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The short answer is: very little!

To be honest, you can start with just a DVD player (burn the files onto a DVD first) and end up with a million dollar play out system. It all depends on WHO you want to reach WHERE with WHAT. If you happen to run a small candy shop, a DVD player will probably suffice. You render your show maybe once a week on Headsub, download it and burn it. On a DVD that is.

If you just need the videos to end up in YouTube, you probably already own the hardware to do that.

If however you are a HUGE company with hundreds of shops all over the world (as we would like to be) that needs some kind of Digital Signage, sending DVD's is not the most clever way of distributing your content. This is where more complex hardware enters the stage. But still, there are quite simple and affordable solutions. Small black (or grey/purple/blue/yellow/green/red) boxes that contain a (simple) CPU can be found anywhere. They do a good job at playing video.

The clue is in the use of our videos. They play very smooth on any modern (or even old) system because displaying video has become something a computer chip can do quite easily. Instead of having to calculate all the effects that happen on screen (which would take a serious CPU and graphics card) the computer just needs to copy bits and bytes from here to there. And coincidentally, that’s what it is best at.

If your desired player hardware has lots of CPU left for other things than playing video, it can do scheduling, reporting, playing audio, showing clocks and much more with the power that’s left.

There is a lot more to tell about this. If you need more info, mail info@headsub.com