Video Conferencing in HYMS Lecture Theatre
The HYMS Lecture Theatre (Room A/EW/003) has comprehensive videoconference facilities, primarily for use by HYMS for joint lectures in York and Hull. It is a specialised facility suitable for meetings, seminars and lectures for up to 100 people. The layout of the room is theatre style.
The video conferencing equipment comprises a Tandberg 990 MXP video conferencing unit and two Mitsubishi data projectors. A supported campus PC and visualiser are available for showing and viewing presentations and it is possible to connect a laptop computer to the system too.
Please Note. Our videoconferencing systems are NOT compatible with Adobe Breeze, Yahoo Messenger, Netmeeting, Skype and other software solutions
The equipment is extremely easy to use. A short 15 minute introduction to the equipment by Audio Visual is all that is required to be able to use the facilities of the equipment.
Booking the facilities
The room must be booked through Timetabling Office. Once you have confirmation of the room, if you require assistance setting up then please use the AV equipment booking form to request technical support.
Multi-site conferences
If your conference will have more than 2 sites participating, then the services of an MCU will need to be booked. For academic business, JVCS operate a service which is available for our use, this will need to be booked by one of the participants. Please inform us when you are booking if this is the case. We can book the MCU for you, for which we will need details of the other venues, or you can book it yourself, you will need to specify the venue name - info-centre@york.ac.uk . For external clients, BT Conferencing can provide a similar service.
Presentations
There are two projectors in the room allowing for one screen to show the video conference and another to show PowerPoint or similar. You will need to ask the presenter to indicate when they are changing slides.
If the remote equipment is DuoVideo capable (most modern Tandberg systems are), then both the presentation and the image of the presenter can be transmitted down the link.