Video messaging applications

   

There are a virtually unlimited number of applications for the use of mobile messaging in video. A few of them are discussed below.

Voting applications

Voting applications are very popular with text messagingVoting applications are very popular and easy to implement. In addition, voting applications require very little, if any, screen real estate and so therefore you can have only a small window on the screen that is occupied by the voting results and the rest of the screen occupied by the main program material (reality TV show, music video, soap opera, etc.).

Well-known voting examples include the American Idol and Big Brother reality TV shows, and "battle of the bands" type shows seen on MTV and other music television channels.

For more detailed information on how IMU handles voting applications, click here.

Chat applications

Chat applications are also very popular and can range in complexity from simple chat-only TV channels to full Interactive Television. For chat-only applications, the majority of the video display is occupied by the chat window, with the rest of the screen occupied by instructions about how the user signs up and participates in the chat. Chat-only channels are seen in Europe cable television, especially during the evening.

Although chat-only applications do exist, excitement and interactivity can be increased by adding chat to a live video program. For example, chat can be added to music videos, reality TV programs or professional sports broadcasts where chatters can comment about the TV show they are watching in real time.

Advertising using the Animated Bitmaps feature

In addition to the Voting and Chatting applications, video screen real estate may also be occupied by Animated Bitmaps.

Each bitmap may have informational or advertising content and this advertising may very well be the revenue-generating element of the display. In other words, the chatting or voting may be the thing that gets people to watch the display, but the Animated Bitmap advertisements may be paid for by advertisers who want to have their message seen by the viewers.

Putting it all together

Video Messaging Unlimited allows you to do all of this and more: Voting, Chatting, Animated Bitmaps, Text, Videos, etc.

The output can be shown in many ways: projected using video, displayed on TV monitors, used to run a TV chat channel, output to an Internet web page, and even be projected using lasers.

 

 

 

 
   
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