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I have arranged a tentative agreement with Bowne Business Solutions (13th
floor graphics) to provide content digitization, encoding and storage for video productions. They will have the capability to output from S-VHS, Beta SP and electronic sources, along with minimal editing and creation of basic multimedia images suitable for the Enron channel. Additional costs would be incurred by individual departments incrementally as they produced video content for the monitors. Enron would then have a choice of vendors, including the in-house graphics group, Innovision (Beth Stier) and others. We also need to determine the point of demarcation for the "head-end" of the video signal for these and any other building monitors. I don't know if your estimates include any of this head-end equipment which would include VTRs, modulators, distribution amplifiers, CATV contracts and receivers, satellite, etc. Regardless, we need to talk to the folks who will be producing content for these monitors to see what types of capabilities they want to have. Finally, someone will have to "own" the channel and pre-approve content for distribution. I'm pretty certain that Mark Palmer wants to control the content, though I don't think that he wants to manage the production group, or create any overkill. I'd be happy to discuss alternatives with all of you for the content side of this project. Again, I think that the costs will be incremental expenses related to creating content rather than capital outlay. Beth, Mark, Pam, Setev, Terrie, et al. - Are you interested in addressing what in-house capabilities you'd like to have with me? DMM To: Elizabeth Tilney/HOU/EES@EES, Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron@ENRON cc: Pam Benson/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, David Mims/Enron Communications@Enron Communications, Steven J Kean/HOU/EES@EES, Terrie James/Corp/Enron@ENRON Subject: Video Screens in EB Elevator Cabs Beth, Mark - I think we are ready to move on implementing flat screen monitors in all of Enron Building passenger elevator cabs, i.e. proposal is for two 14" monitors per cab, one for Corporate content, other for local Houston messages. Will try to flush mount them in the stainless steel cab panels, for a clean, attractive look. Technical details have generally been worked out between our group (Steve Woods and Harry Grubbs) and Enron's IT Dept. such that we know total costs are below $500K (more in $350-400K range plus whatever temporary, non-elevator monitors appropriate for Three Allen Center occupants). We have a 3 month implementation schedule. Content can be anything available on Enron's LAN (developed @ the desk top) or any video signal, i.e. Cable TV stations, tapes, etc. Let me know next steps. We can discuss funding sources. - Bill
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