Someone commented that I should update my blog again, so here goes...
Last week has been busy. Spent last weekend with Wen shopping for various baby stuff. Went to Sears, Babys R' Us, JC Penny, Target and who knows what else. I've had babies dancing in my head all week! Good thing all the baby stuff is so cute. We're using all the shopping to help decide what to put in Chloe's gift registry (hint-hint) and I think that we've got just about everything for the first 6 months figured out.
Wednesday I flew to Las Vegas for the G2E (Global Gaming Expo) and got drove back last night. Spent the day walking around viewing vendors' wares. It's pretty amazing how many girls are hired as models for the show, just about every decent sized booth had at least one scantily clothed model, many had 5 or more! Plenty of booths with free drinks and beer as well. I spent most of my time researching video content distribution systems and looking for something cost effective that would let us distribute dvd-quality video over an IP network. I found a couple of potential solutions, but they may be cost prohibitive.
Wednesday night Paltronics rented out the GhostBar at The Palm. Free food, drinks and dancers = fun! Thanks Paltronics!
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I see you are looking for a cost effective digital video distribution system. What types of usage scenarios do you anticipate?
Hey Pedram! We've got a PC that we plug into a plasma screen using the VGA connector. Well, actually right now we use a Magenta VGA->UTP->VGA extender so that we can distance the PC away from the plasma.
The same company (and others like Minicom) also sell VGA->Multiple UTP->VGA splitters which gets us close to what we're looking to do, but unfortunately we can not always run a direct UTP cable from our PC to all our plasmas because of either the distance or because we have to rely on a fiber connection.
If we had a box which would convert the PC's VGA output into a HD-quality signal and then broadcast it via multicast over the local area network along with a small/cheap receiver which converts that signal back into a VGA connection, that would be ideal. Bonus points for being able to encode/decode sound as well.
I seem to remember discussing VLC with you before, I'll have to look at that again, but I think that finding a VGA encoder will be the problem...
What was that about scantily clad women?
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