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As more churches and religious facilities incorporate video into their
services and educational programs, PESA routers are providing them a
cost-effective solution for audio/visual routing, control, and
distribution systems. For more information, go to www.pesa.com.
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Houses of Worship Top Story
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Leasing AV Systems Can Appeal
to Church Buyers
Creating the best possible technical solution to the
needs of a house of worship is often just part of the challenge in
marketing audiovisual systems in this major market segment. Helping the
client pay for the new system in the most logical and effective way is
also a critical element.
Today, both mainstream commercial customers and clients in worship
venues often look at leasing as a practical way to finance major
investments in audio and video systems. Often, church buyers are
especially drawn by the advantages of a well-structured lease. more>>
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You read all about it these days. Digital television is gobbling up UHF
frequencies. Just when you need more wireless mics, the UHF band getting
squeezed. The clear alternative is Sabine Wireless, which is immune to
any interference from all TV channels. And Sabine just sounds better.
Prove it to yourself - get a demonstration today. www.Sabine.com.
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Danley Sound Labs Subs Solve
Low-end Problems at Perimeter Church
Perimeter Church, a progressive Presbyterian
ministry based in Atlanta, began as a way to spread its message within
the city's ever-evolving culture and expanding city limits. In its goals
to reach "the unchurched," Perimeter has always aspired to do great
things on a large, appealing, alluring and, most importantly, effective
scale.
Recently, the technical staff at Perimeter determined that one
particular audio problem in the church's sanctuary—a significant
low-frequency deficiency—was no longer effective or tolerable.
Something had to be done, but an acoustic redesign recommended by the
designing audio consulting firm just wasn't feasible. At that point,
Mike Hedden and his firm dB Audio & Video, a Georgia-based
"design-build-install" audio contractor, were asked to stage a demo with
the manufacturer of sound reinforcement loudspeaker technology he's
proud to champion—Danley Sound Labs. more>>
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Shootout At Rolling Hills:
Innovative Nexo Install For Oregon House Of Worship
System designer and integration firm Delta Systems
Integration of Portland, Ore., has recently completed installation
of a highly innovative Nexo sound reinforcement system at Rolling Hills Community
Church in Tualatin, Ore. This spacious sanctuary is the first
worship venue in the world to use a combination of Nexo GEO T tangent
arrays with a Nexo Alpha cluster.
A three-company loudspeaker system shootout established quick
consensus between Rolling Hills Community Church (RHCC), RHCC Director
of Media Services John Harrel, and the team from Delta, coordinated by
Mark Smith. The shootout was staged at a similar-sized church, where
manufacturer representatives each flew a mono cluster using
factory-specified amplification and processors. Nexo's small Alpha
cluster proved to be the turning point in the selection process.
Listening to the pastor through a headworn mic and the Alpha system,
church executives, John Harrel, and Delta engineers alike thought the
results so clear-cut that the church insisted that a center cluster of
Alpha be included in the final specification. more>>
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NEC Adds Five Projectors to LT
and VT Series
NEC has added five new projectors to its
best-selling product line. NEC's LT280 and LT380 LCD projectors feature
integrated wired and wireless LAN compatibility. The VT48, VT480, and
VT580 LCD projectors are affordably priced while still boasting such
essential features as high light output, quick setup, and wall color and
keystone correction. Estimated street prices start at $795 after rebate,
setting an unprecedented new price band for a brand-new product line in
the projector category.
"Up until now our industry made a tradeoff—offer cutting-edge
technology or an affordable price," says David Woolf, vice president of
marketing for NEC. "NEC's new line of VT and LT projectors challenges
this assumption and delivers exactly what our customers are asking for:
breakthrough features and performance at an affordable price." more>>
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Disc Makers Unveils Redesigned
Automated Elite Duplicator and Printer Line
Disc Makers sets a new standard for size and
ease-of-use with its latest line of redesigned Elite duplicators—the
most rugged automated duplication and printing systems on the market.
The new Elite2, ElitePro2, Elite4, and ElitePro4 systems showcase a new
FlexWare software suite that integrates disc creation, on-disc design,
disc duplication, and printing into one easy-to-use application. In
addition, they incorporate the latest 16x DVD±R/48x CD-R drives from
Plextor, giving them the fastest, most reliable throughput in the
industry.
The new Elite systems are now shipping and start at just $2,490 (was
$3,490) for the two-drive Elite2 and $4,290 (was $5,490) for the
four-drive Elite4. Both systems can be upgraded to an ElitePro system
featuring a built-in PC with preloaded software, keyboard, and mouse for
just $500 more. The ElitePro2 is $2,990 (was $4,190) and ElitePro4 is
$4,790 (was $6,490). All systems are available with Disc Makers' latest
Autograph7 4800 dpi color inkjet printer. more>>
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NTI Introduces TalkBox for
Speech Intelligibility Testing
Speech intelligibility testing used to be the province
only of large distributed paging or dedicated emergency systems.
Although such systems are in place in many buildings, there are also
typically far more larger venue sound systems in place at thousands of
other locations. Local, national, and international regulations are now
either requiring speech intelligibility testing for this critical
aspect, or are gradually moving toward such testing requirements for
reinforcement systems as well. We need look only as far as various club
fires and other panic disasters of the last few years to see why this is
wise, whether yet required or not. STI-PA testing as standardized by TNO
meets ISO requirements and is the preferred method for testing amplified
systems.
NTI's
TalkBox, combined with portable STI-PA speech intelligibility
measurements in the AL1 Acoustilyzer, allows sound systems to be tested
for STI-PA speech intelligibility from end-to-end, where a simple
intelligibility measurement could possibly make the difference between
life and death—reducing injuries and mitigating potentially huge
liability claims. more>>
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