--- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:55:39 -0600
>From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6564 Tandberg vs. Sony/etc.
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I can answer this online because what I have to say is generic and apropos to all...
As for the systems themselves, you have to determine what best matches your needs. They're all competent systems, but you may prefer some of the specifics of one solution over another.
All things being equal, what it usually boils down to is not the system, but the vendor. A great system with a vendor who does a poor installation and/or provides poor support really isn't a very good system. A good vendor can even make up for minor deficiencies in a system. And when they're trying to sell you a system, they're ALL just WONDERFUL!! <grin>
For that reason, identify who would be the vendor(s) for your area, then find out from those vendors where they've installed stuff. Then contact those installed locations directly and ask to visit and/or talk to them about what they like/don't like about their installation and their vendor.
Of course there's always the money. And then, once you get the system, trying to get faculty to actually use the system as it is designed. <sigh...>
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--- Forwarded Message from "Ermentrout, Love" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Subject: Tandberg vs. Sony/etc.
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:51:35 -0500
>Thread-Topic: Tandberg vs. Sony/etc.
>Thread-Index: AcHFJsYlQgenP9KZRBeDGAGJ3UWbiQ==
>From: "Ermentrout, Love" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
Hello List
This is a little bit delicate because I am going to ask for negative
information, so please answer off-list, either at this email address or
preferably to my off-campus one ( [log in to unmask] ).
In my department we are debating between a Sony and a Tandberg
multimedia lab (hopefully 2 classrooms of PCs with teacher controls but
also for individual use). I have browsed archives and asked around, and
I have never heard anything negative about Tandberg (except the pricing,
of course) and very little negative about Sony products.
I would like to ask if anyone (people who have been using those
manufacturers' labs, please) could tell me any pressing reasons NOT to
go with Sony or NOT to go with Tandberg. I would also welcome anything
positive _or_ negative about ASC or CAN-8.
(however, this is on the optimistic assumption that we have a pretty
decent budget.)
I am looking for any tips about both technical (for example, to help me
know which company has "better software", also what languages are easily
supported, also maintenance of the network, etc.) and user-friendliness
(can my most un-techie colleagues learn either system equally well)
issues.
I hope that this is an appropriate question and that I have worded it
appropriately.
Thank you very much
-- L. Ermentrout
Modern Languages Dep't
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733
USA
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