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McLean Bible Church Selects Doremi Labs’ Nugget
For HD Video Playback at Church’s Remote Campus

Burbank, CA – August 15th, 2007   McLean Bible Church selects Doremi Labs’ Nugget for HD video playback at the Church’s remote campus.

McLean Bible, founded in 1961 by ten families to have an impact on secular Washington, now reaches more than 13,000 people every weekend.  With McLean Bible’s main campus in Vienna, VA almost at full capacity, a decision was made to develop ten “Community Campuses” around the Washington, D.C. beltway.  This will be accomplished by offering live music at each community campus and playing back a prerecorded sermon delivered from the main campus by way of the Doremi Nugget. 

McLean Bible’s community campus project has created many unique technical challenges.  McLean Bible uses an HD-SDI capture card to record and encode the sermon from its main campus to a PC workstation’s hard drive.  Video will then be sent from the workstation over the church’s Ethernet network to the Doremi Nugget2ruPro.  The 2ruPro is a version of the Doremi Nugget that features a removable hot swap hard drive in a 2 rack unit chassis.

“The simplicity of use and the exceptional picture quality set the Nugget apart,” shared David Schatzman, the Church’s Technical Director.  The Nugget2ruPro will have the recorded sermon file on its hot swappable IDE hard drive which will be extracted and duplicated using an IDE hard disk duplicator.  The Drives are distributed every Sunday morning to each community campus where they will be played back using additional Nugget2ruPros at a high resolution from Christie projectors.

The first community campus venue, the Uptown Theatre in Washington, D.C., will feature a Christie Roadie 25k LE to project digital video from the Nugget2ruPro onto the Uptown’s 70 ft. wide screen. 

According to Charles Gordon, a Production Technician at McLean Bible, “Doremi has played a substantial role in developing our community campus video broadcast systems.”