Hello,
First let me apologize for 2 things.
1. I am very Green with this type of thing so there may be some stupid questions here.
2. This may be covered somewhere I just can't find it. So if it is a duplicate just point me to the other and I'll research it there.
So here is the Synopsis:
I work for a company that has 2 buildings at one site and wants to put a TV in each lunchroom to stream announcements.
The quick idea I had is to have someone create a powerpoint slide and convert it to a JPEG and store that on a server, then use 2 content streamers to stream these 'slides' to each of the TVs using a jpeg viewer. One repository of slides for all TVs would be necessary.
Now for the questions:
1. Would this be the recommended way to do that? Is there a better way, easier, quicker way to accomplish this?
Streamer:
2. Which Content Streamer would be my best value. Internet content is not important at all. Would rather have a wired connection but that is just my opinion.
a. Was looking at ROKU 2 XD.
b. AppleTV?
c. Boxee Box?
d. ASUS O!Play?
3. I would need / want a tv and streamer to be able to lock out any panel buttons so that the employees can't mess with it.
a. Also would like to be able to set a default to start up in this mode so that we don't need to manually start it all the time.
a1. This may not be a big issue because I could see us leaving it on all the time since we are 7 days a week it would mostly just be power failures that we would be starting back up from. But the option would be great if it exists.
TV:
4. Do 'Smart' TVs (Internet Ready TVs) have this ability natively that I would not need an external streamer?
5. What TV would you recommend that might have the lockout features so employees don't mess with it?
Again Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere.
Thanks so much in advance for any direction you can point me in!!
First let me apologize for 2 things.
1. I am very Green with this type of thing so there may be some stupid questions here.
2. This may be covered somewhere I just can't find it. So if it is a duplicate just point me to the other and I'll research it there.
So here is the Synopsis:
I work for a company that has 2 buildings at one site and wants to put a TV in each lunchroom to stream announcements.
The quick idea I had is to have someone create a powerpoint slide and convert it to a JPEG and store that on a server, then use 2 content streamers to stream these 'slides' to each of the TVs using a jpeg viewer. One repository of slides for all TVs would be necessary.
Now for the questions:
1. Would this be the recommended way to do that? Is there a better way, easier, quicker way to accomplish this?
Streamer:
2. Which Content Streamer would be my best value. Internet content is not important at all. Would rather have a wired connection but that is just my opinion.
a. Was looking at ROKU 2 XD.
b. AppleTV?
c. Boxee Box?
d. ASUS O!Play?
3. I would need / want a tv and streamer to be able to lock out any panel buttons so that the employees can't mess with it.
a. Also would like to be able to set a default to start up in this mode so that we don't need to manually start it all the time.
a1. This may not be a big issue because I could see us leaving it on all the time since we are 7 days a week it would mostly just be power failures that we would be starting back up from. But the option would be great if it exists.
TV:
4. Do 'Smart' TVs (Internet Ready TVs) have this ability natively that I would not need an external streamer?
5. What TV would you recommend that might have the lockout features so employees don't mess with it?
Again Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere.
Thanks so much in advance for any direction you can point me in!!