From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 8 15:14:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18463 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from cc-server9.massey.ac.nz (cc-server9.massey.ac.nz [130.123.128.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA18449 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz) From: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz Message-Id: <199710082214.PAA18449@hub.freebsd.org> Received: from tpc-pc1 by cc-server9 with SMTP(PP); Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:07:29 +1300 Comments: Authenticated sender is Organization: TV Production Centre, Massey University To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 11:07:24 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Reply-to: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz Priority: normal References: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 08:00:20 EDT." <199710081200.IAA17975@hda.hda.com> In-reply-to: <26258.876324035@time.cdrom.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > FreeBSD in the recording studio, anyone? :) Or the video post-production studio. With it's overall stability and things like ccd offering cheap high-performance high-bandwidth storage systems, FreeBSD would make an ideal video server platform, as well as (in the first instance) a compute platform (or with a small cluster, platforms) for all those icky video effects that take so(!) long to render. Panasonic's Smart-cart broadcast automation system, which consists of a cabinet, tape loader robot, and a couple of VTRs and provides everything you need for a basic cable channel or three (for a mere $75 - $100k) uses either a Win NT or Unix (I don't know which flavour) front end, except that the NT system doesn't have as much functionality. :-) -- C. -- Craig Harding Acting Director, Massey University Television Production Centre "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly