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Wirelessly broadcast presentation to a tablet?
joshofalltrades
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I work part-time for a church, and recently was given a $25K budget to completely revamp the sound system in the church sanctuary. I did that, and came in slightly under budget (because I like to get things done with as little waste as possible) by about $2500. The pastor pulled me aside and told me that with the leftover cash, he would like to finally solve a problem that has been bugging him for a long while now.
We have two giant projection screens that flank the center of the sanctuary. During services, we are projecting song lyrics, liturgy, and images to enhance his sermon (or, since I'm the one who puts them together, they are often poking fun at the pastor himself). The trouble is, he can't see the screens; he typically faces the congregation, not the far wall, and so if there's an issue with where he's at in the service (say, he skipped ahead by accident or I fucked up and put something in the wrong place), he'll continue on obliviously because he doesn't know.
So he tasked me today with coming up with a solution to this. His suggestion was another projection screen on the back wall, with another projector facing that direction, but I hate that solution. Screens that size are big, expensive, hard to install, and then you've got a projector shining light in the direction of the congregation. Plus, the presentation switcher/scaler we're using right now (a Kramer VP-719) is only capable of outputting to two different projectors, so we would need to buy something else if we went that route.
My idea is that we buy a relatively inexpensive tablet and somehow mirror the 2nd screen of the media laptop wirelessly to it. I like this idea because the only expenditures are a tablet and possibly some software. We wouldn't need anything terribly fancy or even big. In fact, I would prefer something smaller than my iPad 2; the tablet would probably have to sit on a music stand and leave room for the pastor to see his notes. Reliability is the most important thing.
Also! I still need to buy a new media laptop so that we have a backup in case the one we're using now bites the dust or has issues at a critical juncture. So I really don't want to have to use the entire remainder of the budget for this screen business.
So my questions are:
Thanks, H/A
We have two giant projection screens that flank the center of the sanctuary. During services, we are projecting song lyrics, liturgy, and images to enhance his sermon (or, since I'm the one who puts them together, they are often poking fun at the pastor himself). The trouble is, he can't see the screens; he typically faces the congregation, not the far wall, and so if there's an issue with where he's at in the service (say, he skipped ahead by accident or I fucked up and put something in the wrong place), he'll continue on obliviously because he doesn't know.
So he tasked me today with coming up with a solution to this. His suggestion was another projection screen on the back wall, with another projector facing that direction, but I hate that solution. Screens that size are big, expensive, hard to install, and then you've got a projector shining light in the direction of the congregation. Plus, the presentation switcher/scaler we're using right now (a Kramer VP-719) is only capable of outputting to two different projectors, so we would need to buy something else if we went that route.
My idea is that we buy a relatively inexpensive tablet and somehow mirror the 2nd screen of the media laptop wirelessly to it. I like this idea because the only expenditures are a tablet and possibly some software. We wouldn't need anything terribly fancy or even big. In fact, I would prefer something smaller than my iPad 2; the tablet would probably have to sit on a music stand and leave room for the pastor to see his notes. Reliability is the most important thing.
Also! I still need to buy a new media laptop so that we have a backup in case the one we're using now bites the dust or has issues at a critical juncture. So I really don't want to have to use the entire remainder of the budget for this screen business.
So my questions are:
- What would be the highest quality:cost ratio tablet I could buy for this purpose?
- What is some good software for this?
- Can I do this for as little as $1000?
Thanks, H/A
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http://www.splashtop.com/personal
But Teamviewer, google remote pc, MS remote desktop and other remote viewer apps also have android apps, so you could look around and see if one of them looks better to you.
I just suggested splashtop as it's what I've been using myself for a few years now and it's low latency/good resolution.
Personal is just a catchall to make sure you're not using it on like 1800 computers in your, technically, non-commercial entity. It's an honor system in most cases. To me, a church, in this scenario is definitely a Personal/Non-Commercial entity.
But there are other open source/freeware software that do similar things, and some that even work on tablets (VNC and RDP spring to mind, though RDP would be problematic). But yeah grab a cheapo tablet and try it, if it doesn't work, well, at least it was only $50.