Thanks to the SECA grant from the City of Naperville, NCTV17 is doing something its needed done a long time ago: rebuilding playback. To give you an idea on how antiquated the older system was, just realize that it was built when 3/4" video tape was state of the art and DOS was the operating system du jour.

Thanks to the folks at Tightrope Media Systems and SmartChoice AV Solutions, Naperville Community Television is finally entering into the 21st Century. Utilizing a video server, a DVD "jukebox" capable of holding 400 DVDs and a network based database system, our playback system is going to be the best its ever been.

Here you can see Operations Supervisor Carl Schultz (me) along with our Programmer Jay Gosciniak (far right) and Mark, the installation engineer from SmartChoice AV Solutions.

You can also see a large pile of boxes.