[Mathew Slack]

Just to clarify I wasn’t trying to say you would have a seamless display and actually said “While it won’t be as ‘cool’ as a seamless blended experience it is an ‘easier’ option.”

And the comment that if a screen has legs it has to be front projection makes little sense to me, the amount of sag is the same if you front or rear project, obviously a hung screen is “better” however my comments were to show that there are easier options for someone that is interested in DIY a complex setup.

I have never ever heard of someone saying you “can’t” rear project on a screen with legs because of “sag”. Please show me some pictures of the difference so I can be corrected, it is always better to rear project regardless of legs on a screen.. some of the reasons include fan noise, ambient lighting, and cable runs in front projection scenario. Also for a person that wants to DIY this project, a front projection that is not sitting on a cart in front of the screen will require at least a piece of truss, accessories and rigging which I would not think someone that is looking to do themselves would be a very good idea.

Mathew Slack
PSAV Presentation Services
Whistler, Canada

[Mathew Slack]

George,

Instead of doing one large blended screen, you may want to consider going with smaller cheaper screens, 2,3,4 however many 9×12 or desired size strung along the rear of the stage with (preferably) rear projection or at least flown front projection. While it won’t be as ‘cool’ as a seamless blended experience it is an ‘easier’ option.

There are numerous projector options out there, Barco, Panasonic, Sanyo, etc all depends on your content, and what kind of budget you have. Go on google and search “Sanyo Projector” and look at the Rental/staging section,

Mathew Slack
PSAV Presentation Services
Whistler, Canada

[Mathew Slack]

As long as you are ok with everything being IP between the boat and land, you could try using two off the shelf Linksys WRT54G routers with DD-WRT installed on them, boost the transmitter to ~ 84mW (or whatever is a safe level for your application) on both routers and add a couple of Square GRID Parabolic Antenna’s should easily be able to get decent speeds @ 200m if you have line of sight and calm seas.

Mathew Slack
PSAV Presentation Services
Whistler, Canada

[Mathew Slack]

Another option (which I have not tried) however it is a cheap alternative to switchers, dsan is:

Dual Head or Triple Head with one head feeding your confidence monitor,

https://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/

Using this software to manage multiple screen/media:

https://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/tips_dualhead2go_sync_shows.html

then just add this on top of the confidence monitor ppt feed:

https://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/cool/countdown01.html

Just a thought,

Mathew Slack
PSAV Presentation Services
Whistler, Canada

[Mathew Slack]

All,

Found the solution to this while working an event last night. On the MAC version of Office 2k11 Make sure you resolution is something widescreen or stretched (1440×900), only when this resolution is up select slide show in the ribbon (the line of “short cuts” between the design area and the file menus at the top). ONLY when you have a wide screen resolution selected was I able to reveal the Mirror displays / Presenter view icons (under slide show ribbon, right hand side). Click Mirror displays and it will stay persistent after reboots, different files, etc.

Thanks,

Mathew Slack
PSAV Presentation Services
Whistler, Canada