Innovative Training Rooms Advances
It’s amusing how meeting rooms are some of the last places you’ll find technology in the office. Sure, you’ll find the latest technology in the offices themselves. And, yes, every higher lever employee in the company will have a Blackberry, a pretty, quick little notebook, and an office with satellite tv.
Another standard in audio visual systems for meeting rooms is a digital projector. For those that have to 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 impart information, presentations, even digital films or satellite tv. Though digital projectors used to be prohibitively expensive, especially for smaller businesses, their price is falling as technology develops, making them an easily obtainable addition to the meeting audio visual system of any company.
A new variation on the electronic white board is the PDP, or Plasma Display Panel. A plasma display panel is in essence a huge, but much slimmer, flat-screen TV or computer monitor. PDPs are usually 42″ to 50″, and have a very clear, vivid screen, making them great for video conferencing. As PDPs are a comparatively new addition to the audio visual systems market, they’re also very expensive, ranging from about $8,000 to $20,000. For around $4,000 more, 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 bearing in mind the many practical uses of a PDP with an interactive overlay. An interactive overlay will put in touch sensibility and annotation abilities, permitting you to use your PDP just like an interactive whiteboard.
