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Fellowship Church Chooses Christie For State-of-the-Art Church Services

posted July 3, 2008

Christie digital projectors are now being used for visual displays at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas. Led by Pastor Ed Young, Fellowship Church is one of the fastest-growing churches in the United States with an estimated weekly attendance of more than 20,000. Recognized for its state-of-the-art church services Fellowship Church is on the leading-edge when it comes to houses of worship. Using unique and effective visual communications Fellowship Church has standardized on Christie across its five campuses in Texas and Florida.

“Christie earned our business when we sought to upgrade our technology,” comments Pace Hartfield, worship pastor for Fellowship Church. “Their image quality met our highest standards, but they…

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iLive Manages Korean Church Musical

posted July 3, 2008

Allen & Heath’s iLive digital mixing system is being used for Juan Presbyterian Church’s musical production, ‘Unfailing Love’, in Incheon, South Korea.

“I have always been an avid Allen & Heath user and find the desks excellent value for money. My first mixer was a GL4 and there is an ML5000 VCA console installed at the church,” explains H. T. Kim, executive mixing engineer at the Juan Presbyterian Church. “Some engineers I know are still concerned about the stability of digital mixers and I was one of them before I touched iLive. By the first day of the show I had complete confidence in iLive and it is surprisingly intuitive for a digital system. One of the key benefits of going digital is the scene memory…

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Texas Instruments to Support Projector Customers by Offering a Five Year DLP Chip Warranty

posted July 3, 2008

DLP Products from Texas Instruments is announcing support for its customers with a five year DLP chip warranty for existing chips to be integrated into DLP 1-chip projectors for education, business, and home theater. Each manufacturer will individually provide details regarding their warranty programs, taking into consideration this new five year extension. DLP’s new warranty does not include hours of usage restrictions.

DLP projector manufacturers have expressed interest about the opportunity to extend the DLP 1-chip warranty to their customers in the education, business, and home theater segments, including companies like BenQ, InFocus, Optoma, Toshiba and Vivitek.

“We are proud to be collaborating with our customers…

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Pond5 Makes a Big Splash in the Stock Footage World

posted July 3, 2008

Pond5 announces the launch of version 1.0 of its next-generation online footage marketplace, which includes several groundbreaking features and a site design that sets a new standard for speed and ease-of-use.  The launch coincides with another milestone: the fast-growing collection now offers more than 50,000 broadcast-quality SD and HD clips available for instant download, starting at $5 per clip. 

Pond5.com is an open marketplace for stock footage, where any video creator with professional-quality video footage can make it available for use in productions ranging from feature films, television programming and corporate videos to wedding and web videos.  Stock footage from Pond5 has been licensed to productions at…

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Registration for WFX Houston is Now Open

posted July 2, 2008

Join 5,000 church leaders and 400 exhibitors for the 4th annual WFX as we energize church executives, facilities and tech teams from churches of all sizes and budgets with the latest trends in church facilities and technology at WFX Houston. Taking place November 5 – 7, 2008 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, we want your team to experience all WFX has to offer for growing your facility. Register your team today for best savings.

With an updated conference program including over 30, never before seen at WFX, sessions, an expanded expo floor and exciting new special programs, classes and events to help you improve your church and connect with other church teams, as well as group, team and hotel discounts,…

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