iilyama vs clevertouch

[psydii]

Has anyone got experience using/evaluating products from these two manufacturers?

 

Which way did you go?

 

Why?

 

Thanks, P.

[slugshead]

Had a few Iiyamas, wanted to mass replace projectors a few years back with more features, weighed up C-touch, Clevertouch and Prowise. Went with Prowise.

 

At the time, the requirement was 4K, OPS, multi point touch, 65",75",86", everything integrated, value for money

 

Prowise didn't come out on top for everything (Power consumption, contrast ratios, number of inputs), but in terms of cost they blew everything out of the water. Not that they were cheap, they just weren't as expensive as the others and ticked all the boxes.

 

I'm happy with them, the new prowise 10 boards are even better again. The service has always been good and not had a problem with the guys at their tech support.

[MartinT]

We evaluated both last year and went - at first - with Clevertouch. However, we made the mistake of allowing teaching staff to do the 'evaluation' and they ended up using the Clevertouch features without doing the thing they fundamentally use most of the time, which is to mirror their iPad. We ordered 16 for the first tranch and then the problems began. Very big lag between the iPad and Clevertouch, making writing fall behind and YouTube videos almost unwatchable with lipsync and general judderiness. It turns out that both the Clevertouch app and native Airplay don't like the screens being on a different SSID and VLAN from the iPad (a necessary security).

 

This year, we worked with Clevertouch to develop a firmware fix but reached the decision point before a fix could be found, so decided to order 17 Iiyamas. They work quite happily across SSIDs and VLANs with barely perceptible lag. Pricing between the two is similar so it came down to functionality. We will be buying Iiyama in future.