Ok, my dream when I was nine years old and turned my Mom’s Hoover upright vacuum into a TV studio camera by putting a cardboard box on top, may finally become reality.

The amazing software folks at Boinx Software in Germany (whose FotoMagico I have owned and used for sometime) have introduced something called BoinxTV today. And if it does what it looks like it can, then I will soon build my own TV production empire, complete with multiple cameras, magic chroma key effects and even annoying bottom of the screen “tickers”!

All from the comfort of my own basement.

BoinxTV runs on a Mac, and for the life of me–looks like a cooler, cheaper version of an earlier groundbreaking bit of software magic called the “Video Toaster”. The Toaster revolutionized low cost video production, and the company that made it went on the build a box called the “TriCaster” which may be the closest thing to a television studio in a box that has been built.

But the TriCaster still costs 5 grand–and up. It can easily get in the neighborhood of ten thousand when you add all the bells and whistles.

Compare this to BoinxTV (which I admit sounds a bit like a would-be porn channel) which costs a whopping $499. If you’re willing to give them a plug in all of your productions, they’ll sell you BoinxTV for $199! (You will need a recent vintage, high speed Mac to run it on.)

As soon as I get to feeling a little better (I am fighting off a cold that has sapped me of a lot of energy), I will be so geeking out on this.

Can KirkTV can be far off? (sort of like David Lee Roth’s 1985 video for “Just a Gigolo” )

But likely even more pathetic.