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The business is looking for a 4-5 person video conference room setup. What kind of setup do you use? I saw in an older post a suggestion for Logitec MeetUp. Do you use something like that? Or something different? And what for a monitor? Like a 40-inch TV? Do you have a permanent PC in there? Or do they connect a laptop? Do you add a table mic extension? Their budget is about $2,000 for this. I usually do network-related work. This will be my first one of these setups.

I appreciate any suggestions you may have.

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I would start with a microphone (I had a Yeti for our setup).
You’ll need a PC / Laptop to connect it to.
I’ve found that laptop cameras don’t do good in large room scenarios, so I would consider the Logitech cam.
Don’t forget speakers / audio output!
At my last job, we had an 80" TV connected to an amplifier that drove speakers in the room. It made for a simple connection - just hook up the HDMI cable and change the sound output to the HDMI. The Yeti mic seems not to echo / feedback if setup correctly.
After you get these basics, put the rest into the TV / Display. If you have a spare laptop or BYO., then the budget should work.

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Thanks, that’s very helpful. I’ve also spent half the day on YouTube looking at comparisons. Since it’s a small conference room for maybe 5 people, here’s what I’m thinking about:

Poly Studio USB Video Bar
ASUS PN53 mini PC
43" TV

It comes to about $1,800. Have any of you used a setup similar to this? Or had good or bad experiences with Poly video bars?

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The setup I have in a few meeting rooms is…

  • TV (duh)

  • Logitech Meetup Cam - for a small meeting room the built-in microphones are good enough.

  • SFF PC using HDMi or DP - that way you can use the TV speakers.

  • Deepfreeze installed on the PC - otherwise users will invariably leave their Zoom/Teams/M365 accounts logged in for the next user. (this app has saved me about 2 hours a week x3 meeting rooms - worth its weight in frogs fur)

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@spiceuser-2f7m9 “worth its weight in frogs fur” - I like this one… gonna have to add it it to my library of one liners.

I too found for small rooms, just a good logitech cam w/mic and a large tv w/hdmi work just fine. Run audio/video out of the laptop to the TV and its speakers over hdmi.

For medium large rooms, we use the same tv and logitech cam, but do audio with a good quality speaker phone - like a Yealink cp965.

In even larger rooms we have projectors w/audio amps, speakers and more - and., its expensive.