Hello all,
At yesterdays meeting I proposed a vote to purchase a new projector for
our meeting area. Our current projector is bulky, low-res and ancient.
The only input on it that we ever make use of is VGA, and that usually
through the use of one or several adapters. This caused a problem
yesterday when our 2nd tuesday speaker needed to do a presentation and
the necessary adapters were not available. We ended up stealing the tv
from the lounge and using that. Decent 1080p projectors can be had for a
few hundred dollars and, as a bonus, whatever we get would be
significantly smaller and could be easily mounted up on the wall of the
annex, gaining us back a bit of floor space. I am proposing a $600
budget for a projector and required mounting equipment. This is based on
regular retail cost, however I will be considering the usual
alternatives (eBay, etc) so it will probably cost quite a bit less than
this, especially since it seems fairly likely that there will be a some
relevant black friday deals forthcoming.
tl;dr - $600 budget for a new projector and hardware for the mounting
thereof.
Ian B.