General 27 Jun 2005 11:55 am
Projectors in the conference room
This is part question and part rant. I’ve been doing a huge number of meetings in SF, NYC, and Boston over the last three weeks and I’ve been stunned by how few people have projectors in their conference rooms. I’ve been to major technology companies, publications, and analyst firms and almost none of them had projectors. Why is this? I’m trying to figure this puzzle out. At Macromedia we have projectors built in to every conference room - complete with touch screen controls and motorized screens. Are we that unique? I can’t remember the last time that I was in a meeting at Macromedia HQ that didn’t require use of the projector.
On a related note, my team purchased the new Infocus LP120 super-light-weight projector for use on this tour. Wow - this thing is amazing! It’s so small yet incredibly powerful. I highly recommend it. And it’s cheap too - I believe it was only around $1500.
In any case, please share your thoughts on the whole projector thing. It really caught me by surprise. I’ve visited with thousands of customers over the years and never noticed this before.
on 27 Jun 2005 at 1:13 pm 1.Tony MacDonell said …
I have been in many a meeting where there has been projectors, but more often than not, it either doesn’t work, or is too complicated for people to get started up.
Sounds stupid but it is true.
On the same topic though, quite a few clients I have met with recently have large plasma or LCD screens instead of projectors.
There has been 2 in the last month that I can remember.
on 27 Jun 2005 at 2:18 pm 2.Graeme Bull said …
I use mine for a movie theater at home…
But as for corporations, Citi had a huge one in their conference room, of course with teleconferencing etc..
I can’t understand either why people wouldn’t have one, they aren’t that expensive and really help with visuals when you can put something on the big screen and not with an overhead or something.
In fact I just finished a 2 week course and they were using this ancient overhead and I wondered to myself why they didn’t have a projector..
on 27 Jun 2005 at 4:11 pm 3.erikbianchi said …
Odd, everyplace I have ever worked at had a projector (or giant plasma screen) in the conference room(s)?
My best guess is that either the customers you visited don’t do a lot of training or sales presentations in the office or all the sales people had the projectors off site.
Then again, maybe they all thought you where kind of shady and hid them from you? =)
-erik
on 28 Jun 2005 at 2:35 am 4.aral said …
That is strange. You’ll always have a projector here when you’re visiting us over in the UK, Mike! In fact, I think we should nickname ours “The Downey”
on 30 Jun 2005 at 11:44 pm 5.Ethan said …
I agree, in Taiwan, so few companies have projectors in their meeting room. In my case, our meeting room has a projector which I have to set it up every single time before the meeting, plugin the power-core, the connection line and stuff…and it took me about 5 minutes at least, totally waste of time, and after the meeting, I have to wait it to be cooled down before putting it back, and it took me another 5 minutes…
in my opinion, projector is so important during any kind of meeting, because people can’t really remember or get to any point without seeing anything.
P.S I hate it when people print all the documents instead of using projectors, my desk now is totally messed up by all those “meeting papers”..
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