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Business, controlling streams for multiple screens/TVs

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April 20, 2014 4:21:01 PM

My situation is this, I wish to have some TVs in my business to display different internet streams. I would like one computer to control 4-5 TVs either through HDMI or wireless HDMI and to show what content is being displayed on each TV on the monitor of the computer.

Basically from the included multi monitor support with Windows, you can Extend or Duplicate. I wish for it to be something like Extend but to be able to "peek" in on what is on the various TVs without having to walk to each one to make sure it's displaying the right content.

I would like to accomplish this without needing individual computers at each TV. Maybe a set-top box would be necessary but I wish to basically browse any stream from Twitch or Youtube. I'm not sure if there's enough support out there for such freedom from a set-top box. And also being able to control it from a central computer instead of having to "change the channel" on each TV individually.

Thanks for any help with this!

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April 21, 2014 11:56:05 AM

There are multiple ways to do this, and each will have their own set of complications.

Probably the first & simplest approach would be to have a video card that support 4-6 video outputs. Newegg has a VisionTek Radeon 7750 with 6 x mini-DP ports with can be converted to HDMI with active adapters (search for "Eyefinity 6" in Newegg to see everything).

For the display on your PC (i.e. monitor what each stream is showing), then I would direct you to Video-Storm (http://www.video-storm.com). They have a full line of matrix switches that could do that, and no doubt they can give you an even better opinion on how to accomplish what you want.
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