Hello tech peoples of the SDMB.
I’ve got a bit of a problem that I’m trying to solve. We need to be able to display 4 different desktops unto 4 different HDTV’s set up in other rooms. All from a single PC.
How can we achieve this?
On the hardware side I was thinking of using one or more multi-display video cards all in one PC. They would pump out cloned video for each of the 4 displays which would get dumped to some sort of AV station where signals would get routed to the individual TV’s. This way the user of this PC would get to see all 4 desktops (each in it’s own monitor) and each desktop is cloned to each TV. I have no idea if there is AV equipment that can take 4 DVI/VGA inputs and send them to the TV’s. I imagine that there is, and I imagine that they would be expensive.
On the software side I thought of creating an intranet .net service that either is called by an application on the main PC or reads data from a file and serves it up on the web service as html. The TV’s could then navigate to the website, choose one of the 4 feeds and that’s that.
The problem here is that TV’s can’t navigate the network. They would have to be attached to PC’s. So instead of 4 video cards, 4 monitors and AV equipment, I would need 1 main PC and 4 other PC’s attached to the network and the TV’s.
Any other ideas as to how I can accomplish this?
Essentially I want to be able to display data on each of the 4 TV’s. Data that is generated by a single user/PC.