Helping Your Corporation by Increasing Your Presentation Advances
How many meetings have you attended where there was a scrabbling for the lights at the beginning and end of a sales pitch? One new addition to the meeting room technology industry is interactive room-control systems. A room control system will allow you to control most of the IP TV in the conference room from a single centralized location.
A room control system ends all that hurrying to switch on the lights, complaints that the thermostat must be turned down, and questions about who is next to the projector (and who knows where the button is to turn it on).
Another more elemental addition to IP TVtechnology in meeting rooms is a devoted computer. This is especially helpful for those that tend to spend a lot of time leading meetings. Instead of having to unplug and haul a computer into the conference room (or, worse, calling the tech department to set one up in there for you), all you must do is bring a CD of your presentation, or use the presentation via the web. This makes setting up for meetings rapid and unproblematic, and also helps with IP TV, as everything is already in its place.
With the bills of travel ever-increasing, video conferencing is becoming more and more key, especially in larger companies with nationwide (or world-wide) personnel. While the traditional teleconference still has its place in a meeting, and probably always will, the ability to see and speak easily to your coworkers or clients can be very important.
After a digital projector, the next step in board room technology is the electronic whiteboard. The traditional dry erase board has been a board room standard for years. But it has limitations which really are visible when compared to some of the IP TVtechnology accessible today. For one, everything written on a marker board is temporary, and must be erased to leave room to write more. This means that, if the lecture notes will have to be referred to later, an attendee will have to be assigned to take notes off the board. But this old-fashioned system is a thing of the past. Electronic whiteboards eliminate the need to take notes by hand, as all that is put on their surface can be printed (as with Copyboards), stored as digital information (as with Peripheral boards), or even be organized, grouped, and interacted with (Interactive Whiteboards).
A new version 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 normally 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 IP TV market, they’re also very pricey, 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 somewhat small investment when compared to the price of the PDP and when allowing for 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.