★Carried & Installed

Panasonic projectors & displays · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs Panasonic across the Kansas City metro — laser projection for rooms that run all day, and professional displays for the lobby, the classroom and the signage wall. One precision first, because the trade is sloppy about this word: Panasonic is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold our own dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized Panasonic dealer. What we are is the people who choose the lens off the throw, hang the frame, pull the cable and commission the room. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

What we carry and install from Panasonic

Panasonic organises its own projector range by light engine and brightness rather than by marketing tier, which is a rare piece of honesty in this category and makes the selection conversation much shorter. The bands below are Panasonic’s own. We specify and install to order — nothing here sits on a shelf, and what lands on your proposal comes off the site walk.

• Large Venue — 3-Chip DLP laser. Panasonic lists this range from 16,000 through 50,000 lumens, and describes it as built for projection mapping and staging. This is the arena, the atrium, the building façade and the immersive exhibit. In Kansas City it shows up less often than the brochure implies, and when it does the structure, the rigging and the power come before the model number.
• Fixed Installation — 1-Chip DLP and LCD. Panasonic’s own band is 5,000 to 20,000 lumens, and this is where most of our Panasonic work actually lands: a worship room, a lecture hall, a museum gallery, a large boardroom. Lens-swappable, built to hang and stay hung, and specified with an eye on the service access somebody will need in year four. These go into a commercial room.
• Portable — lens-fixed LCD, up to 7,000 lumens. For the room where the projector moves: a training space, a flexible multi-purpose room, a temporary stage. Quiet, light, and wireless-capable, which matters more than brightness once the room is small enough.
• Short Throw — lens-fixed LCD, up to 4,000 lumens. Where the projector has to sit a few feet from the screen rather than across the room. Panasonic points this at lecture halls, boardrooms, art exhibitions and sports simulation — and simulation is exactly why it turns up in Kansas City basements, next to the golf simulator work we do.
• Ultra Short-Throw — the PT-CMZ50. Panasonic’s own copy is the clearest statement of the case: an 80-inch image from roughly a third of an inch away, so nobody presents with a projector in their eyes and nothing casts a shadow on the screen. Classrooms and small meeting rooms, mostly.
• SOLID SHINE laser light source. Panasonic’s name for the laser engine that runs across the current range. The consequence you budget against is that there is no lamp on a replacement schedule — which is the reason these get specified for a room that runs eight hours a day rather than one that runs twice a month.
• Media processors, lenses, software and AV carts. Panasonic’s own accessory range, including the ET-FMP50 media processor for driving content into a multi-projector setup, the optional-lens catalogue that actually decides where a projector can be mounted, and the monitoring and control software a facilities team lives in. Panasonic also publishes a TAA-compliant subset for public-sector work, which is the first question a government or education bid asks.
• Professional displays — DvLED, all-in-one direct-view LED and 4K LCD. Panasonic’s current display range is short and legible: a DvLED video wall product, an all-in-one direct-view LED display that arrives as a finished large-format panel rather than as a cabinet build, and the 4K LCD series in the sizes a lobby or a classroom actually uses — with a newer 4K LCD series listed as coming soon alongside it. These are what goes on a signage network or onto a video wall.
• PressIT360 wireless presentation. The room-side half: guests present without a cable and without installing anything, which is the difference between a conference room that gets booked and one that gets avoided. It sits beside the unified-communications work rather than replacing it.

One honest note about the model numbers. Panasonic’s US product grids load their rows from a script that would not return for us, so we have named the categories with Panasonic’s own definitions and named only the PT-CMZ50 inside a category, because that is the one Panasonic itself places in its own body copy. Panasonic’s current series all have live product pages on its global index — the PT-RQ and PT-RZ 4K laser families, PT-MZ, PT-REQ and PT-REZ for installation, PT-VMZ and PT-VMQ for portable, PT-VMZ7ST for short throw — and we will put the exact model against your room on the walk rather than guess at it here. We would rather name nothing than name something stale.

How a Panasonic room gets designed

The projector is the last decision and the first one everybody wants to make. What actually settles it is the screen, the throw the ceiling gives you, and the light the room cannot be talked out of.

• Screen first, then throw, then model. The room sets the screen size, the screen and the mounting point set the throw ratio, the throw ratio picks the lens, and only then does a body make sense. Doing it the other way round is how a projector ends up eighteen inches from where it can actually focus.
• Ambient light is the real spec. A 7,000-lumen projector in a room with a glass wall behind the screen is a worse picture than a 4,000-lumen projector with a shade. We will price the shade before we price the brighter projector, and say why.
• Service access in year four. Filters get cleaned, lenses get re-shimmed and something eventually needs to come down. A projector hung where nobody can reach it without scaffolding is a maintenance contract you did not agree to.
• Heat, power and noise are room problems. Especially in the 10,000-lumen and up band, where the projector changes the HVAC conversation and the fan noise changes the audio one.
• One press, or it will not get used. The room joins a Crestron, Q-SYS or Control4 control surface rather than keeping its own remote in a drawer somebody has locked.

Where Panasonic sits beside the other lines we carry

We carry more than one answer on purpose, and none of them pays us to be recommended. In a commercial room the argument is usually Panasonic against Barco, and it comes down to duty cycle, lens catalogue and how the room is controlled. In a house, a dedicated theater is a different conversation entirely — Sony and JVC are built around black level in a dark room, where Panasonic’s range is built around brightness and uptime in a lit one. And where a media room wants big picture on a normal budget, BenQ is usually the better-fitting answer. Four different rooms, four different answers, and the walk is what tells us which one you have.

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