The Christie solution
Christie offers high-end control room and content management solutions.
Control rooms & projection · alternative
An alternative to Christie.
Christie (Phoenix, Pandoras Box) equips control rooms and premium event installations. EMD is the affordable, sovereign alternative, compatible with used hardware.
- Refurbished & warrantied
- Sovereign software
- No subscription
With EMD
EMD covers the everyday needs of control rooms - multi-source display, scenarios, control - with a one-off payment.
Why used
The right hardware, without the extra cost.
The hardware is easily reused; EMD drives it without the premium software bill.
- Affordable and sovereign
- Reuse possible
- No subscription
- Made in France
REFURBISHED
+ EMD
guaranteed quality · controlled price
What Christie does, and for whom
Christie designs projectors, LCD and LED displays and content management software. For control rooms, the Phoenix range captures and distributes sources over the network. Pandoras Box, for its part, is a media server and a show control tool.
Its target markets are cinema, events, museums, scenography and control rooms. These are often made-to-measure installations, assembled by specialist integrators.
Where the budget goes over ten years
A high-end installation brings together several expense items: the displays or projectors, the processors and servers, the software licences, integration, then maintenance and renewal at end of life. The elements are designed to work together, which ties future developments to the same catalogue.
With us, the software is bought once: a perpetual licence, paid only once (Control, €1,911 excl. VAT, see the prices), with no annual fee.
The rest is standard hardware, new or refurbished, which you replace piece by piece, from the supplier of your choice.
What we do differently
Easy Multi Display is a software publisher, not a hardware manufacturer. Our Drag & Drop software runs on a standard PC, under Windows or Linux, and drives from 1 to 40 screens on direct output, more with image wall controllers. Each wall is divided into 24 zones at most, saved as scenarios.
The sources are those of a command room: HDMI capture of business workstations, RDP remote desktop, VNC session, network streams, cameras, websites. Everything works with the network and the Internet cut. CollectivView even displays up to 40 HDMI sources with no network at all between the screens.
Keeping your Christie, or complementing it
For large-scale projection, a show or a scenography, Christie equipment remains a relevant choice. A command room has other needs: displaying the right sources quickly, changing scenario in one gesture, running for days on end. Easy Multi Display covers these everyday needs as a one-off payment.
The hardware is reused without difficulty: any screen or projector with a standard video input can be fed by a PC running Easy Multi Display. During the Pope's visit to Lourdes, we built two image walls in two days (case study). For your project, write to us.
Frequently asked questions
Christie and Easy Multi Display: your questions
Short answers to the questions we are asked most often about this equipment and about how we drive or replace it.
Is Easy Multi Display suitable for a command room?
Yes, it is its main use: 29 fire and rescue services (SDIS) use it in their crisis and command rooms. It displays business workstations, cameras, maps and websites on a single wall.
How much does a software alternative to Christie Phoenix cost?
The Easy Multi Display licence is perpetual, paid only once (Control, €1,911 excl. VAT). The hardware is standard, new or refurbished, and priced separately according to your room.
Do I need a subscription or an Internet connection for Easy Multi Display?
No, neither. The software, installed under licence, works locally, with the network and the Internet cut, with no subscription and no online account.
Can existing projectors or screens be driven?
Yes, any display that accepts a standard video input can be fed by a PC running Easy Multi Display. A single PC drives 1 to 40 screens on direct output.
A project around Christie?
Tell us your need: we find the hardware and equip it with EMD.