Digital Signage Build

[SuperOwnJK]

Hi LTT Guys - (Sorry about the long intro)

 

So I work for at my Students Union in Tech and I'm currently putting a report together with ways to upgrade the screens we have dotted around the building. In total there is around 34 screens all ran off Kramer Video Senders/Receivers and VGA'd into the screen (Yes I know it should be HDMI but this required dual layer cat6 so they went VGA, meh).

 

At the minute we have a laptop running powerpoint, which is then sent to another Kramer Unit which sends the video to all the screens. As each screen has its own Kramer Video Receiver, we can theoretically send a different video input to each screen (if we had 34 different video inputs). My plan is to run around 3 or 4 different video feeds to certain groups of TVs. EG drink adverts to TVs behind the bar, sports game stream to TVs in booths etc...

 

TL;DR

HOWEVER, at some point we may want to send up to 6 different outputs to various TVs (probably just Powerpoints and videos for now), so we would require a PC capable of running 6x VGA video outputs; what graphics card(s) would be best suited for this? At the minute we run the TVs on 1024x768 as the projects we have are 4:3 so it scales on both on the TVs and Projectors nicest at that res. We may also want to have up to 3 different outputs for audio. There are 3 floors to the building and at some point we may want to play different music on each floor. 

 

Another idea is to use XSplit to add some overlays to video adverts such as time, data, tweets, BBC news feed, now playing song info etc. So the PC will be used for multiple things.

 

Budget

Unlimited. Whatever it costs, they'll probably get it. The tech budget was £1.5m, so they aren't afraid to throw some $$$ at it. 

 

Location

UK

 

Case

Fullsize 4u case would be best as we have loads of space on the racks