Streaming question for a project at work

[SJMaye]

You guys are as innovative a bunch as I have seen so let me run something by you.

We are installing 5- 50″ LCD tvs around our plant as an information board.  At this point I am thinking the information will be a cycling powerpoint presentation, but I am open to other ideas.  All the TVs can have a PC on them or I am open to other connections.  They will be hundreds of feet apart.

Criteria:

• Ease of updating material-  People of various skill levels will be updating material.  Charts, text, photos…..
• Picture clarity-  They are currently doing some sort of file type conversion that is harming picture quality.  I would like to improve that.
• Networking-  We have both WiFi and hardwire networking throughout the plant

Anyone have thoughts on good ways to approach this?

 

[phoneguyinpgh]

Question:  How far apart will the TVs be from each other and the location where you want to updated this material?

 

[Aaron Ledger]

Many displays now are capable of reading photos files or videos off a USB stick or using DLNA. You could probably find one that cycles through a bunch of photos in a directory or you could convert material to a video file. I haven’t used Powerpoint much, but I would imagine it allows exporting as a video or there is probably some tool to do that.

[babgvant]

Does the content need to stay in sync?

[SJMaye]

The TVs will be as much as a few hundred feet apart.  If I could play a Powerpoint slideshow from one PC and let it repeat is would be fine.  Not important to be in sync with one another.

[phoneguyinpgh]

How about an HDMI splitter, and the some HDMI over Cat5 set-ups to send the video from the PC to all the TVs?

[babgvant]

In that case I think Aaron’s idea is the best. Save the ppt as wmv and play it off a USB/SD drive attached to the TV.

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