PR Newswire, Friday, October 24, 1997 at 10:10
'The ParkerVision Products Exceeded Our Expectations,' Says Wal-Mart
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- ParkerVision, Inc.
(NASDAQ:PRKR), the camera tracking and automation experts, has recently been
selected to provide its CameraMan SHOT Director(TM) and broadcast-quality 3-
CCD CameraMan(R) camera systems to retail giant Wal-Mart for their in-house
broadcast production work.
Wal-Mart Commercial Television Broadcast (Wal-Mart TV) installed
ParkerVision products into its 10,000-square-foot auditorium at the company's
corporate headquarters. The systems are being used exclusively for the live
production and broadcast of Wal-Mart's business meetings, special events, and
seminars, as well as for in-house training videos. "We evaluated the
ParkerVision products along with others and found that they operated the
smoothest and had the most user-friendly controls of all the systems tested,"
said Wal-Mart TV's Broadcast Engineer Orville Knapp. "The Shot Director,
combined with the auto-tracking CameraMan cameras, allows us to have a single
operator control the entire video production process in real time...you just
can't beat it! Previously, we had to employ an entire camera crew that was
more difficult to coordinate and manage. Truly, the ParkerVision products
exceeded our expectations."
"We are pleased that Wal-Mart has chosen our CameraMan products to address
their corporate production needs," said Jeffrey Parker, President of
ParkerVision. Mr. Parker continued, "We believe the high marks they have
given us is a good indicator of ParkerVision product acceptance as we expand
beyond what has been our core sales from Distance Learning and
Videoconferencing applications and into the Industrial and Professional A/V
markets. We are encouraged with this acceptance in professional production
applications of our CameraMan 3-CCD(R) robotic cameras by such high profile
applications as the exclusive televised coverage of the IBM Deep Blue/Kasparov
chess match, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Expedition, and now Wal-
Mart's corporate broadcast television."
ParkerVision, Inc. is engaged in the design, development and marketing of
CameraMan(R) automated video camera control systems, and emerging wireless
technologies. For more information, please visit the Company's website at
parkervision.com |
