Barcelona, 8 March 2004 - Visual Century has released the new 2.0 version of its multimedia digital signage software VisualPublisher, designed to manage and combine advertising and informative content and broadcast it on plasma screens. Among other new features, the new version of VisualPublisher presents a new user interface, the local or remote real-time update of text shown on-screen and the generation of grids with 24 hour continuity.

VisualPublisher provides the means to organize and publish videos, live transmissions, images, audio fragments, texts and Web pages on plasma screens, projectors and other viewing devices. The VisualPublisher architecture includes a central repository, a control unit and a number of repeat stations, also known as clients, consisting of PCs or set-top boxes connected to projectors or plasma screens. This modularity and flexibility allows sending different content combinations to every client or client group, maximizing the the on-screen space available and tailoring it to the time of day and location of each viewing device to achieve maximum impact.

VisualPublisher uses the rich media asset management technology of ViA2 Platform of Visual Century, which includes advanced analysis features such as asynchronous video analysis and the ability to conduct image and video keyframe searches exclusively by graphic content. With the new version of VisualPublisher, Visual Century completes its multimedia asset management and publication offer addressing the needs of different market segments, including commerce, corporate communications, public transport, culture and entertainment and the hospitality industry.

About Visual Century

Visual Century is a technology company created in 2001 by a group of entrepreneurs with audiovisual and multimedia research backgrounds. Visual Century develops software products to index, analyze, access and publish digital video, audio and images in asset management applications that include archiving, production, retrieval, navigation and broadcast of rich media content. The Visual Century team is made up of highly qualified professionals that share the quality, technology and innovation objectives of the company. Visual Century products stand out because of their innovative vision of rich media content, and they are designed to facilitate the use, management and exploitation of video, audio and image content.