MARS 2112

MARS 2112, a restaurant light years ahead of its time, had the foresight to utilize technology to its fullest when it was time to revamp the Mars experience.

Reached by way of a sunken plaza of the Paramount Building at 51st Street and Broadway, Mars 2112 exhibits higher technologies from the first glance. Inside is a shiny, slender space that looks like a bus station designed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration staffers. Visitors are issued Martian Federation visas and ushered to gates to await shuttles to Mars.

The shuttles are really a motion ride that bumps, pitches and sways for about five minutes through a computer-generated wormhole to the fourth planet, tens of millions of miles away.

Upon, arrival, patrons take a short walk over industrial-style walkways suspended over pools of simulated bubbling lava. The cavernous, 400-seat restaurant has two tiers and looks as if it's ready for shooting to resume for the original "Star Trek." The only windows are those cut into the restaurant's rock walls to offer glimpses of animated star fields and computer-generated Martian landscapes. The restaurant has a bar for adults and a computer-age arcade for youngsters called Cyber Street.

When the MARS 2112 staff required more flexibility and higher reliability in their playback source, Entertainment Technologies was the obvious choice of vendors. The server that once controlled everything (and when it was down the entire show was down) was replaced with professional DVD players. The video and audio sources were revamped and re-edited by ET as well. Music was created by Sound-O-Rama. Once all of the elements were approved ET authored the DVDs for maximum use in each venue.

Entertainment Technologies strives to provide clients with the most creative and cost effective solutions to meet their demanding needs.

- ET-Studios.com