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Muhammad Ali Center Gets Championship-Caliber AV Upgrade

Located in historic downtown Louisville, Ky.,the Muhammad Ali Center features three levels of award-winning exhibits and galleries. The Center, an international cultural center with a museum experience, shares Ali’s legendary life and legacy and invites visitors to reflect upon their own values, inner strength, character and what makes them great.

To fuel the interactive and multimedia exhibits, Video Solutions Inc. of Louisville was recently tasked with upgrading control systems, displays, playback devices and servers across the Center.

“Most of the exhibits built 10 years ago are AV-based, and equipment had begun to age,” says Mike Little, president of Video Solutions Inc.Some systems were experiencing reliability problems over time and others were obsolete platforms, he says, noting the company performed a large upgrade of the Center’s hardware and software while the museum remained open.

Visitors are introduced to the Center’s exhibits in the If You Can Dream Orientation Theater. A 14-minute film,“If You Can Dream,”is displayed on five screens in the immersive environment. It provides an overview of Ali’s life and introduces to visitors his six core principles, which are organized in six individual pavilions.

Viewers get to track Ali’s success in the ring with the film, “The Greatest,” which is projected onto the floor of a boxing ring and viewed from a mezzanine level.“Ali All the Time”offers visitors the opportunity to view,on demand, 15 of his most famous fight. The exhibit incorporates pre-and post-fight material and original broadcast commentary.Finally, the Lighting the Way Theater relives the extraordinary moment when Ali lit the Olympic torch in Atlanta in 1996.

Video Solutions selected Alcorn McBride’s DVM8500 single-channel HD video players and AV Binloop HD multichannel synchronous video players to replace the outdated proprietary servers and playback equipment.