Located in downtown Dallas, the Convention Centre plays host to a variety of events and installs ranging from exhibitions and museums to cultural centres and concerts. This month saw Halls D-F taken over by technology companies and churches of different denominations and sizes. Presented by Church Production magazine and Worship Facilities magazine the exhibition provided an opportunity for key people from both sectors to meet and greet.
For Green Hippo's Samantha Bailey and Tom Etra this was a new experience. "Our move into this sector is still at the early stages but we are very committed. TMB, our distributor for the Americas, has already made good progress into this market; a couple of churches in the US have recently purchased Hippotizer media servers. WFX was a great opportunity for us to get a better idea about the kind of features expected in churches as well as allowing us to introduce our products to a much wider audience."
Hippotizer media servers could be seen in action at a couple of stands throughout the exhibition: The Barbizon Lighting Company used the server's UberPan component to control 3 HD monitors, a Martin LED wall and an RGB lights LED wall over Kinet in their demo room at WFX. Ford Audio-Visual had the server controlling six projectors in an UberPan projection mapping set-up on their booth.
Sales manager Samantha Bailey comments, "After visiting WFX we were able to strengthen the direction we are taking into the worship market and with this we are confident that more churches will discover the advantages of Hippotizer in the future."
(Jim Evans)
