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Houses of Worship Podcast

Upgrading Church Facilities to HD
In this edition, SVC contributing editor Bennett Liles talks with Max Kopsho, director of training and consultant relations for Kramer Electronics, a manufacturer of a wide variety of audio, video, and computer signal management devices. Kopsho provides details in how churches can perform an upgrade to HD, use FireWire in their video production, and tackle issues presented by church architecture in projector placement and image geometry. He also offers suggestions in video cabling with an eye on the future. Listen to this podcast>>

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The "Astatic Variable Pattern Control Technology" is a series of continuously-variable polar pattern, miniature-gooseneck, boundary, and hanging condenser microphones. The Variable Pattern Control allows the installer or audio technician to set the pick-up pattern exactly as needed while the microphone is active, without adding any noise into the audio chain. Now available with Remote Variable Pattern Control.
Installation News

Acoustic Dimensions Turns To JBL Loudspeakers For New Worship System At Prestonwood Baptist Church North
Acoustic Dimensions recently completed the design and commissioning of a JBL VERTEC line-array system at a new Prestonwood Baptist Church location in Prosper, Texas. Designed to accommodate a variety of musical performers and video presentations, Prestonwood Baptist Church North seats 1,500 and complements the main Prestonwood Baptist worship facility, located 17 miles to the south in Plano. Having previously designed the acoustics and sound systems for the main Prestonwood worship space, Acoustic Dimensions designed the entire audio/video/lighting system at Prestonwood North. According to Jim Burdette of Acoustic Dimensions, the construction of Prestonwood North marked a natural step forward in the evolution in Prestonwood's worship style. more>>

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Danley Subwoofers Handle the Low End for Willow Creek Church
Willow Creek Community Church is one of the most famous mega-churches in the world and regularly draws over 22,000 attendees to its suburban-Chicago location every weekend. Its truly awe-inspiring auditorium boasts over 7,200 seats, which technically makes it the largest theater in the world. Thanks to state-of-the-art sound, LED display, and projection systems, not one of those seats could be fairly described as “bad,” a fact that makes Willow Creek's services so engaging. Nevertheless, the sheer volume of the space thwarted every attempt to deliver bass response that was commensurate with the rest of the system, brought ultimately to a happy resolution with the purchase of six Danley TH-115 subwoofers. more>>

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Doing more with Sony’s HD digital signage player.
Sony’s powerful digital signage solutions combine sleek HD displays with the award winning VSP-NS7 digital signage player to meet the growing need for dynamic and visually appealing signage. Captivate and motivate your audience with five simultaneous layers of content, plus audio. Interactive touch screen & GPI operation, networked HD video, picture-in-picture display plus emergency broadcast capability are just a few of the powerful applications. Read more about the VSP-NS7.

Historic House of Worship Modernizes Presentation Capabilities with a Canon REALiS Projector
Upgrading a historic house of worship's large-screen presentation capabilities requires a projector with superb image-display versatility, convenient operation, and a compact design to minimally impact the church's interior. This is why the century-old First Assembly of God, located in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, chose Canon U.S.A.'s REALiS X600 Multimedia Projector, which combines crisp, high-brightness display of text, still images, and motion video with features that help maintain the church's traditional atmosphere. more>>

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The Changing Role of IT Video Production Systems for Universities, Churches, and Schools
IP for video is now commonplace in the video production and postproduction worlds, and that fact has dramatically lowered the time and expense of producing and distributing AV content for a wide range of applications, particularly in the educational and worship markets. This webcast will explore the way IT technologies and techniques are changing how video production is done in the houses of worship and academic markets. Register now for this webcast, to be held April 14, 2009.
Product News

Soundcraft Upgrades Successful Lexicon-Equipped Mixers
Soundcraft has taken the already successful MPM and MFX Series of mixers and given them both hardware and audio performance upgrades.
The new Soundcraft mixers, known as the MFXi and MPMi Series (emphasizing the high input count on each), build on the strength of the original range by using vertically mounted PCBs with the control pots being nutted to the front panel. This not only increases the rigidity of the mixer and gives a firm operating feel, but also aids servicing should it ever be required. As part of this review, all aspects of new the layouts were reviewed taking into account customer feedback over the past 18 months and this has yielded many other subtle but significant improvements to the layout, graphics and operation when compared to the original consoles. more>>


Tripp Lite's VGA-Over-Cat5 Extenders Allow Monitor Placement 500+ Feet From Source
Tripp Lite has introduced two new VGA-over-Cat5 extenders that provide cost-effective video and audio distribution over long distances with no compromise of picture or sound quality. Model B130-101 extends a VGA video signal up to 500 feet from the source, while model B130-101A extends both video and audio. Maximum range is extendible to 1,000 feet using Tripp Lite's low-skew Cat-5 patch cable. These new extenders are ideal for a wide range of applications including retail locations, classrooms, houses of worship, transportation hubs, conference centers and high-quality digital signage. more>>

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