[AG-TECH] TFT Display

[Natalia Costas]

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
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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>
>


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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 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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