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Netpresenter brings Flash and YouTube to digital signage

April 20, 2008

NEW YORK — Netpresenter has launched Netpresenter Player 5.0, the company's next generation in digital signage player software. A new feature is support for Adobe Flash content and YouTube videos, enabling delivery and playback of these content types on PC desktops, large digital signage screens and mobile devices.

Users can include a broad range of dynamic content to their presentations, including Flash animations, live news feeds, live streaming video and TV channels. It also allows the addition of smooth running tickers to the screens and transparent GIF images often used for weather and traffic maps.

"The new generation player allows users to really spice up their digital signage and PC desktop presentations, screensaver and alert messages. Making a presentation come to life has never been this easy," said Frank Hoen, Netpresenter CEO.

The new version of the Netpresenter Player also offers dashboard functionality. This allows current database content, including sales graphs, live financial data, customer retention stats etc., to be added to the Netpresenter presentation.

"By feeding database content to Netpresenter, slides can now contain even more types of information. Many companies want to share figures on support calls handled, client wins and other corporate statistics with their employees in real-time in order to give staff the feeling they are valued and trusted. After all, research shows, effective employee communication can spell the difference between retaining employees and losing them," Hoen said.

Netpresenter Player 5.0 supports all Windows versions, from Windows 2000 through to Vista, including thin clients and Windows XP Embedded. Messages can be prepared or amended via any Web browser.