Want to buy MediaShout?

I’m willing to bet that most of my readers are going to favor ProPresenter since that is the type of people I am doing ministry with most of the time.

But I’ve been using MediaShout more often recently with a couple of events and I’ve decided to pursue becoming an official reseller.

I’ll be doing video (and possibly sound) for the Southeast Conference of the Covenant Church in a couple of weeks, and I’m building a custom desktop for the job, which will be for sale including MediaShout after the event.

Here’s what’s included:

• nVidia card with 256 MB RAM
• Windows Vista Home Premium (can be upgraded to Business if your church has a domain)
• 2 x 160 GB hard drives with RAID mirroring protection (the two hard drives work together as one and keep functioning in case a drive failes)
• 2 GB of RAM
• Duo Core processor, not sure of the GHz yet
• 19″ widescreen LCD

I’m estimating the price tag will be somewhere around $1600, including the licensed copy of MediaShout. I’m also considering the idea of providing a support plan for an additional $300 or so, but not sure about this yet. The support plan would include LogMeIn.com IT tools so I can remote into the machine when you call about various problems, AVG anti-virus, and CounterSpy anti-spyware, in addition to automated patch management and monitoring software that will warn of any hardware failures or other preventable issues.

Anybody have any feedback? The price seems high to me, but it is quite low compared to the ProPresenter prices, and you get the extra features like the redundant hard drives (something I would never live without on a production machine).