Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Tech Tip for overflowing services.


About two years ago our church developed a problem with seating in our auditorium: we had none. Not yet having the funds to begin a new building, we often found ourselves grabbing chairs from downstairs or wherever we can find them to seat people. Obviously, this isn't a good way to introduce guests to a church service. Our answer to this problem was to incorporate a closed circuit television for our teenagers downstairs. We have your basic VHS camcorder hooked up to a projector and we added two speakers that run off the main sound board for the sound downstairs. By doing this, we have been able to add enough seating, for now. Grant it it isn't the high-tech fix, but it's a solution that most anyone can do themselves.

All you need is a camcorder (we use an old VHS), projector (we use an infocus X1), speakers from the sound board, and a cable to connector the camcorder and projector (we use a coax cable with adapters on both ends for RCA jacks).

So if you are running out of space and don't want to start building a new building yet, this is a good alternative.

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