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| February 6, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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for Westgate Resorts Family |
 NASHVILLE, TN – Westgate Resorts has recently employed Musitech, a systems integration company, to utilize Adtec Digital and MagicBox products as a solution for the resort family’s activities channel.
Adtec’s edje-DVD, a hard drive based digital video player, and MagicBox’s Aavelin RT, a digital signage and video message system, are connected to a TCP/IP network allowing the playback of MPEG clips, advertisements and video presentations. “We were faced with the problem of using company time to drive around to each individual hotel in order to load our original video content onto each hotel system,” Westgate’s Video Production Technician, Dario Guzman, said. “Now I’m not required to leave my office to load or change the content for the activities channel.” The Adtec and MagicBox solution not only enables quality video with graphics and crawl lines, but in addition, changes are made via a network. “It became a huge ordeal to make changes so changes were only made every couple of months,” Musitech’s, Account Manager, Eve Hinds said. “Because of Adtec and MagicBox’s products, Westgate can make changes instantly and as often as they wish. There is even an option to schedule content for future playback dates.” 
Westgate’s activity channel features resort information including pool hours, restaurant menus, upcoming shows and weather forecasts.
“The channel is a direct information source for our guests because it is broadcast on every television on resort property,” Guzman said. “Before the Adtec and MagicBox solution, our guests were not informed in as timely a fashion of the resort’s offerings and special events as they are today with the new resort information channel. We can keep them informed of daily, weekly and monthly offerings as many of our guests are in fact owners, who are with us from anywhere from one to four weeks at a time.” Adtec and MagicBox’s products have a history of compatibility, suiting various digital video applications. “We chose to utilize Adtec’s edje-DVD and MagicBox’s Aavelin for Westgate because original content can be loaded from once central location in Orlando to any/all remote sites. In addition, the property channel now includes MPEG video and graphic content,” Hinds said. “We felt as though the Adtec and MagicBox solution was the smart choice.” Westgate Resorts, one of the pioneers of luxury timeshare development, is the vacation home for more than 250,000 owners around the world. The company’s portfolio of 16 luxury resorts include seven resorts in central Florida, as well as resorts in Miami Beach, Fla., Daytona Beach, Fla., River Ranch, Fla., Park City, Utah, Gatlinburg, Tenn., Las Vegas, Nev., and Williamsburg, Va. With annual revenues of over $400 million and more than 7,000 employees nationwide, Westgate Resorts is the largest independent timeshare developer in the world and the third largest timeshare developer in the industry. For more information about Westgate Resorts, please visit www.westgateresorts.com. Musitech has been providing music, systems, technology products and services to businesses and consumers worldwide for over ten years. For more information about Musitech, visit www.musitech.net. MagicBox is a leading manufacturer of character generators used for video messaging in cable television, closed circuit television systems and digital signage applications. For more information about MagicBox and their products, go to www.magicboxinc.com. Adtec Digital is a world-leading manufacturer of professional MPEG-2 based solutions including decoders, encoders, multiplexers, single channel commercial insertion controllers and digital cable headends. For more information on Adtec and their products, visit www.adtecinc.com. |
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