TomF
04-16-09, 06:57 PM
A client of mine was at a meeting recently at another company and was impressed by a presentation that he was shown in their conference room. He wants to have me set up something similar in their conference room. I was able to get the name of the company and a contact and was somewhat unimpressed by what I was told.
Apparently, the head guy in this other office is somewhat of a home theater buff and basically tried to duplicate some of that in his conference room. They used a B&O 70" plasma HDTV as the display device. The source was a PC with a high end graphics card connected via HDMI to the monitor. What apparently made this so impressive to my client was just the fact that the PC was hidden in the corner (he apparently didn't see it), the HDMI cable went up through the wall, across the ceiling, and out of the wall to connect to the HDTV, and the whole thing was run with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. To him, it looked like magic.
I'd rather do something with a LCD monitor on the wall (no burn-in), with a laptop as the source and stream that out wirelessly to a device that's connected to the HDTV. Using an existing laptop would eliminate the need for a dedicated PC and additional software licenses. I'd probably also a wireless presentation mouse so that the presenter wouldn't be tied to his/her laptop. The presentations would probably only consist of PowerPoint Word, Excel, etc., and probably wouldn't be used to stream video from the Internet, but possibly local video on the lapotop.
The only device I've found so far is by Addlogix. They have two models, the IV2020 with a DVI input and 1280x720 resolution and the EV2100 one with component video input and 1024x768 resolution. Reviews of both on both newegg.com and Amazon are mixed.
Anybody done anything like this? What equipment did you use? Any other suggestions?
Apparently, the head guy in this other office is somewhat of a home theater buff and basically tried to duplicate some of that in his conference room. They used a B&O 70" plasma HDTV as the display device. The source was a PC with a high end graphics card connected via HDMI to the monitor. What apparently made this so impressive to my client was just the fact that the PC was hidden in the corner (he apparently didn't see it), the HDMI cable went up through the wall, across the ceiling, and out of the wall to connect to the HDTV, and the whole thing was run with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. To him, it looked like magic.
I'd rather do something with a LCD monitor on the wall (no burn-in), with a laptop as the source and stream that out wirelessly to a device that's connected to the HDTV. Using an existing laptop would eliminate the need for a dedicated PC and additional software licenses. I'd probably also a wireless presentation mouse so that the presenter wouldn't be tied to his/her laptop. The presentations would probably only consist of PowerPoint Word, Excel, etc., and probably wouldn't be used to stream video from the Internet, but possibly local video on the lapotop.
The only device I've found so far is by Addlogix. They have two models, the IV2020 with a DVI input and 1280x720 resolution and the EV2100 one with component video input and 1024x768 resolution. Reviews of both on both newegg.com and Amazon are mixed.
Anybody done anything like this? What equipment did you use? Any other suggestions?