Black Box CRT Direct View TV - Manual (Page 2)

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FEATURES
• Mix incoming video with graphics
and output the mixed video to a TV.
• Show either full-screen images or
graphics and text combined with an
external video feed.
• Broadcast high-quality, eye-catching
video effects such as text crawls, as
well as full-motion video regions and
animations (formatted as GIF, JPG, BMP,
PNG, TGA, image sequence animations,
and other file types).
• Create full-screen, graphics-rich pages,
showing dynamic text, logos, and
animations using the supplied templates
or your own artwork.
• Add audio files for alarms, alerts, and
voice-overs in emergency applications.
• Schedule page displays in a playlist,
including loop durations, using the
system’s time-control features.
• Chassis includes a media slot with
a removable SanDisk ® CompactFlash ™
card for storing and transferring ChyTV
pages, playlists, and other files.
• Compact, lightweight metal unit works
in temporary or permanent installations.
• Operate the system and make real-time
data updates through the built-in 10/100
Ethernet interface.
• Support NTSC formats.
• Virtually virus-proof and require no
external computer connection.
OVERVIEW
Use this low-cost system to add messaging capabilities to
an existing video infrastructure or create informative digital
signage.
ChyTV makes it easy to combine graphics, video, and
audio capabilities to create dynamic, eye-catching messaging
presentations. This self-contained system is simple to use and
configure, and there are no expensive add-ons to purchase
and master.
But don’t be fooled by its simplicity. ChyTV delivers
professional-quality presentations without requiring the
studio wizardry of a highly skilled video technician.
You can position and manipulate an image and/or text a
number of ways. Display a video source image with graphics
and text around it, superimpose a message over full video or
a background, squeeze the live video window, independently
resize and position graphics elements, and more. Graphics
and text can be displayed on a single screen or broadcast
throughout a campus or facility with the use of multiple units.
The ChyTV system works with ordinary TVs and plasma
and LCD screens—in your lobby, at a retail site, or around your
corporate or educational campus—to broadcast messages that
are tailored to a specific audience or for the general public.
Not only can you create the content and message you need,
you can also easily distribute it according a specific schedule.
You can even set pages to display for a specific length of time
during certain hours or days.
The system also enables you to insert graphics into the
video stream at the push of a button. Stream ordinary video
and when you want special text or graphics to be shown, press
the box’s BYPASS/INSERT switch. It’s that easy!
Order the Plus version for larger setups.
We offer two ChyTV versions: the ChyTV IP 2 and ChyTV
Plus.
The ChyTV IP 2 has Composite video RCA input/output,
audio input/output (left/right analog), a CompactFlash
external media slot with SanDisk card, and a 10BASE-T/
100BASE-TX Ethernet port.
For advanced capabilities, order the ChyTV Plus. It’s perfect
for professionally installed video messaging systems and, with
additional input options, offers flexible system integration.
Like the ChyTV IP 2, it includes audio and 10/100 Ethernet
connectors, and a media slot with card. But, for video
connections, it also has S-Video input/output, Composite BNC
input/output, and Component BNC inputs/outputs, as well
as RS-232 serial and GPI control interfaces.
The power to create using powerful software.
If you’ve ever created a simple PowerPoint ® presentation,
you have more than what it takes to create a dazzling ChyTV
display. Never used PowerPoint? No problem—you’ll find the
system’s intuitive ChyTV Tools interface gives you all the tools
you need to create informative and impressive digital signage.
The ChyTV Tools interface is, in fact, the engine behind the
entire system. With it, you can:
• Import and organize page elements for display.
• Transfer files between a PC and the ChyTV unit via the
removable flash memory card.
• Assign graphics and text regions to either surround or
overlay the video window.
• Resize and reposition video regions from page to page
with smooth dynamic transitions.
• Schedule pages and their page elements for display.
• Use preloaded templates to insert colorful, graphics-rich
backgrounds.
• Insert logos and animations.
• Control the unit remotely.
Inserting text is a snap using the ChyTV software. It can be
typed directly onto a page or imported from another source,
such as Microsoft
® Word. The software enables you to apply
background colors, highlight text, and have your text run
horizontally across your presentation as a crawl. You set the
speed of the crawl and, if you like, have it repeated as part of
a loop and give it a soft mask (with transparent soft edges at
the start and end of the displayed text).
You can even insert your favorite PowerPoint elements into
a presentation. Images, text, and tags placed on a PowerPoint
slide are saved as HTML for conversion by the ChyTV software.
Thumbnail images provide you with previews of your
converted pages.
ChyTV IP 2 (rear)
ChyTV Plus (rear)