Huh? So you'd prefer Tower of Babel scenarios where different bits of kit can't talk to each other because they're incompatible? Art-net is great because it is universal. And it's open source. And free. As a C++ developer I can easily and quickly write applications that can read, translate and decode an artnet network and do anything I want with it. I couldn't do that with sACN or MA-Net unless I cared to pay money for it. Art-Net has been, and always will be, the default protocol for DMX over IP, You don't see video walls for sale that will only work with one console or media server, they all talk Art-Net. People talk about a new protocol - be it CITP or some other reinvention of the wheel. Yes, it would be nice to have all these media server and visualiser extensions so I can see what effect parameters from server X are running on console Y, and then watch them in real time on Visualiser Z. But I don't have to wait for this, I have it already. All my thumbnails appear in my console. I know exactly what effects are running, because my desk tells me. And like others have said, now Art-Net 3 is about, which is faster and more powerful than all the other protocols, I suspect that the big console manufacturers will update their products to work with this as well, rather than ignore it. All the best Timmeh
