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todd.roat
Would like to revisit my phobia of remote control slide advancers from
about a year ago. Had tried a couple a little over a year ago but had
varyign reults and problems I would like to forget.
Naturally, conference speakers would like to control the advancement of
their own slides. With all the different and varying hotel ballroom
environments we would encounter issues where either the slide would not
advance or, worse, would advance on their own. Wirelss frequesncy
issues? Hotel walkie talkie interference? Who knows? We heard all
kinds of reasons from hotle AV staff but the bottom line was that we no
longer trusted the tehcnology back then.
Since my neck was on the line, thrown in as learn by seat of pants
conferenc eguy, I came up with an archaic yet bullet proof system. We
have 2 laptops with the presentations on them. Laptops connected to
digitial switch box. Speaker holds an old fashioned simple slide
projector style control button (forward, advance) that is connected to
a simple Cue light sitting on our tech table during the show. Speaker
hits advance, we get a little green light and we manuually advance
thier slide on the laptop. Othe laptop advances manually as well. In
case one laptop freaks out and has issues, we just switch box over to
the othe rone that is alreasy in the right spot since its advancing in
sunch with the other one. Additionally, the speaker has the "sense"
that he is controlling own slides.
This has been bullet proof. The few times we have had Powerpoint or
the laptop freeze, for whatever reason, this switch over has saved the
day - transparant to the audience with split seond delay time. Boss is
happy ;^)
However, as we grwo, we increasingly encounter veteran guest speakers
who look at us funny when told they cannot advace their own slides,
technically. They report never having had issues with remote control
slide advancement before.
What gives? Could that be true? Why had we, eventually, had issues
with wireless communication between the remote and the laptop? Why had
they over there many many talks never encountered an issue? Is there
new technology that eliminates this sisue? Is it a particular name
brand of new controller? Should we just leave well enough alone and
stick with old system that works or consider newer better remote
technology? Thoughts? Experiences? Anecdotes?
Todd
about a year ago. Had tried a couple a little over a year ago but had
varyign reults and problems I would like to forget.
Naturally, conference speakers would like to control the advancement of
their own slides. With all the different and varying hotel ballroom
environments we would encounter issues where either the slide would not
advance or, worse, would advance on their own. Wirelss frequesncy
issues? Hotel walkie talkie interference? Who knows? We heard all
kinds of reasons from hotle AV staff but the bottom line was that we no
longer trusted the tehcnology back then.
Since my neck was on the line, thrown in as learn by seat of pants
conferenc eguy, I came up with an archaic yet bullet proof system. We
have 2 laptops with the presentations on them. Laptops connected to
digitial switch box. Speaker holds an old fashioned simple slide
projector style control button (forward, advance) that is connected to
a simple Cue light sitting on our tech table during the show. Speaker
hits advance, we get a little green light and we manuually advance
thier slide on the laptop. Othe laptop advances manually as well. In
case one laptop freaks out and has issues, we just switch box over to
the othe rone that is alreasy in the right spot since its advancing in
sunch with the other one. Additionally, the speaker has the "sense"
that he is controlling own slides.
This has been bullet proof. The few times we have had Powerpoint or
the laptop freeze, for whatever reason, this switch over has saved the
day - transparant to the audience with split seond delay time. Boss is
happy ;^)
However, as we grwo, we increasingly encounter veteran guest speakers
who look at us funny when told they cannot advace their own slides,
technically. They report never having had issues with remote control
slide advancement before.
What gives? Could that be true? Why had we, eventually, had issues
with wireless communication between the remote and the laptop? Why had
they over there many many talks never encountered an issue? Is there
new technology that eliminates this sisue? Is it a particular name
brand of new controller? Should we just leave well enough alone and
stick with old system that works or consider newer better remote
technology? Thoughts? Experiences? Anecdotes?
Todd