Green Hippo will pull back the curtain on the Estuary Series in Las Vegas. The debut takes place at ACT Entertainment booth #N6813. Built on the Calico video processing architecture from sister brand tvONE and refined ‘for the unforgiving realities of showtime’, Estuary delivers ‘multi-layered switching across massive LED canvases’ with one-frame end-to-end latency, 10-bit/HDR processing, and up to 256 layers of real-time visual control.
Designed for concerts, touring, broadcast, immersive environments, and large-scale installations, Estuary gives operators command over expansive visual systems ‘without the sprawl’. The platform supports four canvases up to 64,000 × 64,000 pixels, seamless transitions, and a fully open control ecosystem, including DMX/sACN, HippoNet, Companion, and REST API. Whether it’s anchoring a lighting workflow or running as the central media hub of a full production, Estuary unifies the entire visual stack under one roof.
“Estuary is the missing link,” says Bob Bonniol, chief innovation officer at ACT Entertainment. “It marries the power and flexibility of a world-class pixel canvas controller with the control workflow that lighting designers already know and love – the grandMA3 console. For the first time, the lighting operations and the media operations can live in the same language. That changes everything.”
The Estuary Series launches with three purpose-built models. The MC1 is a compact 1RU controller sized for studios, corporate environments, and simulation spaces, deceptively powerful yet elegantly contained. The MC2 is a touring-grade 2RU system with modular I/O, engineered for concerts, keynotes, and immersive installations that live on the road.
The MC4 is Green Hippo’s arena-scale flagship: up to 256 layers, sub-frame latency, and ‘the raw horsepower to drive the world’s largest productions without breaking a sweat’. All three models support high-bandwidth HDMI and SDI modules, advanced IP workflows, and the complete Estuary feature set.
