Simon Allen

Hertfordshire

Voice n Stuff

"the intelligent projector and application"

There is the answer!!!! The salesmen asked their developers to make the system 'fool proof' and 'work right out of the box' and all that jazz. So ... EACH item in the chain tries to be intelligent and second guesses the other components. The result is GOING to be a failure.

When electronic projectors first started, people would know what settings were needed and then ask for them to be set. If they did not know the settings, the options were very few. Now there is a plethora of frame and pixel sizes and it will have to be bad for a while longer before people realise that having everything dumb and manual, lets you set and forget.

I have seen a presentation set up and tested but fail 30 mins later because the person did not realise that he blank screen was the PC gone into sleep mode. So they re-booted the PC and that took ages. The real real sadness was - this was in a funeral, about to show a video of the man who had died and what would have been poignant was awful.