“By combining its expertise in broadcast with the latest advancements in information technology, Chyron has designed ChyTV to be reliable, easy to install and operate, and extremely cost effective,” said Chyron CEO Michael Wellesley-Wesley. “ChyTV is perfect for a variety of applications including video messaging, retail point-of-purchase signage, institutional promotion and communications, and with ChyTV’s Alert package, is well suited for mission critical broadcast environments such as government and military security alerts.”

The ChyTV system is easy to configure in a display system or integrated into an existing video infrastructure. The graphic and text information coupled with programmable audio clips may be displayed on a single TV screen or broadcast throughout the facility. Easy and intuitive creation, scheduling, distribution and display of graphic content to flat panel and television monitors is possible with ChyTV’s dynamic display controller. Users can opt to show either full screen images or video graphics and text combined with an external video feed. Video regions can be resized and positioned from page to page with smooth dynamic transitions, while graphic and text regions can be assigned to surround or overlay the video window. Audio WAV files may be integrated seamlessly for sound clips and audio alerts.

Fast graphics creation is made possible by employing the output from common authoring programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, or by selecting one of the supplied templates. Information crawls, active data updates such as time and temperature, or full page slides from HTML sources can be quickly and easily inserted into the graphic regions. All graphic pages can then be scheduled from a simple, intuitive scheduling interface, and added to a Playlist for either automatic looping or date/time playout via a standard Compact Flash interface, USB, or Ethernet connection. This self-contained operation requires no external computer connection and ensures utmost reliability and ease of use.