Plasma Question

[What For]

At work I want to install TV's in the cafeteria as monitors to display a Power Point loop that has all sorts of company metrics, information etc. This loop will run constantly and will change each screen will change every 10-15 seconds.

I've seen a good deal on a 720p 42" plasma and my question is whether plasma is the way to go. The images will be running of a computer and there are no crazy graphics so I'm thinking 1080p isn't necessary.

Does anyone have any experience with an application like this and are there any pitfalls I should be thinking about?

I'd appreciate some insight.

 

[oldjones]

How much time do you expect it will take each week to update the feed? Who in your organization has the necessary skills? How will they find the time? If you don't update such stuff, those who do pay attention to it will get a message quite opposite from the one you intend. Even leaving the monitors up there blank can harm morale by saying, 'see, they cared once, but not now'.

I would strongly suggest you make this dependent on finding and empowering the right person to put together the right material. Repeatedly. Only then get some monitors.

But you could run commercial TV 'to entertain the troops', then piggyback your messages on it as a less all or nothing approach.

 

[What For]

How much time do you expect it will take each week to update the feed? Who in your organization has the necessary skills? How will they find the time? If you don't update such stuff, those who do pay attention to it will get a message quite opposite from the one you intend. Even leaving the monitors up there blank can harm morale by saying, 'see, they cared once, but not now'.

I would strongly suggest you make this dependent on finding and empowering the right person to put together the right material. Repeatedly. Only then get some monitors.

But you could run commercial TV 'to entertain the troops', then piggyback your messages on it as a less all or nothing approach.

Great feedback and thank you.......all things I've definitely considered. Much of the data will be updated daily with some weekly depending on the info.

What I was really looking for and I should have been clearer was are there any pitfalls technically with running this information on a Plasma TV vs say an LCD. Is a 720p Plasma TV sufficient for what I want to do?

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

Great feedback and thank you.......all things I've definitely considered. Much of the data will be updated daily with some weekly depending on the info.

What I was really looking for and I should have been clearer was are there any pitfalls technically with running this information on a Plasma TV vs say an LCD. Is a 720p Plasma TV sufficient for what I want to do?

plasma is best suited for a darkened room. i would imagine the cafeteria to be quite bright, so LCD would be more suitable. 720P is fine

 

[larry]

what resolution do you run your computer at? vga? i doubt it. 1080 is a minimum. i or p won't matter for this application.

 

[mmouse]

+1

Computer stuff generally looks like ass on 720p.

 

[What For]

+1

Computer stuff generally looks like ass on 720p.

Thanks to everyone. Went 1080 LCD