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Scala updates digital signage suite with Enterprise 10.3

June 30, 2014

Scala Inc. today announced Release 10.3 of Scala Enterprise, which includes new improvements and features for Scala Content Manager, Scala Designer and Scala Player. These speed and performance updates provide a simplified and efficient experience for all users, according to the company.

Scala Designer has been upgraded for enhanced 4K video performance, supporting Intel GPU DXVA2 hardware decoding of 4K video and with improved throughput of software decoding of 4K video by 250 percent-300 percent, the company said. The upgrades also allow users to show and work with "off-page" elements, enabling designers to work visually with elements placed outside of the page border. And text boxes bring increased efficiency to Scala Designer with the ability to automatically adjust the font size of any text within. Finally, the new Enterprise features opacity setting for page backdrops. Users can now modify the level of opacity of the page backdrop for Plain pages. When the Fill Opacity is set to 0, the background becomes fully transparent, revealing the content hidden underneath.

Scala Content Manager has enhanced Plan Generation to include Player Groups to be scheduled at different time intervals, allowing users to modify the delivery of their content based on their frequency of change. Modifying Plan Generation also improves the performance and therefore improves load of the distribution engine, the company said.
 
And Scala Player now has more accessibility options, so users can now choose how informed they want to be, the company said. Players can be pre-filtered to show only the errors from selected players; users now have the option to automatically clear and suppress notifications of selected problems; problems are now cleared seven days after being reported, and deleted 30 days after being reported (that timing can be modified to the user's needs); and it has a new Health tab along with error information for each individual player.