god I love companies whose products all cost five to seven digits, but only sell about 100 units per year across their entire product line
I was trying to figure out what kind of switcher ESPN would use, and discovered a picture of a control room with a Grass Valley Kayenne, a modular system that can scale to 192 goddamn inputs and 9 M/E units - in other words, it can be 9 video mixers in one trenchcoat
but I look up a sales video of this thing, and while it's shot in a nice clean white room with appropriately photogenic plinths, the presenter (probably Steve, From Sales, picked because he looks the best in a suit) opens the main processor cage while the voiceover describes the redundant power supplies
and the board is bowing, absolutely sagging under the weight of the components. they've clearly massively overloaded it, to the point that the stiffening ridge is bent against its strength plane. i've never seen that, ever. this board must have 4 pounds of shit on it.
and then there's just this stack of serial ports and usb and stuff up front. DON'T LOOK AT THIS DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT WE DEFINITELY DIDN'T JUST COPY AND PASTE AN SOC REFERENCE DESIGN INTO KICAD AND SEND IT OFF TO BE FABBED
you absolutely love to see it. a company with $355 million in revenue, run by six guys who are Good with Computers
