MINNEAPOLIS — Rimage Corporation (Nasdaq:RIMG) is demonstrating its universal in-store disc publisher solution that simultaneously supports a nearly unlimited quantity and variety of retail kiosks at the Photo Marketing Association show 2005. The PMA show will be held Feb. 20-23 in Orlando.
Rimage's universal CD/DVD publisher system provides a unified interface supporting any new type of input kiosk, including photo CD, audio CD, home video DVD conversion, photo DVD and commercial software distribution, according to a news release. As these markets converge, the same disc publishing platform that delivers professional-quality photos on disc today will be the back-end for tomorrow's multi-content digital retailing system.
In the PMA 2005 booth, the Rimage universal CD/DVD disc publisher will simultaneously create custom photo discs, music-on-demand discs and DVDs made from the automated transfer of film, memory cards and digital video.
Manny Almeida, executive vice president, said, "The Rimage system is ideal for in-store digital retailing for two reasons. Our hardware has been retail-hardened and our software is completely accessible and modular. The content providers create their kiosks, which submit their own special disc publishing jobs without needing any information on any other system or job."
The growing trend for content consolidation not only serves to expand highly profitable business for retailers, it also leverages existing back-end disc publishers and requires only the space needed for the customer-facing kiosks.
