Ross Announces DashBoard Version 8 Featuring Visual Logic Production Release

Friday, April 15, 2016 [Ottawa, Ontario, Canada] – Ross Video is pleased to announce a new release of its DashBoard Facility Control System – Version 8 featuring Visual Logic.

“DashBoard version 8 was released to Beta at IBC in September 2015, and at NAB we are releasing the production version,” stated Greg Quirk, Ross Video Product Manager for DashBoard. “Over the past few months we have received great traction from end users who have been able to create feature rich, intelligent DashBoard CustomPanels using Visual Logic instead of writing Java Script.”

Creating DashBoard CustomPanels is accomplished using drag and drop functionality. Ross, openGear partner and DashBoard Connect partner products can be added to the list of devices that populate a set of API commands. These commands can be dropped into the Visual Logic interface and augmented with control functions and interconnected and configured visually to determine order of operation and input variables. This removes the complexity of remembering specific syntax, which can make panels difficult for a non-coder to create.

“Sophisticated DashBoard CustomPanels can now be created by anyone without requiring a software development background,” continued Quirk. “This is truly a game changer in how customers can control devices and create customized workflows for their operators easily, greatly increasing their productivity and influence of control on their systems.”

DashBoard is used by customers worldwide to monitor and control Ross solutions, openGear partner products, DashBoard Connect Products and 3^rd party IP-based devices in a variety of applications and markets.

About Ross Video
Passionate about live production, Ross Video designs, manufactures and delivers dependable technology and services that power exceptional live video productions seen by billions of viewers around the world every day. Ross Video’s goal is to make it easy for customers to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, legislative assemblies, entertainment shows and rock concerts, and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Relentlessly innovating, Ross Video delivers the world’s widest range of products and services for augmented reality and virtual sets, mobile live-event solutions, real-time motion graphics, robotic camera systems, social-media management, production switchers, routers, infrastructure products, video servers, newsroom systems, terminal equipment and more.

Ross products and services are designed to offer best-in-class system integration and unmatched customer choice by both working together seamlessly and integrating tightly with third-party solutions.

Ross Video has offices around the world, and provides free-for-life telephone support staffed by technical experts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—even for products bought on eBay. Recognizing the time-critical nature of the broadcast industry, all Ross employees are empowered to provide “whatever it takes” customer service, even down to renting helicopters when necessary to deliver needed parts and service.

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