Wildish Theater 

Internal Video Distribution and Routing.

During Rhodec's tenure as TD at the Wildish Theater he designed, installed, and continually upgraded the theater's video distribution systems.

Primary Projector: The Wildish Theater stands in the footprint of the McKenzie theater which was primarily used as a single screen movie house. A key aspect to project stake holder was retaining a community movie house. The theater was originally equipped with a home cinema projector suspend from the second catwalk. After a few years this location proved to be unsuitable and a new projector from InFocus was suspend above the house seating.

When the cabling was moved to the new location only VGA and power were included. Shortly after Rhodec's promotion to TD the signal integrity of the VGA cable became compromised, unfortunetly the conduit pathway from the booth the projector was poorly designed and included numerous 90 degree elbows. It quickly proved impractical to remove/replace/re-run VGA. With help from his team Rhodec ran shieleded category six wireing 

Back stage monitoring: When the theater was originally outfitted the green and dressing rooms were equipped with audio monitoring. The theater was home to children's preforming arts groups during this time and the young preformers would often miss cues, parent supervisors also wished to be able to watch the show. With the request from clintents becoming evermore frequent Rhodec began researching the most cost effective method to add cabability to the theatre. Using the threaters Category5e wireing, an HDMI converter, a used computer monitor, and his childhood camcorder visual monitor was added to the green room. 

The monitor in the green room was received positively and clients requested the system  be expanded into the dressing rooms. A dedicated network switch was added in the telephone room allowing the video signal to be duplicated and repeated.

Front of house monitoring: In addition to the back stage monitors theater management agreed that adding video monitoring to the lobby would positively impact the patrons, allowing young family's to take breaks from the auditorium when necessary and provide opportunities for late comers to enjoy there show without being disruptful. 

Originaly the FOH and backstage monitors shared a "channel" however eventrually there where seperated allowing for pre-roll slides to be shown in the lobby while the stage was still visable backstage prior to the house doors opening.