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Posted by J. Ramón Palacios on September 12, 1999 at 14:41:08:
In Reply to: slide projectors vs. digital projectors posted by Tony on September 11, 1999 at 19:10:34:
: I am an industrial design student at CSULB. I am doing
: a marketing research on slide projectors. My objective
: is to determine the pros and cons of both types of
: projectors, who would use a slide projector vs. a
: didital projector,
: and are slide projectors still in demand-if so how
: much longer will it survive in the market.
: the second part of this project is to identify
: different features, mechanism, and human factors
: that would improve the slide projector.
: Please email me if you have any imput on this matter.
: Remember to be very critical.
: Thank you very much,
: Tony
: ttran11@csulb.edu
: all efforts are greatly appreciated!!!
Response:
Thank you very much for allowing for criticism.
Indeed the question is very academic.
I would suggest first to find who are the current producers of
such equipment; then investigate if they are public companies, if
they are, search for sales figures in their financials and see
the tendency; they could be broken by type, hopefully.
In my personal opinion, slide projectors are on the
diminishing sales slide because of its incovenience; to be able
to show your pictures you must mount the slide projector, arrange
the slides on a tray or carrousel, turn off the lights and
request for silence. (Tough job on family gatherings).
For some time, corporate war rooms used slides and computers to
program the show and have the ability to recall any one slide.
Then came the video projector and later on the need for digital
imaging.
Today, the common setup is a laptop, a video projector and a
screen. But that is also changing;
with new and better software for presentations (PowerPoint, for
example), to incorporate images is not only a childs'job and now
animation is possible. New video cards have hookups to send the
image directly into a TV screen, not only to be viewed on a
computer screen.
So you could say that optics has been slowly been replaced by
software, video cards and digitization.
At what pace is your true challenge.
Sales, board room and the like are now been 'canned'in CD-Rom
totally controlled with a relatively simple program from a
laptop.
From my point of view, both at the home and the corporate level,
one would need:
0.- Better and less expensive digital cameras
1.- An easy to use digital imaging harware and software (for hard
copy prints, tables, etc).
2.- An easy to use archive system for such images to make a
manageable data bank.
3.- An easy to use presentation maker.
(All of the above may seem obvious, but most software is made by
and for geeks, not always very user-friendly).
4.- A less expensive video card
5.- Larger and better TV monitors for showing
6.- For large audiences a screen and a video projector continue
to be a must.
When a how the total displacement is to occur is hard to say. To
this date, no digital camera has yet the flexibility and quality
of a professional SLR, to start with.
At one (long) time I was in charge (among many other things) of
the design and success of a war room for the board presentations
(of which I was also in charge) for the largest industrial
conglomerate in Latin America)
Have fun.
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