Did a little server upgrade...

It's what we in the industry actually call a "Media Server."

Ever seen tightly sequenced video playback in a live or live-to-tape setting? A TV show with screens onstage? Maybe a concert that had graphics displayed on LED walls or projected? Or a corporate show with video playback? Or projections mapped onto scenery, a car, a building?

All of these are applications for a media server.

For the layman you could call it a "video jukebox." It allows for the precise sequencing and manipulation of composited imagery in a live setting.

Typically they cost between 30k-100k per box, depending on your specification. 100k is likely to get you 4x 4k video heads. That's the same as 16x HD heads.

Some examples: http://www.d3technologies.com/ http://www.prg.com/technology/products/media-servers/mbox-media-server http://www.coolux.de/products/pandorasboxserver/ http://www.avolites.com/ai-features

Remember that we are talking about essentially business hardware for small market niches. That's why this stuff is so expensive. Everything is purpose built to do just a narrow scope of work. If you needed say video replay or playback for broadcast, that would come off a totally different 100k box, probably an EVS machine. What about motion graphics onto the broadcast program? That's an XPression machine.

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