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DVS Will (USB) Flash You!

USB flash drives are simple and compact digital storage devices – perfect for documents, photos, video, and audio. Flash Drives have no moving parts, can be rewritten over a million times, and have a 10 year data retention. Their everyday usefulness, combined with the ability to print a custom logo onto the device will allow your company’s name to be in front of the customer for years. It’s no wonder these devices are fast becoming the “new pen” of the marketing and promotional worlds.

We here at DVS have recently delved into the USB Duplication world with great success. As a matter of fact, we can duplicate over 1,000 USB drives in a single day without breaking a sweat (okay, maybe there’s a little sweat involved but we keep towels close by).

Duplicating USB Flash drives with data is just the beginning, how about a combination USB flash drive / MP3 player? Just recently DVS took on that very challenge for Amway Global.

 

From the presentation of the device itself to the variety of content that can be stored on them, USB flash devices are a unique and eye-catching way to promote your company.

For information on how DVS can help you with USB flash drive duplication contact a sales rep.

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DVS Hires Matt Mulder as Project Manager

DVS has hired Matt Mulder as Project Manager. In his new position, Mulder will be managing media production projects and other creative support services. Mulder comes to DVS with over 15 years experience in the film, post production, and media encoding industries through stints at WZZM TV-13, Ford, and Colorado Studios.

DVS Creates Complex Training DVD for Latin American Market

    Here at DVS we recently completed work on a complex DVD based training program for an international corporation. Looking to educate new and existing employees within their Latin America market, this corporation came to DVS to solve a need that they knew was beyond the scope of many other vendors.

    The DVD works in conjunction with an online course that was built simultaneously. Both the DVD and the online course consist of three different lessons and an assessment. The lessons cover everything from the introduction of the company, to selling tips and customer service scenarios. Within the lessons there are many different small quizzes, utilizing multiple choice, true/false and other learning techniques. When taking the assessment, users locally record their answers and use the SMS (text messaging) function of their cell phones to text the answers in.

    Even though planning covered the better part of a year, actual development occurred in just a month and a half! Using the online course as a template, initial menus were created in English for reference and then translated to Spanish and Portuguese. Next came motion menu development, complete with audio and full interactivity. For the final step in the process, the disc was mastered and thoroughly tested by a team of eight test participants.

    Different than most DVDs, this DVD contains no video, and is completely menu based. In total there are approximately 400 menus per language, with an average of 8 buttons per page. That’s roughly 6,400 buttons that needed to be authored and tested to make sure everything worked correctly.

    Always up for a challenge, DVS developed this unique use of two different types of media (DVD and SMS) to allow our client to reach an audience with no practical access to the internet. This is just one of several challenging DVD authoring projects that DVS has recently completed, with more on the horizon!