[BC] Movie Channel

[Jason R.]

  How about a Mac and a small video editing platform, with the right video / 
audio cards in it.  Couple of big drives or USB drives on it.  Not free, but 
not over the top expensive, either.

  Dub or rip the DVD's into the thing? I don't know.
Manually build a number of playlists for something akin to the 
WinMediaPlayer to go through? Don't know that either.  Just know it would 
likely be do-able pretty cheap.  (Compared to full post-prod suites)

  Do know I've got one Mac doing this to feed finished video productions to 
a cable tv headend...
Uses standard L/R audio and composite video (but, since there are multiple 
real-time sources, there is a small video miser in the input line)

  Might need something for distribution too, I suppose feeding the product 
to a video/dvd player on it's way to the TV network might work... if you 
need more oomph, unless you want to just buy a video amp... SVID has limit 
on how may feet it works well, 75ohm composite not so much... but still a 
limit... small college cams push that a couple of hundred feet no sweat.

Jason R.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom" <tfj at tds.net>


> Hello,
> I'm a nursing home chaplain.
>
> We have already created an in-house 24/7 "information channel" with 
> announcements, birthdays, etc, and  generational music.
>
> Now, since we have a large library of public domainn movies, and tv shows, 
> I want to put on an in-house channel that uses those. Sony seems to no lon 
> ger manufacture a 200 or 300 disk dvd changer. I don't want to buy used, 
> as those parts do wear out.
>
> So, what do I use to put my library in somewhere and get a continous 
> output on a tv channel?
>
> Tom in Muskegon, MI
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