Title
Replacement/Upgrade of Obsolete and Aging City Commission Auditorium Broadcast Cameras, Projectors, Broadcast Switcher and Associated Broadcast Support Equipment (B)
This item is a request for the City Commission to authorize the purchase of broadcast equipment from Encore Broadcast Solutions, Inc. as a specified source to replace obsolete broadcast cameras, multimedia projectors, broadcast switcher and associated broadcast equipment.
Explanation
The City of Gainesville and Alachua County jointly operate the community's local government access channel, commonly referred to as Community 12TV. While providing scheduled program coverage of City Commission, and other city meetings on cable television and by online video stream, City Communications staff has identified significant operational problems caused by aging, and in some cases, obsolete broadcast system equipment.
The audio, video and projection systems in the city auditorium have had individual equipment components replaced over the past several years. However, system cameras were originally purchased in 2003 and many other system components are similarly out dated. The result has been a continual slow degradation of the quality of the city's analog broadcast signal. Images captured by broadcast cameras reflect distorted and unbalanced color spectrums that are very noticeable as shots change from camera to camera and attempts to repair and adjust camera color balance work only temporarily.
Antiquated camera controller motors cannot hold steady camera shots and operators are forced to compensate to prevent camera drift off of subjects. The overhead document camera performance is inadequate and presentation documents images are often unreadable. Repair of this obsolete equipment is becoming increasing frequent and vendors have indicated that soon they will no longer provide support for repair of our current cameras.
Additionally, current auditorium projectors lack the lumen intensity ...
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