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The Important Things To Know About Choosing Equipment For Videoconferencing
If you are presenting a videoconference, you need to have the best audio visual equipmentavailable. You will have to decide what type of audio visual system you will purchase. Thereare several types to choose from: portable, rollabout, installed or PC-based. Depending on thegroup size, you will know what your choices are for using these systems. The PC-based ones arefor one person only; the rollabouts are for three to four people, or possibly up to 15; the portablesare for two to eight people; and the installed ones are for five to six people, possible up to 30.Portable setups will be used in most videoconferences. The monitors for these setups will rangefrom 20” – 35” monitors. If the group is large, say 20 or more people, a system with an LCD projector would work better. The bandwidth is the size derived from the image and soundquality that is produced. With real time, video and audio signals are to press within each other sothey can swiftly flow through telephone lines for teleconferences. Two 64K ISDN lines arewhat’s used for the majority of videoconferences and the data is moved at 128K per second. Inorder for the videotape to go over smoothly, the bandwidth should be 384K or higher. This isespecially imperative if the videoconferencing involves movement. Currently, people are usingT1 or other digital lines for faster movement.Another important component when looking to purchase audio visual equipment for videoconferencing is the audio quality. The audio for the equipment must be top notch if not the best available. People will not be pleased coming to a conference and the sound is distorted.Whatever system you decide to purchase, check out the sound to see if it is satisfactory. Also,make sure that whatever you get includes full-duplex audio and digital echo cancellation. Thefrequency response is a good judge of character when it comes to testing audio quality.However, you will still need to listen to it for yourself to make the final determination.Some other features to consider include:More than one monitor or projector – you’ll need to see two pictures during the entire time of theconference. One will be of the far-end participants and the other will be a preview of what theywill see. Two monitors are better because the images will be larger and this helps if you havelarge groups in the conference.More than one camera will give you an advantage in the event that you have a distance learningsession and you as the presenter are not in proximity of the group that’s being taught. If you’rethe presenter and you tend to move around a lot during the conference, you may want to consider a robotic camera that will follow you move around.
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