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BBC Motion Gallery is the BBC’s agent for the licensing of all footage from its world-class archive. Now, for the first time ever, users can have hands-on access through www.bbcmotiongallery.com.  Launched in June 2004, the website offers customers thousands of clips to download, with more content added every day.   It is now the largest wholly owned moving image and audio resource in the world.

Clients can search tens of thousands of viewable clips and download their selections for immediate use in pre-production storyboards.   With offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Sydney and Tokyo, the archive is a truly international resource.  To complement the core collection, BBC Motion Gallery is also the exclusive representative of the CBS News Archive

As well as BBC motion imagery, BBC Motion Gallery has a comprehensive short programme and production resource collection. Programmes from this collection have been broadcast across the world and in a variety of locations including aeroplanes, dental surgeries, supermarkets and hairdressing salons

Contact details: Beth Spencer, T: +44 (0) 20 8 433 2935,
Email: beth.spencer@bbc.co.uk


BT Media and Broadcast designs, develops and manages global broadcast and communications networks, and provides comprehensive content management services for content owners and those who need to transmit, trade or exchange content. BT offers worldwide connectivity and seamless end-to-end solutions, encompassing: content gathering, management, storage, re-purposing and distribution to broadcast, internet broadband and mobile platforms and corporate and retail networks. Proven solutions that help organisations increase business efficiency and flexibility, cut costs, reach new markets and generate new revenues.

For example with BT Digital Screen Media, we can help increase and influence the flow of customers into your store, whilst increasing revenues. We can collect and distribute appropriate content to interactive, high-resolution screens right up to the point-of-sale in every kind of retail environment from supermarkets to department stores, high streets and shopping malls.

We have formed alliances with specialist organisations in the retail sector to provide a comprehensive, fully managed solution. One that extends to a full consultancy service including design, build and operation, plus the acquisition, formatting and distribution of video and data signals and the central management of the network.

Whether your network consists of a small number of screens across many sites – as in a high street chain or a series of petrol stations – or a large number of screens on one site – as in a major department store – we can help to ensure the delivery of eye-catching, informative and timely messages to your customers. 

To find out more, please contact:

UK, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Germany:
Email: btmediabroadcast@bt.com
Website: http://www.bt.com/media-broadcast


The evolution and convergence of multimedia and broadband technologies are changing the way we communicate in practically every industry and part of life. The Web was just the beginning. The need to communicate powerful messages to audiences in targeted locations at the most opportunistic time is necessary to maintain a competitive edge. With traditional advertising mediums such as television becoming more and more fragmented, and with innovations that allow viewers to skip over commercials, mass-market advertisers are desperate to find a better and more cost effective way to reach their target audience. With off the shelf "broadcast multimedia" software solutions from Scala, it is now possible to easily create private "out of home" advertising networks specifically optimized for this new, targeted mass medium.

As with any new and emerging concept or industry, the terminology used to describe it is also emerging and besides the term "out of home" advertising networks, it is often referred to as: Digital Signage Networks, Dynamic Signage Networks, Digital Media Networks, In-Store TV, Retail TV, Captive Audience Networks, Narrowcasting, Datacasting, Electronic Display Networks, etc. One day the industry will probably adopt a single name but until then Scala is in the business of serving all of these needs!

Scala provides a range of products and services to address the needs of large networks of "out of home" advertising displays that influence purchase behaviour via a centrally controlled network of verifiable displays. Scala provides a proven end-to-end software solution that enables these networks to operate more inexpensively than competing media, with greater ease and flexibility, with complete central control and accountability, while generating greater revenues and increased sales. Content can scheduled for playback by location or time.

In addition to offering a solution for this new focused and targeted advertising medium, Scala's InfoChannel® software solutions are also widely used in employee training networks (both passive and interactive), call centre information systems, corporate communications networks (also referred to as "Employee TV"), airport advertising/communication networks and for generating localized community Cable TV access or advertising channels. In addition Scala's flexible software architecture allows full integration of emergency response procedures, further leveraging the same network infra-structure.

In fact in many large-scale retail environments Scala has seen a growing requirement for both "customer facing" (advertising based) and "employee facing" (training) screens on the same network (and in the same locations), offering improved economies of scale and allowing the subsidizing of employee training and communications by the new advertising revenue generated from the same network. Very often these new media networks can be "piggybacked" or overlaid over the existing corporate IT communications infrastructure already in place, due to the Services.

 

Digital View Ltd

Established in 1995, Digital View Group is one of the world’s foremost suppliers of advanced connectivity solutions for the flat panel digital display market, and a world leader in the implementation of out-of-home advertising and digital signage networks.

Underpinned by strong internal development engineering, and with sales operations spanning the globe, the Digital View name has become synonymous with ‘mission critical’ high performance digital display solutions. Specialists across analogue, digital and video, the company has over 250,000 systems deployed across the globe in applications within airliners, hospitals, trains, broadcast studios, marine radar and retail media.

From 1999, Digital View pioneered the development of solid-state digital media players and has since become a leading supplier of the electronic displays and systems used for ‘narrowcasting’ solutions. Digital View now has over 20,000 video systems in use at the ‘point of sale’, many remotely connected to our own unique central data management and content distribution system, Remote Transfer™. This system enables customers to centrally control the delivery of content and activity of each display and to monitor audience and usage figures – key to measuring the effectiveness of brand campaigns.

With consumers spending more time on the move and the increasing importance of one-to-one marketing, Digital View is now a major provider of customised private media networks, capable of delivering high impact advertising content into any outdoor or in-store environment and offering a one-stop-shop for design, installation, content and support services.

Digital View is the name behind some of the UK’s largest out-of-home media networks – i-VU, Warner Howard and Pharmacy Channel. Our major brand clients worldwide include; Toys ‘r Us, P&G, Kraft, Starbucks, Swatch Group, Lego, L’Oreal, TAG Heuer, Logitech and 3.

At Digital View we combine our proven expertise in display technology with a real understanding of consumer, brand and media owner dynamics to help our customers unlock the value of new media networks as the next generation in “one-to-one” and “one-to-few” communication. Whether designing US Navy approved gamma correction utilities, or creating compelling connected digital signage solutions to sell toys at the point-of-sale. Digital View offers creative, long term, bespoke customer solutions, backed by experience, expertise and an unparalleled track record.


Panasonic UK Ltd

Panasonic and Technics are brand names for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd. of Japan (MEI), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of consumer electronics and ranked 3rd on the Fortune 500 Electronics and Electrical Equipment Index.

Panasonic Business Systems, a division of Panasonic UK Ltd, represents a wide range of products and solutions, all of which are synonymous with innovation, quality, performance and reliability. The product range includes, plasma displays, projectors, broadcast equipment, fax machines, copiers, printers, scanners, whiteboards, telephone systems, security products, ruggedised notebook PCs and electronic point of sale systems.

As a major manufacturer of Plasma Displays and Projectors, Panasonic have achieved one of the brightest pictures and highest contrast ratio of 4000:1 in the industry for Plasma and offer one of the widest ranges of multimedia projectors.

Delivering exceptional picture quality and unmatched levels of brightness and contrast, images are exceptionally sharp and bright. Moving pictures are smooth and natural looking with excellent detail. Whites are crisper and purer, whilst colours are rich and true.

Panasonic has a projector in their range to suit every business need, from micro-portables through to large venue models. All deliver bright, crisp, high quality images and are easy to set up and operate.


Networking Forum Sponsorship Opportunities

Please contact The Screen for further details:
Mark Pigou, Speaking & Sponsorship: +44 (0)20 7540 5213, mark@screenevents.co.uk