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We’re finally going to toss out the old projector and get an HD TV for our board room. Anyone have suggestions on a good, practical choice for this? We want to be able to easily use it as a monitor for ourselves and others who come on site for presentations and we want to do video conferencing as well. Not overly concerned with the budget since it’s our once chance to do this right.

I have read the thread below but wondered if anyone else has any other ideas.

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Do check with the users to see what they will be bringing to the room to connect to it. HDMI is common, but if you’re also going to get a smart TV you may want to invest in a small box like an apple tv – for the apple devices. There is native support in windows for doing it over blue tooth, but in my experience the support on Windows is not also done on the Mac or iOS. No idea what Android devices do, but I expect the answer to be something Windows does rather than apple.

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We recently picked up a 65" Samsung and for newer laptops we just connect using wireless to the TV and it works well. I like this option over Chromecast because you can extend or duplicate to the TV.

For older laptops that cannot connect to the TV over WiDi I ended up getting Chromecast and you can cast your entire desktop screen to the TV, but no option to extend. The downfall here is if someone is doing a PPT presentation and wants to hide their notes it will not work. Other than that it works perfectly for our needs.

I was going to purchase AirTame, but not knowing if it would work I decided against spending $200 for no reason.

Then we have the obvious HDMI connections and million different adapters when needed.

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Hi David - You might want to check out Sharp’s AQUOS BOARD . It’s a great interactive display designed for a wide range of contexts. They also have highly responsive touch pens allow several people to write on the same touch screen at the same time. Great for presentations!

If you want to see the displays in action, take a look at these video demos: Videos | Sharp for business - AQUOS BOARD

Hope this helps in your search! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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If you want suggestions on a TV and budget isn’t concerned then get a really big and nice TV. I would be more concerned with usability. Having adapters for most modern devices is pretty important. With the cost and size of computers I would just get a dual core NUC and mount it behind the TV with a wireless keyboard/mouse. Sometimes those little computer sticks are useful but I would rather have a whole PC to use in case nobody brought one.

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We run these in our conference rooms:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN70KU6300-70-Inch-Ultra-Smart/dp/B01E6BIT3S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486567797&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung+70"+4k

Wouldn’t recommend 4K with Windows 7. Wouldn’t recommend anything other than 4K with Windows 10. Skipped Windows 8.1, so I don’t know how well it handles scaling.

Some people prefer to use ‘professional displays’. I don’t think it’s worth the added cost.

What are the dimensions of your conference room?

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Do you want a TV or a Screen

There is a big difference…

A TV is a domestic device, it will usually have power saving features that you cant turn off so if you have lengthy meetings this can be an issue "Screen will turn off in 30 seconds’ message appearing at a vital moment can throw a pitch out - trust me I have been there

If you go out and buy a commercially rated panel these are designed to be left on 24/7 but you need a separate TV tuner or device to watch broadcasts. Usually more expensive but will last forever and give a more balanced image as oppose to TVs which over saturate colour

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It’s 20’ x22’. It’s in a brand new building too.

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Do you want a TV or a Screen

Good point. I guess I’d say it’s a screen I want mostly but I noticed they ran coaxial cable to it so I’m trying to get a good idea of what they plan on using it for or if someone just threw out there “Hey, we should run cable to that thing”.

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Can we “extend” the displays on these? So say for example we’re doing a PowerPoint, can we have the presentation show on the big screen but the presenter would have the presenter view on their own screen with their notes and such? I’ve been watching the videos, including the 3.0 software integration with PowerPoint, but can’t yet see that we can extend our display.

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Not sure what TV brands you’ve been buying, but I have yet to run across a brand where you are unable to disable the power saving features.

We had various LG, Samsung, and Vizio TVs at a previous employer in conference rooms across 8 locations. Never had an issue with being unable to disable some of these functions.

That said though, with the recent news surrounding Vizio’s data spying habits, I would probably shy away from those at the moment, if you’re planning to connect these TVs to any Internet service.

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Think its a European regulations thing come to think of it

But Samsung/Sony etc units in Europe all have these hardware locked

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Hey David - Sharp Pen Software actually supports 2 displays in extended desktop mode! Would this be something you’d be looking for?

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We’ve just recently rolled out Sharp SmartTVs with touchscreens. They also allow wireless presentations through wifi

@kellyforsharp

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I’d say so, yes.

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Nice! Let me know if you need anything else to help you out. :slight_smile:

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You can not go wrong with Samsung displays.

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I just set up one for our conference room, ours is a portable solution with a 43" Samsung TV, Shuttle Computer, MS Webcam and a logitech wireless kb w/ touchpad unit. Shuttle came with win 10 on it, has wifi and ethernet, bolted it to the back of the tv and can carry it anywhere. you could use a bigger tv and the same set up, has plenty of usb ports so you could place a usb cable accessible to plug in a stick. Shuttle with keyboard and web cam was less than $400.

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Consider glare from windows and overhead lights at varying times of day. In my last office, my predecessor bought large consumer tvs that were very glossy. It gave everyone eyestrain/headaches after about 10 minutes if the window shades were open and/or the lights were on. Meetings with the screen could only really be done in the dark…

If you think this may be an issue, be sure your screens have a matte finish.

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Goodbye old projector! You will find that using a TV will be much easier to share your information. Here are some suggestions: http://www.lg.com/us/business/commercial-display/displays-tvs/commercial/led-tvs , let me know if you have any questions & good luck on your purchase!