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| Thread ID: 107816 | 2010-03-02 23:28:00 | Powerpoint presentations to TV | Paul Ramon (11806) | Press F1 |
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| 863288 | 2010-03-02 23:28:00 | A local business has asked me to find out about setting up a computer (yet to be built..specs?) almost solely to run powerpoint presentations to about a 50 inch LCD TV in an office/ showroom. I'm a bit clueless when it comes to TV settups. Has anybody had experience with this & what would they need?? | Paul Ramon (11806) | ||
| 863289 | 2010-03-02 23:38:00 | Just get a card with TV out, or HDMI if the TV supports it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 863290 | 2010-03-02 23:52:00 | I would look at an Asus EeeBox or something similar if that's all it's going to be used for. The newer models have HDMI output. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 863291 | 2010-03-03 00:09:00 | Most LCD's of that size (All the semi-recent models at least) that I know of seem to have VGA inputs anyways, so you can literally just get a male <-> male VGA cable, and same for a male <-> male 3.5mm (headphone jack) cable. Check first what it has on the back of it, you may not need anything special at all :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 863292 | 2010-03-03 01:09:00 | Most LCD's of that size (All the semi-recent models at least) that I know of seem to have VGA inputs anyways, so you can literally just get a male <-> male VGA cable, and same for a male <-> male 3.5mm (headphone jack) cable. Check first what it has on the back of it, you may not need anything special at all :) You beat me too it. You would run the presentation in exactly the same way as to a data projector and set up the PC to run dual screen. Simple. If you have not done it before you will find a "Connect to a Projector" in Control Panel that makes life easy. Once set up the PC should remain in that dual screen mode even when you shut down and restart so you need only set it up once. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 863293 | 2010-03-03 01:13:00 | Would they need a decent speced video card to run the large TV? | Paul Ramon (11806) | ||
| 863294 | 2010-03-03 01:44:00 | Are the Powerpoints going to be used as a display, EG something that runs over and over with no inter-reaction - OR as a presentation, that has an area talked about, possible questions asked, then move onto the next slide ? If its the first one mentioned above, doing it in PP is a damn expensive way to go. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 863295 | 2010-03-03 01:46:00 | Would they need a decent speced video card to run the large TV? any modern video card should do, these days |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 863296 | 2010-03-03 01:58:00 | if its just a basic presentation, probably a laptop is overkill you might want to consider using PowerPoint to save it as a video .WMV file and then use Windows DVD maker to burn it to a DVD Then you can get one of those el cheapo $50 DVD players from the supermarket and plug that into your TV |
nmercer (3899) | ||
| 863297 | 2010-03-03 02:10:00 | Are the Powerpoints going to be used as a display, EG something that runs over and over with no inter-reaction - OR as a presentation, that has an area talked about, possible questions asked, then move onto the next slide ? If its the first one mentioned above, doing it in PP is a damn expensive way to go. From what they have told me so far, it's going to be both. As it's a realestate company they want to do ppt presentations for inhouse auctions & do property presentations also, which I say would be easy just using the Windows photo viewer slide show so no problem there. Some of the ppt presentations would incorporate video (avi & wmv) |
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