Elation Introduces the Zeus Media Server

	Elation Orofessional's Zeus Media Server

Elation Professional announces the Zeus Media Server, a full-scale media server with two full HD outputs and a powerful ArKaos MediaMaster Pro engine that lets users program and play smooth visuals from any DMX lighting desk, MIDI controller, or as a stand-alone unit.

Ideal for live concerts and productions, theater, clubs, and houses of worship, Zeus is designed for quick and easy setup, and according to the company, is especially well-suited for applications that call for precise, real-time visual displays. It features ArKaos MediaMaster Pro 3.0 software, including ArKaos' patented Kling-Net protocol, which automatically configures and distributes real-time video data to remote display devices by pixel. With Kling-Net, it's possible to achieve a perfect time synchronization of many types of display devices, ensuring that your visuals will synchronize across many product types.

By using Kling-Net protocol, the Zeus Media Server does away with the expensive hardware converters previously required to send video data. "The Zeus is Elation's first full-scale media server," said Eric Loader, director of sales for Elation Professional. "We developed this powerful server in response to our customers' demand for an easier and more affordable solution to creating and displaying video content, especially in live production environments where you are mixing many types of displays including traditional DMX pixel control fixtures. With Zeus's Kling-Net protocol, it's easy and cost-efficient to provide the real-time synchronized video data distribution that live shows require."

Built with rugged, reliable state-of-the-art industrial European hardware and software components -- which the company says provide performance, stability, and durability -- Zeus is equipped with all the tools needed to create, manipulate, and display high-quality video content. It features 12 continuous playback layers with DMX fixture control per layer, and it offers an array of digital outputs, including: one interface VGA/DVI/HDMI output; two full 1080 DVI outputs; one Ethernet out port; eight USB ports; and one audio output. The unit also includes five-pin DMX input and output.

Zeus is capable of both Art-Net and Kling-Net LED video mapping, with the ability to output both protocols simultaneously. It includes video surface mapping for projectors, soft edge blending, and a 4GB built-in library of video content.

Containing 500GB of storage for video content, Zeus provides ample room to hold all your visual shows. The unit's Acronis backup system makes recovery of your data fast and easy simply by resetting the server from the boot menu.

See Elation Professional at PLASA Focus: Orlando, May 15-16.