[Sambronko]

First Off Think That Flash Based Media Is The Future And P2 Is Still A few Years Away
From Being Truly Viable And I Think It’s A Great Product.

A Story Of A All Panasonic House,

We Bought M Vision (Panasonic M1) 20 years ago ( 3 dockable cameras 9 Decks) at about 35,000 each. Used High Grade VHS. Not Bad for News Crews.

By 1990 They Basically Told Us No More Parts Will Made So We Pursed Other Options

So We Bought MII 12 Years Ago (10 VTR’s 5 Cameras) at 22,000 A deck.
Awesome Format But A Minority. Still Use Today. If We Can Find Tape.

2003-04
Looking At P2 Had Quotes And Everything
When We Asked If They’ll Support The Uber Expensive P2 5 Years From Now They Said “Oh Sure No Problem”

Fool Me Once Shame On ME, Fool Me Twice Shame On You…..

We Looked Real Hard At P2 And Another Station In Our Group Is Going With It For All News And Production.

Last Year We Bought XDCAM Our First Sony Purchase And Could Not Be Happier.

It Is In Both News And Production. We Dropped One on A Concrete Floor (Ouch)
Only 300 Dollars Damage, Optical Drive Worked Fine.

News Dropped One Out Of A Ballon at 12 Feet Onto Grass And The View Finder Snapped Off, Optical Drive Survived Fine.

Our News People Are About as Carless As They Come Most Of Them Are 22 years Old Fresh From College. And They have Shaken These Sony’s Like Crazy And Not One Disc Problem In Over A year.

( I Can’t Say The Same About Firewire Plugs On Cameras And Decks They Have Managed To Break The Center Of Every One)

The Other Day A Female Reporter Closed The Trunk Of Her News Car On It, She Actually Asked Me If It Would Hurt It? 🙂

Hopefully Panasonic Will Support P2 (PII) Unlike MII. And M Vision (M1)

BTW They Told Us That As Long As Sony Makes Beta They’ll Support MII (1993). Only Time Will Tell. All I Hope Is P2 Adopters Don’t Get Left Behind. As We Did Twice.

Just A little Insight from Someone Who Spent A Lot Of Money With Panasonic Over the Last 25 years…