False Promises

My Dear Princess and Dear Friends,

Today, I spent the day in the Porirua office again. This time measuring up for furniture.

These are the things you don't think about. Given that our VC installation guys need to drill holes IN and attach cables TO the furniture in meeting rooms, the furniture itself has to be ok, or when they change it, the VC guys need to repeat the whole operation.

You have to do all this stuff so that it looks neat and tidy. In the pictures of these kits, it always looks so slick. Not a cable in sight.

"Photoshop," say the VC guys when you ask them why it does't look like that in real life. Like we were supposed to know that. 

It's the same with the cabling that runs from the mini-computer behind the tv. It's not wireless (quality would be sh*t if it were) so where do the cables go?

The answer is they have to be bundled behind "trunking" - a hopefully inconspicuous cable-tidy that is attached to the wall - and then under velcro or something that runs the cables across the floor to the underside of the table. 

The cables under the velcro are potentially a tripping hazard, so you want to keep your "cable bump" as short as possible and avoid it altogether if you can. 

Again. Never in the pictures. Again, the magic of photoshop. "Or they never actually set up the kit when they took the brochure photos," said Jeff our A/V guy. 

I feel I've learned so much on this project. Maybe I'll be Symon the A/V Guy from now on.

S.