New ENCORE Shopping List Fall 08

Added by Nathan Zhao, last edited by Anonymous on Jan 20, 2009  (view change)

Furniture, etc

  • New small table or desk (for other room)
  • Two Desk chairs

Research Support Tools

Digital Voice Transcription System

  • Get one of these - should be about $350 or $400

Video and Audio hardware

Video and audio media

7.1 Sound system for smart room. (plus additional speakers?)

Receiver: Onkyo TX-SR606 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver (about $500 USD) review- this has TONS of inputs available including 4 HDMI inputs
Spearkers: Onkyo SKS-HT540 7.1 reasonable reviews of this one on Amazon @ about $300 USD review

Computers

2 Dell Desktop machines (EdCommons please help recommend. We only need MINIMAL hard drive capacity, and no monitors here... We need to be able to put large video driver cards in them)

  • 64bit machine
  • xp64 or vista
  • 4Gigs Ram
  • Should be Nvidia Quadro compatible
  • Vostro's (Dell business desktops) are cheaper cause you can get a smaller hard drive. plus you get a better processor (Vostro 220, E8500,19 in 1, premium, wireless-N, 48x cd $759)

4 new Apple macbooks

  • of the "white plastic" variety (2.1GHz, 120 Gig HD, 1 Gig RAM) $999 US from Apple store.)

RAM for Dell Server

4GB dual channel kit (2x 2GB) for $60: http://infonec.com/site/main.php?module=detail&id=338455

Displays

6 Epson® PowerLite® 1715c project @ $1099 Link

sample
http://www.panasonic.com/business/projectors/learning_center/lc_enhance_wf.asp

Whiteboard for encore lab (7 or 8 foot wide)

(the ones we bought last year didn't work out. They were not good for writing on, so we will use them for projector surface in the smart room.)
WHAT HAVE OTHER PEOPLE ORDERED THAT WORKS WELL? SUE ECCLES HAD SOME PREFERRED VENDORS HERE...

small Whiteboard for the ENCORE programmer/media space (4x6 or 3x5)

Seven Projector Screens: one for the Encore Lab (room 11-221) and 6 for the ENCORE Smart room

Da-lite makes a good looking $100 screen for 4:3 video format. 80" X 60"
e.g., http://www.av-products.com/P20408.html

Computer peripherals, power cords, etc

  • 5 macbook power adapters (magnetic variety: Magsafe power adapter, 60 Watt, model #A1184)
  • 1 macbook pro battery - Here are the stats for Vanessa's macbook:
    • OISE no. - 106068 (number on blue "Property of OISE" sticker inside laptop)
    • Battery serial no. - 3K7302AAZ2AA (on actual battery)
    • Computer serial no. - W87316CSX92 (inside computer, only visible once the battery is taken out)
    • STOP Security no.
  • Hard Drives
    • Western Digital WD10EACS 1TB 1000G SATA Hard Drive 7200rpm 16MB Hard Drive
      • data storage for media production machine (move one of the two 500G Ext. HD to PowerMac G5 for backup of system file)
    • 160G or 250G 2.5" mobile HD - Western Digital 2.5" My Passport Essential, Portable, USB 2.0
    • 500G Internal HDD - add to the PowerMac G5 as server
  • Desktop Memory - 4 X 1G DDR400 for upgrading PowerMac G5 as server (if OS does not support over 4G, buy 3)
  • Also need an additional 2Gigs of RAM for the Dell Server we bought last year.
  • 3 + M1 DA to DVI Digital Video cable (Dell part number 310-3784) link

Wireless Devices

  • 3 Eye-Fi Explore Wireless SD Cards $129.99 website

Gaming or Media station

  • Ps/3 (better than xbox because you can install Linux, and swap out the hard disk)
  • Controllers
    • DDR

Software

Qualitative Analysis (for Video data)

  • Hyper research
    Number of licenses units Unit Price
    1-4 CAD: 458.33
    5-10 CAD: 396.40
    11-25 CAD: 334.46
    26-50 CAD: 272.52
    From 51 CAD: 210.59

CS4 web premium upgrade

  • Includes: Flash CS4 Professional, DreamweaverCS4, Fireworks CS4, Contribute CS4, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4 Ext & Acrobat 9 Pro
  • Adobe educational store sells full versions at $549
  • Note: Educational pricing only applies to full versions, also it seems that we only have the MX version, which is too old to upgrade
On 2 Flix - video compression software for Flash
  • Flix Pro - $249 USD
    • Includes advanced encoding features for high quality output, such as: Two pass encoding, on2 VP6-S for High Definition (HD) output, "green screen" special effects, usability features, such as cue points and batch encoding
    • Basically the option if you want to work with HD video or a quick and dirty way of working with cue points
    • Cue points add markers to your video and in Flash you can program the video to start an 'action' when the video hits the marker
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