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Hippotizer™ has become the market leading media server, featured in top Vegas and West End Productions, national TV Shows and award winning Club installations. In addition to the many existing functions, the latest Hippotizer V3 software offers breakthrough features including: onboard timeline-based control, HippoNet™ networking for multiple units and “no-brainer” media loading and management!

Key benefits of the Hippotizer V3 include: 1) BUILT-IN encoding of ANY digital media file. No naming issues, no CODEC problems... just drop it in media manager on the Hippo interface and the Hippo will automatically prepare an encode that works best on Hippo. No more having to master encoding software. 2) Built-in programming interface with timeline is elegant and flexible; eliminates the need for an additional piece of gear rental (and a premium line item at that) for getting a lighting console to run it. 3) Hippo Net allows users to quite easily control hugely multiple Hippo setups, again elegantly and simply. No more need for massive amounts of DMX real estate, or dealing with many Hippo interfaces individually. Now, one Hippo can be used to master all others, even to the extent of coordinating media moving across all of their collective screen real estate. 4) Complex surface shaping: projecting on non-tradtional surfaces no longer requires gear upstream. Hippo's code for warping imagery also is superior in minimizing pixel loss and distortion. No other competing piece of gear is doing all of these things, or any of them individually for that matter.

Hippotizer is a key element at the SOL club in New York, where Alba Creative’s installation has been nominated Best Video System 2006. Says Paul Seres, Alba Creative’s CEO, “The Hippotizer HD, purchased from Barbizon Chicago, drives nine DLP projectors and two plasmas for 270 degrees of stunning video. We also use the Hippo at corporate events for extreme graphics displays, presentations and live video feed. The Hippo has made our job easier with its user-friendly functionality and virtually endless creative possibilities.”

Awarded Best Debuting Product at LDI 2006, Hippotizer is distributed by TMB in the Americas and Asia:
www.tmb.com/products/hippotizer