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From: Kenneth Merry <ken@plutotech.com>
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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
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Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com