Looking for guidance on designing a conference room table setup. Want to allow guests to hook up their laptop video to allow presentations. Table has 8 "cubby holes" to terminate connections. I'd like to have one or two for guests to hookup their video and display on an LCD HDTV yet to be purchased. If 2 then I need some kind of A/B switch I imagine. Is VGA still the best way to do this? Correct target audience? It seems that's still what's on laptops for an output, or should I be looking at HDMI or DVI too? We've dug 2 trenches under the back of the table to the back wall for power and ethernet distribution. Getting from there to the front of the room would take about 80 feet! The room is in the middle of construction, so I can probably still get a trench dug at the front to connect to the TV from the front of the table (so like 10 - 20 feet?). Wireless an option?
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RikRodgers
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Rapid Run cable works great for that. Check out . The have a standard cable, made to length, with multiple adapters you can attach at either end. The cable is about 3/8", so it pulls pretty easily through any conduit.
My preferred method is to pull one Rapid Run from the table to an adjacent network closet, then one to the video equipment. Put an ab switch in the closet.
Then run Cat5e, or 6 for the locations you plan on using at the table. Wireless is fine for the laptops, but having a cabled solution is a great failsafe.
Yes, you'll want a conduit buried, but 80' should work fine.
My preferred method is to pull one Rapid Run from the table to an adjacent network closet, then one to the video equipment. Put an ab switch in the closet.
Then run Cat5e, or 6 for the locations you plan on using at the table. Wireless is fine for the laptops, but having a cabled solution is a great failsafe.
Yes, you'll want a conduit buried, but 80' should work fine.
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drichter12
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2 VGA+Audio and 2 HDMI runs. VGA on laptops is pretty much a given for the forseeable future but going forward more and more laptops will have HDMI as well. I would recommend purchasing an HDTV with both a VGA input and 2 HDMI inputs (place an A/B switch on the VGA and straight runs for the 2 HDMI connections). I would also recommend considering a plasma over LCD if some of the viewers may be at sharp angles to the screen.
Hope this helps.
Dale
2 VGA+Audio and 2 HDMI runs. VGA on laptops is pretty much a given for the forseeable future but going forward more and more laptops will have HDMI as well. I would recommend purchasing an HDTV with both a VGA input and 2 HDMI inputs (place an A/B switch on the VGA and straight runs for the 2 HDMI connections). I would also recommend considering a plasma over LCD if some of the viewers may be at sharp angles to the screen.
Hope this helps.
Dale
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Be sure to include wireless in addition to wired connections, You will always be one connections short if you rely on wired only for visitors to a conference room.
Richard S. Anderson, RCDD
Richard S. Anderson, RCDD
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