Advantages: Great performance, secrecy function, lights, shape Disadvantages: Price, lack of LCD screen
If you work in an international office, you will know that conference calls and part of everyday life. Not an afternoon passes without the shrill voice of someone booming through out conference phone.
However, they are not the easiest things to conduct or concentrate on and end up more like a fussy moon landing conversation. I always want to say ?Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed? at the end of the call.
It is therefore Ironic that the solution to our dodgy conference calls comes in the shape of an alien spacecraft and more at home in Star Trek than our conference room.
However, the Polycom Soundstation 200 is just that.
What does it look like?
Well, it is a dark grey tripod shaped device which is about the size of a vinyl Album. To one of the 3 sides, it has the controls and buttons for dialing and the overall control ...
Advantages: Wide range of features, futuristic design Disadvantages: heavy
HP Pavilion HDX is made to be on the desk at home rather than have it on your legs because of its weight. It is really crowded by high-tech features.
This device is great entertaiment centre for your home, but on teh other hand the display has not the full esolution of HD DVD - 1080p. Anyway it is good decission
to make one device for playing video, work and computer games.
HDX has the design of the entrtaiment laptops from HP with simillar black-silver coloring and mild sign on the down side of cover. The highest measure of closed HDX
is 4826mm and it weights nice 16 pounds without adapter:) It is the heaviest laptop i have ever seen. So i think it is possible to transfer it between rooms or take it
to your holiday with car but not to travel with it by public transport every day.
Display of this size needs to be more fasten ...
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - RJ-45
2 x display / video - S-video input - 4 PIN mini-DIN
1 x display / video - VGA input - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)
1 x peripheral - 15 pin D-Sub (DB-15)
1 x display / video - S-video input - BNC x 2
1 x display / video - S-video output - BNC x 2
2 x display / video - S-video output - 4 PIN mini-DIN
1 x display / video - VGA output - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)
2 x serial - RS-232 - 9 pin D-Sub (DB-9)
1 x microphone - input - RJ-9
1 x audio - line-In - RCA x 2
1 x audio - line-In - 3 pin Phoenix x 2
1 x audio - line-out - 3 pin Phoenix x 2
1 x phone line - RJ-11
2 x audio - line-out - RCA x 2
Power
Power Device
Power supply - internal
Voltage Required
AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support
1 year warranty
Service & Support Details
Limited warranty - parts and labour - 1 year
New releases update - 1 year
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature
0 °C
Max Operating Temperature
40 °C
Humidity Range Operating
15 - 80%
Software / system requirements
Software Included
Polycom Embedded MPPlus Multipoint (4-way), People + Content IP, Polycom People On Content
Manufacturer's product description
Precisely engineered for superior clarity, Polycom HDX 8000 systems enable users to interact over video freely and naturally. Rich-media content and data are easily enabled, further enhancing collaboration and audience participation. For organizations migrating to high-definition video and audio communication, the Polycom HDX 8000 series provides a flexible and robust solution ideally suited for distance education, remote medical diagnosis, on-demand project collaboration and more.
