advancements in OLED technology and brightness enhancements from LG and Panasonic. Panasonic's OLED Innovations (00:47:03) Panasonic introduces a thermal cooling process for their OLED panels, performing well in high ambient light. Hisense's RGB Mini LED Announcement (00:48:01) Hisense surprises with RGB mini LEDs, enhancing brightness and contrast without traditional color filters. Hisense and TCL Brand Evolution (00:49:10) Discussion on Hisense and TCL's rise to first-tier brands, emphasizing their technological advancements. Trends in Display Technology (00:50:30) Exploration of non-reflective displays and advancements in gaming-focused frame rates. Samsung's Discrete RGB Micro LED (00:53:00) Samsung reveals a discrete RGB micro LED backlit set, promising enhanced brightness and contrast. Upcoming Display Technologies at Expo (00:54:01) Anticipation of new display technologies set to debut at the upcoming Expo. AI and Home Control Integration (00:55:16) Samsung promotes smart TV features that integrate AI for seamless home control. HDR10+ and Content Compatibility (00:57:46) HDR10+ press conference highlights its integration with Amazon Prime and other streaming services. Next Gen TV Developments (00:59:43) Next Gen TV advancements discussed, including cheaper dongles and the new zapper box for ATSC 3.0. Introduction to Marketing Strategies (01:01:58) Discussion on the importance of marketing in the tech industry and venue changes at CES. TV Innovations with Suction Cups (01:02:28) Overview of a TV with suction cups for mounting, highlighting its features and market presence. Trends in Monitor Sizes (01:03:40) Exploration of the trend towards larger, curved monitors for home and office use. Advancements in Audio Technology (01:05:30) Discussion on new audio technologies, including hearing aids and immersive audio experiences. Hearing Aid Innovations (01:06:54) Introduction of a new over-the-counter hearing aid with AI language translation features. Samsung's Eclipse Technology (01:08:16) Overview of Samsung's immersive audio technology and its implications for soundbars and TVs. Gyro-Sensing Soundbars (01:10:12) Description of a soundbar that adjusts audio output based on its mounting position. Audio Q's Dolby Atmos Decoder (01:12:04) Introduction of a product combining Dolby Atmos decoding with power line communication. Final Thoughts on Technology (01:13:31) Discussion on the importance of matching technology with client needs and standards in education. Wrap-Up and Future Events (01:14:45) Conclusion of the podcast and mention of upcoming events in Barcelona. Introduction to Press Releases (01:16:21) Discussion on the volume of press releases and their significance in staying informed about industry developments. Acronyms and Abbreviations Course (01:17:40) Overview of a course aimed at clarifying common acronyms used in the video technology industry. Event Dates Announcement (01:17:57) Mention of the upcoming event dates, February 4th to 6th, and the importance of continuous learning. Closing Remarks and Philosophy (01:18:19) Reflection on the importance of asking questions and keeping an open mind in discussions and learning. Final Thank You (01:18:54) Gratitude expressed to listeners, signaling the end of the podcast episode.

Andrew Broster, Evexi

Millásreggeli • Gazdasági Muppet Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2025 35:04

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT The UK software firm Evexi has an interesting story behind its move into digital signage - in that it was more a pull from a client than a push by the company itself. They got deeper into it because of a client's needs, and then a change in technology support that really forced the hand of the customer and Evexi. A few years on from that big moment, Evexi is growing out its CMS software business based around a very modern, headless platform and tools that the company says manage to bridge a need for being dead-simple to use but also deeply sophisticated and hyper-secure. CEO Andrew Broster relates in this podcast the story behind Evexi, and how it goes to market. There's also a very interesting anecdote in there about how lift and learn tech is more than just a visual trick for retail merchandising - with Broster telling how it was driving serious sales lift for a big whiskey brand. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Andrew, thank you for coming on this podcast. Can you give me a rundown, like the elevator ride story of Evexi? Andrew Broster: Sure. Thanks for having me, Dave. My background is very technical. I spent about ten years prior to setting up Evexi running a managed service for a private cloud-based business. In 2015, Sky came to us through a partner and asked for an advertising platform to be built into pub networks, where they had 10,000 pubs under contract to sell Sky Sports to. We walked away and said, what was the question? But eight months later, the product was released into the pub network and it has nearly 2,700 pubs going live within just under 12 months and really from there, we were working with an existing CMS provider, Scala and we learned a lot of the pains with integrating into third-party systems, platforms, building, customer portals, because the traditional CMSs are not user friendly, and as a result, that was our first digital signage customer and our first project that we launched. So what would you call yourself when you were getting into this with Sky, were you like an independent software vendor who just did custom work for customers? Andrew Broster: Correct. Yeah, it was literally, “Hey, Andrew, we need to build this workflow portal.” We were trying to solve problems at a software level for end users through, in those days, it was actually still the channel and that was the first exposure we ever had to the channel. Okay. Now, though, you have your own product. Andrew Broster: Yes, at the end of 2018, early 2019, we launched Evexi, purely on the grounds of Sky needing a different CMS vendor because Scala was the end-of-life Samsung system on chip support and yeah, Evexi came live and we flipped 2,700 pubs overnight onto our platform, and we were talking about taking a big leap, that was a big leap for and a big learning curve And how do you do that overnight? The common perception would be if you're going to change 2,000 devices over you've got to visit 2,000 devices or you've got to Telnet into them or something or other and monkey around with each of them Andrew Broster: No, what we ended up doing was as we created a reboot script that was rewriting the URL from the URL launcher on a Samsung screen and instead of Scala, we flipped them remotely to ourselves. So with this business, you were asked to develop something for a specific client. Did you look at the marketplace and go, all right, we can do this for sure. We've got a client who wants it We can turn this into a larger business, but boy, there are already a lot of CMS software platforms out there, how do we differentiate ourselves? Andrew Broster: I don't think it was even that really. I think right back in the beginning my other shareholder said to me, is this a mistake? Are we going to just generate a lot of debt within the business? Is this a hard business to get into? I spent probably about three to four months, looking at the landscape, looking at companies, competitors, and companies that basically had one successful client and then struggled to grow out of the single client, and really from my point of view, it was, because I was very technical by nature, I wanted to be able to build a platform that was using the latest technologies. A lot of our competitors, less so now, but at the time in 2018-2019, were using a lot of aging software technologies, and scaling issues, so just single servers. I'm a network architect by trade. I wanted to build a cloud-based platform that uses the same technologies as Amazon AWS and Netflix, and that really for me was the ability to have what I call a native cloud product and not make the same mistakes that everybody else does, because when you're building a product and trying to go to market, you have to really try and avoid making all your competitors' mistakes. So you ended up with what I believe you describe as a headless CMS, right? Andrew Broster: Yeah, it's a headless CMS. By design it was headless, and then we put in a very simple UI because we had right back in those days, about 2,300 landlords wanting to publish their own content. So it really had to be very straightforward to use and we wanted to automate everything else in the backend. So things like rendering automatic web content, being able to have a platform that's open that anyone can build onto. I'm from an open-source background originally, so I wanted to make these tools readily available to all of the partners and the ecosystem we're working in. So when you say headless CMS, what does that mean for a typical end user? What I think about is that you've got creatives, people who are working on online products and so on, who don't want to back out of their normal workflow, platforms and log into something separate just to do digital signage. Andrew Broster: Correct, and for the larger companies integrating into our APIs, which are publicly available, means that we become an extension of their product suite rather than copy and pasting and moving content around. We just end up at the end of the line of the production, and then content gets scheduled, instead of having to log into another system. I'm a big fan of automating and integrating everything. What would be a good kind of reference example of companies that you're working with that you're allowed to talk about? Andrew Broster: Sky is the obvious one. We did a lot of work with David Lloyd, on some projects for their gyms. Johnny Walker and Diageo in South Africa. And they've integrated into our APIs as well, whereby, they had a lift and learn solution using Nexomsphere integrated into Evexi. They built their own web apps sitting on top of a platform for the customer user journey, and then every time you want to go and change products, they have their own merchandising platform. So it gives the whole user journey without even touching a backseat, to be honest with you, and we just turn into ultimately a distribution engine because what we're doing is providing the player to be sophisticated and be able to play whatever content has been built and developed, but the changing the scheduling and interaction of it is all done through our APIs. So you mentioned the Sky project. That's still fully going. What kind of footprint does that have at the moment? Andrew Broster: It still has around 2,000 screens. I think they're very heavily looking at the market at the moment, and seeing who else is doing it. Stone Gates are doing a great job at the moment, running out of a media platform into a pub network and I think it's fair to say we all collectively are just watching that to be honest with You're all watching it for? Andrew Broster: To see how that project evolves and whether it's going to be a success. I mean Sky were the early adopters of this in pub networks and I think like anything in this world, to be able to attract the big liquor brands and the beverage brands, you need to have a reasonable footfall, and that was always the argument right back in the beginning. How do you pump advertising revenue into your advertising network, unless you've got a footfall of half a million to three quarters of a million people. Right. You're doing a lot of work with Nexonsphere. I just did a podcast with them a couple of weeks ago. Andrew Broster: I know them well. I like what they do and it's interesting that “Lift and Learn” is something that's been around for 20 years, but it used to be really hard to do. Is that what's being used for Johnny Walker and could you describe it? Andrew Broster: Yes, it is exactly that. So if you walk into a liquor store in South Africa, you can pick up a product. It'll tell you about the product. You can pick up another product. It'll compare the two products, and then you follow the user journey on a screen after you've picked up the products to be able to inquire or pick up more information about the product. So in the Johnny Walker world, it's about understanding the different flavors of Johnny Walker and what the blend and what the mixes you have with the alcohol and the key to all of that is to understand who's using the product and to be able to provide that information back to the brand. For me, that was a great project for us because we had so little involvement. I know that sounds ridiculous, but when you have a technical partner who is very tech focused, very marketing focused and who knows how to build apps using documentation, we have very little interaction, but I think really the beauty of it is the numbers that are coming back now is that they're seeing across, I think it's about 160 to 180 sites, they're seeing between a 40 and 42 percent uplift in sales and the tills as a result of using learned because they're doing a lot of A/B testing. So we know it works, and for us, it's making the next must be integration. Now, you don't have these drop down menus, don't have a CMS that's completely and utterly configure-centric, just need to be able to build out your solution because no Lift and Learn solution is the same and you need to be able to get there in 5 or 10 minutes. Right, because you want this to be largely in the hands of the integrator, the provider, whoever. Andrew Broster: Our objective is to make the integrators' lives easy. If we can't make their lives easy, what's the point really from my point of view, frankly, of existing. They need to make money like we need to make money and the easiest way of doing that is just to make their lives easy. When you're on a journey of looking at getting into space and analyzing the other platforms that are out there, the other approaches and so on, what kind of conclusions did you draw about what you needed to do? Andrew Broster: How I looked at it was: We have many small customers and we have some very nice blue chip, large customers, and ultimately you need to make the small customers' lives very easy, three steps to be able to publish content and manage your content, and then when it comes to the big boys, you need to be able to become an extension of their existing workflows. Our goal really was, is to just build something that one is open, and two is very easy for an end user to use, because ultimately, in our space, we have systems integrators that are ultimately just resellers and they just resell the service and they're not technical, and then we have other integrators that we call our technical partners that are hugely technical. I want to be able to do stuff that we haven't even dreamt of yet, and it's the ability for them to be able to have that platform to do what they want. So if you're going to do headless, it sounds like you have to have that capability, but for the small to medium business customer, they're probably not going to use the headless element so you've got to have a full UX for them, right? Andrew Broster: But you've just got to give them a really easy journey. If they can use Facebook or they can use Instagram, they should be able to use a CMS. It should be as simple as that. Ultimately, our goal is login. In our world, it's, you've got three things. You've got a player, you've got media, and you've got to be able to publish it, and it shouldn't be more complicated than that because that's what the smaller clients want. They want to be able to schedule content and they want to be able to update content very easily. Is there a particular market vertical that you guys are strong in? Is it retail or is it QSR? Andrew Broster: It's a fight between the two at the moment. We're doing a lot more work with Elo, Micro Touch in the U.S. at the moment. So we are using Blue Star in the U.S. to sell through to the channel, and so QSR is an interesting space because of the Square integration. You can plug a square device in and a touch screen in and within 20 minutes you can have QSR running on a touch screen to be able to do the ordering. It's four clicks in our system. You authenticate against the Square, you choose your products and off you go. So that space for us is very exciting for us. In the retail side, I think predominantly because of the way we position our product for integrations into Nexomsphere and stuff like that, that makes it quite an attractive offering. With kiosk, and point of sale, I don't know that world all that well, but, Square, I think about it as transaction processing. Do you still have to jack into a point of sale system or is that something you can provide? Andrew Broster: No, we are ultimately like a silent salesman sitting there. So we're literally integrated straight into Square's APIs. We pull up the products and we're just another method of ordering. So we work and the integration works just like online ordering, but we're just presenting it on a pretty screen, which is touch enabled. So that integration for us Is key, but actually very simplistic Because you're doing from what I can tell on the web, a lot of kinds of interactive work and use portrait screens to do that. I see most digital science platforms as being very distinctly oriented around landscape and large format displays that don't have interactive. Is it hard to straddle the two? Andrew Broster: No, not really. At the end of the day, it's a player for us. We have customers who've got large LED screens which is great, works very well. I would say we're particularly strong in the portrait side of the world. But at the end of the day, all this technology doesn't work without any content creators. So we've got some very nice strategic content partners that do all of this work, which worked very well with our systems integrators. So you would just point to them when a customer asks, you say, “These guys can help you out?” Andrew Broster: Yeah, so if they don't have it in house and we say look, sure, no problem. We've got three or four of our preferred content partners who are actually quite tech and web app enabled, so they like to do some of the experiential stuff which ultimately then boils back down into the Nexomsphere world. So there again, it's a nice blend. I believe you got into this in part, to do the Sky thing, that at that point it was a system on chip displays. Is that accurate? Andrew Broster: Yes. So Sky has a very close relationship with Samsung, and the remit was that they had to be a Samsung screen system on chip. Now we're going back to 2015-2016 models, the very first generation way before Tizen. So yeah, that was the requirement, and off the back of that, it was, which CMS vendor can support these screens? Because in those days, system on ships didn't support portraits. You had to do clever stuff to make the content play in portrait in those days. That was the reality of it, and then, yes, in those early days, it was Scala that we originally integrated into. Then once Chris Regal and Stratacash bought Scala, that was the end of Samsung and SoC, right? Andrew Broster: It absolutely was. It was, I think the initial shock was, what do we do next? But as I said before, Sky came to us and said, look, we have to keep this advertising network running. We need it supported. We need a platform that can scale a lot further than it currently runs at the moment, and we welcome that challenge, really. Don't forget we, at the time we were only seven or eight strong, we're now nineteen strong straddling three countries. So we've grown up a lot since then, but for a company of that size at the time, it was quite a big challenge. One of the things that I've heard through the years with system on chip smart displays is as you alluded to when they first came out, they weren't very powerful, weren't very capable. I heard, as subsequent generations came along, they got quite good, they got quite powerful, but more recently, I've heard the opposite that because of the demands that are out there now for end devices that they can't handle everything, that they don't have the processing power to maybe do stuff that has aspects of AI related to it or anything else. I'm curious about your experience. Andrew Broster: I think if you look at it from a HD point of view, no issues, 4k, don't see any issues. We saw some early issues in around Tizen 4 particularly. So we're talking about three or four years ago. Tizen 6, 6. 5 and 7 have been reasonably good. Don't forget, we now integrate using Nexomsphere controllers, we're doing a lot of work with LIDAR, with Nexomsphere as well and predominantly these Tizen screens, they're just very dependent, not only on the processor, but on the Chromium version. If you're running a screen that's running a four year old Chromium version, you're going to have a whole ball ache when it comes to doing some cool stuff. But the later the Chromium release, the more feature rich, it actually becomes. So there's no issue handling the complexity of content? Andrew Broster: No, we have thousands of Samsung screens on our estate. They are in our world probably the most reliable devices. I have heard that there's been a push lately amongst end users to go to independent standalone media players and to decouple from the displays and not be relying on them. Are you hearing that in the community? Andrew Broster: Yep, we are. What's driving that? Andrew Broster: So just to summarize we support anything Tizen, let's just say anything Samsung WebOS. We support Linux, Windows, Pi5 as well but I wouldn't run an estate on a Pi5. We're seeing a lot of drive now down the Android route, and my background is security, and I've always had a huge aversion to going near Android players. But there are a couple of new parties involved in the market that we're starting to work with who are releasing what we call their own orchestration platform for supporting Android so they can roll out thousands of these devices, keep them updated, keep them online and healthy and I'm actually quite receptive to it because I've always been very allergic to it, but going back to your point, I think a lot of it is possibly some of the integration issues or some of the requirements for external devices to function. It took us nearly two years to get Samsung to open a USB port for us. People don't hang around for two years just to be able to have an integration port, being able to have an external device using that, which natively support, is actually a huge stepping stone and a huge advantage. Why is that? Andrew Broster: Because there's no compatibility issues. if I have to keep going back to Samsung every time I want to be able to have another driver to support over USB, and they turn around and say, two years later, yeah, guys, we finally decided that there's a big enough opportunity in the market to do it. We will consider it. That's all well and good, but the smaller, external media player companies, can move a lot quicker than that. Right. I did an event where I was supposed to be using Samsung kiosk for checkin… Andrew Broster: Oh, don't I know it. I just wanted to use a little thermal printer and they said, we don't have that because that needs a Windows driver and we don't have that, so too bad, so sad. Andrew Broster: Yep, absolutely. But just leave it at that. Andrew Broster: Put it this way. I mean we support the Samsung Kiosk on Tizen. They have a barcode and QR scanner. Does it work? Not really. They have a printer. Does it work? Yes, but it's only that printer. You can't plug anything else in it and it'd be supported because the Tizen operating system doesn't support it. So it's hardly surprising that people just go out and say, actually life's so much easier if I just plug another device into it, because I just know that the peripherals of work, and that for me is probably the approach I'd look at too. If I'm a large brand and I just want to roll out 1500s, let's call them devices, and then all of a sudden, the panel vendor says, no, we don't support that device. You can't wait for a decision to be made. You just got to get on with your project, and yes, that's a perfect space for media players. Because you've now been in this industry for some time, but spent a lot of time looking at it, where do you think things are at? Because I see far too many software competitors out there and I'm always amazed when a small startup contacts me and says, we're doing this too, here's what we're up to, and I'm thinking, why did you start this? There's so many competitors to begin with. What do you see and what will happen? Because I just see the herd being thinned out. Andrew Broster: I think what I'm carefully observing at the moment is the number of acquisitions that are taking place. We see it, if we look at grass, fish and dice, and the aggregation and the buying up of what I look at as like the supply chain and ultimately trying to go direct. I think that's for me, I think that opens more doors than it closes for us. Not only on the fact that, ultimately my business needs to have a value and it needs to be able to be, one day, I would like to walk away from this. From my point of view, looking at it and seeing one, competitor being swallowed up or acquired by systems integrators is a great thing. But two, it also leaves a very open to us because what then happens is you've got a UK based company buying from fragments like a what was a European digital signage software platform who's now actually realistically going to become a direct competitor because they will then start competing in the same space for the same customer base. For me, that's great. We get calls quite regularly saying, oh yeah, but yeah, we can't buy those licenses anymore because they're now a competitor. The board won't approve it. So from my point of view, it's great, and it's exciting, and for us, we're picking up new businesses as a result of it. What I'm seeing, which I'm quite enjoying at the moment is a lot of the hype around retail media. I did a podcast couple of weeks ago about it, with one of our systems integrators. Chris Regal is doing a great job of talking and educating the market. I think his insights are very valuable. I have a lot of respect for Chris. I have done all of these, even going back to when he acquired Scala, but I haven't yet seen a very good implementation of a retail media network. I don't travel the globe every day, but I do a fair amount of travel. But I think really for my business and other businesses our side, the retail media side of it is purely targeted messaging, ultimately, if you want me to look at it that way. I don't think that's exciting. Who would you describe as a good partner company and a channel to work with, because there are some integrators who I tend to call solutions providers because they truly understand it versus AV systems integrators who are really good at deploying stuff in workplaces and other kinds of spaces like that, but they don't understand content, they don't understand the software. They just put stuff in. Andrew Broster: Yeah, hang and bang as I call it. Yeah. I don't like to use that term because they don't like it, but that's... Andrew Broster: There's no disrespect. Yeah, to it, to any of those guys, everybody has their business model, right? We have this really nice blend of very sophisticated system integrators down to the ones that just want to look after the smaller end users, and they're as valuable to us as anybody, because we give them tools that they just go in and plug in and exercise. That's an easy route for us really, because we were selling a box product with an add on, and they can go in and install a box product with an add on and it's just two pieces of software for us. That's perfect. I think about end users and the enterprise level ones often wanting a fully managed solution where, look, we're going to outsource this thing to you guys, we'll give you direction and everything else, what we need, but you guys do it. Are you also seeing that with some of your channel partners that even relatively small deployments, they want that full managed solution? Andrew Broster: We are, and we're seeing more and more of it, and that's exactly where our systems integrators sit in that space, and that's great. More and more to be honest with you, I think, we saw years ago, like everybody wanting to move to the cloud and just push the problem away and trying to lower the cost of IT systems, right? I think what they're also trying to do now, certainly in the marketing side of these brands, is they want to be able to push that out and just know it's going to be looked after. It's easier to have a fully managed service for the systems integrator that has a help desk, a support system, people on the ground, technical experts and the partners that we work with, they're all certified Evexi Partners. We get maybe two or three calls a week from an escalation point of view with something, but the rest of it is handled by our systems integrators. That's a good situation. Andrew Broster: I always look at it erctainly the channel is we're like the software guys, we're not the help desk guys. We're the guys that want to build the software, look after the software and release more features in the software. The systems integrators are great at looking after the customer, supporting the customer and delivering everything to the customer. We fit in quite nicely. So it's either two things. Everything's going well, or they've given up on you. Andrew Broster: No, it's not, because I keep buying licenses, and that's a good thing. Absolutely. I believe you have a busy next few weeks coming up here. You're at NRF and then ISE. Andrew Broster: Yeah. So we're at four trade shows in the space of four months. Next year we are with our partner's Ergonomic Solutions, NRF, which will be great, really looking forward to that. Our US market footprint's growing, so we're enjoying that relationship, Blue Star is an integral part of that. We enjoy working with those guys. ISE, again, the Ergonomic's stand, we're showcasing a lot of new tech. So a lot of it is nice integrations with Nexomsphere as well. A lot of touch applications, experiential stuff. We're on the Nexomsphere stand with them as one of their supporting partners and we're on the Samsung stand, and then at the end of February, we go to Eurosys, which I find fascinating because it's a very different market and it's very retail focused. So we're there for a week and then we're at the Retail Tech Show again, and we'll be supporting three or four of our UK partners as well as Ergonomic Solutions as well at the Retail Tech Show. So it's a very busy beginning to the year. All right. I will let you get organized for all that. Thank you for taking some time with me. Andrew Broster: No problem at all. Thank you very much for having me.

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 13:39

Szinódus és liturgia, a rítus fejlődésének két fontos forrása címmel 2024. október 24-25-én nemzetközi liturgikus szimpózionnak adott otthont a Szent Atanáz Görögkatolikus Hittudományi Főiskola liturgikus tanszéke. A két és fél napos konferencia végén Przemysław Nowakowskit, a krakkói II. János Pál Pápa Egyetem professzorát, az Ad fontes liturgicos konferenciák atyját szólítottuk meg. A beszélgetést fordította és tolmácsolta dr. Nyirán János atya, a Szent Atanáz főiskola oktatója és az esemény nyíregyházi szervezője.

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OneUI chegou às TVs Samsung, celulares Motorola que vão receber Android 15

Hoje no TecMundo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2024 13:35

As notícias de hoje incluem a Microsoft falando que a recente derrota da Google na Justiça vai liberar jogos de Xbox para ser comprados e jogados no Android, a Acer revelando planos de lançar placas de vídeo AMD no Brasil ano que vem, a Apple planejando lançar um headset VR mais barato em 2025 e outros dois óculos nos anos seguintes, e também lançando na surdina um novo iPad Mini com o chip do iPhone 15 Pro. Tem ainda a liberando atualização com a OneUI substituindo o Tizen nas suas TVs e a Motorola atualizando a lista de quais celulares vão receber o Android 15! Boa noite e bem-vindos ao Hoje no TecMundo, o seu resumo diário de tecnologia!

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Nem jön ki a matek

Hírstart Robot Podcast - Tech hírek

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 4:45

Nem jön ki a matek ITBusiness 2024-09-11 09:37:28 Cégvilág Infotech Még mindig tájékozatlan cégek garmadája, messze nem elegendő számú szakember, betarthatatlan határidők, hiányzó jogszabályok – a NIS2 előírásaira való felkészülés nem megy olyan zökkenőmentesen, mint ahogy azt az év elején remélték a szakértők. ◼︎ Hajrájához közeledik a NIS2 Június végén megjelent két, a NIS2-re való felkészülés szempontjából alapv Elégedetlenek és csalódottak a kínai iPhone 16 vásárlók ICT Global 2024-09-11 06:03:13 Mobiltech Kína Telefon Mesterséges intelligencia Apple Okostelefon iPhone Az új iPhone kínai verziója, amelyből most kimaradtak a mesterséges intelligenciára épülő funkciók, kimondott csalódást okozott a világ legnagyobb mobilpiacán - számolt be az Apple új telefonszériájának ázsiai fogadtatásáról a Reuters. Háromfelé hajtható telefont mutatott be a Huawei Player 2024-09-11 08:00:23 Mobiltech Telefon Huawei Ha azt hitted, hogy a hajtogatható telefonok közt már nem lehet újat mutatni, akkor nézd meg a Huawei újdonságát! A Mate Xt ugyanis háromfelé hajtható, ezért teljesen kihajtogatva tényleg képes kiváltani egy nagyobb táblagépet. Öt éven belül jöhet a színváltós BMW InStyle Men 2024-09-11 04:10:50 Infotech BMW Az autó az E-Ink technológia segítségével változtathatja a színét. Még ebben az évtizedben sorozatgyártásba mehet. A jelszómentes biztonság jövője Igényesférfi.hu 2024-09-11 10:39:21 Infotech Samsung A Samsung kiemelten fontosnak tartja, hogy az összekapcsolt eszközök ökoszisztémájának használata során nyugalmat biztosítson: a Knox Vault, a jelkulcsok és a Knox Matrix egytől egyig megvédik a felhasználókat és digitális életüket. Kicsit közelebb kerültünk hozzá, hogy a robotporszívók a lépcsőkkel is megbirkózzanak Rakéta 2024-09-11 07:54:04 Infotech Németország Kiállítás Berlin Robot A berlini IFA kiállításon a Roborock valamint a Dreame is olyan technológiát mutatott be, amellyel a robotporszívó meg tudja emelni az elejét, így akár négy centiméter magas akadalyokon is át tud kelni. Az üstökösei után új földközeli kisbolygókat talált Sárneczky Mínuszos 2024-09-11 10:33:04 Tudomány Világűr Második magyarként augusztusban választották be a Nemzetközi Csillagászati Unió (IAU) legújabb tiszteletbeli tagjai közé Sárneczky Krisztiánt, aki júliusban két üstököst fedezett fel egy héten belül, és aki a napokban több új kisbolygót is talált. Tizenöt új tiszteletbeli tagot választott az IAU, akiket az augusztusi közgyűlésükön jelentettek be. M Semmelweis: Egyre több az allergiás beteg a géllakk összetevői miatt Telex 2024-09-11 09:57:32 Tudomány Allergia A körömszépészeti termékekben előforduló vegyi anyagok közül az úgynevezett akrilátorok okozzák a legtöbb allergiás megbetegedést. A hosszú élet molekuláris titkát fedezték fel magyar tudósok PlanetZ 2024-09-11 08:00:12 Tudomány DNS Magyar kutatók felfedezték az öregedési folyamat egyik kulcsfontosságú epigenetikai összetevőjét. Ez új lehetőségeket nyit a hosszú élet és az egészséges öregedés terén. A mitokondriális DNS-ben talált N6-metiladenin (6mA) felhalmozódása forradalmasíthatja az öregedéssel összefüggő betegségek kezelését. Megmérték, hogy a magyarok mennyire kaptak rá a mesterséges intelligenciára Bitport 2024-09-11 10:46:00 Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Generáció Egy friss hazai kutatás alacsony felkészültségi szintről és jelentős generációs, illetve felhasználási különbségekről számol be az MI technológiák hazai alkalmazásában. Kína visszautasítja az atomfegyverek feletti AI ellenőrzés tilalmát ICT Global 2024-09-11 15:33:26 Infotech Kína Mesterséges intelligencia Kína nem hajlandó aláírni azt a megállapodást, amely megtiltja a mesterséges intelligenciának az atomfegyverek ellenőrzését. Októbertől ismét indul az ösztöndíjas Net-Coach képzés Digital Hungary 2024-09-11 12:06:08 Média Oktatás Mesterséges intelligencia Katolikus NMHH Médiatanács Coach Az okoseszközök szolgáltatásai és a mesterséges intelligencia egyre nagyobb kihívást jelentenek diákoknak, szülőknek és tanároknak egyaránt. A Nemzeti Média- és Hírközlési Hatóság (NMHH) és az Apor Vilmos Katolikus Főiskola közös kezdeményezésével indult Net-Coach program a magyar pedagógusokkal és más szakemberekkel összefogva olyan tudásközössége Egy magyar építésziroda űrtechnológiával keres ellenszert a városi hőségre Roadster 2024-09-11 09:06:05 Otthon Energia Kánikula Világűr Műhold Műholdas földmegfigyelési adatokkal dolgozik a városi hőszigethatás csökkentésén, és az ingatlanfejlesztések energiahatékonyságának javításán a Paulinyi & Partners iroda az Európai Űrügynökséggel közösen. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

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Nem jön ki a matek

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2024 4:45

Nem jön ki a matek ITBusiness 2024-09-11 09:37:28 Cégvilág Infotech Még mindig tájékozatlan cégek garmadája, messze nem elegendő számú szakember, betarthatatlan határidők, hiányzó jogszabályok – a NIS2 előírásaira való felkészülés nem megy olyan zökkenőmentesen, mint ahogy azt az év elején remélték a szakértők. ◼︎ Hajrájához közeledik a NIS2 Június végén megjelent két, a NIS2-re való felkészülés szempontjából alapv Elégedetlenek és csalódottak a kínai iPhone 16 vásárlók ICT Global 2024-09-11 06:03:13 Mobiltech Kína Telefon Mesterséges intelligencia Apple Okostelefon iPhone Az új iPhone kínai verziója, amelyből most kimaradtak a mesterséges intelligenciára épülő funkciók, kimondott csalódást okozott a világ legnagyobb mobilpiacán - számolt be az Apple új telefonszériájának ázsiai fogadtatásáról a Reuters. Háromfelé hajtható telefont mutatott be a Huawei Player 2024-09-11 08:00:23 Mobiltech Telefon Huawei Ha azt hitted, hogy a hajtogatható telefonok közt már nem lehet újat mutatni, akkor nézd meg a Huawei újdonságát! A Mate Xt ugyanis háromfelé hajtható, ezért teljesen kihajtogatva tényleg képes kiváltani egy nagyobb táblagépet. Öt éven belül jöhet a színváltós BMW InStyle Men 2024-09-11 04:10:50 Infotech BMW Az autó az E-Ink technológia segítségével változtathatja a színét. Még ebben az évtizedben sorozatgyártásba mehet. A jelszómentes biztonság jövője Igényesférfi.hu 2024-09-11 10:39:21 Infotech Samsung A Samsung kiemelten fontosnak tartja, hogy az összekapcsolt eszközök ökoszisztémájának használata során nyugalmat biztosítson: a Knox Vault, a jelkulcsok és a Knox Matrix egytől egyig megvédik a felhasználókat és digitális életüket. Kicsit közelebb kerültünk hozzá, hogy a robotporszívók a lépcsőkkel is megbirkózzanak Rakéta 2024-09-11 07:54:04 Infotech Németország Kiállítás Berlin Robot A berlini IFA kiállításon a Roborock valamint a Dreame is olyan technológiát mutatott be, amellyel a robotporszívó meg tudja emelni az elejét, így akár négy centiméter magas akadalyokon is át tud kelni. Az üstökösei után új földközeli kisbolygókat talált Sárneczky Mínuszos 2024-09-11 10:33:04 Tudomány Világűr Második magyarként augusztusban választották be a Nemzetközi Csillagászati Unió (IAU) legújabb tiszteletbeli tagjai közé Sárneczky Krisztiánt, aki júliusban két üstököst fedezett fel egy héten belül, és aki a napokban több új kisbolygót is talált. Tizenöt új tiszteletbeli tagot választott az IAU, akiket az augusztusi közgyűlésükön jelentettek be. M Semmelweis: Egyre több az allergiás beteg a géllakk összetevői miatt Telex 2024-09-11 09:57:32 Tudomány Allergia A körömszépészeti termékekben előforduló vegyi anyagok közül az úgynevezett akrilátorok okozzák a legtöbb allergiás megbetegedést. A hosszú élet molekuláris titkát fedezték fel magyar tudósok PlanetZ 2024-09-11 08:00:12 Tudomány DNS Magyar kutatók felfedezték az öregedési folyamat egyik kulcsfontosságú epigenetikai összetevőjét. Ez új lehetőségeket nyit a hosszú élet és az egészséges öregedés terén. A mitokondriális DNS-ben talált N6-metiladenin (6mA) felhalmozódása forradalmasíthatja az öregedéssel összefüggő betegségek kezelését. Megmérték, hogy a magyarok mennyire kaptak rá a mesterséges intelligenciára Bitport 2024-09-11 10:46:00 Infotech Mesterséges intelligencia Generáció Egy friss hazai kutatás alacsony felkészültségi szintről és jelentős generációs, illetve felhasználási különbségekről számol be az MI technológiák hazai alkalmazásában. Kína visszautasítja az atomfegyverek feletti AI ellenőrzés tilalmát ICT Global 2024-09-11 15:33:26 Infotech Kína Mesterséges intelligencia Kína nem hajlandó aláírni azt a megállapodást, amely megtiltja a mesterséges intelligenciának az atomfegyverek ellenőrzését. Októbertől ismét indul az ösztöndíjas Net-Coach képzés Digital Hungary 2024-09-11 12:06:08 Média Oktatás Mesterséges intelligencia Katolikus NMHH Médiatanács Coach Az okoseszközök szolgáltatásai és a mesterséges intelligencia egyre nagyobb kihívást jelentenek diákoknak, szülőknek és tanároknak egyaránt. A Nemzeti Média- és Hírközlési Hatóság (NMHH) és az Apor Vilmos Katolikus Főiskola közös kezdeményezésével indult Net-Coach program a magyar pedagógusokkal és más szakemberekkel összefogva olyan tudásközössége Egy magyar építésziroda űrtechnológiával keres ellenszert a városi hőségre Roadster 2024-09-11 09:06:05 Otthon Energia Kánikula Világűr Műhold Műholdas földmegfigyelési adatokkal dolgozik a városi hőszigethatás csökkentésén, és az ingatlanfejlesztések energiahatékonyságának javításán a Paulinyi & Partners iroda az Európai Űrügynökséggel közösen. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

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Nem írt igazat Magyar Péter ötkertes bulijáról a Zaol.hu, milliós bírságra kötelezte a Mediaworksöt a bíróság

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 4:39

Nem írt igazat Magyar Péter ötkertes bulijáról a Zaol.hu, milliós bírságra kötelezte a Mediaworksöt a bíróság Telex 2024-09-04 10:57:12 Belföld Magyar Péter Bíróság Mediaworks A kiadónak 2320 eurót, vagyis nagyjából 925 ezer forintot kell fizetnie Magyarnak, plusz a perköltség, és a helyreigazítást is közölnie kell. Szelényi Zsuzsa: Nem Orbán találta ki a Fideszt 24.hu 2024-09-04 11:01:29 Belföld Orbán Viktor Fidesz Interjú Demokrácia CEU Szelényi Zsuzsa Interjú egy ősfideszessel, aki kétszer próbált megkapaszkodni a nagypolitikában, ma a CEU Demokrácia Intézet kutatója és programigazgatója és aki most egyebek mellett az mondja: Orbán Viktor fő riválisai nem az ellenzékben, hanem a saját pártjában találhatók. Putyin örülhet: Magyarország szomszédja nyíltan kiállt mellette Privátbankár 2024-09-04 14:58:00 Külföld Szerbia Vlagyimir Putyin Vlagyimir Putyin elnök szerdán Oroszországban találkozott Szerbia miniszterelnök-helyettesével. Elfoglalta az orosz hadsereg Karlivkát, valószínűleg Precsisztivka is elesett Portfolio 2024-09-04 11:36:00 Külföld Elfoglalta az orosz hadsereg középső műveleti csoportja Karlivkát, egy kistelepülést a Karlovszke tó mellett, Donyeck megyében – számol be a TASZSZ hírügynökség. Hetek óta nincs hidegvíz az ország legnagyobb szülészetének több termében, forró víz jön a csapokból 444.hu 2024-09-04 15:03:51 Egészség egyetem Semmelweis Egyetem Ismert műszaki hiba okozza a problémát, tudtuk meg a Semmelweis Egyetemtől, melynek elhárításán folyamatosan dolgoznak. DK: Pintér Sándortól kérdezzük, hány szociális dolgozó, gyám és nevelőszülő hagyta ott a gyermekvédelmet Nyugati Fény 2024-09-04 13:10:43 Belföld DK Gyermekvédelem Pintér Sándor Az Orbán-kormány minden területen alkalmatlan az ország vezetésére – fogalmazott Gy. Németh Erzsébet. Brüsszelnek is elege lett, uniós vizsgálat indul a koncertjegyárakon nyerészkedő Ticketmaster ellen vg.hu 2024-09-04 15:32:12 Gazdaság Belgium Koncert Brüsszel Európai Bizottság A platformon alaposan elszálltak a visszatérő Oasis-turnéra árult belépők árai, az ügyben az Európai Bizottság is vizsgálódik. Az F–16-osok ukrán ászai a csaták előtt elfogytak – nincs, aki repüljön Magyar Hírlap 2024-09-04 12:51:24 Külföld Ukrajna USA Kijev Vadászgép Szenátor 2022 júniusában amerikai szenátorokkal találkozva Ukrajna két legkiválóbb katonai pilótája meggyőzte őket, hogy Kijevnek F–16-os vadászgépeket kell beszereznie. A biztosítók igyekeznek inkább távol tartani a rolleres ügyfeleket Azenpenzem 2024-09-04 11:40:00 Gazdaság Kártérítés Ügyintézés KGFB A biztosítók többsége a 80-as években használt korszerűtlen, személyes ügyintézéssel, vagy drága, 100-150 ezer forintnál magasabb éves díjjal igyekszik elvenni az ügyfelek kedvét attól, hogy velük kössék meg a július óta a rollerekre is kötelező biztosítást. Tartanak ugyanis attól, hogy sokat kell(ene) kártérítést fizetniük. Varga Mihály: Januárban nyugdíjat emelünk, februárban 13. havi nyugdíjat fizetünk HírTV 2024-09-04 17:00:09 Gazdaság Nyugdíj Varga Mihály A jövő évi nyugdíjakról is egyeztettünk a költségvetési munkacsoport mai ülésén – írta Facebook-oldalán Varga Mihály pénzügyminiszter. 30 éve nagyon mellélőttek Kínával kapcsolatban Vezess 2024-09-04 15:30:40 Autó-motor Tanulságos olvasni, hogy Kínával kapcsolatban milyen növekedési előrejelzést fogalmaztak meg a szakértők, erre még ők sem számítottak. Tizenöt éve jutott a Bajnokok Ligája csoportkörébe a Debrecen Büntető.com 2024-09-04 12:12:23 Foci Hajdú-Bihar Debrecen Bajnokok Ligája A Ferencvároson kívül csak egyetlen magyar klubnak sikerült elérnie a legrangosabb európai futballszínpadot, ez pedig a Debreceni VSC, amely a kétezres évek elején remekelt és fennállása legszebb korszakát élte. Visszatekintésünkben felidézzük az akkori szereplést és számba vesszük a siker főbb összetevőit. Vasszigor a Barcánál: Flick pofonokkal neveli Yamalt Magyar Nemzet 2024-09-04 10:53:51 Sport Spanyolország FC Barcelona A német vezetőedző nem tűri a kihágásokat, ezt már megjegyezték a Barcelona futballistái. A jövő héttől változékonyabbra fordul az idő Kiderül 2024-09-04 13:05:53 Időjárás Kánikula Pénteken már előfordulhatnak záporok, de a jövő hét elejétől kell egyre több helyen záporra, zivatarra számítani. A kánikula is lassan mérséklődik, a legmelegebb tájakon is 30 fok körül marad a maximum. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Nem írt igazat Magyar Péter ötkertes bulijáról a Zaol.hu, milliós bírságra kötelezte a Mediaworksöt a bíróság

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 4:39

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Wenn ihr eine Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, 5 oder 6 besitzt, müsst ihr dieses Update installieren

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024

Samsung ist mit der Galaxy Watch 4 von Tizen auf Wear OS von Google umgestiegen. Seitdem läuft es mit den Smartwatches auch immer besser. Umso nerviger ist es, wenn ein Fehler auftaucht und dadurch noch mehr Menschen betroffen sind. Genau das ist bei allen Wear-OS-Uhren von Samsung passiert. Die Galaxy Watch 4, Watch 5 und Watch 6 sind alle von einem Problem mit einem speziellen Watchface betroffen. Dadurch haben sich...

Nick Johnson, NowSignage

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 37:21

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When I asked an industry friend, whose opinions I respect and trust quite a bit, what CMS software he'd looked at and been impressed by, he rattled off a few companies I was expecting to hear about, but also mentioned the platform developed and marketed by a smallish UK company called NowSignage. He'd seen a lot of different options, but these guys he said, had something that was very modern and nimble. I finally got my act together and scheduled a chat with founder Nick Johnson. Now's roots are in pushing social media messaging to big screens at live events - like concerts and big games. Requests started evolving, both in terms of what could be done with screens and how long they'd be used - which led in part to him concluding the future business was in permanent installations and revenue that was recurring and predictable, versus periodic. Now markets its product as being affordable and not focused on a particular market segment, like QSR, workplace or whatever. That generalist approach tends to worry me, because buyer decisions tend to get focused on price, as in who costs the least. But in my chat with Johnson, he explains that their market focus is on what he calls multi-screen management - networks with a lot of locations and a lot of screens. Most companies would also say they want that and do that, but as Johnson explains in our chat, that's easy to talk about, but much harder to do well. I also had to ask about the Frankenstein'd Rolls-Royce that was the eye candy for the NowSignage stand at ISE in Barcelona. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Nick, thank you for joining me. I know NowSignage reasonably well. I suspect a lot of other people do as well, but could you maybe just give me a rundown on the background of the company, what it is you do, what's distinct, that sort of thing? Nick Johnson: Yeah, sure. Cheers for having me on, Dave. And, yeah, nice to be here. Yeah, so NowSignage, for those who don't know who we are, is a UK-based business that has been around since 2013. A lot of people thought we launched a market and were in a big whirlwind storm about six years ago, but actually, the tech has been being developed since 2013 now, and then we really honed in on the permanent signage market around seven or eight years ago, really. In terms of signage, we position ourselves as a multi-screen management platform that allows our users to effectively and efficiently manage large networks of screens. So, we don't really focus on a specific vertical specialism. So, with IE, we're not a specific sector, like a corporate sector outright or anything like that. Our specialism is really around meeting the needs and demands of projects that have multiple screens, often in multiple locations or multiple sites, so those large-volume projects are our specialism. Now, I would imagine most software companies would say: we can fully support large enterprise level, big footprint projects across multiple locations and all that, so that doesn't immediately hit me as a distinction, but I'm guessing you're going to tell me that it's easier said than done? Nick Johnson: Exactly. So normally, as you say, with CMSs, and we found it ourselves in the early days, we had an eye on those bigger projects, but in reality, as soon as it got above 50 screens, that becomes a challenge for a CMS. It's got a different thought process that needs to go into the CMS from an intuitive nature, but also, your platform needs to be built to kind of balance those enterprise features alongside the simplicity, flexibility, and scalability of the platform. So yeah, there are some nuances that, for sure, where if you want to manage those large scale projects, you really need to nail the ability to make it as easy as possible for those end users to target specific screens with specific promotions or specific content and that's quite a powerful and hard to achieve thing within a CMS. It's all about bringing those features to enable that functionality. So, if I'm an end user or even a reseller integrator looking at different options out there, what's my sniff test (or smell test) to determine who can genuinely support large-scale networks like that? Is it data integration, you know, is it elasticity, at the server level? What are those things? Nick Johnson: Yeah, both of those, obviously, come into consideration. The way we position our product is that we ultimately want it to be self managed by the user. So if it can't be easy to be managed by the user, then you've got a problem, and to make it easy to be managed by the user, you do need those features in the platform like very advanced targeted tags or roles and permissions for locking down areas of the platform. The targeted tags will allow people to target localized stores with localized messages based on the tagging functionality. I'd probably say the most important thing is just giving that flexibility throughout the platform. You can't say that all scheduling has to be done in the scheduling area. You need to be more flexible on that. So in the NowSignage CMS, we enable certain degrees of different types of scheduling to happen, whether it's in the content area, the actual playlist area, the scheduling area, and even at the screen's level, there are different types of tools that you can use to meet the requirements of the customer. So, it's not always one size fits all. You have to go to that customer and say, look, we've got this feature set here that makes it easy to manage large networks. What's your specific requirement here? And we may turn around and go, great. You want to use our targeted tags and our override functionality, or we might say you want to use nested playlists and the ability to set assets to show and remove at set dates and times. So, it's giving that broader flexibility within the CMS to adapt to their needs. I'm curious as well about the whole idea of affordability. It's one of the things that comes across on your site pretty quickly that you talk about it being cost effective and affordable. But it's also pretty sophisticated, like a lot of the platforms that say they're affordable, it's because, they do the basics. Nick Johnson: Yeah, and I'm glad you used the word affordable there because I don't like the word cheap. So, for us, it's not a race to the bottom. We're not about being the cheapest. We're about being what you get out of our package, which is the most affordable. It's the most cost-effective. So you get the most amount of performance out of our platform for the cost and ratio. So yeah, it's all about affordability. So, with the platform, we don't charge for add-ons within the platform. When you get access to NowSignage, you get access to all our features and functionality, and you even get access to them as we roll out new features and functionality; they become free for all end users to use. So that's why we appeal, as I said at the start there, we don't really have a sector specialism; we focus on the type of customer that we want to work with, and then often those customers we find because we operate, let's say with lots of supermarkets, a supermarket isn't just a retail requirement in the front of the store. A true requirement for a supermarket is actually they want to centralize that CMS and they have a retail requirement. They have a retail media network requirement. They have a digital out-of-home requirement. They have a back office requirement. They have a factory and manufacturing plant requirement. So all of these requirements are completely different, and the NowSignage platform allows those users to pull on different features and functionalities in the platform. So they may in their manufacturing plant use our Microsoft Power BI integration for showing dispatch information and fleet management, whereas in the retail media network, they might be using our proof of play functionality, which, as you've alluded to, is very much an enterprise feature and it normally very often doubles the cost of a license. We absorb all of those costs, from our servers and so on because we spread that across our whole customer base. So, yeah, it's absolutely the most affordable is how we position ourselves, not the cheapest in the race to the bottom. Yeah, I've often said that if you're going to be a generalist, that can be a little deadly because you are just competing on price by and large, but what you're saying is, we go across a number of vertical sectors, but we're not really a generalist because our specialty is large, multi-screen networks. Nick Johnson: Yeah, and what you will get with those networks as well, because of the types of brands and customers that you're working with for those projects, it's not really about just selling features and competing on cost for those large networks. Now, obviously, they will be price-driven because often they go out to tender, so you do need the ability to really come down on your price, which we have that capability to do so we can be very competitive on price, but equally, what the brands wanna see is they really want to build a partnership with that CMS to get confidence from you that you are advising them on how to structure their account to maximize the usage of your platform, to meet their goals and of what they require from the network. So if you can communicate and instill that confidence, I think that's really where you find the winning edge to things. You also, as a company, say that your hardware is agnostic. I have seen all kinds of companies go down that path, and many of them then almost surrender and come up with their own dedicated player devices. I don't think it's because they're making extra hardware margin; it's just that they grow wary of trying to support all these different types of hardware, and the much easier path is to just have their own, which they can control because they know the build and everything else. So, how do you manage being agnostic across so many different platforms? Nick Johnson: Yeah, so it's all about getting the feature parity across all those different operating systems. There are so many out there. You've got the standard kind of Android, Windows, Linux, all of those. But then you've got the more proprietary ones with the system on chip, where a lot of them are really using an Android base there but you've got Samsung with Tizen, LG with WebOS, BrightSign with their setup there. So, yeah, we've got one centralized code base, and so I probably can't share too much about that and give our full game away, but yeah, we've got one centralized code base set, which delivers feature parity across all those builds. So when we make a change within the platform, we don't need to make it for seven different builds or ten different builds. We don't have to support lots of builds of the platform, meaning lots of developers. We have one centralized build, and that is built in a way that is then compatible with all operating systems out there. So you may have seen that on our stand at ISE. At ISE, we had three or four BrightSign displays. We had a large video wall that was powered by a Windows player. We had a Sony system on-chip display and a Samsung system on-chip display, and on one setup there via the show Wi-Fi, which is very flaky at times, we managed to achieve perfect screen synchronization across different hardware again, which is quite unusual. Not only are we offering parity across the hardware, but actually with features like Screen Sync, we can bring all of that together and actually offer the synchronization to take into account those different processing powers and speeds and so on. Does that mean if you inherit a network and you're then going to expand on it and it has multiple different operating systems on different devices and so on, you can manage them all off of your application without having something in the middle, like Signage OS or whatever? Nick Johnson: Absolutely, and I think that's what's so important with the types of customers that we're onboarding is that they will have a network that's out there that's got legacy hardware and screens in there, and they're not in a position where they want a huge outlay of cost to go and transform all that hardware over brand new hardware. So because we can sit on a system on a chip, we can sit on the media players, we also work closely with those partners, as you've mentioned, the Signage OS, if there was a requirement there, then we could sit alongside that. But generally, because we have that feature parity and the hardware-agnostic approach, there's no requirement for that additional layer that needs to be added, so it can reduce all the costs and also mean that the network can be rolled out at relative ease and speed as well. Some of the other software applications out there that say they are hardware agnostic, they're able to do that because it's a somewhat truncated application. It's a web player or something. So yes, you can get content, all the different operating systems or whatever, but it's not a pure player. It can't do everything that a native player could do. Nick Johnson: Yeah. So, ours is a full application in the way that it's powered. So we are a Chrome OS partner, and we can run through a browser mode or any sort of environment like that where it needs to be embedded into a web page or as a browser player, but yeah, the way our code base packages or fit packages, or everything is its own native application. A few companies have started talking, well, they've been talking about a few things, but one of them is this idea of headless CMS and the idea that, if I have a tool set that I'm already using within a larger company, that's pushing out to web, mobile, intranet, extranet, whatever it may be, they want to use that tool set to also do digital signage as opposed to logging into a separate application. Can you do that sort of thing? Nick Johnson: So are you referring to embedding us into different environments so that we could be played within an intranet environment? Probably more so that the development, the scheduling, a lot of what you would do for a digital sign network, you could do within another application, and the digital signage platform is kind of the plumbing, the infrastructure that moves things around. It's kind of the way that Samsung with VXT now is positioning itself as you can write your application on top of our platform. Nick Johnson: Yeah. So, normally, we operate with a fully open API. So we really want to be the source and the conduit for everything coming into it. So we won't go out there and build some specialist functionality that other platforms already build a lot better than us, like a Microsoft Power BI integration; we wouldn't try and build something like that or a Quividi integration that we've got if we want to do audience measurement with camera systems and so on, we have an API there. So we can pull all of those great features and functionality together and then be the source to output that. Similar to QSR environments, things like with the API, we sit in harmony with their product systems. So, if they want to do dynamic pricing, we will just be another outlay to them. They will look at the output to all the other different avenues for that pricing, and we will just be a different source that they're inputting into. Then, we'll showcase that dynamic pricing data on the screen. So yeah, we've got an open API, and we're kind of pulling all that data resource into NowSignage. I would imagine the data side of things is super important, the ability to support all that? Nick Johnson: Yeah, from two angles, really. In terms of the data capacity on our side, we've just gone through a full year's process of improving and upgrading our infrastructure. So, the infrastructure of a CMS is super important. It is arguably what sets a lot of CMSs apart. You've found in recent years that there are certain CMSs that have risen to the top and that they're probably the ones that have invested in their infrastructure, their scalability as a brand, and their security. So, likewise, we've done the same. Our infrastructure is invaluable to the platform. If we have downtime or anything that's going to impact our size of customers, which isn't acceptable, but also the data that we can then pull together and aggregate to then analyze and give back to the customers inside the platform is obviously crucial as well, and that's probably going to be a big focus for us this year. We already have features like proof of play in the platform that can report on when, where, and how many times an advert is played on the screen, and all of that is live data that comes through. So customers don't need to wait for that data, and we obviously have lots of information about the status of the screens and the uptime status and the ability to kind of set them to go on and off and push our app updates and all of that kind of good stuff. But I think that will be a big push this year to analyze and help our customers understand that data more and more, knowing exactly where their screens are and what's happening with them. Your company is young enough in relative terms that I suspect you're not saddled with some of the problems that, or challenges that, really well established companies may have in terms of they have a software application that's, they've been building off of for 15-30 years, in some cases, versus what you've got. If you started in 2013 and you kind of emerged a few years after that, you've got a platform that's using modern web tools and everything else, and you're a lot more malleable, I suspect. Nick Johnson: Exactly, and a lot of the team that I've brought together as well, we're all from completely different sectors, but before that, created and delivered and brought to market a very successful SaaS business there in a completely different sector. So, as I built this business, I brought on a lot of the expertise from the old CTO, and my investor and my business partner are from that background as well. So right at our core, we understand how SaaS businesses and tech need to work. So we're not from a hardware background. We're not interested in the hardware. We're interested in it. How can this software be the most efficient and scalable piece of software and also the most innovative piece of software? So you're right, probably the timing of it and in the sense that digital signage had kind of become to get a bit more established around that point and knew its place, so we don't have all the legacy burden of the hardware and having to build on and revamp our infrastructure with. We've managed to build a very clean UI from day one, but also from the experience and background of myself, but also the people that I've built around the team, where we're really focused on SaaS and technology and innovation, that's what we live and breathe every day, really. And the company kind of grew out of, or at least was inspired by, I believe, it was pushing social media to screens at live events. Is that correct? Nick Johnson: Yeah, let's be honest. It was probably me just having a bit of fun in my mid-twenties at that point. So, yeah, the way it all started was I was working for a company that was a web agency at that point, developing websites. And so my part in that business was that we developed a piece of technology that was embedding social feeds into those websites. So, at the time, just before 2013, I separated that as a separate company and thought, wouldn't it be great if we could get some social content onto screens at events. This was kind of around the time that the Twitter walls were emerging. So it was right at the early stage of that. So our first ever event was actually at the Olympic stadium, and we were powering the big screens where people were taking Instagram pictures and popping them onto big screens and I couldn't really believe what I'd got into at that point. So, I just enjoyed the ride for a few years. We got shipped around all over the world, doing large events and as we did more of those events, I suppose the platform evolved, which is why the platform is so intuitive and focused just around the software because we kind of started off with that base and then we were doing events where people then wanted to advertise onto the screen. So we had to bring in some advertising capability to show images and videos, and then before we knew it, we started doing some more permanent setups where we needed to bring in that better structure and management and, then, as I say, probably around, I can't remember the exact date now, but it must've been around seven or eight years ago. Just overnight, it was 90 percent of our revenue at the time, I just decided we needed to focus on permanent signage. That was the model that was going to work. That's the sustainable model and the growth model that we wanted. So we kind of just made the ballsy move at that point that we were ditching all of that income, and we focused permanently on permanent digital signage and because we have the background of the platform already, as I say, people were looking at us going, who are these guys who have come to market and we've just kind of won four AV awards in a row. But, actually, it's because the software was there, and we actually just needed to understand what the channel was and what the industry was and that's what we focused on, and we don't sell directly at all. We only sell directly through our resell reseller channel, whether it's a balance of integrators or distributors, and that's how we now go to market. It's funny, I was talking about that with somebody else yesterday about the channel and the opportunities and challenges of doing that and how difficult it can be to sell direct if you also have channel partners. You're kind of saying that you've got to choose door number one or door number two. You can't go through both. Nick Johnson: Yeah, and I think it's a fine balance, and I'd say certainly in where we come from, it's always through the channel, but I have seen some variances globally that some people say that the channel in Europe, and then in the US that they're selling direct because they get a big contract and the brand wants to work direct. We've actually just secured a very large project in the US, which is great news for us, but the relationship of that is that we engaged directly and we built trust with the end user and we demonstrated our platform, but now it's come through to a commercial point. We are absolutely funneling that through the channel because that's how you build that trust and that relationship with the channel. So that's now being commercially funnel funneled through one of our channel partners, and then off the back of that. For us, there's no way that we can; we would never do a direct deal because that kind of breaks our whole model of how we're going to market and how we're building trust with our resellers that they're ultimately our partner and our direct customer. And are you white-labeled and totally behind the curtain, or would the end user know that this is NowSignage as managed by Brand X? Nick Johnson: In almost all circumstances, they will know it's NowSignage. What we don't do is we don't do white labels for our resellers. We want them to proudly shout about it being NowSignage. So everybody at the sales point knows that they are purchasing NowSignage. In some instances, once it then goes through the end user, they go, great, we're now using NowSignage, but actually, we want our staff to log into an environment that feels familiar and friendly to them; at that point, we can white label for the end user, but at no point is it hidden and that it's NowSignage. It's NowSignage all the way and then when the end users dive in, we can white label to an end user requirement. Yeah, I've always wondered about white labeling. I understand the task and everything, but if you do that as a reseller, there's then an expectation you really know your way around the software, and I suspect that there are a lot of uncomfortable phone calls and meetings. Nick Johnson: Yeah, and also, I think you get that frustration as well. We've found fortunately that we've managed to secure some of those resellers who have traditionally sold a white-labeled CMS, and the frustrations that they've actually ended up happening is that they get a demand from an end user to say, we need this feature, and we need it right now. Now, it's not their code base. They don't own the IP. They don't own the code. They've got no developers. So, at that point, they have to go back to the CMS and say, can you build this? But I think from a CMS's point of view, that kind of, like, well, you're a white-label solution so you now just need to join the queue of things, whereas with us, we have that open dialogue with the end user and with our reseller. So if a request comes in, it funnels straight to us, and we control that kind of destiny of where those features come in, and we're very transparent with that roadmap to react. ISE was a couple of months ago. You guys were there when I was walking around. I was expecting to hear a lot more about AI from different software companies. Here's how we're using AI. Here's how we're applying it. Here's the opportunity, and so on. But maybe it's just early stages, and I just didn't hear much. I'm curious what you guys are doing with it or you're kind of sitting on the sidelines watching it? Nick Johnson: No, we're absolutely not sitting on the sidelines watching it, but to have a go at us, we're not shouting about it as much as we probably should be, and what we've found is that we are doing a huge amount of development in the background with AI. So we've already done some integrations into the platform with AI that haven't been released as full features into the platform. My understanding and the feedback that I'm getting from other CMSs that we talk to and have good relationships with are that AI at the moment; none of the big brands are quite ready to take the first step with it, really. They're all very interested in it, and it's a great opportunity to open a door and start a conversation with them. So we do have AI features built into the platform that can, you can walk up to a screen and tell it what your allergies are, and it can then relay what food is appropriate for you within that store or help you find products within certain aisles or find your preferences. So we're using it as a tool to really open up the door and demonstrate. But in reality, there's not been a huge amount of adoption from it on our side, and I think that it will come, but I think some of the big brands are just waiting for someone to take the first step to see if it goes well, and then there'll be a lot of people to follow, but we're absolutely in that talking point where we've done a lot of AI development. Yeah, I think, as you say, a lot of the work isn't really something that is going to be visible to an end-user or to a channel partner. It's work that helps expedite some basic coding and things, right? Nick Johnson: Yeah, it's all about bringing in the data and feeding that back to the end user in the cleanest and most efficient manner. So it can become a very powerful tool, where we're seeing it. As I say, a great example would be to walk into a coffee shop and say, “I want something for breakfast, but I've got a nut allergy,” and it can relay all that allergy information and say, this is what we suggest, and if you say, “I don't want anything that has to meat in it,” it will say: here are the vegan options. “Where can I find that?” You can find that on aisle five, it's priced for 99 or whatever it might be. All of that is just pulling live data and using the AI tool to relay that information. Just going back to ISE, I can't have this conversation without asking about the Rolls Royce. Nick Johnson: Yeah. So we had a lot of interest in a lot of questions about why you have got a Rolls Royce there, but I think that's it Dave. But I think for NowSignage and me, we like to get noticed and it's important to get noticed because it's, at times, a crowded marketplace, and I think you've really got to understand that there's a cost of being dull, and a lot of people waste a lot of energy and get drowned out by all this white noise because everyone's saying the same old, same really. So you've got to really consider what is the cost of being dull. And if you're going to be dull in the events industry, you're going to have an empty stand. You're going to have no pundits on your stand. You're going to be having no conversations. So, it's all about, I think, making people care, making people smile, and surprising them in some way, and if you can hit those three points at any point in any form of marketing, I think you'll get an interest in your sparking debates, really. So, for people who did not go to ISE, what did you do? Nick Johnson: So we bought a 1950s vintage Rolls Royce from a scrap heap, and we did it over three months. My business partner is a fanatic about cars… Yes, I met him. Nick Johnson: He did it as a bit of a hobby, and before we renovated it, we, to some Rolls Royce lovers, they may not have been happy, but I remind them that it was on a scrap heap, so we did save it in the first place. Wwe chopped it in half, we attached a flatbed truck to it. We then constructed a digital scene on the back to make it look like it was a, like a food van, but actually it was constructed with screens and the digital element created a visual effect to make it look like the screens went up and down and then we drove it 1,300 miles from Manchester in the UK all the way to Barcelona at 50 miles an hour and parked it on the stand. So, was it on the back of another truck, or was it a viable rolling vehicle? Nick Johnson: So with this setup, and it was over seven meters long unit, so yeah, and because of the age of it, we actually built an electric motor inside it underneath. So what we did is we transported it on another vehicle that had to drive very slowly, and then when we got it near the venue, we actually drove it in with a remote control by the electric power. So we actually drove because no petrol was allowed in the car, and we remote control it in and reversed it onto the stand and then we had a few gags throughout the show as well, where we got people to sit in and then quickly remove the remote, and they thought that they'd pressed something and made the car move forward. Well, that's certainly a lot more eye-grabbing than a bowl full of pens. Nick Johnson: I agree. So what are you going to do next year? Or you can't tell me? Nick Johnson: I am under wraps on that one, but let's just say it's definitely going to be bigger and better. The problem that I think we will have once we do next year is that I'm not too sure how we're going to top it the following year. So, next year is going to be, yeah, pretty impressive. It is vehicle-related again, but yeah, it's even more impressive. I'm quite looking forward to getting it over there. Yeah. Well, the challenge of that is just what you just said. If you one up by yourself every year, then there's an expectation now: what are you gonna do? Is it gonna be a space shuttle or what? Nick Johnson: Yeah, or just not turn up for any year or so, but I don't think we could do that. Nick, thank you. That was terrific. Nick Johnson: Excellent. Well, yeah, thanks for having me on, and yeah, I look forward to catching you in Infocomm or wherever I see you next. Infocomm and I'll be at the event in Munich in six to seven weeks, something like that, so I'm around. Nick Johnson: Good stuff. All right. Take care.

112: Red Light, Green Light

Self-Hosted

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2023 58:03

Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds. Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications.

Gil Matzliah, Novisign

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2023 31:59

I bumped into Gil Matzliah at a conference this summer, and told the software executive we were long overdue to do a podcast about what's happening with his company, Novisign. We finally nailed down a date and time, and as it turned out, it was just days after the horrendous violence that broke out in Israel - where Matzliah and his company are based. We chatted about the situation and the impacts on his company. He's fine, his family and staff are fine, but everyone is understandably rattled. We then got into the roots of Novisign does, what's different about its CMS solution, and what they're seeing and hearing in the marketplace. Novisign was an early adopter of Android and it remains its primary go-to operating system. Though Israeli, more than half of its business comes from the US and another quarter from Europe. And now the company is growing business in Japan. Transcript Gil, thank you for joining me. You're in Israel, where a few days later things went crazy there. I have to ask, how are things going? How are you? And I assume the family's fine and everything? Gil Matzliah: Yeah. Thank you for your concern. Yes, me and my family are all good, also the team members that are here in Israel are good. Last Saturday was a very hard day in Israel. It's something we never expected would happen. But now we are good. Your offices are pretty close to the West Bank, aren't they? Gil Matzliah: Yeah. So, Israel is a small and tiny country. It's not too big. So everything is close to everything. Our office is close to the West Bank, the conflict and all the issues you hear now in the news have been in the south area of Israel with the border of the Gaza Strip. I hope everything continues to be fine for you and things settle down there. Gil Matzliah: Yeah, we also hope so. At the end of the day, we like to work, we like to have peace, everybody wants to build good things together and so do our neighbors. In NoviSign, we have Arab Muslims, Christians from all around the world, Jewish people, we all work happily together and that's what we hope the world will go for. It's just this thing with the Gaza Strip that... and there's an organization called Hamas, who is making the issues and challenges for our regions, which I hope will be better moving forward. Has staffing been affected at all? Have you had members of your staff be called up to the military? Gil Matzliah: Yeah, in many countries, they call some of the stuff but you can say it's less than 10% for a team all the time one or two people in total. Yeah, it's just one of those things which you can't help but be directly affected in some way because of the size of the country and the way things operate, right? Gil Matzliah: Exactly. Yes. All right. So enough of that. I don't want to dwell on it and no doubt by the time that things will have changed and hopefully gotten better. Just for the benefits of people who maybe don't know your company, can you run down what you do, how long you've been around and how you distinguish yourself in the marketplace as NoviSign. Gil Matzliah: Perfect. So, we are NoviSign. We do digital signage software. Our company is based in Israel and provides services from all around the world. We have people in the US, Germany and Japan. With a team of more than 200 partners all around the world, we give a global software as a service for digital signage. I started a company with my colleague, Avi 12 years ago. It was 2011. We established it here in Israel, with the dream to be a great startup, changing the world and leading the digital signage software. Have you changed the world? Gil Matzliah: It's not so easy but we're sure we'll do it. We are making changes. We are progressing. Opening a startup 12 years ago, that's a long journey and like a roller coaster, you go up, you go down, but you keep going forward all the time. And after a few years, we started to see the good results coming and since then we are growing and growing constantly every year. Good. So if you were lined up against, let's say, 10 other CMS software companies out there and somebody said, all right, I've looked at all these other ones. What is it about you guys that's distinctive and different and important? What would you say? Gil Matzliah: Yeah. So, first it's the team. We came with a lot of experience in software programming. We are technical people. We are software programming people. We have opened the company to lead in the platforms that enable people to do that. So, it's the team that you work with. It's the technology behind the servers, the player, the communication, the integration and it's the offering that we have. We have a wide offering, which is very reliable and secured and trusted by thousands of customers around the world. You mentioned security and I know you're SOC 2 certified. Was that important to do? I'm hearing more and more from a variety of different companies saying that the security piece of this is really important, maybe much more so than it was even a couple of years ago. Gil Matzliah: That's correct. So more and more organizations are looking at security, but also it's the maturity of the company. So when NoviSign started with few installations, what you are busy with is just building software that works. And then after it works, you start adding more and more features. And when we started, we were looking at a small and medium businesses. But slowly, as people saw, we have a nice, easy to use platform, then the bigger companies started wanting it. But when you go for a bigger company, and as time changes, all these medium and large companies today want better security, they looki at all these RFPs, abd you really need good security in order to get these customers. Have you evolved like a lot of companies have, where they started with the small to medium business market and now they're more focused on enterprise? Gil Matzliah: We are not focusing on enterprise yet, but this is the growth engine that we have. So if you had asked me like five years ago, we wouldn't work with banks, insurance companies or bigger Fortune 500 companies. But if you look recently in the last five years, we started to work with a few banks and corporations and insurance companies worldwide and there is the bigger number of bigger business we work with now. I'm curious when you say five years ago, you wouldn't have worked with a big bank or somebody like that. Is that because your platform wasn't ready for it or a very large customer, as I've said to some other people in the past, they could be great, but they can kill your company because they just get so involved and they can be so needy? Gil Matzliah: It's a good point. So if I look at that, I can tell you an interesting story. Like a year or two after we opened the company and we have the website and we started to do promotions and we started to go to shows and I'm sitting in my home and suddenly I'm getting, today we have people in the US, but back then we were just in Israel, and a call was redirected for me from the US and it was the MTA of the New York transportation company asking about our platforms. And you're not really ready for these types of companies when you are less than 10 people, a small company with a new product. But once you are in almost 10 years or so, and you have enough people to support, enough understanding of the security, the features, the integrations, the platforms, then you get ready to serve the bigger companies. You work with a lot of different platforms and therefore hardware partners. I know you're on Android, you're on different SOC platforms for smart displays, all that sort of thing. Is it a challenge to manage the variety of, they're all are just similar in certain respects, most of them are Linux in some way or another, but how easy or hard is it to stay on top of all those different ones? Gil Matzliah: It is a good point. It is a good challenge because looking at that, when you're a small company and at the beginning we started with Android. I think we've been one of the first, if not the first, to develop an Android based player, an APK back in 2011. There are more and more people on Android, it's not the most of them. And then we started to add ithers, we added Windows, we added Chrome, we added Linux, now we are adding HTML Player, we are adding Tizen, we are adding WebOS, and we're adding more and more features. It's becoming very complex to support them all because once you have a change, you need to see it's working on all the platforms. And when you speak about the Android platforms, just the Android platform has so many versions. And we even have, lately, forced all our customers with Android that is less than 6.0 to stop using the system because until half a year ago, there were people that were still using Android 4.4 with us and the difference between Android 4 and Android 12 is huge. So imagine that fixed security support, as you say it's becoming to be more and more challenging and you need to grow the team and it's slower for you to add new features because you need to see that it's working on all the platforms, but we do believe we should be always hardware agnostic because what is differentiating a CMS software from a Samsung LG and all the other display manufacturers that are doing the software is that we work with all the platforms and they work just with their platforms. So we keep it as a focus for us. Is technology enabling you to go towards being operating system agnostic without having to make compromises in terms of, yes, we can work across all of these different platforms, but we can't do everything on each of them or whatever, which I've heard versus, natively written software that's native to Tizen, native to WebOS and so on. Gil Matzliah: Yeah, it's hard to do 100 percent of your features on all the platforms. Not all the platforms, not all the OS work equally. So our main player from the first day until today is the Android, which we can do 100 percent of our capabilities. When you go to Tizen or WebOS, you are limited in some way, and then you need to give away some features sometimes when you're developing your platform. Are you finding that the marketplace end users and your reseller partners are starting to settle in on certain solutions, like they're settling in on Android or whatever it may be? Gil Matzliah: I think you probably know better than me the hardware, the platforms, the ways to do digital science is like a big jungle. There are so many things and choices, even the software, you always say that there are many more CMS platforms. So there are so many varieties there. So I don't see anybody locking on anything and that's why we keep the diversity to be able to support the most. For the technical people at AV companies that are just starting to get into digital signage or the AV IT people for end user customers. Do they look at this space and go, come on guys, can you just establish some standards and continuity and not have all these varieties of options? Gil Matzliah: They're asking for that. We are asking for that. I think the world needs that. The one thing, we do see that Android, since we started 12 years ago, and imagine 12 years ago, you didn't even have a set up box of an Android, or just the first one was just coming in 2012, like the year after we started, or the first year of NoviSign. And today, most of the world, most of the set up boxes around the world are Android based. So we do see that Android... both the system on chip and both of the players have been the main platforms for digital signage. For us for sure, more than half of our installation and most of our installations are Android based either with a player or with a system of chip. I find it very strange that Samsung and LG are still struggling to stand out technology and not going with the mainstream. That seems to be changing. Samsung is moving away from its software partners, at least it certainly seems that way and marketing its own platform and LG WebOS now has a standalone player, a WebOS player, as opposed to you having to buy their display so that they've got some flexibility there. So I think the big guys are seeing the need to either adjust or just decide, you know what, yes, we have partners, but we are going to do our own thing as well. Gil Matzliah: We believe in Android, but we still believe that we would need to be hardware and OS agnostic. Partner and end user demands, have they changed through the years? Like what they wanted when you got into it or maybe even five years ago, is that different from now? Gil Matzliah: That's an interesting question. I don't notice a big change in the partners. But one thing is for sure, customers, partners, they want everything all the time, so we need to be there to deliver it for them. The impression I get generally is both for the AV/IT ecosystem and particularly on the end user side, they understand the technology a lot more, they understand the benefits and so on. So you're no longer having to put stuff up on a website or elsewhere saying what is digital signage and here's the reasons you want to use it and so on. They get it, they understand it, perhaps they've used it, and now they're looking for their second generation of software because the first selection did the job, but didn't really do what they wanted or limited their capabilities. Are you seeing that? Gil Matzliah: Yes. I think the world is more familiar with digital signage. When we started 12 years ago, not many people would knew what it was, what you do with it, how you install it. And today, every new project of signage is an integral, internal mass part in all these new setup locations, public places, and when more and more people are dealing with that, then they have more knowledge about it and then they start to learn more, to ask for more and this is something we do see. Are there particular vertical markets that you're seeing a lot of growth in and that you guys are focused on? Gil Matzliah: I can tell you about the geographical region. So most of our business, more than half of our business is coming from the United States, which is the easiest market to work with. The faster trying thing, understanding thing. Then we have the European market with a quarter of our business coming from there and they're more conservatives, what they're getting, how they're getting, planning, trying and so on. And then, we have the rest of the world and we are focusing and growing in the last five years in Japan. We have a local team over there in Japan and in Japan they are testing more, asking more. If you deliver and if you have a lot of patience, then it grows. So these are the regions that we work with. As for the different sectors, we really don't have anything which is like more than 20 percent of our business. We do have hospitality, we do have health care, we have the cooperation, we do have retail. But we started a new initiative, which we spoke about in the past a little bit. We established with some partners a company named which is focusing on the retail industry. So everything which is fanning out from retail. Today, we are moving to this new initiative that we built and generally the sectors. Are you mainly selling through a “channel” or do you sell direct? Gil Matzliah: We are acting both direct and on the channels and both of them are significant for us. So, there isn't one which is more or less significant than the other. A lot of our partners are white labels. There are so many installations around the world, which are based on the NoviSign signage that you won't even know. Which I assume is very important to these partners. Gil Matzliah: Yes, because for years, these partners have had their their software, their brand and our support behind it and we give them like instances and so on. We give them confidentiality, of course, if an end user will turn anything upside down and look and research, after some time they'll find us, but it's working fine for our partners and for us. Are your partners layering on managed services so they're white labeling and then saying, we can run this network for you or at least keep an eye on it? Gil Matzliah: Yeah. So when we're working with a local partner, and we have more than 200 of them all around the world. The nice thing is that, if a customer is calling us and say, I want to install this hotel, this hospital, this restaurant, this city hall, we'll tell him the first thing, we are a software company. We are SaaS, it's a do it yourself, we can support you over the phone.But if you want installation, if you want hardware, if you want initial setup, if you don't have the right people in your organization, then we can refer you to one of our partners. Our partners, they are integrators. They know how to build the right hardware, how to configure our software, and how to set it up for the customers, and they do it because they know it much better than us. So, if a customer just wants to get the SaaS subscriptions and they're going to do it themselves, then your partners aren't going to really see anything out of that anyways. They're looking for the services and the hardware integration, all that stuff, so they're not too fussed if you go directly on that but if there's an opportunity to layer in things, then you throw it to your partners. Gil Matzliah: Yes, because we are not going to do meetings with our customers. We are not flying to customers. We are not driving to customers. We do everything software, everything from remote. As long as you need a meeting then it's not going to be sent anywhere. Are there, “whale accounts”, big reference accounts or they could even be small ones that you, when you get asked about who you're working with that you're able to talk about? Gil Matzliah: One of our biggest accounts is Worten in Portugal, which is like Best Buy, that has more than 10,000 endpoints with us and we do have some other big corporations and hotels with us as well. In Israel, I can tell you some names like Ikea, Coca Cola, most of the hotels that are working with us here and many other big brands. In that Portuguese big box electronic store, what are they doing in there? Is it strictly just big displays or are they doing interactive? Gil Matzliah: It's more like a display of things, but they have a lot of initiative, they're very innovative and for more than five years, we work with them and they are always one step ahead of the market, whether it's very nice gates and video walls and presentation layers and everything related to products. In a way, when you go to the Worten store, it will dress the entire store with a special occasion, holiday, festival and the promotion that they do. I'm curious about how your company is using AI. You come from a part of the world that has, pretty serious number of technical people, and some of the AI companies have come out of Israel. Are you applying it or are you looking at it as something you can use? Gil Matzliah: We know and believe that AI will be a part of digital signage. We know it's important. We know it's just the beginning of it now, so the value you can create with it, it's not big yet, but we know it's coming. So, at this phase, we didn't release anything or expose anything, but our technology team is looking at that and trying to do a few things. We might present something in ISE, which is coming at the beginning of next year. And would you use it for… I moderated a panel the other night in New York about all this and I said the presentation layer of using AI for generated visuals and so on, is interesting, but to me, the truly interesting stuff is back of house automating routine tasks and creating marketing materials without a whole bunch of work involved, and one of the guys ran a media company was talking about data input and harmonizing data and all that sort of thing. So somebody looking at this from afar, they might think that's pretty boring, but it can be pretty valuable. Gil Matzliah: We are less looking on the operation side, as AI will help us see the operation side of the signage. We're more looking at the content creation for the signage itself, for the inputs. What about on the technology side? There's endless buzz about LED displays and new emerging display technologies on the display and the playback hardware side. Are there things emerging that you think are going to be important? Gil Matzliah: We don't go into the display technology, the LED technology for us. It's more agnostic. So as long as it can get a resolution of a screen.. It's an output. Gil Matzliah: The one that you get as an input or an output is the way you look at it. What about on media players and just computing power? Gil Matzliah: Yeah, the media player is the important stuff And the main question we all the time ask ourselves is, Is the world moving to a system on chip? Would it stay on the media players? Would it be a combination of them? Would the resolutions and the quality grow performance? And this is something we invest a lot of effort, thinking and development, especially working with all these different platforms which is a lot of maintenance to do. Yeah, I think one of the interesting things and I'm racking my brain trying to remember who, but the idea of system on chip, but with an upgrade pass, so you could pop open a smart display and put in a new SOC three years out that has more graphics processing or some other capability that maybe that didn't have when you first bought it. Gil Matzliah: That's an interesting direction. Alright. So if people want to know more about your company, where would they find you online? Gil Matzliah: You can look for NoviSign.com. All the information is there, the phone numbers, they can contact us, and we are looking for new partners all the time, that will work with us, innovate with us and take our software to maximum customers and locations. And also, if you're an end customer and you want to learn more, you want us to support you with innovative technology and especially software, we'd be happy to have you visit at NoviSign.com. Alright, Gil. Thank you. I hope things calm down there and when I see you at ISE in a few weeks or a couple months. Gil Matzliah: Actually, we're planning to be in MEDICA in Germany next month and then in Las Vegas and then ISE in Barcelona. So wherever you're coming, I will always be happy to see you. Las Vegas and Barcelona, I'll be there. Gil Matzliah: Oh yeah. You have a mixer at both places. Me and my colleagues are looking forward to them. All right. Stay safe and I'll see you soon. Gil Matzliah: Thank you very much.

Smart TV: Tracking vs. Datenschutz | c't uplink

c’t uplink

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2023 47:30

Beim Tracking von Nutzern denkt man meist als erstes an Windows-PCs und an Android-Smartphones. Moderne Fernseher sind allerdings kaum besser, denn mit erhobenen Nutzungs- und Nutzerdaten können die Hersteller richtig gutes Geld verdienen. Im c't uplink sprechen wir über sechs Geräte, die wir getestet haben – auch in ihrer Eigenschaft als Fernseher, vor allem aber im Hinblick auf den Traffic, den sie in die Welt hinauspusten. Welche Möglichkeiten hat man, die Plaudertaschen zu schließen? Und wie unterscheiden sich die diversen Betriebssysteme der Fernseher? Den ausführlichen Test der Smart-TVs, die Auswertung des Netzwerkverkehrs und Tipps für eine sinnvolle Konfiguration der Smart-Funktionen finden Sie in c't 20/2023. ***SPONSOR-HINWEIS*** AVM ist in Europa einer der führenden Hersteller von Produkten für den Breitbandanschluss und das digitale Zuhause. Die Produkte der Marke FRITZ! sind für jeden leicht zu bedienen. Sie ermöglichen einen schnellen Internetzugang, einfaches Vernetzen, komfortables Telefonieren und vielseitige Smart-Home-Anwendungen. Mehr unter https://avm.de/index.php?id=91206&mtm_campaign=IFA_2023&mtm_kwd=ctUplink ***SPONSOR-HINWEIS ENDE***

Shane Vega, Userful

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 37:12

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Using existing network infrastructure has long been talked up as an efficient way to manage and deliver digital signage solutions in large companies, but the concept has been clouded by concerns - like the cost of additional AV hardware and the impact of all that video on the company network. But we now live in a world where companies support countless video conferencing sessions with piles of users, with little or no latency. Other technologies have also caught up, and computing just keeps getting more powerful. Which is why I was interested in chatting with Shane Vega, VP of Marketing for the Silicon Valley software firm Userful, about his company's AV over IP solutions. The company has its roots in Calgary, Alberta and still does a lot of the R&D work there. Userful first showed up in digital signage circles talking about a different way, using software and endpoints, to drive video walls. But in the last few years it has been much more focused on a broader IP-driven solution that tends to start with control rooms and operations centers, but can also drive things like meeting room displays and digital signage around corporate campuses. There's been a lot of discussion about AV needs converging with IT interests, but from Vega's perspective, that convergence is already firmly in place. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Shane, thank you for joining me. Where are you today? Shane Vega: I am in sunny Tampa, Florida, where although it's not all that sunny today, we've got some rain, but that's per the norm now. Now, Userful is in Silicon Valley, but a lot of the developers are in Calgary, right? Shane Vega: Yeah, that's correct. All of our R&D, engineering team, and the like, they're all up in Calgary, Canada. So you're missing the Calgary Stampede this week? Shane Vega: I am missing the Stampede. But you know what, I believe they deserve a bit of some good time because they spend the majority of the time avoiding the minus 30-degree weather. Yeah, I spent a number of years in Calgary, and it's an interesting weather city. Shane Vega: Yeah. You know it's bad when they've developed an entire infrastructure of walkways between buildings to avoid having to go outside. Yeah, just like Minneapolis. Shane Vega: Exactly. All right, so we had a quick chat in the LG booth at Infocomm, and you explained what Userful was up to with its Infinity platform and AV over IP and AV as a Service and so on, and I've seen that. I will wholeheartedly admit I don't totally get it, but how you explained it to me was very interesting, and I thought this would be useful for a lot of people to understand the infrastructure and distribution side of digital signage. We spend so much time talking about the content and business strategy and all those sorts of things, but behind-the-scenes stuff is awfully important, and maybe we could start out by just explaining what Userful is and does and where you came from because when Userful first came out, it was presented to me as video wall software, and I had a hell of a time wrapping my brain around what it was all about. But I know you guys have evolved quite a bit. Shane Vega: Yeah. I appreciate that, Dave. To answer your question, Userful has grown exponentially in the last 5+ years. John Marshall, our CEO came on board about 7 years or so ago. My timing might be a little bit off, and when he came into the organization, we were a perpetual software company, so we weren't software as a service, we weren't selling subscriptions. We were selling perpetual software… You'd buy a license and then get that supported? Shane Vega: Yeah, you'd buy a license then we support it for the duration of however long you wanted to use it, and the license for the software was pretty siloed, right? It was, “Hey, you can buy this operations center license.” Where, to your point, we were just managing content on a video wall. And it was mostly control rooms, right? Shane Vega: Mostly control rooms, almost exclusively for a time, and then we evolved into the digital signage world, and it was cloud-based digital signage exclusively. So what most folks are familiar with is hosting up in AWS, giving you some access to dynamic tools for creating templates and the like. During Infocom, what we've launched and from the time that I just mentioned until about, maybe two and a half years ago or three years ago, we've pivoted the company from perpetual to subscription-based software as a service, and that's who Userful is. We are a software company, and we've been a software company tailored to the needs of the AV industry. Most currently, we've just released our newest platform, and that's really been the biggest evolution, which is moving away from application-specific deployments into more of a platform approach for AV over IP and that is really the biggest breakthrough development that we've had here, because in the older version of our software, we were a monolithic code base. Again, we were just selling either the operation center software or we were selling some digital signage. Everything was monolithic. It was difficult for our engineering team to manage updates, firmware, bug fixes, and the like. We've now moved to a distributed code base that has given us exceptional flexibility with how we develop our software for the various use cases and applications in the AV industry. So if you think about what you've seen in the conversations you and I have had, essentially, and you hit the nail right on the head, this isn't just about fancy software managing content on a video wall. Can we do that? Of course, we've got feature sets for various different use cases, but there's also the infrastructure piece, and this was my “aha moment” through a different lens at Infocomm. AV over IP has matured through the years from IP addressable matrix switchers where everything was still very much centralized into IP addressable nodes, encoders, decoders, transmitters, receivers, and all the different AV manufacturers out there have now standardized on this proprietary hardware version of AV over IP, and I started to ask myself the question: what is their value proposition in doing that? And I overheard quite a few folks during this past Infocomm talk about the value of this distributed architecture: enabling flexibility, scalability, augmenting workflows, the total cost of ownership being lower, and I sat there a little bit baffled because these are all the same things that we talk about at Userful and so it really opened up an area where I feel like we do need to evangelize a little bit more about how Userful do AV over IP differently, and that we don't necessitate all of the hardware infrastructure. We truly are a software platform, but because of the IT protocols that currently exist, that's how we developed our software. So when you think about Userful, I've actually positioned us a little bit more as an IT solution than an AV solution, even though our entire solution is built around the AV industry and its needs. The reason I say that is because we're literally a server, non-proprietary, and an endpoint, and that endpoint is software, so our uClient application. In between the two is network infrastructure. There are no end encoders, decoders, transmitters, receivers, and the list goes on. Because we are able to transmit content and aggregate content, meaning we can pull in sources of visual information and audio information into a data library or data store that we manage on our server and distribute that information to any destination or any screen and we do that all with IP protocols. The same IP protocols, by the way, and this is how I usually get people to have the “aha moment.” If we were having this over a Teams meeting, Dave, or a Zoom meeting, we would be transmitting video two ways. In many cases, multiple participants from multiple regions of the world share two-way audio and video. We would be able to share content from our local computers into that meeting, and nobody would have to go out and buy a proprietary encoder and decoder to make that happen. So using that same infrastructure or those IT protocols that are currently at work, IP protocols like WebRTC for instance, we're able to build a solution that leverages those same advancements for the purposes of AV over IP. It's a bit of a mouthful, but that's what we're doing. So you wouldn't have been able to do some of that 10-15 years ago because the network infrastructure is a lot of larger corporations hadn't really caught up with that, so you would flood a network if you were using a lot of video and so on, but things have changed. Shane Vega: Things have changed substantially, and I would even say it's been not even 10-15 years ago, just 5-10 years ago, and the reason I say that is because there are the laws of engineering and physics like Butter's Law, Kryder's Law, Moore's Law, which talks about how rapidly the advancements of, let's say, fiber optic networks, which are doubling every nine months, the amount of bandwidth that you can get between the fiber optic cable or the amount of processing speed that you can get out of a CPU and how fast these advancements are happening. What we're doing and the way that we're doing it is taxing the CPU of that server. It's also taxing the GPU of that server, the graphics card because those are the two major components that we use for our solution. If you think about just two years ago, Dave, our servers that we were deploying in the field were 8 cores of processors. Right now, I have a server that we've certified that's 192 cores of processors, so we're able to do exceptionally and exceedingly more on a single server, which is why we've actually built our solution to be a data center solution by and large, where you take a big beefy server, you put it in your data center, and you're virtualizing all of the traditional hardware that you would need, and you're managing a wide range of AV endpoints, whether it's digital signage, meeting rooms, operations centers, or what have you. Is there a baseline for what you need in terms of the network infrastructure? I'm definitely not an IT Architect, but do you need a CAT6E, or can you do this over Wifi, I don't know, and I suspect a lot of people don't know. Shane Vega: Yeah, so it's a good question. So again, because we're optimizing for IT protocols, we're able to do a lot, right? From the screen to the switch, we're just really looking for that one-gigabit uplink, which is standard. Most folks are going to have that. From the server to the source to the server and all that infrastructure pulling into the server, we're looking for the 10 gigabit uplink. So there are some requirements for the network, but nothing that is outside the realms of standard network topology. The real intricacies or the real areas where we get into some deeper discussions are when they have multiple networks that we have to traverse. When you start getting into DOD environments where things have to be air-gapped and there's no internet connectivity and when networks start to get a little bit more complex, that's where we have to begin to get a little bit more intentional about how we design it. Now that said, we haven't yet met a deployment that we couldn't meet the network requirements for, even though some of those were those complex ones. There were two things that particularly interested me. The first was, as you laid out earlier, that you don't need all these encoders and other bits of hardware to layer into a network to make this happen. So you're cutting out conceivably a lot of capital costs and a lot of potential fail points, and I guess the other thing that intrigues me, and you can talk about that next is or after. The first question would be the idea that you can use this for multiple aspects. I suspect there are control room data dashboards, and software platforms out there, but one of the things you talked about at Infocomm is that you can cascade this out to do all kinds of different things from operation centers to experience centers off of the same platform. Shane Vega: Yeah, exactly, Dave, and to answer the first question, you hit the nail on the head with one of my areas of confusion when I was at Infocomm, and I heard people talking about the low total cost of ownership, and they were tying it to these encoders and decoders. We don't require those things. So when I think about the total cost of ownership, I think about the hard work upfront costs that you don't need to have and the additional BTU output from all of that hardware that you would normally need, that's no longer going to be there, which is going to drive your HVAC costs, right? You don't have all the power consumption. So for green initiatives and companies who are looking to do things, and this is a big one moving forward, folks want to be more green, and get green initiatives going like lower carbon emissions, lowering power consumption by not having all that hardware is yet another total cost of ownership benefit for Userful. Again, our encoding happens at the one server that we require in that Nvidia graphics card. The decoding is done by a piece of software we developed called the uClient application. Now, where that uClient application resides, we give you tons amount of flexibility. We have integrated it into certain endpoints like Web OS or Tizen or Android. And that gives us the flexibility to be able to load that client application in various different environments and use cases, depending on the display type if it's an LCD, if it's a direct view LED, and how we manage that. In some cases, we do have a small appliance that you might need at the edge, and that would be one additional piece of hardware per display, depending on the display type, and that's an Android box that we load our uClient application onto if the display doesn't have the ability to integrate with our software. So if it's a smart display that already has a system on a chip on it, conceivably you don't need that Android box? Shane Vega: Correct. So now what you're left with, as I said, is just a server with software at the edge, and network infrastructure in between. So ongoing maintenance costs are substantially lower. Initial hardware costs are lower. Your total cost of ownership around all the things I mentioned earlier is going to be lower. Therefore, your refresh costs are going to be lower. Because with hardware, every three to five years, in some cases five to seven years, you're having to do a hardware refresh. It's always tied to CapEx because it's usually proprietary. They have to budget for CapEx renewals of all this hardware. Because of Userful's deployment model, we can take on an OPEX model for those folks who would benefit from that because your hardware refresh can be built into your standard IT refreshes because you own the hardware. In many cases, as many as we can possibly, push for, we don't provide the server, we want the end user to provide the server, and that way, it gets built into your traditional OPEX refresh, and that way, the only recurring cost is the software. To your next question about what we spoke about and the benefits of the platform. This is where our software really begins to shine, right? Because our platform is accessible through a web browser, so no proprietary software needs to be downloaded for a user to access it. You access our software through a traditional HTML5 web browser. Once you access the software through a web browser, the first thing you're going to notice is we have six applications that any user can take advantage of. In most cases, folks aren't trying to eat the elephant hole, right? They'll have a use case like digital signage, or they'll have a use case like meeting rooms or experiential centers or what have you, and that's one of the reasons why we are licensing the server. We're licensing the CPU cores and the number of graphics cards that you need on that server so that if you have a smaller use case, your out-of-pocket costs are gonna be lower because you need a smaller server. But when you log in for the first time, you're gonna see, “Oh, I got this for digital signage, but I didn't know I could run my meeting room here.” or, “I didn't realize that I can do these artistic video walls,” or “I didn't realize I can incorporate these data dashboards from Power BI or Tableau as a native source and share those to any display that Userful is managing.” The value is seen almost immediately, and so what we do is try to help people understand the peripheral or parallel use cases. So I use digital signage quite a bit, and I gave you this analogy regarding airports at Infocomm, Dave, where at least half a dozen times in the last six to eight months, I've had conversations with various airports, and most of them are pulling us in because they have an operation center. Airport operations center, or security operations center, or what have you, and they'll say, “Hey, we want the Userful software to run the content on these displays and video walls in the operation center,” and when we have these discovery calls, I'll typically ask, “Hey, have you guys thought about the advantages of using our platform to help you with the signage?” And I'm usually shot down rather immediately, and most folks know Airports are convoluted in the way that they deploy their technology. They got various different groups. They're typically siloed, but specifically the airport operations centers, I'll just say, “Hey, look, I get that, but let me just throw this use case out there and see if it lands and hits you as showing value.” You're in an airport operations center. Wouldn't you want to be able to manage the entire network of screens that are currently being used to show baggage, arrivals, departures, signage, and all your wayfinding screens? Would it not be valuable to be able to manage those as part of your airport operations, also, I've noticed in many cases, they'll incorporate security into their AOC. Some of them have independent security operations centers, but in either event, I would tell them. What happens if you have an incident at the airport? Wouldn't you want to be able to take over those screens from the command center that's responsible for monitoring and sending strategic messages to people, depending on what the situation is? If there's a fire, “evacuate.” If god forbids, there's an active shooter, “take shelter in place,” and be able to send strategic messages to various screens all from within your operation center? Well, you can't currently do that because you've got multiple systems driving all of these different AV endpoints. If you had a single platform, it doesn't just give you the ability to scale your deployment, it gives you the ability to scale your workflow and become more flexible to augment those workflows where I can send strategic messages to screens, I can manage arrivals and baggage from my AOC, if that's such a thing that I need. In addition, we could help you with your meeting rooms. You can walk into a meeting room, and I can help you cast some content in a meeting room and have an impromptu meeting on a drop of a dime, as just a few use cases of what our platform can do. Sometimes, when you have these platforms that say they can do, in your case, at least six different things, there can be compromises. In other words, “Yeah, we can do all these things. That's just none of them are particularly deep, or maybe one of them is deep, and the other ones are so so.” Do you get that question at all? Shane Vega: Ironically, no. We don't get that question. But it's a question most people should be asking David, and I'll tell you that when that does come up, and it's only come up a handful of times, I'm always very candid about what we can't do as well as what we can do. And there is truth in the fact that we are software as a service, and so there are certain applications that still have roadmap features, candidly, that we're going to continue to augment and build them out. If you could probably imagine the top three or four of our use cases would be: operations centers, digital signage, meeting rooms, and data dashboards. We do those very well. With experiential environments, we manage those artistic video walls very well. Now when you talk about experiential environments, there are some things that some folks might want to get involved with, but we might have to have some deeper conversations, right? And that really is around interactivity. Do you want multi-touch video walls, like in a museum for kids or something like that? Where we have some roadmap items to help ensure that multi-touch is what people would expect, where you don't want to have the lag, you don't want to have any of those issues when people are trying to have that fun experience as a child or what have you. So there are certain features that are still roadmap items, but what I will bookend that with is, before coming over to Userful, I worked with one of the larger AV firms globally, and while I worked there, part of my interaction with customers was, “Man, I wish I could do more of these things with a single solution, I have to farm it out to so many folks.” But more than that, I would have feature requests for the stuff that was out there, and it was always in one ear, out the other. I don't care which manufacturer it was. If I went to some of these larger manufacturers and I said, hey, you really would benefit if you did this or this. It just didn't go anywhere, and then I had a similar conversation with the Userful back in about 2018 at a trade show, I said, look, your software is good, but it really needs these four or five things to really be a competitor in the space that you're looking to deploy, which at the time it was operation centers. I'd say if it was six months, it was a long time. So within six months, I got a call from the then VP of Sales who said, “Hey, I want to have a meeting with you, Shane. We've incorporated all of your requests into our software,” and that really pivoted my approach to looking at users as, alright, these guys are the future of AV and, little FYI, we actually got that award at Infocomm, the Future of AV award. But the reason for that was, look, if we're going to be software as a service, then we have to prioritize feature requests from our customers above our own market research or our own gut check, and so that's part of my role here at Userful as VP of Marketing is that I'm also over Product Marketing, which is over the roadmap, and so I get involved in customer calls quite a bit, and I'll hear some of these features that to your initial question is, “Hey, how do you go deeper with these applications?” I look for that feedback, and then I get to go back to the roadmap and go, “Hey, we need to prioritize this, this, and this feature. Push out the other features to the next release. Let's get these done because it's revenue dependent. We've got customers who would value this. Let's get it done!” We take that very seriously here at Userful, and we're at four releases a year, so you'll never have to wait all that long. So you referenced Airports. I'm curious, in the context of third-party software development, if there's a software company that works in the Airport realm but isn't doing digital signage or some of the things you do, but they want to visualize information on displays, is there an API or something that they could develop to work with Userful or does it have to be Userful development to add that capability on? Shane Vega: We have an entire program around API. So we do have our own API, currently, it's A REST API, so we can receive tons of different messages and calls to trigger certain reactions within our software. But additionally, that's got its own roadmap in and of itself. So we have our software application roadmap, and then we have our API roadmap where we're going to be developing even deeper integrations and capabilities including, but not limited to, even wanting to create possible easy configuration tools for customers who can use our API to do whatever they want, onsite. Are control rooms and operations centers the gateway for the initial point of contact, the thing that gets people interested, and then other things cascade out of that? Shane Vega: That has been our experience. We call that our land. So we're land and expand through our platform. Let's find the use case. Let's land where it makes sense, and then let's show the power of our expansion, and just because of how the company has evolved, operation centers have been kind of the tip of our spear, and it makes sense because operation centers will use two or three of our applications out of the gate, right? They'll use the operation center software, they'll use meeting rooms for war rooms or situation rooms. They'll also use our trends for dashboards and Power BI integrations, depending on what type of operation center it is, so they usually get value from several of our use cases and applications out of the gate. And if it's a large enough organization and we're typically targeting LDOs (large distributed organizations), they'll have multiple operations centers, which gives us multiple points of connection and interaction and engagement to open up opportunities to talk about the meeting rooms beyond your war room and situation room, or some operation centers are fishbowls, where they want to bring folks in their data center and they just want to use it as a showpiece to show their customers how well they manage their data, and so they might have welcome screens outside, and we'll let them know, “Hey, we can manage those welcome screens for you as well,” and that evolves into a larger digital signage strategy, corporate communications, so on and so forth. These large organizations, do they have separate AV and IT departments, or are they pretty much hiving into IT now? Shane Vega: So more and more, IT is taking over, but what's happening is it used to be that they have AV specialists on staff, and by and large, it was for the meeting rooms, and in some cases, the digital signage where they had AV technicians or AV specialists on-site, and those were the guys were the gatekeepers to decide what technology gets deployed. Yeah, and get everything working before the meeting starts somehow. Shane Vega: Exactly. “Who's got HDMI? Who's got DVI?” So to that point, people keep talking about the convergence of AV and IT, and I don't know why. That convergence happened years ago. People are now starting to realize that because of that convergence, the IT organization or the IT departments within these larger organizations are going to be the ones holding the budget and are going to be the ones responsible for managing any AV resources on the network. And so, we have intentionally built our product to cater to those IT stakeholders in the organization. When you say things like, “Hey, you can centrally monitor the entire platform from a web browser,” they really get that right. When you say, “We're an IT solution, we're not an AV solution, which means we're not going to put all this IP addressable hardware on your network,” a lot of the walls come down from their security concerns. You then begin to tell them that, look, you can augment your roles-based access control, and integrate with LDAP. Plus, we give you tools that are IT specific to help you monitor things like, what is the impact on my network? What is my current CPU utilization, or what's my current GPU utilization on the server that we're licensing? We give them all of those tools built into our software. So it's not just AV end-user tools that we're giving. We're also giving those IT tools that help the IT stakeholders manage deployments because we recognize these are going to be larger in scale. They're going to be responsible for a lot. Let's make it easy for them. When you talk about AV as a service, it's a term I've heard for a while, but you guys go at it quite a bit differently from what you're saying. Shane Vega: Yeah, we do, and Dave, I struggle with that, because we were flirting with the term AV as a service, and we started to use it quite a bit. But I know, coming from the integration world, that AV as a service historically meant we're going to just finance this stuff, right? We're going to get a leasing program, and we're going to build in the hardware, the software, the services, whatever we can into a monthly payment that makes it nice and easy for you guys. We approach it differently by saying, we are software as a service that's for the AV industry. Therefore, we are AV as a service, meaning, we don't have all that hardware that you have to purchase. You're truly able to deploy all of these AV use cases and manage an entire host of AV applications from within our platform. And we are a software that you pay for based on subscription, typically three-year plans. That's what we mean when we say AV as a service. It's exactly that. It's a software as a service, which is which is the actual term, which is software as a service for the AV world. This strikes me as something that probably has a learning curve, as every software platform does, but it is almost something you kind of have to ease your way into? Shane Vega: Believe it or not, not really, and I think that would be more pertinent if somebody was wanting to say, “Hey, I want to use your entire platform right now.” But as I said earlier, most folks are saying, “Hey, I want this operation center,” and they're familiar with Operation Center softwares. They know what they want. They know they want to be able to build custom layouts. They want to manage big, beautiful video walls. They want to be able to interact with sources with soft KVM functionalities so that they're not just visualizing the sources but they can engage with them because they've got tools, right? They got video management tools, and they've got access control, what have you, and so that software that we're providing isn't going to look and feel a whole lot different than a lot of the other softwares they're used to using. Now, we do it differently. So the real benefit, rewinding all over to the beginning of this conversation, is, yes, we're giving you all these software applications and features, but it's the infrastructure that really differentiates us. Along with removing different hardware components from this kind of a network, you're also removing potentially different software applications that you'd also need because you've got this stack of different things you can do? Shane Vega: Yeah, exactly. To that point, Dave, when I showed this at Infocomm, when I gave my demos there, typically when you deploy an AV solution, let's call it digital signage, that's the background that you're most familiar with. In digital signage, let's say, you use it for corporate communications; you'll have screens all over the office. In some cases, they'll want to be able to integrate that digital signage into their meeting rooms as well, and when the screens are in standby mode, they want to be able to have some of those corporate communications as part of the digital signage strategy, managing those meeting rooms. But when you go into the meeting room, they'll typically need some type of infrastructure to support those meetings and local collaboration. Usually, it's a network of AV infrastructure, HDMI cables, or what have you, go into some form of a matrix switch that's going to be some type of tablet controller that can give you the ability to manage what laptop is being viewed on what screen. With Userful, because the software does so much, the screens that we manage are not tied to any one specific application, and that's really the beauty of it. So I can walk into a room where they're showing corporate communication. I can sit down, open my laptop, and immediately start a meeting by screencasting whatever's on my laptop onto the screen in that room without connecting a single AV cable. I could then open up my operations center software on that same screen and turn it into an impromptu war room or situation room where I'm pulling in multiple sources and building out customized layouts, and navigating through a crisis. So there are a lot of things that we can do, and it's not dependent on the screen, and, to your point, we've reduced not just the hardware need but the software as well. All right, Shane, that was super interesting. I know much more about this space than I did half an hour ago. Shane Vega: It's been great talking to you, Dave. I appreciate it.

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