How to Set up Up-to-Date Equipment to a Breakout Area
It’s unusual how meeting rooms are some of the last areas 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 pretty, quick little notebook 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 exhibit any computer application on a white board or panel (or even a light-colored wall), helping you to reveal information, presentations, even digital films or satellite tv. Though digital projectors used to be prohibitively expensive, especially for smaller businesses, their price of Video Conferencing is falling as technology advances, making them an easily obtainable addition to the meeting audio visual system of any corporation.
A new variation on the electronic white board is the PDP, or Plasma Display Panel. A plasma display panel is essentially a huge, but much slimmer, flat-screen IP TV or computer monitor. PDPs are usually 42″ to 50″, and have a very clear, bright screen, making them great for video conferencing. Due to the fact that PDPs are a comparatively new addition to the Video Conferencing 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 insert touch sensibility and annotation abilities, letting you to use your PDP just like an interactive whiteboard.
