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TRMS Website Relaunch!

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably noticed that the Tightrope website has been relaunched with a brand new design. This project has been in the works for a long time, and we’re incredibly excited to finally flip the switch and reveal it to the world! So. What’s new? New features It’s much easier to find what Tightrope has to [...]
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Announcing Carousel 6.0

Tightrope Media Systems announces the release of Carousel 6.0, a major software update to the Carousel Digital Signage System. Carousel 6.0 includes a number of new features that improve the Template Editor used in the bulletin creation process, the utility of Alert Bulletins, and the functionality of the Remote Data Adapter.
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Tightrope Appoints Eric Henry as CEO and Jim Morical as Chief Business Development Officer

JJ and I are happy to formally announce that Eric Henry and Jim Morical from the audio visual manufacturers representation firm Kodo James have joined Tightrope Media Systems as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO), respectively. Eric and Jim, through Kodo James, have represented Tightrope Media Systems in the upper Midwest [...]
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Zeplay presentation at MinneDemo

We recently gave a presentation of our new Zeplay multi-channel instant replay server at MinneDemo. MinneDemo is the Twin Cities’ premier technology demo and networking event. We were very excited to showcase our newest product. This video was shot with my little FlipMino HD, so the quality is pretty bad.  Zeplay presentation at MinneDemo from JJ Parker [...]
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TRMS at MinneDemo

Join the TRMS development team for a night of cool tech and free beer at MinneDemo, the Twin Cities’ premier technology demo and networking event, this Thursday, May 7th at 7pm. We’ll be one of the ten presenters this time around, and we’ll be giving a demonstration of Zeplay (PDF), our new instant replay video server [...]
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New Cablecast 4.8 Guide

The user manual for Cablecast has been recently updated! Weighing in at 317 pages, Cablecast: The Manual includes all of the information needed to get the most out of your Cablecast system, including: Theory on how Cablecast works Suggestions for how Cablecast can integrate with your work flow Planning and executing the setup of a Cablecast system Using the [...]
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Bedford, NH Scores Points With SX-Live and DSK

Bill Jennings has been a Friend of Tightrope since the very beginning. It was especially gratifying to get an email from him about his experiences with his new SX-Live streaming server. “…also, we’ll be ordering another streaming video server. The one that we’ve had installed for our government channel has been well received,” Bill said. “Councilors, [...]
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Announcing our new Training Lead

Tightrope is happy to announce that we have hired Brook Grubs as our Training Lead. She will be training end users and dealers how to use our products, creating training material, and further developing our training department. Brook's experience training and creating training material made her a great fit for Tightrope. We all look forward [...]
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Announcing our new Support Technician

We are happy to announce that we have brought on board a 'new, old guy' this week. Chad Gartner has been hired as a technician for our support team. As some of you may remember, Chad was on staff with Tightrope a few years ago. Chad will be mostly 2nd level support and running our [...]
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TRMS Labs

The development team at Tightrope is excited to announce the availability of TRMS Labs, a new website to house our open source projects and utilities. For the site’s launch, we have three projects available: Cablecast SuperCopy: A plugin for our Cablecast automation system to duplicate a day’s schedule far out into the future. Carousel RDA Tester: A sample [...]
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