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Topic: Multi screening room playback overview - no TMS
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 11-23-2017 01:51 PM
I agree that it's only a viable solution if the extra equipment could be obtained used and at very low cost. However, a lot of places are now retiring DSL/DSS hardware and replacing it with IMS systems (I have replaced two units in the last week and a half), and so that may be a possibility. That having been said, the amount of used cinema equipment floating around in Iceland is likely very restricted.
Incidentally, VNC is not the only way to operate a DSS over a network: you can install the actual Dolby Show Manager app on a Windows PC. This has the advantage that, unlike VNC, it does not mirror what is being done on a local keyboard and mouse hooked directly to the server. So if you wanted to give someone elsewhere in the building (e.g. the manager's office) the ability to see what the DSS is doing but not to operate it, you could install Show Manager on a PC connected to whichever network the DSS is configured to be managed over (auditorium or theater - it's the latter by default), change the Show Manager passwords to something other than the defaults, and leave it in monitor mode when Show Manager starts (i.e. don't log in at all). This will not affect what anyone does directly at the server, or via VNC from another PC. However, the VNC screen does mirror the local one.
I don't know of any equivalent approach in the IMS. You have to log in to get past the front page splash screen, and so if the lowest level of login privilege still allows the user to operate the transport buttons, that won't work if you need to be sure that the user of the remote PC cannot disrupt a show, whatever they do.
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