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Thank you to townsend for both replies. We will check up with our ICT supplier about the warranty as it's meant to be 5 years. We wanted to use a big name, i.e Promethean but their screen was very average and then they angered us with the cost of the software. We then looked at other big names. One being C Touch. But they lied to us saying we had to buy their units to get octopus which we have now found out is untrue. The vivid touch scenario scares us as you rightly say "what if" so we ended up with ecotouch. They say their products are cheaper because they don't spend lots of money on marketing which is probably why we had never heard of them :-) They have a lot of reference sites on their website so we will deffo chase those up. If we went with iiyama, do they have any software for use in classrooms?

is that definite as we want chromebooks but have SIMS

Hello. I've literally just joined with the intent on getting advise on touchscreens. we need 14 and have been trialing for what seems like ages. Upshot is we are probably using our IT supplier, ( i can tell you who they are if you want ) to provide ecotouch 65" screens as they are only £1825 installed with software and AV plate. Do you have any recommendations on any other vendors please. My earlier post is below and I hope it helps you. ---------------------------------------------------- We are going through the same predicament at present. Teaching staff have used activinspire for 8 years but the new activpanel is not that great and expensive to boot. Their antiglare was not very good at all and KS1 could not see the screen from their viewing angle. We trialed smart but didn't like it at all. It looked really old tech. We really liked the vividtouch. In fact it was by far the best tech we looked at but the price was £2700 installed which is too much for us as we need 14. We then looked at C Touch at £2200 before install. We liked it and really liked the software it came with so thought we would run the octopus software and activ inspire at the same time, but then Promethean referred us to their terms and conditions and said we would have to pay £1000 per screen per year to carry on using their software on a ctouch panel. ( or anyone elses for that matter ) We didn't appreciate that!!! We have now trialled for 15 days, and really like the ecotouch panel. Its as good as everything else ( bar the vividtouch ) and according to our ICT contact will be £1825 installed with free octopus software and AV plate included, with the old IWB and projector taken down too. So we are now trying to work out if we can use octopus software for lessons, because if we can and i think we will, we will save £500 per install and we have 14 classrooms so a big saving of £7000. I should say that the customer service from ecotouch was great too, maybe because it was arranged by our ICT contact but maybe as standard, who knows but they are really showing themselves to be of great value so far. Happy to refer anyone to our ecotouch contact if you want a trial and would be grateful for any names of companies we have missed please?

i got excited there as £1585 is lower than we got quoted but by the time you add on the wall mount and delivery, then install we are much the same. We are paying £1825 installed with software and AV plate included plus our installer ( not go education ) are taking away the old IWB and projector. Have you bought the BVS screens yet? if so are they working as expected please?

Hi all, ive just posted this on another thread so i hope its ok to copy and paste it over here too as we are in need of any advice on screens too. ----------------------------------------------------------------- We are going through the same predicament at present. Teaching staff have used activinspire for 8 years but the new activpanel is not that great and expensive to boot. Their antiglare was not very good at all and KS1 could not see the screen from their viewing angle. We trialed smart but didn't like it at all. It looked really old tech. We really liked the vividtouch. In fact it was by far the best tech we looked at but the price was £2700 installed which is too much for us as we need 14. We then looked at C Touch at £2200 before install. We liked it and really liked the software it came with so thought we would run the octopus software and activ inspire at the same time, but then Promethean referred us to their terms and conditions and said we would have to pay £1000 per screen per year to carry on using their software on a ctouch panel. ( or anyone elses for that matter ) We didn't appreciate that!!! We have now trialled for 15 days, and really like the ecotouch panel. Its as good as everything else ( bar the vividtouch ) and according to our ICT contact will be £1825 installed with free octopus software and AV plate included, with the old IWB and projector taken down too. So we are now trying to work out if we can use octopus software for lessons, because if we can and i think we will, we will save £500 per install and we have 14 classrooms so a big saving of £7000. I should say that the customer service from ecotouch was great too, maybe because it was arranged by our ICT contact but maybe as standard, who knows but they are really showing themselves to be of great value so far. Happy to refer anyone to our ecotouch contact if you want a trial and would be grateful for any names of companies we have missed please?

We are going through the same predicament at present. Teaching staff have used activinspire for 8 years but the new activpanel is not that great and expensive to boot. We trialed smart but didn't like it at all. We really liked the vividtouch. In fact it was by far the best tech we looked at but the price was £2700 installed which is too much for us We then looked at C Touch at £2200. We liked it and really liked the software it came with so thought we would run octopus and activ inspire at the same time, but then promethean refered us to their terms and conditions and said we would have to pay £1000 per screen per year to carry on using their software on a ctouch panel. We didnt appreciate that!!! We have now trialled for 15 days, and really like the ecotouch panel. Its as good as everything else ( bar the vividtouch ) and according to our ICT contact will be £1825 installed with software and AV plate included with the old IWB and projector taken down too. So we are now trying to work out if we can use octopus software for lessons, because if we can and i think we can, we will save £500 per install and we have 14 classrooms so a big saving of £7000. Have we missed any makes or models??