No more Roku. The Roku media player is now a
thing of the past as far as jurying goes. The hardware for projection
jurying now consists of a MAC laptop connected wirelessly to a series of
MAC mini's that send the images to Infocus IN37EP digital projectors. DVD's
containing the images are loaded onto the mini's and a shared desktop from
the controlling MAC laptop runs the jury. Westaf has written a program
called "Jury Buddy" which is installed on all the mini's and it controls
the iPhoto interface to run the jury slide show image advance. It also
automatically masks the images of the artists eliminated in the early jury
rounds. This is a significant time saver for show staff because prior to
this, images had to be manually removed from the Compact Flash cards
between jury rounds. The scoring interface hasn't changed. Jurors still
enter their scores on laptops, and for the mock jury, they were using a
set of netbooks which are small PC laptops,