Mac Mini as a commerical display controller?

Can the Mac Mini be set up as a commercial video display controller with automatic updating via network?

A simple way you could do this is with many of the
slide show to movie apps, create your display
images into the form of a movie.   You can then use
Quicktime player in full screen mode to play it back
on each Mini.
You could then use a "Master Mini" with Apple Remote
Desktop to download and control each of the remote
minis and also maintain them.  You only need one copy
of ARD for the controller as OSX on all the other Minis
will have the hooks already built in.
Then you can also create a script that can be run after
a machine boot by putting it in start up folder that will
configure Quicktime player and start the "movie".  This
way if there is some power outage or someone pulls the
wrong power plug it can be started up without any additional
work of downloading and such.
BTW, this is a link to the page that lists the various
containers and video/audio formats supported.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3775
It is one possible approach.  Of course, you aren't
limited to Quicktime player.  There are many other
free video players available.

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