All of the theatres have identical ceiling-mounted projectors and the classrooms will use an interactive whiteboard with media management via Cue control systems. One of the first rooms to be transformed - lecture theatre E, a listed 1970s structure - was used as a location for Stanley Kubrick's controversial film A Clockwork Orange, shot in the early 1970s. The equipment installed provides a highly flexible presentation system, which will be employed for university lectures as well as being made available for commercial conferencing, with recent clients including Sainsbury's and HSBC.
The 200-seat theatres provide a wealth of resources for lecturers, both on the lecturer's desk and raiseable lecterns in front of them. The lectern features a PC TFT LCD screen, Wacom tablet, keyboard and Cue touch-screen control panel. The remainder of the presentation and auxiliary equipment, located within the desk, includes a networked PC, a Sony VHS player and a Pioneer DV444 DVD player. Visiting lecturers' laptops may also be daisy-chained into the system. Users can switch between a Hitachi CP-X990W LCD projector, which takes all these sources, using the Cue touch-panel.
(Lee Baldock)
