Faced with an aging infrastructure and staring at the
high-definition future of broadcasting, Crystal Cathedral Ministries
(CCM) recently decided the time had come to invest in the future by
upgrading to HD for production of The Hour of Power.
The challenge was considerable. ... The change to high definition would
require a fundamental reworking of the organization's approach to
postproduction. Peter Richardson, Crystal Cathedral's chief engineer for
video production explains, "We'd been evaluating going to HD for a
number of years. Until now, we had been completely composite video, but
that equipment was slowly dying and needed to be upgraded. What I've
been seeing at NAB for the past several years is that there is less and
less SD product available, and while HD equipment is expensive, the
price has been dropping.
Working for a nonprofit ministry, I have to
look at what is the most cost-effective means of getting to our goal,
and looking at the long-term, it was clear that this was the time to go
hi-def." -- From the January 2007 Installation Profile, "Investing in
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In this edition of the Houses of Worship AV Special Focus enewsletter
podcast series, S&VC contributor and freelance AV specialist
Bennett Liles concludes a two-part conversation with Galen Boyce,
president of 
