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REVIEW
The M-Vision Laser 18K Proje
BY JONATHAN BARLOW
At Grace Polaris
Church, we had
an interesting
conundrum.
We had been planning on
doing a full renovation
and complete overhaul
of our AVL equipment
(with a heavy focus on the
“V” component), but our
initial schedule had to be
postponed by a year due
to budgeting. However,
our old projection system
was definitely on its last
legs, having been in use
for over twenty years.
We had first introduced
IMAG to our church in
the late 80s to showcase
a Christmas production,
and then started building
our broadcast system
from bits and pieces we
were able to acquire —
often second-hand. It was
cutting-edge at the time,
but we knew the SD analog
equipment couldn’t last
forever. For the longest
time, we were holding our
entire broadcast workflow
together with spit, prayer,
and the hard work of a lot
of dedicated volunteers.
Because the projection
and image quality of our
old system was so poor, we
felt we couldn’t continue
another year without doing
something. Interise, our
integrator, told us that the
Digital Projection (DP)
projectors they had already
spec’dfor us could easily
bridge the gap between the
old equipment and the new,
so we made the decision to
move ahead with adding
two DP M-Vision Laser 18K
projectors in advance of the
rest of our AVL upgrade.
First, Interise also had
to figure out an effective,
yet inexpensive, way to
hang the projectors for the
year, all while knowing that
any changes made would
be redundant when the
renovations were completed
the following year and the
rest of our new equipment
was added.
Another issue we had to
contend with right out of
the gate was the fact that
the M-Vision projectors are
digital HD, and we needed
to make them work with
what we had. We were able
to convert our content from
analog to digital using an
AJA HD10AVA, with a
Decimator MD-HX crossconverter
upscaling the
SD digital to HD for our
projection to display. Using
the crop-settings on the
projectors, we were able
to ‘letterbox’ the display,
and the difference in what
we had been seeing versus
the new projected images
was incredible. Even with
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