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The Acquire Player is available as a software-only solution, or pre-installed and configured on our recommended hardware.
If you want your users to type in a lot of information, the Memo ACQ allows them to do this.
Included with: Premier, KD
Helpers: Whilst the Acquire Player is running, these helper plugins operate simultaneously and are always in the background. Typically these are used to connect to remote media or datasources so that the information or content is then cached locally on the player.
RSS Feed Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Download and cache RSS news feeds for Acquire to display
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an international standard for providing lists of information. Many websites and information providers are able to provide information about their products, news, weather, traffic information and more using this simple format. Acquire can display any RSS2.0 format feeds, together with any associated media, but to prevent the players ‘hammering’ the provider’s servers, this helper program collects the feed on a regular, configurable time, and caches the information on the player device, ready for when it needs to be displayed.
If the network link fails, the helper will continue to use the cached version for a period you choose before deleting the feed (which causes Acquire Player to not show any pages containing the feed). The helper also provides filters to allow you to restrict certain items out of the feed, or only include items in the feed, to make any 3rd party or generalized feeds more appropriate to your use. Note: please see the MyMessage web service below for details of how you can create your own feeds.
Included with: Solo, Premier, KD, DS
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an international standard for providing lists of information. Many websites and information providers are able to provide information about their products, news, weather, traffic information and more using this simple format. Acquire can display any RSS2.0 format feeds, together with any associated media, but to prevent the players ‘hammering’ the provider’s servers, this helper program collects the feed on a regular, configurable time, and caches the information on the player device, ready for when it needs to be displayed.
If the network link fails, the helper will continue to use the cached version for a period you choose before deleting the feed (which causes Acquire Player to not show any pages containing the feed). The helper also provides filters to allow you to restrict certain items out of the feed, or only include items in the feed, to make any 3rd party or generalized feeds more appropriate to your use. Note: please see the MyMessage web service below for details of how you can create your own feeds.
Included with: Solo, Premier, KD, DS
CiY
Code It Yourself - A Powerful scripting engine built for Acquire
One of the most powerful features of Acquire is it’s ability to do more than just show content, by the use of plugins such as ACQs and Helpers. The most powerful ACQ and Helper is the CiY plugins as they allow you to write your own programs (using Visual Basic Script or Java Script), changing the flow of Acquire’s scripts, variables an much more. This is similar to Microsoft’s Office Macro Scripting facility, but more powerful.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
One of the most powerful features of Acquire is it’s ability to do more than just show content, by the use of plugins such as ACQs and Helpers. The most powerful ACQ and Helper is the CiY plugins as they allow you to write your own programs (using Visual Basic Script or Java Script), changing the flow of Acquire’s scripts, variables an much more. This is similar to Microsoft’s Office Macro Scripting facility, but more powerful.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
RemoteMedia
Allows the players to automatically download files from HTTP and FTP sources for playing and controlling your presentation.
Although you can use Acquire’s built-in methods of transferring content to the players, you may want the players to collect some specific content external to these methods. The RemoteMedia helper will let you do this. By entering an HTML or FTP address into the RemoteMedia configuration, the players will visit those locations and download the files on your chosen timescale, then rename them and save them alongside your media so that you can show them as part of your presentation. Our customers have used this helper for collecting and displaying the font pages of well known newspapers from JPEGs on their websites, downloading latest versions of XML datafiles for near-live availability displays, or for downloading podcasts of the latest news.
Included with: Premier
Although you can use Acquire’s built-in methods of transferring content to the players, you may want the players to collect some specific content external to these methods. The RemoteMedia helper will let you do this. By entering an HTML or FTP address into the RemoteMedia configuration, the players will visit those locations and download the files on your chosen timescale, then rename them and save them alongside your media so that you can show them as part of your presentation. Our customers have used this helper for collecting and displaying the font pages of well known newspapers from JPEGs on their websites, downloading latest versions of XML datafiles for near-live availability displays, or for downloading podcasts of the latest news.
Included with: Premier
Folder Slideshow
Allows the players to scan a folder for pictures provide them to Acquire™ for use as a slideshow or other presentation.
Whether using a local or network shared folder, the Folder Slideshow helper will regularly scan the folders for media of your chosen type and maintain a list of those files. Using Acquire’s variables feature, the media can be displayed whenever you require in the presentation, with a different piece of media each time the Acquire page is displayed.
Included with: Solo, Premier, DS
Whether using a local or network shared folder, the Folder Slideshow helper will regularly scan the folders for media of your chosen type and maintain a list of those files. Using Acquire’s variables feature, the media can be displayed whenever you require in the presentation, with a different piece of media each time the Acquire page is displayed.
Included with: Solo, Premier, DS
Dynascript
Create simple playlists for Acquire to play by using a simple XML file downloaded from a website.
By producing a simple XML file, and providing it on a webserver, the Dynascript helper will collect the file and tell Acquire to play the pages, play the scripts, and even change the variables as defined in the XML playlist. The players using this helper will display the playlist downloaded in the XML file unless you have scheduled a playlist to them. You can use this to create a simple playlist generation system for the players, as we have provided with the Online Management system.
Purchasable option with: Solo, Premier, KD, DS
By producing a simple XML file, and providing it on a webserver, the Dynascript helper will collect the file and tell Acquire to play the pages, play the scripts, and even change the variables as defined in the XML playlist. The players using this helper will display the playlist downloaded in the XML file unless you have scheduled a playlist to them. You can use this to create a simple playlist generation system for the players, as we have provided with the Online Management system.
Purchasable option with: Solo, Premier, KD, DS
GPS Manager
Control playlists based upon the GPS position of the player.
Using the supplied GPS receiver, the player can be installed in a moving vehicle (bus, coach, ferry, taxi, etc), and depending upon the location and direction of travel, it will change the playlist to show content appropriate to them. Up to 1024 areas can be defined to ensure your content is appropriate to the location. Also provides ‘raw’ GPS information into Acquire to provide the content with information such as location, direction and speed for use with on-screen maps, etc.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
Using the supplied GPS receiver, the player can be installed in a moving vehicle (bus, coach, ferry, taxi, etc), and depending upon the location and direction of travel, it will change the playlist to show content appropriate to them. Up to 1024 areas can be defined to ensure your content is appropriate to the location. Also provides ‘raw’ GPS information into Acquire to provide the content with information such as location, direction and speed for use with on-screen maps, etc.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
Bluetooth
Send files to Bluetooth-enabled devices, broadcast (bluecast) send files, and change the playlist based upon the number of Bluetooth devices nearby.
Then using the helper and supplied Bluetooth dongle, this helper provides you with everything you need to provide your own bluecasting solution to target your message at users with mobile phones and PDAs up to 100metres from your player. If Bluecasting, the helper uses intelligent marketing to avoid annoying prospective users by only sending messages to potential users if they accept the invitation to receive the file(s), and then remembers their choice and doesn’t try again for 24 hours. Alternatively, it can be used so that the user requests the file from Acquire, or even just to monitor the number of people with Bluetooth nearby and affect the playlist.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
Then using the helper and supplied Bluetooth dongle, this helper provides you with everything you need to provide your own bluecasting solution to target your message at users with mobile phones and PDAs up to 100metres from your player. If Bluecasting, the helper uses intelligent marketing to avoid annoying prospective users by only sending messages to potential users if they accept the invitation to receive the file(s), and then remembers their choice and doesn’t try again for 24 hours. Alternatively, it can be used so that the user requests the file from Acquire, or even just to monitor the number of people with Bluetooth nearby and affect the playlist.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
Tube
Collect and display the current London Underground (tube) status.
To make people look at your screens, why not provide a public service and show the current travel information for the London underground in your presentation? The Tube helper ‘screen scrapes’ the official London Underground website for status and information on all of the lines and provides them as variables for use in Acquire or any Flash animation you may want to use. Note you may need to inform the London Underground of your use of the information if you are using it commercially.
Free download for: Premier, DS
To make people look at your screens, why not provide a public service and show the current travel information for the London underground in your presentation? The Tube helper ‘screen scrapes’ the official London Underground website for status and information on all of the lines and provides them as variables for use in Acquire or any Flash animation you may want to use. Note you may need to inform the London Underground of your use of the information if you are using it commercially.
Free download for: Premier, DS
Weather
Display today’s and tomorrow’s weather automatically on your players.
By entering the location of your player into the helper, it will regularly check for the latest weather conditions and provide a wealth of this and other weather-related information straight into Acquire. You can then display the information natively in Acquire, or even show it on a Flash weather map, just like a TV station. Note you may need to inform weather.com about your use of the information commercially.
Coming soon for: Premier, DS
By entering the location of your player into the helper, it will regularly check for the latest weather conditions and provide a wealth of this and other weather-related information straight into Acquire. You can then display the information natively in Acquire, or even show it on a Flash weather map, just like a TV station. Note you may need to inform weather.com about your use of the information commercially.
Coming soon for: Premier, DS
BackgroundMusic
Use your player to provide in-store music, optionally synchronized to the screen display.
Using the background Music Player pack, you are able to produce scheduled audio playlists which run in the background of your main presentation. At key points in either your audio playlist or your visual playlist, the two can synchronise together to create a bigger impact than either one alone.
Purchasable option with: Premier, DS
Using the background Music Player pack, you are able to produce scheduled audio playlists which run in the background of your main presentation. At key points in either your audio playlist or your visual playlist, the two can synchronise together to create a bigger impact than either one alone.
Purchasable option with: Premier, DS
Timed Trigger
Use external events to trigger playback of content.
Acquire has built-in controls for triggers from Serial, Keyboard and TCP-IP sources, and by using ACQs and helpers, a variety of other triggers can control the playlist. The normal playlist controls within Acquire are sequential – that is, each page is played in sequence only if it is allowed to play at that time of day/day of week/week of year, etc. The Timed Trigger helper allows you to schedule pages to display at EXACT scheduled times, overriding any currently playing content. This is ideal for if you have to show content at specific times, such as ‘on the hour news’.
Included with: Premier ; Purchasable option with: DS
Acquire has built-in controls for triggers from Serial, Keyboard and TCP-IP sources, and by using ACQs and helpers, a variety of other triggers can control the playlist. The normal playlist controls within Acquire are sequential – that is, each page is played in sequence only if it is allowed to play at that time of day/day of week/week of year, etc. The Timed Trigger helper allows you to schedule pages to display at EXACT scheduled times, overriding any currently playing content. This is ideal for if you have to show content at specific times, such as ‘on the hour news’.
Included with: Premier ; Purchasable option with: DS
ACQs : Small parts of Acquire, these plugins are selected to be used as part of pages or when the pages appear. These are typically visual ones (such as live video streams from the Internet or webcams, slideshows of content on a page, etc), although they can also be invisible (such as printing information, sending a Bluetooth message, etc).
Application Loader
Run a program.
This ACQ can be used to run an executable program when it is shown. It can be used to operate 3rd party programs which are then quit when the Acquire page times out. For example, it could be used to run provide controlled access to Email, Word Processor and other programs. The application loader can even load the correct default application for the filetype opened.
Included with: Premier, KD
This ACQ can be used to run an executable program when it is shown. It can be used to operate 3rd party programs which are then quit when the Acquire page times out. For example, it could be used to run provide controlled access to Email, Word Processor and other programs. The application loader can even load the correct default application for the filetype opened.
Included with: Premier, KD
Button
Create 2 state buttons.
Although Acquire allows you to convert any area of any piece of media into an interactive hotspot, the Button ACQ lets you create two-state (i.e. up and down state) areas, which can be simply a push button, an active/inactive button, or even a multiple choice button.
Included with: Premier, KD
Although Acquire allows you to convert any area of any piece of media into an interactive hotspot, the Button ACQ lets you create two-state (i.e. up and down state) areas, which can be simply a push button, an active/inactive button, or even a multiple choice button.
Included with: Premier, KD
Calendar
Enable the easy selection of dates.
An onscreen calendar provides your users with the ability to choose a specific date.
Included with: Premier, KD
An onscreen calendar provides your users with the ability to choose a specific date.
Included with: Premier, KD
Cashmech
Accept coins and notes.
Compatible with the Suzo coin interface, this allows Acquire to accept coins and notes and provides trigger events to allow for cash level met, pay-per-use, low cash and more. For example, this can be used to make an Acquire-powered kiosk to be pay-per use.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
Compatible with the Suzo coin interface, this allows Acquire to accept coins and notes and provides trigger events to allow for cash level met, pay-per-use, low cash and more. For example, this can be used to make an Acquire-powered kiosk to be pay-per use.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
CardReader
Accept card payments and read membership cards.
Compatible with the Magtek card reader, the information from the card can be read and used within Acquire.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
Compatible with the Magtek card reader, the information from the card can be read and used within Acquire.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
CardReader C&P
Accept card payments and authorize them using Chip and PIN.
Compatible with a range of card reading devices, this ACQ securely provides payment management, including unattended authorization of credit and debit cards in Acquire™. Note requires a service with your own unattended payment service (we can provide this if required through a pre-approved provider).
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
Compatible with a range of card reading devices, this ACQ securely provides payment management, including unattended authorization of credit and debit cards in Acquire™. Note requires a service with your own unattended payment service (we can provide this if required through a pre-approved provider).
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
CiY
Code It Yourself - A Powerful scripting engine built for Acquire.
One of the most powerful features of Acquire is it’s ability to do more than just show content, by the use of plugins such as ACQs and Helpers. The most powerful ACQ and Helper is the CiY plugins as they allow you to write your own programs (using Visual Basic Script or Java Script), changing the flow of Acquire’s scripts, variables an much more. This is similar to Microsoft’s Office Macro Scripting facility, but more powerful.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
One of the most powerful features of Acquire is it’s ability to do more than just show content, by the use of plugins such as ACQs and Helpers. The most powerful ACQ and Helper is the CiY plugins as they allow you to write your own programs (using Visual Basic Script or Java Script), changing the flow of Acquire’s scripts, variables an much more. This is similar to Microsoft’s Office Macro Scripting facility, but more powerful.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD, DS
CyberBrowser + WebPack
Display web pages and allow access to the Internet.
Based on Internet Explorer, this ACQ allows you to provide fast, secure internet access on your kiosk. You can set up black-lists that block users from browsing offensive content (it also stops file downloads) or lock down the browser to only allow them on the sites you want accessed. The interface is completely customisable and the WebPak includes a wide array of themes.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
Based on Internet Explorer, this ACQ allows you to provide fast, secure internet access on your kiosk. You can set up black-lists that block users from browsing offensive content (it also stops file downloads) or lock down the browser to only allow them on the sites you want accessed. The interface is completely customisable and the WebPak includes a wide array of themes.
Purchasable option with: Premier, KD
Excel Display
Display sections of Excel Spreadsheets.
Whether using a local or network share, the ACQ allows you to choose a spreadsheet file, then specify an area of the spreadsheet to display. A choice of display modes, including a raw table, and a variety of charts and graphs allow you to show information such as call centre information, school timetables, travel information and more.
Coming soon for: Premier, DS
Whether using a local or network share, the ACQ allows you to choose a spreadsheet file, then specify an area of the spreadsheet to display. A choice of display modes, including a raw table, and a variety of charts and graphs allow you to show information such as call centre information, school timetables, travel information and more.
Coming soon for: Premier, DS
Feedback
Captures and uploads feedback and questionnaire information.
By using the Feedback ACQ, you are able to transform your Acquire player system into a data capture device. Whether using it with members of the public, in your shop or office, or even at exhibitions, the feedback ACQ captures the information from your questions and questionnaires and uploads them securely to the Feedback servers. Here, the information is held secure, and transformed into a .CSV file which can easily be loaded into Microsoft Excel and may other database systems. Also, an optional service scans the supplied information and can automatically deliver SMS text messages or PDFs/Emails to the respondents for an instant ‘thank you’ or response to their question.
Included with: Premier, KD
By using the Feedback ACQ, you are able to transform your Acquire player system into a data capture device. Whether using it with members of the public, in your shop or office, or even at exhibitions, the feedback ACQ captures the information from your questions and questionnaires and uploads them securely to the Feedback servers. Here, the information is held secure, and transformed into a .CSV file which can easily be loaded into Microsoft Excel and may other database systems. Also, an optional service scans the supplied information and can automatically deliver SMS text messages or PDFs/Emails to the respondents for an instant ‘thank you’ or response to their question.
Included with: Premier, KD
Keyboard
Provide an on-screen keyboard.
Especially useful when transforming a digital sign into an interactive solution, or when a kiosk is not provided with a real keyboard, the Keyboard ACQ provides you with a variety of keyboards which can be shown whenever your presentation needs one. Our optional Keyboard designer allows you to create your own keyboards in your own style.
Included with: Premier, KD
Especially useful when transforming a digital sign into an interactive solution, or when a kiosk is not provided with a real keyboard, the Keyboard ACQ provides you with a variety of keyboards which can be shown whenever your presentation needs one. Our optional Keyboard designer allows you to create your own keyboards in your own style.
Included with: Premier, KD
Keycapture
Trigger page change events based upon keypresses.
Use keyboards or any other devices (e.g. pushbuttons) which provide a keypress to control your presentation.
Included with: Premier, KD ; Purchasable option with: DS.
Use keyboards or any other devices (e.g. pushbuttons) which provide a keypress to control your presentation.
Included with: Premier, KD ; Purchasable option with: DS.
LineInVolume
Adjust the player’s line in volume.
If you want to plug the Acquire Player into the same in-store audio broadcast system, you can feed the existing audio source into the player’s linein connection and use this ACQ to control the volume of it on each page to allow media in your presentation to supplement the existing audio source.
Inlcluded with: Premier, DS
If you want to plug the Acquire Player into the same in-store audio broadcast system, you can feed the existing audio source into the player’s linein connection and use this ACQ to control the volume of it on each page to allow media in your presentation to supplement the existing audio source.
Inlcluded with: Premier, DS
List Box
A simple drop down box.
If you wish to provide your users with a way of selecting from a number of pre-defined choices, you could just list them on the screen. However, users are used to seeing a listbox (sometimes known as a ‘drop down’ box’) such as when filling out website forms.
Inlcluded with: Premier, KD
If you wish to provide your users with a way of selecting from a number of pre-defined choices, you could just list them on the screen. However, users are used to seeing a listbox (sometimes known as a ‘drop down’ box’) such as when filling out website forms.
Inlcluded with: Premier, KD
LiveMedia
Display live streaming video or audio streams from the Internet.
Ideal for showing live events, television, webcam, radio, and other streaming sources, this ACQ will display any Windows Media compliant video or audio stream in your presentation.
Included with: Premier, DS
Ideal for showing live events, television, webcam, radio, and other streaming sources, this ACQ will display any Windows Media compliant video or audio stream in your presentation.
Included with: Premier, DS
Memo
If you want your users to type in a lot of information, the Memo ACQ allows them to do this.
Included with: Premier, KD
OLE Connect
Display live information from a database.
Using simple SQL commands, this ACQ connects to your ODBC-compliant data source and presents the information in a variety of display modes, including a raw table, and a variety of charts and graphs allow you to show information such as product information, travel information and more. The results can be used to control Acquire™ variables to enable exciting interfaces to display the information.
Included with: Premier ; Purchasable option with: KD, DS
Using simple SQL commands, this ACQ connects to your ODBC-compliant data source and presents the information in a variety of display modes, including a raw table, and a variety of charts and graphs allow you to show information such as product information, travel information and more. The results can be used to control Acquire™ variables to enable exciting interfaces to display the information.
Included with: Premier ; Purchasable option with: KD, DS
Printer
Output information and images to a printer.
Using style-sheets as templates (like CSS used in web sites), the Printer ACQ provides you with a method to print out information from within Acquire. This can be used to print information, receipts, vouchers, and more.
Included with: Premier, KD
Using style-sheets as templates (like CSS used in web sites), the Printer ACQ provides you with a method to print out information from within Acquire. This can be used to print information, receipts, vouchers, and more.
Included with: Premier, KD
Progress Bar
A nice way to show percentages.
If you are using Acquire to do something which may be time consuming (such as printing or writing a CD-ROM or copying files to a USB pendrive), it is a good idea to show a progress bar so that the (often impatient) users know how much longer to wait.
Included with: Premier, KD
If you are using Acquire to do something which may be time consuming (such as printing or writing a CD-ROM or copying files to a USB pendrive), it is a good idea to show a progress bar so that the (often impatient) users know how much longer to wait.
Included with: Premier, KD
Powerpoint
Display your MS Powerpoint presentations.
One of the often requested features is whether Acquire can playback Powerpoint (see Associated Quicklink for more information and other ways to play Powerpoint). The Powerpoint ACQ is the most powerful method as it allows complete interaction with the Powerpoint presentation. Note that it requires the Powerpoint program to be installed on the player units. If you just want to play back a Powerpoint presentation, use one of the other methods listed here.
CIncluded with: Premier, DS
One of the often requested features is whether Acquire can playback Powerpoint (see Associated Quicklink for more information and other ways to play Powerpoint). The Powerpoint ACQ is the most powerful method as it allows complete interaction with the Powerpoint presentation. Note that it requires the Powerpoint program to be installed on the player units. If you just want to play back a Powerpoint presentation, use one of the other methods listed here.
CIncluded with: Premier, DS
Screensleep
Turn off your monitors/screens without using serial ports.
By scheduling a page containing this ACQ, your screens and monitors will go into ‘sleep’ mode, effectively reducing their power usage, whilst leaving the players powered up to allow deployments and remote support to occur. This has the extra advantage that whilst nothing is ‘playing’, the processor and hard drive will cool down and will effectively lengthen the life of your equipment, as well as the post-playout reporting will show this page playing overnight instead of normal content, so more realistic playout figures will be shown.
Included with: Solo, Premier, KD, DS
By scheduling a page containing this ACQ, your screens and monitors will go into ‘sleep’ mode, effectively reducing their power usage, whilst leaving the players powered up to allow deployments and remote support to occur. This has the extra advantage that whilst nothing is ‘playing’, the processor and hard drive will cool down and will effectively lengthen the life of your equipment, as well as the post-playout reporting will show this page playing overnight instead of normal content, so more realistic playout figures will be shown.
Included with: Solo, Premier, KD, DS
Serial
Communicate to devices connected on the RS232 port.
Although not as popular since the introduction of USB ports, RS232 is actually still used by many USB devices, as they create a virtual COM port on your player when you install their drivers. These devices can be controlled using the Serial ACQ. Devices such as LCD/Plasma screens, lighting controllers, access control devices and more can be controlled using this ACQ.
Included with: Premier, KD, DS
Although not as popular since the introduction of USB ports, RS232 is actually still used by many USB devices, as they create a virtual COM port on your player when you install their drivers. These devices can be controlled using the Serial ACQ. Devices such as LCD/Plasma screens, lighting controllers, access control devices and more can be controlled using this ACQ.
Included with: Premier, KD, DS
Slider
Allows user to "slide to select" a value.
When allowing your users to choose a limited value, you can allow them to touch the screen to move a sliding control to make their choice rather than just typing a value into a box.
Included with: Premier, DS
When allowing your users to choose a limited value, you can allow them to touch the screen to move a sliding control to make their choice rather than just typing a value into a box.
Included with: Premier, DS
Slideshow
Display a sequence of media items on a single Acquire page.
Acquire usually displays the content a screen-full at a time. The Slideshow ACQ allows you to choose a series of pieces of media to display in part of your page, even transparent ones. The media in this ‘mini playlist’ can even have simple scheduling defined so that it plays at appropriate time, and using the ‘seamless’ mode, the slideshow can continue seamlessly across multiple pages.
Included with: Premier, DS
Acquire usually displays the content a screen-full at a time. The Slideshow ACQ allows you to choose a series of pieces of media to display in part of your page, even transparent ones. The media in this ‘mini playlist’ can even have simple scheduling defined so that it plays at appropriate time, and using the ‘seamless’ mode, the slideshow can continue seamlessly across multiple pages.
Included with: Premier, DS
TextAnimate
Animate your text.
Rather than using Acquire’s normal text display tools, the TextAnimate ACQ provides a variety of animations to make your text look more attractive and interesting.
Coming soon for: Premier, KD, DS
Rather than using Acquire’s normal text display tools, the TextAnimate ACQ provides a variety of animations to make your text look more attractive and interesting.
Coming soon for: Premier, KD, DS
TouchFlo
Animated selection.
TouchFlo is one of the new graphically intensive ACQs. Rather like the Apple iPhone’s Coverflow© functionality, TouchFlo provides a touchscreen enabled selection tool which users simply drag until their chosen item is shown and then tap the item to select it. You can also choose to use it without touchscreen access if you prefer to use it as an image slideshow.
Included with: Premier, KD, DS
TouchFlo is one of the new graphically intensive ACQs. Rather like the Apple iPhone’s Coverflow© functionality, TouchFlo provides a touchscreen enabled selection tool which users simply drag until their chosen item is shown and then tap the item to select it. You can also choose to use it without touchscreen access if you prefer to use it as an image slideshow.
Included with: Premier, KD, DS
TV
Show a live TV picture as part of your presentation.
Using a freeview TV capture device, this ACQ allows you to tune into a specific TV channel and display it in Acquire.
Coming soon for: Premier, DS
Using a freeview TV capture device, this ACQ allows you to tune into a specific TV channel and display it in Acquire.
Coming soon for: Premier, DS
Video Source
Show a live feed from Webcam or external video device.
If a compatible video device is used (webcam, video capture device), the view from the webcam or from the other device, such as a satellite TV or video player can be shown.
Free download for: Premier, DS
If a compatible video device is used (webcam, video capture device), the view from the webcam or from the other device, such as a satellite TV or video player can be shown.
Free download for: Premier, DS
Web-Based services
Acquire’s powerful technology can be controlled in a number of ways, and the use of external triggers, events, playlists, content approvals and more can be achieved via secure websites which control how the players operate and playback the content you have designed in the editor.
Below are some of the plugins we have available. Please contact us if you have a specific requirement which is not covered here and if we haven’t got it, we can probably develop it for you quickly and at a fraction of the cost of developing it yourself.
Online management system Developed in conjunction with Delivering Digital, our online management system provides users with a simple to use web-based interface for managing their playlists and creating messages, either globally across their network, or on a site-specific basis. For a small monthly fee, the system is fully configurable, and secured by individual users logins. The system allows relatively untrained staff to control the presentation on their screens in a matter of minutes, with no need for an editor at each site. We can even develop specific user interfaces for you to provide your own branded network control interface.
MyMessage
Mymessage is a very simple messaging service to allow your site owners to create their own RSS feeds which can be used in their presentations. Without having to train or learn how to use the Acquire editor or other tools, your customers can simply login to a website and type in the messages and information (with images and other content) they want to display in the layouts you have designed and at the times you have predetermined. The service can be branded to your own style.
All web based services are provided for an additional fee.