Taipei, Taiwan (September 1, 2011) – ATEN International, a leading designer and manufacturer of advanced connectivity solutions, today announced that St. Francis of Assisi Church in Poland installs the VanCryst™ Media Distribution Solution (MDS) from ATEN. The deployment of ATEN MDS not only helps priests to perform their duties easier, but also better serves their parishioners at Mass.

Religious buildings are commonly perceived to be wholly traditional but in terms of technology some churches are now leading the masses in a new way. St. Francis of Assisi Church is seeking to outfit the church with a more functional audio and video setup. Aiming to make the church service more effective, efficient, and reliable, they need an affordable and easy to use solution that sends out high-quality audio and video content to multiple displays in real time.

St. Francis Church in Zabierzów installed a multimedia system with four TVs, which are also used to play background sound. The audio and video signals come from a computer, which is used to play and display songs, presentations, movies, and photographs. The main challenge to the church is to broadcast high quality video across longer distances for maximum viewing
capability.

After careful evaluation, the church adopted ATEN's VanCryst™ Media Distribution Solution. The solution includes oneVS1504 4-port A/V splitter, one VB522 VGA Over Cat 5 Repeater, and two VE200R Audio/Video Receivers. The VanCryst™ MDS is a cost-effective and efficient way to send high quality video content over long distances via Cat 5e network cable to multiple displays from a single source. By using Cat 5e network cable to connect an A/V splitter to the repeater/receiver(s), the four displays can be installed up to a hundred meters from a single input source.

"I analyzed the market and went through product portfolios offered by many companies before I decided to choose the solution from ATEN. I have to admit that it was a very good choice. Their products are reliable, very well-made, and ensure great picture and sound quality", says Stanisław Korzonek, the IT specialist who installed ATEN products for St Francis Church.

With high flexibility and scalability, the MDS allows TVs to be mounted in optimal locations, while the computer providing the multimedia content can be kept secure in a control room for easy service and maintenance. Now, the sound coming from the setup can be heard well from every corner of the church and the four TVs are in clear view for all parishioners to see. The MDS system solves the problem of low image quality, display interference, and a lack of access to displays. Another major advantage of the system based on ATEN's solution is easy expansion- allowing additional TVs to be easily added. ATEN’s MDS is cascadable up to three levels, so additional TV sets can be easily added to the system according to the church's future expansion needs.

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