Why Big Screen Video Conferencing is Better

Pluot
Everywhere, by Pluot
3 min readAug 18, 2016

When it’s time for your team to video conference, don’t make everybody crowd around a computer monitor.

For individual use, video conferencing a computer is great. The convenience is fantastic. But for a group of people, video conferencing on a computer screen is difficult and counterproductive.

When your team gathers to get work done, you should be able to talk easily, so ideas flow naturally. The goal is to work well together. You engage each other, reacting to expressions and gestures, and build on each other’s insights.

To work as a team, you meet in a space where you can work together, like a conference room, or shared workspace. Everyone is at the table.

You don’t crowd around one chair. So when it’s time for your team to video conference, why would you crowd around one computer monitor?

Video conferencing on a computer screen doesn’t help your team dynamic.

  • You constantly move the laptop, or turn the screen, to get the right person on camera.
  • When someone not on camera speaks, your remote colleagues can’t see who it is.
  • If everybody waits to speak until the camera’s adjusted, the conversation is stilted.
  • Everybody’s hunching, or crouching, to squeeze closer to the screen.

How’s that for a productive, illuminating meeting?

Meet Pluot, the antidote to your video conference pains. Easy, affordable video conferencing on your big screen TV.

We all have big screen TVs in our conference rooms — exactly the place where we collaborate. It’s crazy we’re wasting those big screen pixels.

Your team works quickly across devices, platforms, and tools. Pluot lets you add the biggest screen in your office into the mix.

Dedicated big screen video conferencing changes how your team works. Instead of fragmented conversations, everyone can sit around the table together. Your remote colleagues also experience the benefit: they get to see and interact with you. Whether your colleagues are physically in the room or not, everyone feels like an equal.

Traditional big screen video conferencing, though, hasn’t kept up with the changing workspace. It’s expensive. It’s bulky to set up. Product interfaces aren’t designed for your big screen TV.

Pluot changes that. We send you everything you need to connect to your TV. You pay $50/month. No contract necessary.

Equally important, Pluot is designed for the big screen. From the start, we created the interface to be shown on a big screen.

  • Intuitive UI, so you don’t waste time
  • 2 simultaneous screen shares
  • Anyone can control the TV with a phone, laptop, tablet — any device
  • Easy wireless presentations
  • No weird pixelation or resolution when you present wirelessly

Stop conducting your team meetings crouched around one laptop. Bring everyone to the conference room table with Pluot.

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