I vote for a shotgun approach Pick a good TV with several HDMI inputs (three minimum, which is kind of normal now) … and go grab it from the BJs/Costco/wherever. Make sure there’s Ethernet at the mounting location if you can wrangle it. Since you’re HVAC/Electrical, have them do a nice job of mounting it over a recessed outlet box if you can for power and that Ethernet and any CATV connections + if you need an HDMI hard cable to anywhere else in the room.
I’d recommend putting in at least a Chromecast + an Intel Compute stick on two of the HDMI ports, and then if you can swing the budget I’d look at a lower-end Barco ClickShare. The chromecast gives you one way to wirelessly broadcast to that TV, and there are amazon and apple ways to achieve same result. The intel compute stick gives you a windows 10 PC that is basically plugged into the TV in the back, they’re strong enough to run browsers and powerpoints … I have a few industrial customers that use that for safety training/etc, which I’ll surmise is part of why you need it. You need a wireless keyboard/mouse combo with a little USB dongle to get it to work … but we’ve gone so far as to join those sticks to the domain so they can see the drive mapping/sharepoint folder and run corporate apps. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Miller Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] AV setup question Hi All, We have a large break/meeting area, about 25 x 30 feet, in which we are looking to add TVs or projectors. I have had some quotes from AV companies and they seem pretty high for what we need: occasional display for internal presentations, connecting to a standard laptop, connecting to our cable TV for news, etc as needed. My company is HVAC/electrical so we have folks here who would handle system mounting, electrical requirement and such. I was thinking maybe two large TVs, sound bars, HDMI splitter, attached to some sort of signal receiver. Laptop would connect via the signal system. This would be far less than a pro company installing something that would be nice but for us overkill, since we'd need it maybe once a month. Thoughts? Thank you, Tom
