[AG-TECH] TFT Display

[Brian Corrie]

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
>>
>> -- 
>> ====================================================
>> 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 at cesga.es
>> Tel:    +34  981 56 98 10 (ext. 237)
>> Fax:    +34  981 59 46 16
>> Web:    http://www.cesga.es/
>> ====================================================
> 
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