Split TV for 2 Displays... (help!)

[zephirus79]

My boss has asked me to look into a system he wants to implement soon.

What he would like to do is to hang a large flat screen television in our lobby. On half of the screen, he wants to display live TV from the weather channel. On the other half, he wants to display things like company announcements and such that we control...


Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started?

[edDV]

Some plasma or LCD-TV sets allow sizing the "picture in picture" PIP modes. Some even have dual tuners.
http://www.hitachi.us/tv/browse/plasma/plasma/42hds69.shtml

Consult a high end home threater store.

Electronic boxes are available for signage type displays or commercial presentation. Google digital signage.

A company named Extron makes a wide variety of video distribution products but may not be the most affordable solution. Call them for advice.
http://www.extron.com/applications/index.asp

[vhelp]

Hi zephirus79,

What you want is simple. You probably got the idea from watching other companies
utilize this feature. Its not that difficult to set up. We use this setup at work.

Actually, what you are probably seeing (as an example) is:

** a capture card, and
** a powerpoint (in auto mode) presentation, in action

The trick is to first start your presentation, and size it according to your design.
ie, on your right-side. Then, set it in auto mode, to continiusly refresh pages.
Or, you can use a webpage as your main presentation, or other document.

Then, start your capture software (ATI is a good choice for this one -- we use it in ours)
and size your video window accordingly. Make it large or small or wide, or whatever.
Then, set it to "always-on-top", and you're good to go. Now, you look professional

As far as the video and your capture card goes, you can run your Cable (for live tv)
or hook up a VCR to it and set it to Line In (or whatever it is today) and let that be
your video for the day, or anything else you want for video.

-vhelp 4286

[kiki]

you could also run 2 smaller screen lcd's
that would add up to the large screen size
and use seperate video feeds.
you would have infinite control this way

kiki