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Case Study: Food Market one of the installers said. "Of the four P12 (AJ-PX720) camcorders, two can be used anywhere, shoulder mounted or on a tripod, one is permanently mounted on a JIB and controlled by an operator on the floor sand one is generally a backup. "Frankly" the AV Director notes, "the solution is much better than we even expected." A MULTIPLICITY OF USES AND USERS "Last year, our five-person department did over 400 events, and the majority of them were in the conference center," he said. "We use it for all the traditional things like sales seminars, safety training programs and store managers' meetings. We also have mini-trade shows where some of our vendors come in and demonstrate their new products. "Generally, for these types of events, we use the P2 cameras to support the robotic PTZ cameras so that if we need some close work, we have a mobile camera and an operator who can zoom in on what we need, and stream it right into the ongoing presentation. We also use the P2 cameras offsite so that we can stream in remote speakers or presentations and integrate them into our shows in real time." LAST VENDOR STANDING Like most companies planning a major multimedia upgrade, a rigorous roadmap for selecting equipment manufacturers and resellers-was established, only the path may have been a bit more rigorous than most. With a small five-person AV crew, reliability from their products and partners was a major consideration. "I've had a lot of experience with video systems and those experiences have varied greatly depending on the installer and his capabilities," one of the techs on the acquisition committee related. "Generally they love to sell and install systems, and do a very poor job of servicing the account after the fact. "So the first thing we did was put out an RFI for a resale, installation, training and service provider because this was going to be a huge integrated effort including some technology that was new to us, and it was essential that we make the right choice of vendor." "... we're tickled with the quality of the Panasonic projectors, the realism of their colors, the brightness of the image, the extended lamp life, the really long,12,000-hour Eco filter maintenance cycle... the whole package." "Once we decided on our integrator, we did an RFP for the equipment, and the integrator began bringing in different manufacturers' components that met our specifications so that we could have a shootout right here in our facility." In general, features evaluated during the shootout were informally divided into "lay person side" and "operational side." The "lay person" side consisted of so-called "eye appeal" items: the "look" and "feel" of the images, the clarity, brightness, color rendition and other critical display factors. The "operational side" consisted of technical factors like the number and type of inputs and outputs, maintenance characteristics, projection bulb life and other reliability issues because, if you're going to hang them from the ceiling, you want to make sure they don't go out of commission to often. On the camera side, streaming was a big deal for the AV Department because it was something they didn't currently have the capacity for. They also liked the P2 storage card system, the focal length of the lenses, the input/output selection and, especially, the high/low resolution selector, which, the AV Director said "allows us to record almost four times longer (by using Panasonic's AVC-LongG25 setting) per storage card while retaining HD quality." To make a long selection process short, the dust and smell of gunpowder eventually settled, as it does after every shootout, and Panasonic was the last manufacturer standing. The chain's AV Director, for one, is virtually euphoric that it was. Over the course of the entire 18 month project, he says, "Panasonic has been great. They've been totally responsive to our needs and have delivered what they said they would, when they said they would. In fact, they even went 'above and beyond the call' when we had a problem with one of our projectors and they replaced it with a newer model at no additional charge." LEARN MORE 877.803.8492 [email protected] us.panasonic.com/projectors ©2017 Panasonic Corporation of North America. All rights reserved. Food Market Case Study_04/17