Smart board or iboard for...

Banzai_Joe · 21 Jan 2014 at 11:37

Hi all,
need to replace a crappy non-smart 42" tv in our boardroom with something bigger, smart and snazzy.
The boss said "...on the tv show Prime Suspect they use some kind of smart board which they push ipad content to. They literally swipe the ipad and it throws what was swiped over to this massive smartboard. then the pathologist could touch the smartscreen and drag the stuff around the screen, resizing it etc."
There, that was my brief.

So, i've looked at iboards, which seem to do quite a lot in the way of resizing content, moving it around etc, but there's no mention that i can find about pushing presentations from an ipad. I know i can use an app called 'Reflector' that has to be installed on a pc/mac so that the ipad can use airplay to mirror its screen, but then i could just use a smart tv for that (as long as it has airplay). The boss wants the interactive touch screen features as well.

Anyone watched Prime Suspect and know what my boss is talking about?
Any advice gratefully received.

Havana_UK · 21 Jan 2014 at 11:46

You want a touchscreen TV.

Am I reading this right?

Idleman · 21 Jan 2014 at 12:01

Could`nt you do the same thing with an AIO 42" touch screen.

Banzai_Joe · 21 Jan 2014 at 12:14

Havana_UK said:
You want a touchscreen TV.

Am I reading this right?

Kind of, i'm not totally sure what we want, but touch facility? yes.

Idleman said:
Could`nt you do the same thing with an AIO 42" touch screen.

Possibly, exploring all options.
I'm guessing its the software we use that can enable us to push an ipad presentation or even object across to the TV, then manipulate objects around.
If you look at a demo on http://iboardtouch.weebly.com/
if pretty much gives us what i want, but no mention of being able to swipe ipad content to it.

DaleTheWhale · 21 Jan 2014 at 17:14

How much is your bosses budget, my company have just heavily invested in Promethean interactive whiteboards, which do all of the above. However we bought quite a few so I guess we got an attractive deal.

m0rte · 10 Feb 2014 at 14:16

Bit of a bump as i'm looking for the same thing with a budget of up to £5k for our web dev team to draw rubbish on, rude messages, phalluses and the such.

Uncle_Gravy · 10 Feb 2014 at 14:25

Personal experience...I've worked in schools where I was installing Promethean's, they were horrid things, the SmartBoards are better I found

m0rte · 10 Feb 2014 at 14:29

Would you mind expanding on why they were horrible? Is the the projector nature of them vs a proper touch screen?

Banzai_Joe · 11 Feb 2014 at 08:30

Ok, so my update....

had a demo of a 66" iboardtouch. Pretty good tbh.
Allows multi video conferencing; you can draw., annotate on the screen at the same time and it pushes what you doodle onto all your vid client screens.
google for iboardtouch.weebly. There are some online demos of what it does.
We had a rough costing of £2500 for a 55" iboardtouch which includes a win7 pro x64 built-in pc and all the demo'd software included.

Svack · 11 Feb 2014 at 11:02

I can definitely give the IBT a big thumbs up, I work at a college where we put them in place of projectors in our new building, software is nice and easy to learn too, even our lecturers can use it!

They also use much less power than a projector and you save by not having to buy bulbs regularly.

As for Smartboards, we have quite a lot of them and we have found that the board warps over time making it impossible to calibrate them properly, while the pen may be calibrated at the top of the board, when you reach the bottom its about 6 inches out! Not sure if its a general Smartboard thing or if we had a bunch of cowboys install them!