The ChyTV Group ChyTV Video Graphics Information Display ChyAlert Video Emergency Alert System ChyAlert 2 Channel Video Emergency Alert System ChyTV Plus Full Connectivity Video Signage   About Us The ChyTV Group Chyron, the company whose brand name has been synonymous with broadcast television graphics, has been an industry leader in video processing technology for nearly 40 years. Now, with the introduction of ChyTV, Chyron has unveiled a fresh new direction in the world of digital display systems. By leveraging the technology from our professional broadcast graphics equipment, ChyTV provides powerful, yet cost effective and flexible graphics and messaging solutions to any location that has a television - without disrupting the video source. Chyron - The Company the Whole World Watches Our primary business is creating and selling television graphics equipment. Within the television industry, our company name, Chyron, has become a synonym for a television graphic (ala Kleenex or Tivo). In television production, "Give me the Chyron." means give me the graphic. Chyron's graphics products are used by most broadcasters in the US and many around the world including ABC, FOX, CBS, ESPN, CNN, CBC, and the BBC to display such information as sports scores, logos, news flashes, weather flashes, election results and stock market quotes. Chyron graphics products specialize in the real time arena and make up over 70% of the installed base of such tools for live broadcast in the U.S. We have nearly 40 years experience in television graphics equipment, an industry we invented and made practical. We develop, manufacture, market and support hardware and software products that enhance the production values of live and pre-recorded video, audio and other data. This year we were presented with an Emmy award "for the invention and development of the character generator." The prestigious Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Emmy Award is given to "an individual, company or an organization for developments in engineering that are either so extensive an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the transmission, recording or reception of television." In the past, our products have typically been expensive, high-end top-quality systems with a great deal of proprietary hardware. However, recent advances in technology have made powerful board-level graphics systems and flat panel displays more affordable. We're currently developing a line of video informational display systems with a price point and ease of use suitable for mainstream applications. These devices sit between an existing video monitor or television and an incoming video source. Our initial offering is called ChyTV. The ChyTV device enables you to 'squeeze' the live video region and display custom graphics around the perimeter of the video region. These graphics can be created using well-known user-friendly interfaces such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe PhotoShop. ChyTV enables locations such as malls, stores, government buildings, campuses, churches, restaurants, corporate lobbies, doctors, dentists, trade shows etc. to display locally relevant information such as price specials, service announcements, advertising, etc., all without disrupting the incoming video signal. For instance, an auto repair waiting area would be able to 'squeeze' the television video while simultaneously "crawling" oil-change specials across the bottom of the screen. Or the television in a corporate cafeteria can be showing entertainment programming while displaying employee birthdays, meeting announcements, or the picnic date. Our company has the unique ability to leverage our high-end video animation technologies into a powerful but affordable informational display system. It can be immediately put into use anywhere there's a video monitor. We expect the burgeoning "Digital Signage" market to quickly gain momentum, and for public video displays to proliferate as the costs of plasma and lcd displays continue to drop. We think this is truly a unique product with a very wide base of potential interest that hasn't been possible to develop until recently. The ChyTV device itself is a small self-contained box similar in size to a television set-top box. No PC needs to be connected, although it can be for live, dynamic data insertion. The graphics, text, and display schedule are all created using simple, mainstream tools on a PC, and are transferred to the device via compact flash, USB, or Ethernet.   Products | Gallery | Where to buy | Support | User Community | Services | News and Events © 2006 Chyron, All rights reserved www.chyron.com