Breakout Area:Made Better byCurrent Tools
Posted by: hroberts in Audio, Electronics, General
It’s amusing how meeting rooms are some of the last places you’ll find technology in the office. Sure, you’ll see the latest Video Conferencing technology in the offices themselves. And, yes, every higher lever employee in the company will have a Blackberry, a sharp, quick little laptop computer, and an office with Video Conferencing.
Another standard in Video Conferencing for conference rooms is a digital projector. For those that often use PowerPoint presentations as a meeting tool, a projector is an utter necessity. A digital projector will display any computer application on a white board or screen (or even a light-colored wall), helping you to reveal information, presentations, even digital films or satellite tv. While digital projectors used to be prohibitively expensive, especially for smaller companies, their price of Video Conferencing is falling as technology advances, making them an easily obtainable addition to the meeting audio visual system of any company.
A new edition of the electronic white board is the PDP, or Plasma Display Panel. A plasma display panel is fundamentally a huge, but much slimmer, flat-screen T.V. or computer monitor. PDPs are normally 42″ to 50″, and have a very clear, vivid screen, making them great for video conferencing. As PDPs are a relatively new addition to the Video Conferencing market, they’re also very pricey, ranging from about $8,000 to $20,000. For around $4,000 extra, companies can invest in an interactive overlay for the PDP. This is a comparatively small investment when compared to the price of the PDP and when considering the many practical uses of a PDP with an interactive overlay. An interactive overlay will add touch sensibility and annotation abilities, letting you to use your PDP just like an interactive whiteboard.
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