ENSEO POWERS SUPER BOWL AND DIGITAL SIGNAGE FOR STADIUM MANAGERS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL SEMINAR
Digital Media Players Display Live Game and Sponsor Messages
Richardson, TX, February 22, 2012 – Enseo digital media players displayed the Super Bowl along with sponsor messages at the 2012 Stadium Managers Association (SMA) Annual Seminar in Palm Springs, CA. The seminar’s kick-off event, held on Super Bowl Sunday, included stadium managers from professional and collegiate stadiums from across the country.
Enseo digital media players displayed the live game in HD on nine Panasonic plasma displays, including eight 50” displays and an 85” display, a 55” Ciil outdoor display, and an HD projector, utilizing the existing coax network. Peerless-AV provided multiple display carts, allowing screens to be moved with ease and placed in strategic locations around Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Palm Springs. Using Author, Enseo’s digital signage layout software, sponsor messages were overlaid onto the live feed of the Super Bowl in an L-Bar format. Viewers enjoyed the game without interruption while seminar sponsors received continuous exposure throughout football’s biggest event of the year.
Rick Nafe, Annual SMA Seminar Chair and VP Operations of Tampa Bay Rays noted, “I heard a lot of comments from long-time attendees of our meeting about how professional the entire production was, from stage set-up to Super Bowl viewing. Clearly, our look was the best ever…and I thought it was just me.”
Enseo technology was also used to provide digital signage during conference meetings. Schedules, meeting locations, and sponsor messages rotated on-screen over stored video for eye-catching signage in key locations such as registration and outside meeting rooms.
“Enseo’s professionalism and attention to detail in everything from evaluating the space to helping determine technology partners that would best meet the needs of our event space exceeded my expectations as a staff member and made it easy for implementation on site,” commented Kate Banasiak, SMA Director.
Enseo’s success in the sports industry stems from equipment flexibility. Compatible with coax cabling or an IP network, Enseo digital media players leverage existing infrastructure, allowing venues to provide an updated entertainment experience while often saving hundreds of thousands of dollars on infrastructure upgrades. Enseo’s open platform also allows integration partners to apply their own software solutions to the media player, creating unique, location-specific media solutions.
About Enseo
Enseo is a provider of in-suite entertainment and digital signage for stadiums and arenas, and is also a leader in hospitality, healthcare, and digital cinema solutions. The company’s flexible technology displays virtually any media, on any display, through any distribution medium. With an installed base of more than 450,000 digital media players and set-top boxes, Enseo is preferred by North America’s largest digital signage networks and hotel groups. For more information, visit www.enseo.com
About SMA
SMA is dedicated exclusively to stadium operations and promotes professional, efficient and state-of-the-art management of stadiums around the world. Members are administrators and operations personnel from teams, colleges and universities, facility managers and public sports authorities, and suppliers to the industry. It is a member driven organization where stadium managers and vendors collaborate on issues and solutions that enhance the safety, profitability, and service of their facilities. For more information, visit www.stadiummanagers.org.
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DAYNA L. KULLY, INDUSTRY VETERAN, JOINS ENSEO AS VP HOSPITALITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Richardson, TX, February 14, 2012 – Enseo, a provider of in-room entertainment and digital signage in hospitality, healthcare, stadiums and arenas, formally announces the addition of Dayna L. Kully as the new Vice President, Hospitality Business Development.
Most recently with Corning® MobileAccess, Ms. Kully joins the Enseo team with 30 years of experience in sales, channel development, marketing and senior level management, specializing in telecommunications technology for the hospitality and healthcare markets.
“We are excited for Ms. Kully to reinforce Enseo’s excellent track record in hospitality, and look forward to her strengthening current partnerships as well as developing new ones,” said Vanessa Ogle, President and CEO of Enseo. “We’re coming off of an incredibly successful year and, with our new product line-up, are anticipating continued growth in 2012.”
In 2011, Enseo’s 1.7 million room-strong hospitality footprint grew with product installations in 50,000 La Quinta Inns & Suites® rooms nationwide. In addition, Enseo product is in half of the “10 Most Anticipated Hotel Openings of 2012” according to Forbes.
About Enseo
Enseo is a provider of digital media solutions for hospitality, digital signage, and stadiums and arenas. The company’s flexible technology displays virtually any media, on any display, through any distribution medium. With an installed base of more than 450,000 set-top boxes and digital media players, Enseo is preferred by North America’s largest hotel groups and digital signage retail networks. For more information, visit www.enseo.com.
ENSEO CASSINI® INSTALLED AT MARLINS PARK
Over 500 Digital Media Players Utilized for Venue Entertainment
Richardson, TX, February 3, 2012 – The Miami Marlins will utilize Enseo’s digital media players for the entertainment system at Marlins Park, providing fans with displays in hundreds of areas around the 17-acre venue. Enseo’s hardware will combine high definition video and graphics to display the live game, statistics and sponsor messages.
Enseo’s Cassini digital media player has been selected for the ballpark. Used in conjunction with the new Show Control system from Daktronics, the Cassini combines innovative content on all displays in the ballpark simultaneously and customizes different groups of displays for different use.
“We are excited to partner with Daktronics on another ballpark,” commented James Miller, Enseo VP Product Marketing. “The combination of our technologies provides a cutting-edge solution that is sure to keep fans entertained and the ballpark operating efficiently.”
The $515 Million ballpark, set to open in April 2012, includes 37,000 seats and a variety of suite options, with in-suite entertainment powered by Enseo. The Founders and Legends suites, located behind home plate, feature four flat-panel displays including a 63” and 46” screen. Other highlights of the ballpark include a view of Miami’s skyline, a retractable roof, and air conditioning.
About Enseo
Enseo is a provider of digital media solutions for stadiums and arenas, digital signage, hospitality, healthcare, and digital cinema. The company’s flexible technology displays virtually any media, on any display, through any distribution medium. With an installed base of more than 450,000 set-top boxes and digital media players, Enseo is preferred by North America’s largest digital signage retail networks and hotel groups. For more information, visit www.enseo.com.
About Marlins Park
Marlins Park is a state-of-the-art retractable roof ballpark located in the heart of Miami, on the historic Orange Bowl site. The ballpark features unobstructed views of Miami’s skyline made possible by six operable glass panels and a capacity of 37,000. Conceived as an abstraction of “water merging with land” symbolic of Miami’s coastal landscape, Marlins Park offers fans the most incredible baseball experience where beauty and baseball merge. The ballpark will celebrate Opening Day on April 4, 2012 and will host a wide variety of events throughout the entire calendar year.
About Daktronics
Daktronics has strong leadership positions in, and is one of the world’s largest suppliers of, electronic scoreboards, computer-programmable displays, digital billboards, large screen video displays and control systems. Daktronics designs, manufactures, markets and services display systems for customers around the world, in sport, business and transportation applications. For more information, visit the company’s World Wide Web site at: http://www.daktronics.com.
DALLAS BUSINESS JOURNAL HONORS VANESSA OGLE FOR LEADERSHIP
Enseo CEO Is a 2012 Minority Business Leader
Richardson, TX, January 23, 2012 – Vanessa Ogle, President and CEO of Enseo, Inc., has been recognized by Dallas Business Journal as a 2012 Minority Business Leader. Each year publication editors select leaders who are influential in their companies, industries and communities. This year, 27 people in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex were selected.
Honorees will be celebrated at a luncheon on February 16, 2012, at the Dallas Hyatt Regency.
Ogle founded Enseo in 2000 and through her leadership it has grown to be the preferred digital media solutions provider for North America’s leading hospitality groups and largest digital signage networks.
About Enseo
Enseo, Inc. provides digital media solutions for hospitality, digital signage, digital cinema, and stadiums and arenas. Enseo’s technology can combine and display virtually any media, on any display, through any distribution medium. Preferred by North America’s largest hotel groups and digital signage networks, Enseo has a proven record of success. For more information, visit www.enseo.com.
ENSEO MEDIA PLAYERS USED BY CERNER® FOR PATIENT ENTERTAINMENT
HD5000® Located in 500 Hospital Rooms
Richardson, TX, December 22, 2011 – Enseo digital media players are currently being utilized in Cerner’s CareAware myStation™, an interactive patient interface used to educate, inform and entertain hospital patients.
Enseo’s HD5000 is located in approximately 500 hospital rooms supported by Cerner, including rooms at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® in TN, Agnesian Healthcare in WI, Southwest Regional Medical Center in MI, and Middlesex Hospital in CT. The HD5000 provided Cerner with the necessary foundation to build myStation’s custom application. Enseo was chosen based on the long term reliability and advanced product features. Enseo’s digital media players are compatible with more than 300 displays by the world’s leading TV manufactures.
Enseo’s HD5000 combines broadcast, stored and IP-streamed video along with graphics and text. This enables myStation to entertain patients with TV programming and movies on-demand, educate patients on medications or a specific diagnosis, and inform patients of schedules and hospital services. The HD5000 is also compatible with myStation’s pillow speaker, which helps patients easily navigate through the interface from hospital beds.
“The use of Enseo’s technology for Cerner’s application demonstrates our products’ flexibility,” commented Kris Stafford, Director of Business Development. “Our application programming interface (API) is designed in such a way that applications can easily be implemented on Enseo’s digital media players, giving integrators and OEM customers full control of their systems.”
Enseo is thrilled to have an integration partner as innovative and committed to healthcare as Cerner. For more information on Cerner’s myStation, visit www.cerner.com/careaware.
About Enseo
Enseo, Inc. provides digital media solutions for healthcare, digital signage, hospitality, and stadiums and arenas. Enseo’s technology can combine and display virtually any media, on any display, through any distribution medium. Preferred by North America’s largest hotel groups and digital signage networks, Enseo has a proven record of success. For more information, visit www.enseo.com.
ENSEO TECHNOLOGY CHOSEN FOR LA QUINTA INNS & SUITES® IN-ROOM ENTERTAINMENT
La Quinta Innovates Guest Experience in 50,000 Rooms
Richardson, TX, December 13, 2011 – Enseo, Inc., a leader in hospitality digital media solutions, was chosen to provide HD set-top boxes for 50,000 La Quinta Inns & Suites rooms nationwide as part of an in-room entertainment upgrade. Enseo’s HD3000® set-top box, located in every room, enables a La Quinta branded welcome channel and interactive program guide (guide provided by GuestTek™).
Enseo offers this fully interactive guest experience with one-way coax cabling and no need for expensive back-channel equipment.
With this upgrade, La Quinta now has a high-end, hotel-branded interface featuring a welcome to the guest each time the TV is turned on. To allow guests to easily find their favorite shows while traveling to different cities, there is an interactive program guide. In addition, instant program information is available with each channel change.
Of the 37 free-to-guest channels La Quinta is providing to guests, 30 are HD. The in-room entertainment upgrade also includes selectable mood themes, giving guests the opportunity to personalize their rooms with attractive and soothing audio and video selections.
“La Quinta and Blackstone are pioneering interactive TV and are ahead of most hotel groups,” said Vanessa Ogle, President and CEO of Enseo. “This upgrade has differentiated the brand in the hospitality industry. Guests have a more user-friendly TV-viewing experience and La Quinta has a direct marketing channel into each guest room. La Quinta has set the bar for an exciting and cost effective in-room TV experience.”
Partners in the project include GuestTek for content and integration services and Samsung® for displays. Installation in corporately-owned La Quinta properties is complete, and installation in franchise locations is expected to be complete by the end of 2012.
About Enseo
Enseo, Inc. provides digital media solutions for hospitality, digital signage, digital cinema, and stadiums and arenas. Enseo’s technology can combine and display virtually any media, on any display, through any distribution medium. Preferred by North America’s largest hotel groups and digital signage networks, Enseo has a proven record of success. For more information, visit www.enseo.com.
ENSEO’S CUSTOM DVD PLAYER DELIVERS EARLY-WINDOW MOVIES TO U.S. NAVY
Technology Meets Security Requirements, Provides Better-Quality Entertainment
Richardson, TX, October 10, 2011 - Enseo, Inc., a provider of digital media solutions, has developed a custom DVD player for the U.S. Navy, enabling the distribution of early-window movies, Hollywood films available soon after theatrical release and prior to access by the general public, to armed forces, federal employees, and their families worldwide. The Navy Encrypted DVD (NDVD) Player provides high-quality, digital content, as well as necessary content protection, and will be installed in approximately 800 locations in more than 70 countries.
The Navy Motion Picture Service (NMPS), responsible for Navy Fleet morale, sought a solution more advanced than the previously installed tape-based system, but that would also meet the many security requirements for digital content. "When our servicemen and women are deployed, they typically want three things: Internet access, fitness equipment, and movies," explained Ron Rossman, NMPS head. "Our goal is to meet their needs, and provide them with the best amenities possible while they are serving our country."
Selected by NMPS, Enseo designed a custom product with a multi-pronged approach to content protection to enable better-quality movies for troops.
- To avoid duplication, all DVDs are encrypted and can only be played on the NDVD Player.
- In order to adhere to studio license terms, DVDs are embedded with an expiration date, integrating license terms into the technology.
- In the event that a movie is recorded with a hand-held device, the recording is imprinted with a digital watermark and can be linked backed to the specific NDVD unit, as well as the time it was played.
With Enseo's technology solutions in place to protect content, NMPS is able to distribute 16 DVDs per month to 800 customer sites, including the Navy Fleet, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, NOAA, Department of State, and the Military Sealift Command. Customer sites can maintain a library of movies up to studio license terms. That library reaches almost 200 movies after one year and just under 800 movies after a four-year period.
"I am proud for Enseo to have the opportunity to apply our unique industry expertise in digital video and content protection to entertaining the troops of the United States military," said Vanessa Ogle, CEO of Enseo. "The men and women serving our country around the world deserve the best."
The NDVD Player technology also increases the efficiency of the NMPS distribution center. 14,000-15,000 tapes are mailed monthly to all NMPS customers worldwide, and then returned to the NMPS distribution center for destruction, requiring time-consuming staff processing. Digital content protection means nothing has to be returned, creating a more efficient system for processing.
Prepared for technology advancements, Enseo also provided plans for a shipboard server-based system. This updated system will help to reduce the number of sailors required to operate the shipboards distriduted broadcast operation. Larger ships, such as Carriers, have up to 5,000 active servicemen and women on board and operate 24-hour broadcasts. A server-based system will significantly reduce the operation burden
The NDVD Player has been distributed to all shore locations, and will be installed in all shipboard locations by December 2012.
INFOVALUE AND ENSEO PARTNER ON INTEGRATED IP VIDEO SET-TOP BOX
June 22, 2011
InfoValue Computing, Inc. (InfoValue), experts in providing innovative, interactive IPTV platforms and solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Enseo, Inc. for providing IP-based HD television, HD Video-On-Demand (VOD), and full-featured service portals for the hospitality markets.
The partnership between InfoValue and Enseo recently resulted in a 1300 room hotel deployment in downtown Philadelphia. The system utilizes InfoValue’s SuiteTV solution with the Enseo HD3000 IP set-top box. The head-end features a full IP HD channel lineup with over 50 channels of free-to-guest programming and a complete selection of new release HD VOD Hollywood movies.
“We are delighted to culminate our Enseo integration efforts with such a high-profile deployment. Guests can now enjoy HD digital quality IPTV channels and interact with the hotel-branded service portal of SuiteTV,” said Aubrey Flanagan, vice president of business development at InfoValue. “Enseo’s HD3000 provides the capability for SuiteTV to deliver Internet news, weather, radio, and local flight schedules all from the comfort of the guest room via a simple user interface to the TV. Based on the tremendous feedback, we look forward to expanding the deployment footprint of this integrated IPTV solution.”
InfoValue SuiteTV is a leading edge IPTV solution tailored specifically for the hospitality industry. InfoValue SuiteTV offers personalized guest services ranging from high-quality HDTV VOD to network-based personal video recording (nPVR) and time-shifted television (TSTV). By leveraging the award-winning InfoValue QuickVideo™ platform, InfoValue SuiteTV is uniquely positioned to support hotels to incorporate “quadruple play” services — delivery of TV, video, voice, and data — into their own service and information portal over the converged IP network infrastructure to simultaneously generate new revenues, increase occupancy rates, and reduce operational expenses.
More about InfoValue is available at www.infovalue.com.
About InfoValue
Founded in 1994 and experts in providing comprehensive IPTV platforms and solutions, InfoValue is recognized for innovations and advances in IPTV technology that has set the pace in performance, scalability and intelligence. InfoValue QuickVideo™ IPTV platform is based on a standards-compliant, open architecture that is optimized with innovative, patented technologies. InfoValue QuickVideo, which is currently being used by telecommunication carriers, corporations, governments, educational institutions, hospitality providers, and broadcasters around the world, offers interactive video-on-demand and video multicast capabilities, as well as integrated video indexing, distributed video caching, server clustering, and video service management capabilities. InfoValue delivers turnkey IPTV solutions for specific industries, including InfoValue SuiteTV for hospitality, InfoValue BizTV for training and communications, and InfoValue NextGenTV for residential. InfoValue's corporate headquarters is located at 4 Westchester Plaza, Elmsford, NY 10523. More information on InfoValue and its products and services is available at www.infovalue.com, via e-mail at info(at)infovalue(dot)com, or by phone at (914) 345-5980.
About Enseo
Enseo is the preferred digital media solution for North America’s largest hotel groups and digital signage networks. Enseo’s flexible technology displays virtually any media, on any display, through any distribution medium. This includes IP streaming, RF tuning, and live web content. Enseo’s products are compatible with a wide range of content and application providers, integrators, and TV manufactures, providing unlimited vendor choices. With more than 450,000 set-top boxes and digital media players deployed, Enseo has a proven record of success. For more information, visit www.enseo.com.
ENSEO RECEIVES SEVEN AWARDS
DiversityBusiness.com Recognizes Enseo for Excellence
Richardson, TX, April 6, 2011 – Enseo, Inc., the preferred digital media solution for North America’s largest hospitality and digital signage networks, received seven awards from DiversityBusiness.com, including Top 100 Privately-held Businesses in Texas, and Top 500 Women Owned Businesses in the U.S.
“Each year we continue to create exceptional products that are reliable, effective, and that meet our customers’ needs,” commented Vanessa Ogle, Enseo’s CEO and president. “I’m honored that DiversityBusiness.com has recognized our success and leadership.”
Enseo also received several awards from DiversityBusiness.com in 2010 and 2009. DiversityBusiness.com annually compiles the ‘Top Business List’ on a State and National basis in order to determine the top businesses and most successful entrepreneurs across the United States.
ENSEO TO SHOWCASE LATEST MEDIA PLAYER AT DSE 2011
The Cassini 5000 Provides Unmatched Power and Performance for Digital Signage Networks
Richardson, TX ,February 21, 2011 – Enseo, Inc., the preferred media player platform for leading digital signage providers, continues to innovate with the development of the Cassini 5000, which will be displayed at this year’s Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas, NV, February 23 and 24. A powerful, embedded Linux platform, the Cassini 5000 outperforms the competition with both speed and flexibility.
This store and forward media player combines IP streaming with RF tuning, supports both standard and high definition content, provides up to 1080p resolution, and is compatible with more than 350 displays, making it an ideal hardware choice for a variety of digital signage needs.
In addition to reliable hardware, Enseo provides Author, a user-friendly and intuitive software interface. Author can combine broadcast, live television, IP streamed and stored video, web site content, graphics, text and more, allowing custom digital signage development that can be designed and managed by the end-user.
Other highlights of the Cassini 5000 include an embedded Opera browser, digital audio and optional WiFi support. Enseo’s unified hardware and software platform has a proven track record of reliability, speed and performance for robust digital signage networks.
