Hey I posted to rec.video.production and rec.audio.pro I hope that is
alright.

This isn't my area but was asked if it was possible and after some
googling realized I probably wasn't even using the right terms.

So here I am.

A sports bar (owned by a friend) wants to control all of its TVs
(Regular and some Plasma, 20 total) and the audio with one computer
terminal behind the bar. They have a setup now with remotes all over
the building and want to centralize control and incorporate some of
their own content.

They understand they may need a file server and some computers todo
processing, but what they want to end up with is one computer that
controls the tv channels, individual audio levels, zone audio levels,
and allows for audio/visual content stored on the computers to be
displayed on specific tvs/audio system. They are talking about running
their security cameras on the same system and displaying that as well.

Is it possible to control all these features using one machine (super
remote)? Are there prepackaged solutions? Where should they start
looking? They were talking Macs but whatever would work would work.

tks for any help/ideas
Mitch