Taking Your Show on the Road
All I can say is hallelujah! A projector the size of an iPod could soon be projecting near-HD quality video. With a price tag of around $200, this could be the beginning of a whole new era for business presentations.
I can’t tell you how many times the following has happened. We’re invited to present our video work to a prospective client. We ask if they have a good system for playing back video, either from a DVD or a computer. ”Oh, no problem,” we’re told. We show video in our conference room all the time .” When we arrive to make our presentation, we usually discover one of two scenarios.
In Scenario A, we connect our computer to their projector and — voila — a washed-out, weak-looking excuse for video appears on the screen pretending to be our gorgeous HD footage. Or, in Scenario B, the twelve clients crammed in the conference room make small talk until someone from IT shows up 15 minutes late with an ancient 13″ combination TV/DVD player on a cart that no one but the closest four people can see anyway.
Actually, there’s a Scenario C, which is the absolute worst. We arrive at the client’s conference room and, alas, the projector or DVD player isn’t working, so now 12 people are huddled around my laptop craning to see and hear.
The thing is, you don’t have to be a video and web site production company to run into this exact problem. Anyone who has ever had to use a PowerPoint or video as part of a presentation knows what I’m talking about. Disappointing doesn’t begin to describe the feeling of seeing your hard work reduced to mush — especially in front of an important audience.
Time will tell if this latest projection technology is all its cracked up to be, but I for one am very excited about the possibilities of having control of my own projected images!
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