New Daylight Saving Time rules are in effect for this year with the beginning of DST starting one week earlier than normal. We have created a document to assist you with the changes for this year. To download a copy please click on the link below or visit our customer Forum and check Announcements.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new Regional Managers in our Sales Department. Tom Carey has joined us as the East Region Manager and Bill Dirkes is our new West Region Manager.

Tom's background includes experience in sales, logistics and operations in various technology positions including most recently the commercial satellite uplink industry and digital signage. Bill's background includes high tech sales experience in storage and various custom and enterprise level software solutions. Together they bring a combined 40+ years experience in sales, operations, logistics and technology to our company.

Two new Systems Specialists have joined our Field Service Group. They are Gary Lesikar and Jack Munday. Their background includes experience in all forms of computer and server technology as well as operations, installation and customer service.

There's a lot of buzz about our new FireBird Server. This unique product provides a very feature-rich solution for playback, channel signage, digital signage, welcome channels and more.

FireBird's unique software decoders playback MPEG2, DV and Windows Media files and incorporate Informa Graphics capabilities to provide "rich media" integrated with video.

Applications include cable channel playback, digital signage for public and commercial applications, arena TV management for commercials and video, Welcome Channels, Employee Channels and much more.

For more information on our FireBird Multi-format Server please contact Bill or Tom or give one of our Business Partners a call. For a list of Authorized Business Partners please visit our web site.

Are you using Final Cut Pro to output MPEG2 files to play on your Synergy Broadcast Servers? If so we would like to hear about your successes and problems. We have some customers who are doing this very successfully and others who are experiencing some problems. Please use the User Group Forum to tell us about what you are doing, what's working and what types of problems you are having so we can work together to find some solutions.

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