SY Thalia - an electronic haven on the high seas
August 2009
gizmag: The SY Thalia is a yacht with a difference ... while it's a beautiful looking vessel outside, it's what's inside that really takes your breath away.
July 2009
The Australian: Liquid Automation won the Best marine Project with the sort of fit-out that would make a home system stand out, only this one is on a 159ft yacht.
July 2009
The Australian: The SY Thalia, which competed in the Millennium Cup in New Zealand in February, surprisingly includes the sort of audiovisual gear that would make a home system stand out...
Liquid Automations' CEDIA award winning entertainment systems provide one simple intuitive way to select and use any number of entertainment devices including Radio, IPOD, Apple TV, DVD, Audio Video Server, Satellite TV, Digital Terrestrial TV and IPTV.
Audio video is distributed around the yacht in true 1920x1080 high definitions over a custom fiber optic or Ethernet based media matrix.
Our controllers give feedback directly to the wireless remote. This allows fast and easy searching for music from the media server or iPod docks without looking at your TV. Our remote controls mimic the intuitive ipod-like user interface. Importantly our remote controls give a quick description of current activity with no danger of getting lost.
Our custom system has an extensive range of pre loaded Satellite, Terrestrial and Digital decoders for the Mediterranean, Caribbean and European sailing grounds, allowing the Ships engineer, at the touch of a button selects what country the yacht is in and automatically the correct control are selected, even the radio frequency steps will change allowing for a true worldwide capable entertainment system.
Liquid Automation can design and integrate many automated devices including custom LCD/ Art Work lifts to water proof marine Projection screens.
The freedom to work seamlessly on board can extend the available time to enjoy your investment. What better place to do work than in your own office at sea. Just because you are away from work does not mean you cannot check in from time to time. Dialing is a breeze just a simple press of the preset contact from your touch screen and you are in business.
We have the ability to adapt to specific vessel limitations and provide a seamless result for you, the end user.
If there are not enough decoders for every cabin there will be a priority order. For example if there was a yacht with 12 TV’s and only three decoders then the priority will be:
The way it works is when the Saloon selects SAT TV first, it will take Sat Decoder #2 and will have full control. If any other area selects SAT TV on the remote, SAT TV #2 will show as “IN USE” by the Saloon. If selecting SAT TV #2 in another area a banner will come up over the screen showing the Saloon has control and local control will not be available until the saloon either switches off or selects a different source. If a crew area selects SAT TV, no “IN USE” indication will come up on any guest remotes. So if a guest selects the same decoder they will take over the control and the crew area will get the “IN USE” indication.
The Health of your system is monitored constantly and should for any reason an amplifier, speaker or other device fail, the system will annunciate the failure locally to the ships engineer as well as contact Liquid Automation.
All equipment rack temperatures are constantly monitored ensuring the system controller will notify all crew panels of the rising temperature. The system controller will also shut down and protect the equipment in case of excessive temperature.
