Re: [AG-TECH] TFT Display

[Natalia Costas <natalia@xxxxxxxx>]

Ohhh, that's amazing!!! 60" with smartboard, do they use the smartboard 
capabilities?.



Brian Corrie escribió:

> Hello,
>
> We have several rooms with multiple 60" plasmas in them. They are nice 
> for all of the reasons you state. We have Smartboards on our plasmas 
> so they can be used as interaction devices directly, which changed the 
> dynamic of how they are used (in a good way in most cases). As you can 
> see from the two rooms (links to pictures below), we use them in quite 
> different ways in our environments. Both rooms are AG rooms. The 
> second room only has two displays, and therefore we run into the 
> anticipated screen real estate issues for large collaborations. It 
> works quite well for group to group collaborations between small 
> numbers of sites. It would be nice to have three plasmas in Room 
> 10901, but then I think slightly smaller plasmas would probably be in 
> order (3 52" plasmas would be good for a room in this configuration).
>
> http://www.irmacs.sfu.ca/facilities/room_10900.php
> http://www.irmacs.sfu.ca/facilities/room_10901.php
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
> Tom Coffin wrote:
>
> > In my opinion, the choice of display is dependant
> > upon the size of the room you are using. We use
> > a variety of different displays depending upon
> > the size of the node. 3, 46" TFT screens sounds ideal
> > for a small-medium size room accommodating <10 people.
> >
> > ___________________________________________
> > At 05:25 AM 2/8/2007, Natalia Costas wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I was thinking about the idea of replacing the 3proyector+triple 
> > > screen by 3 TFT 46" screens (maybe a crazy idea?). The pros i can 
> > > think of are:
> > >
> > > - No lamps need
> > > - No natural light affects projection.
> > > - No unalignment problem
> > > - Good resolution (in TFTs, not in plasmas)
> > > - Equal price
> > > - HD support (in TFTs, not in plasmas)
> > >
> > > The cons I can think of are:
> > > - Projection size
> > > - Mobility
> > >
> > >
> > > Any other cons?. Has anyone experienced AG with TFTs? How far can be 
> > > the screens from the participants? Is it suitable only for meetings 
> > > with only a few attendants? (what about classes with around 15-20 
> > > pupils?)
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Natalia
> > >
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Natalia Costas Lago
Técnico de Comunicaciones - Dpto. de Comunicaciones

Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia (CESGA)
Avenida de Vigo, s/n (Campus Sur)
15705 Santiago de Compostela - SPAIN

E-mail: natalia@xxxxxxxx
Tel: 	+34  981 56 98 10 (ext. 237)
Fax: 	+34  981 59 46 16
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