[AG-TECH] AG Hardware Specs

[Russ Wolf]

Joshua,

> Display Computer: It looks like we cannot buy the the Matrox G400 Dual-head
> AGP Graphics Adapter through our vendors in Japan.  We are planning to buy
> the G450 instead--do you think this would pose any problems?

The G450 is fine in the Microsoft OS world - you need to do some funky
stuff with RedHat 6.X to get it to go so if you get it for the Display
machine then you'll be all set.  

At BU we have recently switched to using a single G450-AGP and 2
G450-PCI cards for our projectors.  We use the AGP card for two
projectors and a single head on each of the G450-PCI for the third
projector and the Console head. 


> Video Capture Computer and Number of Cameras: We are thinking of using only
> two cameras in our setup instead of the recommended four.  Therefore, we
> only plan on buying two Hauppauge 401 video capture cards.  Do you foresee
> any problems with this arrangement?
> 

Skimping on cameras is not wise - having 4 is sometimes not enough :-)
Being able to show others your screen is key and especially while you
work on your node having one on the operatoe is huge.  In addiiton you
need to get audience shots and speaker and question asker/giver ....  


> Audio Capture Computer and Number of Microphones: We are thinking of using
> only two microphones in our setup instead of the four recommended in a small
> node configuration.  Therefore, we only plan on buying two Soundblaster PCI
> Digital (instead of the SB128) cards.  Do you foresee any problems with this
> arrangement?
> 

Actually the number of microphopnes is not related to the number of
sound cards.  You only need one soundcard (the reccomended Creative
Ensoniq PCI) the microphones need to be connected to an echo
cancellation device - the Gentner AP400 or such.

> Projectors: It looks like we cannot buy the Epson ELP-710c through our
> vendors in Japan.  We are planning to buy the ELP-703 instead--do you think
> this would pose any problems?  Also, we are thinking of using only two
> projectors in our setup instead of the recommended three.  Do you foresee
> any problems with this arrangement?
> 

Again like number of cameras the nuber of projectors makes the
environment complete.  Because of the extensive use of powerpoint as a
presentation technique you loose an entire projector to that - which
would leave you with one for people shots - which after 2-3 sites make
it impossible to see anyone in a useful fashion.