Enhancing Competency with Presentation Tools

In most companies, the meeting room is a technology-free island. Most boardrooms consist of a table, a couple of chairs, overhead lights, and possibly a whiteboard. But meeting rooms are changing as Video Conferencing technology progresses… and no area of business will be left behind.

Another standard in Video Conferencing for conference rooms is a digital projector. For those that have to 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 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 improves, making them an easily obtainable addition to the meeting audio visual system of any industry.

A new version 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 television or computer monitor. PDPs are normally 42″ to 50″, and have a very clear, dazzling screen, making them great for video conferencing. Since PDPs are a relatively 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 comparatively 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 insert touch sensibility and annotation abilities, letting you to use your PDP just like an interactive whiteboard.

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