On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Tom Miller<[email protected]> wrote: > There are a number of Internet-based training videos that staff > would use, but I hate to provide a dedicated PC/receiver system for small > rooms.
Your question is kind of open-ended, so here's an open-ended response: What format(s) are the "Internet-based training videos" in? Flash? WMV? MPEG? Can they be copied to offline media and run without a network connection? TVs which have built-in "Internet" will generally only work with selected Internet sites and/or formats. They may not work for your "Internet-based training videos". Hence the question of format. You could have laptops and move them around from room to room. You could just use the laptop screen, or hook the laptop up to a computer projector, or get a laptop with TV-out and hook a TV up to the laptop. You could have a shared PC in a closet or server room somewhere, and export video over closed-circuit, local-only coax to those rooms. The shared PCs would need TV-out, or you'd need a converter box. If you want each room to have it own feed, you'd need some kind of video switching system, but at that point, I'd ask why you don't want to dedicate equipment to each room. Actually, I'll ask anyway: Why don't you want to dedicate equipment to each room? Is it solely for cost of the equipment? Manageability? Licenses? Theft? Space? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
