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Scala, Inc is a producer of multimedia software. Founded in 1987, Scala is headquartered near Philadelphia, Pa., and has subsidiaries in The Netherlands, France, Norway, Germany, Japan and India, as well as more than 500 partners in more than 90 countries. Driving more than 500,000 screens worldwide, The Company's multimedia software platform powers the digital signage networks of Rabobank, IKEA, Bloomberg Television, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin Megastores, Disneyland Resort Paris, McDonald's, Warner Bros., Shell, Esso, Ericsson, The Life Channel, and IBC-13.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company Showcase - Scala )〕 In February 1999, Scala was nominated by Animation Magazine to be amongst the 13 best companies of 2D software manufacturers. == History == In 1987 a young Norwegian entrepreneur, Jon Bøhmer founded the company "Digital Visjon" in Brumunddal, Norway to create multimedia software on the Commodore Amiga computer platform. In 1988 they released their first product which was named InfoChannel 0.97L, which had hotels and cable-TV companies as their first customers. They quickly started exporting to a newly formed subsidiaries in Denmark, Holland, UK and Sweden. In 1990, they redesigned the program with a new graphical user interface. They renamed the company and the software "Scala" and released a number of multimedia applications. The company attracted investors, mainly from Norway and incorporated in the US in 1994 and is now based in the United States with their European headquarters located in the Netherlands. The name "Scala" was given by Bøhmer and designer Bjørn Rybakken and represents the scales in colors, tones and the opera in Milano. The name inspired a live actor animation made by Bøhmer and Rybakken using an Amiga, a video camera and a frame-by-frame video digitizer. The animation, named "Lo scalatore" (Italian for 'The Climber'), featured a magic trick of Indian fakirs of a man climbing a ladder and disappearing in the air.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Amiga Animations - LoScalatore )〕 This animation was then included into one of the Demo Disks of Scala Multimedia in order to show the capabilities of that presentation software in loading and playing animations whilst also manipulating it with other features of the software. In 1994 Scala released Multimedia MM400 and InfoChannel 500. InfoChannel was already in 1989 one of the first applications that could control the distribution of multimedia in a computer network (running at 1200 baud initially). This completely changed the way people used this type of software by allowing control of large TV channel networks with content and advertising from a central location. In 1996, due to the bankruptcy of Commodore, Inc, Scala left the Amiga platform and started delivering the same applications under MS-DOS. Scala Multimedia MM100, Scala Multimedia Publisher and Scala InfoChannel 100 were released for the x86 platform. Scala MM100 won Byte Magazine's "Best of Comdex" in 1996. The flexibility of the Scala software enabled a wide range of uses, from information channels in cable TV, hotels and public spaces, a video titling application and a complete multimedia authoring suite, and is used for interactive video TV, presentations, digital signage, and streaming TV into large LAN and WAN, such as information monitor installations and video walls in airports or stations. Scala software provides a complete suite for corporate television and is currently being used by Ericsson in the UK. Scala was a popular application for video titling in TV stations worldwide in the 1990s. Amongst its notable users were large broadcasting companies such as CNN, BBC, RAI TV, IBC and many others. Today Scala is the world's largest provider of software for digital sign networks worldwide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scala (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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