Conference room presentation equipment

Hey guys, we just opened last week and have an event coming up this Friday. I wondered what you use for presentations in conference/classrooms? I have some large Dell monitors but am just curious if you use wire access only for presentations or what equipment you use to wirelessly throw to the screens? Thanks
Gretchen

Wireless presentation tools seem like they’d be easier but in practice they’re still pretty clumsy and unreliable.

Wired is much more reliable, and there’s no question about how it works. :slight_smile:

Just get yourself a couple of the different kinds of adapters for Apple laptops (most PCs use standard VGA, no adapter needed). The only real pain in the ass with wired connections is that those adapters get lost or walk away (even by accident).

-Alex

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Gretchen Bilbro [email protected] wrote:

Hey guys, we just opened last week and have an event coming up this Friday. I wondered what you use for presentations in conference/classrooms? I have some large Dell monitors but am just curious if you use wire access only for presentations or what equipment you use to wirelessly throw to the screens? Thanks
Gretchen

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On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 1:46:52 PM UTC-6, Gretchen Bilbro wrote:

Hey guys, we just opened last week and have an event coming up this Friday. I wondered what you use for presentations in conference/classrooms? I have some large Dell monitors but am just curious if you use wire access only for presentations or what equipment you use to wirelessly throw to the screens? Thanks
Gretchen

Definitely wired, as Alex said. All you really need is a screen or a projector,maybe a small speaker for some videos in the presentations. Our largest room is for 80 people and we only use a PA system when we have to record the talk. Always keep a spare cable: people tend to drop them after their presentations and some pics become loose or bend which ends up making it difficult to connect and you loose colours.

Agreed on wired. We have 2 rooms with projectors mounted to the ceiling. Wiring gives VGA and HDMI which pretty well covers anything people want to hook up, with the exception of tablets/phones. It’s definitely the most reliable.

But options are good too. Our 20 person conference room also has an Apple TV in conference mode hooked to the projector. This came about from watching the way people presented in meetings. They wanted to be at the far end of the room and the projector wall jacks were at the front. We have a member that teaches a class every week and not having to mess with cables is a timesaver for her. It’s handy for iPhone/iPad presentations too. For Windows and older Macs, I think I paid $49 for 5 licenses for AirParrot software which lets these machines make the wireless connection.

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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Ramon Suarez [email protected] wrote:

Definitely wired, as Alex said. All you really need is a screen or a projector,maybe a small speaker for some videos in the presentations. Our largest room is for 80 people and we only use a PA system when we have to record the talk. Always keep a spare cable: people tend to drop them after their presentations and some pics become loose or bend which ends up making it difficult to connect and you loose colours.

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Amen - good way to make friends at a conference is to be the person with video adapters and power strips in your backpack :slight_smile:

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Randall Arnold [email protected] wrote:

Good advice Alex.

When I used to present a lot, I got in the habit of keeping every typical video adapter in my backpack. I can’t tell you how many times that saved me or a fellow presenter.

Randy

On January 28, 2015 at 1:57 PM Alex Hillman [email protected] wrote:

Wireless presentation tools *seem* like they'd be easier but in practice they're still pretty clumsy and unreliable.
Wired is ***much*** more reliable, and there’s no question about how it works. :)
Just get yourself a couple of the different kinds of adapters for Apple laptops (most PCs use standard VGA, no adapter needed). The only *real* pain in the ass with wired connections is that those adapters get lost or walk away (even by accident).

-Alex

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Gretchen Bilbro [email protected] wrote:

Hey guys, we just opened last week and have an event coming up this Friday. I wondered what you use for presentations in conference/classrooms? I have some large Dell monitors but am just curious if you use wire access only for presentations or what equipment you use to wirelessly throw to the screens? Thanks
Gretchen

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