It takes a bit of hardware! The following picture is our Watchout setup for a 17 projector permanent install (although it can actually drive 18 projectors). 1 x Production Server (I like to keep one permanently installed), 3 x Display Servers with W7100's for 4 x 2K outputs each and 1 x Display Server with a W9100 for 6 x 1080p outputs. At the time, it was cheaper to build this configuration than 3 x Display Severs all with W9100's.
It will be interesting to watch Dataton's future developments in natively supporting signal splitters - with others able to drive 16 x HD outputs from a single 4RU Server (and no need for a separate Production Server), today's hardware and codec's can certainly support it and it would also save some rack space :)
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Hi Kevin
It takes a bit of hardware! The following picture is our Watchout setup for a 17 projector permanent install (although it can actually drive 18 projectors). 1 x Production Server (I like to keep one permanently installed), 3 x Display Servers with W7100's for 4 x 2K outputs each and 1 x Display Server with a W9100 for 6 x 1080p outputs. At the time, it was cheaper to build this configuration than 3 x Display Severs all with W9100's.
It will be interesting to watch Dataton's future developments in natively supporting signal splitters - with others able to drive 16 x HD outputs from a single 4RU Server (and no need for a separate Production Server), today's hardware and codec's can certainly support it and it would also save some rack space :)
Best of luck with your project.
Cheers
Andrei
PixALL Australia