New Projectors Installed in Hot Springs Convention Center To Improve Experience and Service for Groups and Meetings
(PHOTO CAPTION: Zach Weaver (on lift), chief engineer at the Hot Springs Convention Center, adjusts one of the new laser projectors at the center while Director of Operations Jennifer Wolcott (left on floor) and Director of Sales Tammy Clampet look on. — Photo Courtesy of Visit Hot Springs)
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, Arkansas — New projectors have been installed in meeting rooms at the Hot Springs Convention Center to improve the experience and level of service for meetings and groups using the center’s facilities.
“We constantly try to upgrade and improve our facilities so that our Convention Center remains the premier facility in Arkansas for the thousands of guests who enjoy the meetings and conventions they attend in Hot Springs every year,” Visit Hot Springs CEO Steve Arrison said.
Arrison said the center purchased 14 Panasonic RZ-790 projectors and installed them in 13 meeting spaces. One projector is being held in reserve as a spare, he said. Total cost of the project was $165,000.
“I can’t wait to share the news about these new projectors with our current and future clients,” VHS Director of Sales Tammy Clampet said. “Use of the new projectors is included with the room rental costs, and I know our guests will be pleased with the improved equipment.”
VHS Director of Operations Jennifer Wolcott said the new one-chip DLP Laser projectors will not only provide major benefits to Convention Center clients but also will be much easier for the center’s operations staff to maintain.
“The new projectors have a brighter light output than the older bulb-operated equipment, and that makes the images they project brighter and easier to see,” she said. “They also produce truer color output and higher quality colors.”
Wolcott said the laser technology employed in the new projectors maintains their brightness and clarity regardless of ambient light, whereas the older bulb projectors would lose their brightness in rooms where the ceiling lights were brighter.
“The new projectors maintain their visual brightness as they age,” she said, “where the bulb projectors would dim as use increased. This led to uneven brightness in combined rooms, and now that won't be an issue.”
There is no need to keep replacing light bulbs and almost no maintenance required on the new projectors, Wolcott said. With a much longer lifespan on the laser projectors, the staff can extend their working lifetime, thus increasing the cost-effectiveness of the purchase.
For more information call Steve Arrison at 501-321-2027.
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