The Video Messenger VM-3 allows you to display messages as your own video bulletin board. This bulletin board can be displayed over a number of monitors or throughout an entire facitlity by modulating its output onto a channel on your television system. Some people refer this type of equipment as a character generator. Because the VM-3 allows you to schedule and route each message when and where needed, we call the it a message generator, hence the name Video Messenger. The VM-3 is commercial quality and features metal construction, an internal power supply (110v & 220V), professional BNC connectors and a standard AT 101 keyboard. The message creation software is intuitive in nature which makes the unit easy to use by almost any operator.

Message Scheduling
The system's scheduling software is very flexible. It allows you to pre-schedule up to 250 messages which can be either full page or crawl lines. Scheduling can be done by day(s) of the week, time of day and date range. The internal calendar can extend scheduled messages out to December 31, 2026.

Font Color and Background Color by Line
Their are five built in fonts each with 4 different sizes. 16 colors with 8 brightnesses can be added to both fonts and backgrounds as desired.

Networkable System
The VM-3 is a Networkable Unit. Up to 32 VM's can be daisy chained together allowing each to display the same or a distinctive set of messages.

Message Routing
The ability to network VM's together is very useful if the operator wishes to have different messages appear in different areas of a property or he wants the same text message to be displayed over different TV broadcasts or programming. The routing system is easy to use and greatly increases the effectiveness of the system. The VM-3's flexibility allows it to easily be used in a great variety of applications.

Controlling the Video Messenger from a Remote Location
The unit can be operated remotely via external modem or the internet. The Modem allows operators with a small number of remote units to control these units using POTS (plain old telephone service) lines. Video Messenger provides communications software for the PC which allows for the creation, storage and transmission of messages. The messages are sent to the VM-3, using the VMConsole, which links to the Internet or a LAN. THis requires adding a VLink IP/Lan interface allows the user to communicate with the VM-3 using the VMConsole software for Windows®. (Neat, economical and effective)

Multimedia Presentations 
Adding a DVD Player makes the Video Messenger a Multimedia superstar. The DVD Player features include the capability to play hundreds of high resolution images and/or MPEG quality video. These images and video files can be linked to messages and a control cable allows the Video Messenger and Player to operate together automatically displaying a series of presentations which include your graphics, images and video, customized with your overlaid text message.

VMC can author both images and video clips on to a DVD disc. You can also produce your own DVD disc for use with the system using our new MSR-2 Authoring Tool.

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