Multiple plasma video playback

[Nicholas Rivero]

Hey there,
I have been doing just this for some tradeshows that our company has been doing lately.
We have 5 Panasonic 42″ Plasmas each with a MacMini strapped to the back of them running Renewed Visions ProVideo player. They are networked together via an airport extreme and sit across a 20’x30′ floor space.
Each display plays 45 sec informational pieces for aprox 3 mins and then all displays play a video of some sort that is in sync across all 5 displays simultaneously.
We bought our MacMinis off of the shelf about a month ago. They are just the Core2 2.0 ghz/1 gig ram. They were $800/mac and the software was $500/copy.
We encoded all of our content using Compressor’s “HD-DVD” settings, basically. It is a 1280×720 frame at 10.3 mbps. It plays great and looks fine because we are go ing DVI into the displays.
Hope this helps!