help me MAC out my store?

[Mindtheater]

Hi all. I'm opening a frozen yogurt store with a rockin style. I have this dream in my head where all my monitors in the store are controlled my my Mac. If i wanted to display HD television on a few monitors and have maybe the itunes visualizer on a few and maybe a few monitors can have a jpeg image displayed or jpegs on all at once. Is this possible to control all of this from my mac with some software and hardware?

I am in the process of building and I guess I'm just going to run 50' HDMI cables from all my monitors to an office that would have a computer. I'm just hoping that there is some sort of interface that i can plug 10-20 HDMI's in at once and control them all.. Am I thinking crazy?

Thank you in advance for any help or ideas.

 

[bmcgonag]

Hi all. I'm opening a frozen yogurt store with a rockin style. I have this dream in my head where all my monitors in the store are controlled my my Mac. If i wanted to display HD television on a few monitors and have maybe the itunes visualizer on a few and maybe a few monitors can have a jpeg image displayed or jpegs on all at once. Is this possible to control all of this from my mac with some software and hardware?

I am in the process of building and I guess I'm just going to run 50' HDMI cables from all my monitors to an office that would have a computer. I'm just hoping that there is some sort of interface that i can plug 10-20 HDMI's in at once and control them all.. Am I thinking crazy?

Thank you in advance for any help or ideas.

I'm by no means an expert on this, but I have a feeling that running 10 different monitors is pushing it.

You could potentially set up your mac as a media server on a wired network (just for bandwidth) then use a few systems to pull data from it. For that matter you could probably use a Drobo as a NAS media server, or Free NAS, then use a few mac minis to run info to different monitors. Not sure how that will work in Full screen mode with multiple monitors though.

 

[bagelche]

Having no experience with them, is this something an TV per TV could handle from a centralized media server? Wouldn't work for the visualizers I imagine, but pushing other video/image content, perhaps.