Spread the Word

4:15 PM -- Eons ago, Moses had to lug the Ten Commandments around on stone tablets. Today, God's messengers have way cooler tools than Moses or even Cecil B. DeMille could ever have imagined.

Some of these will be on display next week at Technologies for Worship at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2006 conference -- held, appropriately enough, in "Sin City," Las Vegas.

Amid technology demos, there will be discussions on "Worship Software to Expand Your Media Presentation," "Producing a Worship Service," "Microphones and Religious Applications," "Radio Frequency Interference and the Church Sound System," and "Emerging Trends in Workshop Facility Design for the Contemporary Church."

There's even a seminar on "Wireless Systems For Houses of Worship: How They Work and How to Keep Them Working." Plug and pray, no doubt.

And perhaps most importantly, "Equipment Purchases From the Show Floor Getting the Best Purchases For Your Worship Facility."Storage vendors consider broadcasting a big and rapidly expanding market, primarily because broadcasters have a lot of big files to move and save. (See Lights, Camera... NAS!, CBS News Ices Tape, and NBC.) No doubt they'll warm to this vertical-within-a-vertical (waaaay vertical) as well.

Envision the press releases to come.

— Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch