Down the Rabbit Hole

This week we had a big meeting with a vendor. After our meeting he wanted to take us to a local facility where his equipment is in use.

And so we piled in the car and drove over to the Playboy Entertainment Group's network origination facility.

It was one weird place. They uplink something like fourteen channels of porn, ranging from soft-core to "just how many people are in that room," in addition to doing a couple radio shows for the satellite services. It was a little distracting to be in their master control room, where everything (and I do mean everything) is playing out on a big monitor wall.

The gear they use is not terribly different from the stuff that every other broadcaster uses - but I guarantee that master control rooms with nude posters all over the walls are rare indeed.

Very surreal.