Training Rooms: Old-Fashioned No Longer
It’s funny how meeting rooms are some of the last rooms you’ll find technology in the office. Sure, you’ll have the latest Video Conferencing technology in the offices themselves. And, yes, every supervisory-level employee in the company will have a Blackberry, a sexy, quick little notebook computer, and an office with Video Conferencing.
Another standard in Video Conferencing for boardrooms is a digital projector. For those that often use PowerPoint presentations as a meeting tool, a projector is a complete necessity. A digital projector will show 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 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 industry.
A new edition of 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, intense screen, making them great for video conferencing. As PDPs are a comparatively new addition to the Video Conferencing market, they’re also very costly, 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 somewhat 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 add touch sensibility and annotation abilities, permitting you to use your PDP just like an interactive whiteboard.
