Christie improves Pandoras Box with the development of Octo Server to offer up to eight outputs

Prolight+Sound 2017, which will be celebrated from 4 al 7 April in the German city of Frankfurt, It is the framework chosen by the manufacturer to present this new hardware, Delivering up to eight outputs at full bandwidth without sacrificing performance to support demanding visual applications.

Following the innovation awards obtained with Pandoras Box and Widget Designer v6 in WHEREAS 2017 thanks to the user vote, Christie will present Box Octo Server, a new Pandoras hardware upgrade, during his participation in Prolight+Sound 2017, of the 4 al 7 April in Messe Frankfurt (hall 4.0 – stand B30).

Among other advantages, This new hardware has greater capacity in terms of outputs for more demanding applications, providing up to eight outputs at full bandwidth without any performance degradation. Thanks to it, Pandoras Box servers can now offer flexible output configuration, with one to eight independent outputs.

Besides, each output supports independent warping and blending, making it easy to combine resolution configurations. Besides, all players and servers include graphics cards Nvidia Quadro GPU and processors Intel Xeon.

The combination of Christie Pandoras Box Octo Server and version 6 of Widget Designer show that controllers do more, faster and easier. These are some of its advantages:

Improved connectivity: with up to eight outputs, managing even more screens from a single server.

Higher image quality: Playback supports uncompressed 4K video at 60 fps.

More options: with its five Performance Kit options, Christie provides a Pandoras Box solution for every need and budget.

Greater storage: Up to two hours of uncompressed 4K video can be stored.

Innovative components: All Pandoras Box servers and players include performance feature improvements, benefiting from innovative components, including Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia Quadro cards.

The version 6 Pandoras Box includes multi-user edition, warping and simultaneous content manipulation, so that several operators can work together on a project in real time. Widget Designer has also been improved with a completely redesigned HTML5 user interface, front-end HTML nativo, which includes CSS Styles, as well as animation and transitions support for all pages and widgets.

All Christie Pandoras Box servers and players have also undergone significant improvements, such as significantly faster processing power, increased memory and expanded storage, to offer users a high-performance hardware platform that handles the most demanding event requirements.

Joel St-Denis, product manager de Christie, points out that the new Octo Server “is a powerful work tool that provides eight outputs in a single system, maintaining flexibility, since each server can be configured by choosing the desired performance range, according to the user's specific needs and budget. When combined with version 6 “From Pandoras Box you get a really reliable professional-type media server.”.