Panasonic’s ISE 2024 brought many new features, including long-term ones: AVoIP-ready enablement for many products and attention to environmental and energy sustainability
Panasonic Connect Europe presented at ISE 2024 a series of new generation products for various application areas, from Entertainment to Education to Corporate, designed to allow increasingly easier sharing of content from anywhere using AVoIP. Further innovations concern the range of Panasonic multimedia processors for multi-projection as well as the latest sustainable projector models. Finally, Panasonic ProAV has launched the new Media Production Suite and important KAIROS updates.
Let’s start with the ET-FMP50 series from Panasonic Connect Europe, which includes three multimedia processors designed to improve multiple projection installations in immersive environments. Two devices are box type (ET-FMP50/FMP20) while one is an Intel SDM specification slot compatible function card (ET-SBFMP10). The series is equipped with manual or automatic warping and blending functions, as well as multimedia playback functions, which simplify the work of system integrators who need to create immersive installations with limited time and budget.
Among the new projectors, the concept of sustainability dominates, and the prize goes to the MZ882 LCD series. With a brightness of up to 8.200 lumens, this series is designed for Educational and Corporate applications, with attention to performance and costs. Panasonic confirms that it wants to reduce the carbon footprint of its products, using recycled resins as well as various recyclable components throughout.
Furthermore, the new RQ7 1-Chip DLP projector series, available from the second half of 2024 and positioned between the FRQ60 series (6.000 lm) and the REQ12 series (12.000 lm), with its 7.500 lumens will make immersive experiences accessible to all 4K, with projection-mapping solutions for galleries, museums and entertainment. Thus was born the first Panasonic projector with less than 8.000 lumens compatible with Intel SDM for easier integration into existing infrastructure and AVoIP.
Finally, the new software-based Media Production Suite for intuitive and efficient video production is available for free immediately, allowing you to manage Panasonic’s professional camera systems in one convenient platform, while the new firmware (V1.6 ) for the live production platform KAIROS offers new filters and color correction. Also introduced are new SDI I/O cards (AT-KC20M1) for the three most recent Kairos Core mainframes, AT-KC200 and AT-KC2000/KC2000S1 which increase capacity by offering a maximum of 48 inputs/outputs (32 in x 16 out ) with 3G SDI cards.
Oriol Massagué, Field Marketing Manager Pro AV and Visual Division at Panasonic, who we met in Barcelona, spoke of a clear “increase in collaboration solutions linked to both videoconferencing systems and high-quality audio and video products. In the wake of the pandemic, we live in a world of hybrid meetings, and there is a clear drive to improve collaboration between in-person and remote participants. But the pandemic has also created another trend, linked to the need to bring immersive experiences even to smaller environments, and this applies both to museums and schools and to companies, which are investing in new multimedia showrooms. This is why we created lenses that allow projection in very small spaces: we are reinventing art installations in museums!”
