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<blockquote data-quote="archive10" data-source="post: 775613"><p>What our friend Ralph writes is very true - you can set it up this way.</p><p>You do, however, need to consider maintenance.</p><p>If you use cheap, consumer-grade equipment, you must consider the price of fixing problems.</p><p>The larger the installation, the more often something will fail.</p><p>So you need to calculate either margin in your price for regular support (swapping of failed items), or have a good call-out service contract.</p><p></p><p>Among other things, we install hotel TV systems for 200+ room installations.</p><p>Ideally we install IPTV systems using STBs (with no moving parts) attached to the back of the displays (hotel TVs).</p><p>The service contract is written to ensure a service-level-agreement that guarantees a maximum response time to failures.</p><p>We generally only use equipment that have a (proven) low failure rate - else we have to write specific support agreements with the equipment providers.</p><p></p><p>We did one (adventurous) installation using Windows Media PCs as clients some years ago - big mistake. The cost of supporting the hotel with software updates, anti-virus software, fans failing etc was massive. We ended up swapping the whole system with a made-for-hotels IPTV based system in its entirety, as this was much cheaper for us, hotel, and therethrough eventually the hotel guests...</p><p></p><p>(And if you do IP based systems you can remote diagnose things easily, although I have the feeling that this is perhaps not what you are looking for. I have the hunch you want a simple low-maintenance system. The analogoue re-dist is probably more along what you need, but do consider professional gear designed to be on 24/7. There are some low-cost options available).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="archive10, post: 775613"] What our friend Ralph writes is very true - you can set it up this way. You do, however, need to consider maintenance. If you use cheap, consumer-grade equipment, you must consider the price of fixing problems. The larger the installation, the more often something will fail. So you need to calculate either margin in your price for regular support (swapping of failed items), or have a good call-out service contract. Among other things, we install hotel TV systems for 200+ room installations. Ideally we install IPTV systems using STBs (with no moving parts) attached to the back of the displays (hotel TVs). The service contract is written to ensure a service-level-agreement that guarantees a maximum response time to failures. We generally only use equipment that have a (proven) low failure rate - else we have to write specific support agreements with the equipment providers. We did one (adventurous) installation using Windows Media PCs as clients some years ago - big mistake. The cost of supporting the hotel with software updates, anti-virus software, fans failing etc was massive. We ended up swapping the whole system with a made-for-hotels IPTV based system in its entirety, as this was much cheaper for us, hotel, and therethrough eventually the hotel guests... (And if you do IP based systems you can remote diagnose things easily, although I have the feeling that this is perhaps not what you are looking for. I have the hunch you want a simple low-maintenance system. The analogoue re-dist is probably more along what you need, but do consider professional gear designed to be on 24/7. There are some low-cost options available). [/QUOTE]
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