Alcorn McBride Delivers for the Museum of The Moscow Railways

Alcorn McBride's Digital Binloop and Digital Video Machine HD are critical to the smooth operation of the Museum of The Moscow Railways, where they provide playback and control for many of the exhibits.

Moscow Railways is the territorial branch of Russian Railways. It has an operating length of about 5,500 miles. Eleven lines converge on the Moscow rail hub and are connected by two rings. The Small Ring spans 33 miles and the Large Ring extends 347 miles. Moscow Railways carries a huge amount of commuter traffic, with an electric train departing every four to six minutes during peak times.

Museum of the Moscow Railways reopened after renovation in August. The A/V systems subcontractor who completed the install was Russian company a3vision .

The installation uses one Alcorn McBride Digital Binloop and two Digital Video Machine HD video players. The design required some of the channels to play accurately and in sync, so the contractor selected Alcorn McBride's Digital Binloop. The Digital Binloop drives multiple displays and projectors in the exhibition space.

One of the DVM8400HD players feeds content to the video wall. A three-by-three grid of 46" NEC seamless LCD displays is used in conjunction with an interactive touch kiosk. This interactive installation takes visitors on a journey through history of development of the Moscow Railways from the middle of 19th century until now.

Another DVM8400HD player provides the content for an HD display detailing the operation of the Bekasovo marshalling (classification) yard -- the biggest one in Russia, the company says.

Other equipment in this project includes multiple NEC LCD displays, CASIO Green Slim projectors, Panasonic PT-D6000 Series projector, Panphonics directional audio speakers, SpinetiX Hyper Media Players, and NewTec acoustics.

All audio and video source equipment have a centralized location in a rack and are easily updated from the network. A UTP cabling system sends all video, audio and control signals to the equipment in the facility.