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Create an immersive experience with Full HD Digital Signage Video Walls. Video Walls are increasing in popularity and are commonly being used in stores, restaurants, hospitality, airports and the leisure industry. Video Walls are increasing in popularity and are commonly being used in stores, restaurants, hospitality, airports and the leisure industry to achieve that all important wow factor by projecting images and content on a large and impressive scale. The Solution. The Acquire VideoWall solution has been created with creativity in mind to ensure that it provides an eye-catching experience at a cost-effective price. There are three styles of video wall function available using Acquire, all of which ensure that the end result is going to create maximum impact. The Acquire VideoWall solution gives you the ability to create video walls that are truly unique and attention grabbing by creating a canvas of screens playing fully synchronised content. Unlike traditional video walls where screens are laid out in a 4x4 or 8x8 configuration the canvas allows you to create any shape or arrangement of screens. Even when used in a small space, this canvas capability can have a greater impact than a similarly sized screen alone. Also, interaction through touch, gesture and sensors is also an important feature that many wish to integrate to add to the immersive customer experience. Page 2.
Option 1. Use a single player device with multiple output. Our high-powered player technology enables you to use up to 4 x HD outputs for the playback of your content, which in turn can be output to video wall capable screens to create square or rectangular videowalls. Although the cost can be cheaper than the other methods, the content is always stretched for playback over the screens and is not ideal when viewers are close to the screens. Create your content in HD. Use the Acquire Page Editor to position your current on-screen. View your large format videowall. Option 2. Use multiple player devices as a canvas. Simply install an Acquire VideoWall player on a PC connected to each screen. The layout of the screens can be in any format and size and are not restricted in arrangement. HD content is then stretched over the screens to create an interesting playback media. Design your canvas layout in the designer. Create your content in HD. Position your content & stretch it over as many screens as you wish. View your videowall canvas. Option 3. Use multiple player devices as a Canvas with custom content. As with Option 2, simply install an Acquire Videowall player on a PC connected to each screen. The layout of the screens can be in any format and size (not restricted to square/rectangular layouts and can also incorporate videowall screens). The design and layout of the screens can then be supplied to your content creators and individual HD videos made for playback on each screen for the highest quality and impact of playback. Canvas layouts create interesting shapes and patterns for playback of content. Design your canvas layout in the designer. Build your ultra-resolution content in your chosen package using the guide to position key parts. Save the parts of your canvas as individual HD files. See ultra-hd playback in action. Page 3.
Technical Features. Achieving Full HD. Most video wall configurations are set up as 1 large homogenous screen meaning that the content is stretched to fit the large dimensions of the screen resulting in low quality content which can often appear pixelated when viewed at a close distance. Acquire VideoWalls work by managing the content on the seperate screens, and operating them independently. Content is therefore displayed on seperate screens to make up a complete, overall image. The image is not therefore stretched or reduced in quality. Intelligent System. The Acquire VideoWall solution also allows you to create innovative and unique screen configurations which can be made up of a mixture of screens positioned in any orientation. Screens can also be scattered across wall space to create more eye catching displays. Using the inbuilt configuration tool Acquire intelligently identifies which part of the overall image needs to be displayed and on what screen. Frame Accurate Synchronisation. Each of the screens used within the Acquire VideoWall solution run independently to ensure that high quality content and unique configurations can be achieved. However, Acquire also includes inbuilt Frame Accurate Synchronisation technologies to manage accurately synched playback across the entire video wall. Authoring Environment. The Acquire VideoWall solution uses a powerful Editor Suite for initial setup and design. This incorporates a number of tools to enable you to design the canvas layout, then position and schedule the content, whilst incorporating other features such as live feeds and triggers (Kinect, Camera, Touchscreen, and more) to get your audience to react to the content. It also includes support tools and features to update the content on the remote Acquire VideoWall Players. If you plan to have multiple users operating it, you can also choose to utilise our Acquire2go web-based content management system for ease of use and access when updating the content. Page 4.
Automatic Monitoring and Support. We understand that most installations will be remote, so updates need to happen smoothly and systems need to keep operating. With our optional PLUS! Network technology, we can provide you with the reassurance you need that your displays are operating smoothly. The Acquire VideoWall Player incorporates auto-recovery features and built-in secure network connectivity to equip you with real-time alerts, remote device monitoring and control. With instant notification of any issues, you can resolve them straightaway from a remote PC to minimise any potential downtime. You can also make remote changes to your content, playlists and play back schedule. PLUS! Network. The PLUS! Network is available as a managed service or you can purchase the server software and host it yourself. It provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery to your remotely installed Players via any TCP/IP based network. It also provides an intergrated alert and support management platform with remote access of the players. Clients usually utilise our managed PLUS! Network service as it is hosted across the world in many secure, high availability data centres with automatic failover and support included. For clients requiring private networks (eg APN, WAN), an EDGE server is available or a private server cloud can be purchased for hosting within a network. Features. Easy to use canvas designer Flexible layout of screens Easy to source PC devices Established technology Playback of most popular formats of Video, Graphics, Text, Audio, Flash* Greater than HD playback Secure OS and Auto-recovery of player Scheduled Playlisting System Optional Web-based Playlisting CMS Choice of update methods (USB pendrive, LAN, WAN) *File Formats Supported: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, Quicktime, FLV, WMV, DivX, XVid, MKV, AVI, Animated GIF, WEBM, RGB JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, WEBA, OGG, WMA, MP3, WAV., 3GPP, MHTML (not synched), HTML (not synched), FLV Flash (Limited Synch). Technical Specifications. Specification of media decoding and playback dependent upon hardware used for playback. Typical recommended specification: Maximum resolution of video 1920x1080 Maximum resolution of images 2048x2048 Maximum bitrate of video 12 Mbit/s Frame rate of video 24fps, 25fps, 30 fps Duration of video one second two hours Maximum number of items per page 1024 Maximum size of canvas area 2000cm x 2000cm. Page 5.
Acquire VideoWall Player. Windows XP (any version). Windows 7 (any version). Windows 8 (any version). Windows Embedded (any version). Intel Atom (with video decoding by GPU) recommend Intel Core 2 Duo or faster. 1GB or greater. HDD 20GB or greater. LAN or Wifi or 3G/4G. Acquire Editor Suite. Windows XP (any version). Windows 7 (any version). Windows 8 (any version). Windows Embedded (any version). Intel Atom (with video decoding by GPU). recommend Intel Core 2 Duo or faster. 1GB or greater. HDD 20GB or greater. LAN or Wifi or 3G/4G. Acquire Signage2Go. If using our Web-based Content Management System (CMS), this can be accessed with any device capable of accessing the internet, with a browser capable of HTML5 support for example: Google Chrome (preferred). Internet Explorer 7 or greater. Mozilla Firefox. Safari. PLUS! Network. Operating System Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 2 or greater (including Web Editions). CPU Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz or faster. RAM 2GB or greater. HDD 80GB or greater. 100Mb/s or 1000Mb/s LAN. Note: Larger HDD capacity will allow for greater storage of content for large rollout and storage of audit information for longer periods. Fast LAN or WAN connectivity recommended. May be installed on a server and shared to users via remote desktop or local client via LAN or WAN. Same specification applies, with the addition of Windows Server 2003 or greater (including Web versions). Page 6.
About Acquire Digital. Acquire Digital are a leading supplier of Digital Signage and interactive software solutions to businesses across all vertical markets. Established in 1997, we have many years of experience of creating solutions and delivering reliable products and services Worldwide. With skilled partners across the globe we are able to provide local expertise and knowledge supported by our experienced development team based in the UK. We collaborate with allied technology partners to ensure that we are able to provide the best solution for you in time and within budget. With over 20,000 successful solutions installed, acquire Digital and their partners can ensure your installation is a success. For more information please visit acquiredigital.com Page 7.