Employing the Coolest Tools for your Conference Room

It’s unusual how meeting rooms are some of the last rooms you’ll find technology in the office. Sure, you’ll find the latest Video Conferencing technology in the offices themselves. And, yes, every managerial-level employee in the company will have a Blackberry, a sexy, quick little laptop, and an office with Video Conferencing.

Another standard in Video Conferencing for boardrooms is a digital projector. For those that have to use PowerPoint presentations as a meeting tool, a projector is an absolute necessity. A digital projector will show any computer application on a white board or panel (or even a light-colored wall), helping you to impart 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 develops, making them an easily obtainable addition to the meeting audio visual system of any business.

A new edition of 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 IP TV or computer monitor. PDPs are generally 42″ to 50″, and have a very clear, intense screen, making them great for video conferencing. Because PDPs are a comparatively new addition to the Video Conferencing 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 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, letting you to use your PDP just like an interactive whiteboard.

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