Our system is simply a special-purpose arrangement of proven, standard hardware with an established support network. Improvements to the system can be implemented without expensive hardware upgrades. An extra benefit from the layout of the SkyVision system is that it primarily utilizes the projection gallery. The digital video workstations that feed the projectors have an initial on-line video playback capacity of approximately 30 minutes, using a 9GB drive. Material not needed on line can be off-loaded to inexpensive backup tapes.
Video is stored and output in a component format, avoiding the artifacts of composite encoding.
Two drive bays are included. As of this printing, 36GB drives are available to yield 4 hours playback time. THE DOME in our Gallery page Production Issues SkyVision's powerful automation tools are completely open to accepting bitmap images from any source. 24-bit color bitmap files to create graphic batch animation. Producing the source graphics is one of the beautiful parts of the SkyVision system in that the production source is solely at the producer's discretion.