Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:03:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Kenneth Merry <ken@plutotech.com> To: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Message-ID: <199710082303.RAA15486@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <199710082214.PAA18449@hub.freebsd.org> from "C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz" at "Oct 9, 97 11:07:24 am"
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C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz wrote... > 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. :-) FreeBSD is already in the video post-production studio. Check out: http://www.plutotech.com (yes, the SPACE video recorder is basically a FreeBSD box) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com
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