Digital Sign

[geo]

Question:

I have a PC sitting at the reception desk in an office. We want to have a
very easy digital signage set up. About 20 or 30 feet from from the
receptionists desk they want to put an LCD display in the lobby.

Basically all they want it to do is be a static Web page that welcomes
customers in when they come to visit.
It would have our company logo on it with a list of customers welcoming them
in.

We are thinking of setting up a static web page to handle this that the
reception could edit from her desk on an everyday basis.

The question is how to set it up so that the system runs I guess in a dual
monitor type fashion. So the receptionist could do her normal work on one
monitor and edit this website from the other monitor someway.

The video people suggested a wireless set up from the LCD TV to the
computer. I'm not sure the type of equipment they are talking about here.
I'm also not sure what type of video card I need. I'm also not sure if it
is possible to set it up this way, so that the receptionists basically has
two monitors to work off of one for everyday work and one to edit this
digital signage.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Geo

 

[Chuck]

A second computer would be less expensive, and more reliable.
The existing display, keyboard, and mouse used by the receptionist might be
used for both computers via a switch, or even remote management. The
additional cost of the second computer is trivial when compared to the cost
of a large screen LCD display.
I would think that the labor costs involved in setting/configuring a single
PC to do both would easily exceed any cost "savings" obtained by using one
PC instead of two.