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Church of Champions Streams Services with KulaByte
9/14/2012
CHICAGO —Haivision, a
video networking, digital signage and IP video distribution company, announced
that the Church of Champions, a house of worship located in Houston, has
deployed the KulaByte Internet video encoder to enable 1080p live streaming of
its services and other events to web audiences and congregations at its
affiliate churches in North America and Argentina.
“Live Internet streaming
with KulaByte is a critical component in our ability to share our message with
the widest-possible audience, on the platform of their choice whether a desktop
or mobile device, and with HD quality that rivals that of any professional
broadcaster," said Wendell Hutchins, pastor and founder of the Church of
Champions.
Haivision's audio visual
solutions provider partner on this project, Whitlock, has delivered
implementation and support services for the encoder, which is currently used
along with Haivision's HyperStream Live cloud-based transcoding service to stream
the second Sunday morning service and other events from the 1,000-seat main
sanctuary. Audiences can watch the services live or on demand from the church's
web video channel, http://www.champ.tv/.
The initial webcast of the Sunday morning service last November drew more than
600 unique viewers; since then, the Internet audience has grown to thousands
every Sunday.
"From a system design
standpoint, our goal was to enable people with any type of Internet capability
to access church content at the highest-possible resolution," said Jon
Litt, account executive at Whitlock. "KulaByte has enabled us to do this
with the least amount of hardware and bussing, enabling the stream to be tamed
according to the device pulling down the content — whether it's a DSL line, a
wireless coffee shop connection, or even a dial-up connection. Also,
Haivision's HyperStream Live service has enabled the church to avoid costly
third-party transcoding services for all of the various delivery
platforms."
The KulaByte system delivers
HD streams to affiliate churches that lack the resources to conduct their own
services. Churches without a pastor can take the live feed of the sermon at a
designated time following their own music program; likewise, those without
music can stream the musical segment of the main service.
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