I have hdmi & VGA adapters but mostly use the vga adapter because those are more commonly found when I do demos. The future is hdmi until something replaces it.
I also have some RCA cables.
Your large screen tv it likely takes hdmi.
A 20 or 30 foot cable comes in handy since you won't want to be tethered to the tv.
Building the PowerPoint can be done on the ipad or a PC. I build a set of slides with text, photos, and videos, then add my speaker notes, and finally export a PDF to post on the web as a handout.
Then I edit, reorder, add, subtract.........
I always try to play my PowerPoint on a big screen tv before I give it to an audience.
Gives me a better feeling for how thing look and sometimes see a typo that has defied every other proofing technique.
I have a subscription to Microsoft around $100 a year for the office suite it lets us put PowerPoint on 2 PCs and 2 IPads. I think the limit is 5 devices. The PowerPoint app has most of the functionality of the windows version but it doesn't have the albums. One shortcut I use frequently to put a lot of photos in into a presentation is to make an album. A few button clicks can put every photo in a folder into a its own slide in the order you specify.
Hi Al,
For that last 9 months, I've been setting up a new business, and hence been presenting to investors continuously.
This can be pretty stressful, since I have about 20-30 min to convince 5-10 people why they should give me money...
So tech failures are not appreciated.
As a life long Microsoft user, I've always used Powerpoint and PC's. And have given up.
Google Slides offers most, if not all of the same functionality, some features are much better
Its FREE for most uses. As a business we pay $5/mth/user for the entire Google suite.
No usage limitations. I find it a far superior product.
https://www.google.ca/slides/about/
The presentation is stored in the cloud, so its accessible anywhere via the net.
The three of us partners use Slides collaboratively, often working on the same presentation concurrently.
(you may not care about that, but...you can share is with your wife, friend etc, to get feedback in real time, and that helps test / polish the presentation)
Build your presentation, from anywhere, on a laptop/desktop, Apple/Windows - it doesn't matter.
I use Apple Airplay to show my presentations on a big screen. No RCA cables or adapters - its wireless.
(but of course assumes that the TV is set up with AirPlay - they mostly have been). This has been very reliable so far.
I can walk into a meeting, with the presentation already loaded on my MacBook or iPad, connect to Airplay from outside the conference room, and then just start my presentation.
That removes most of the concern about tech failures.
The other likeable feature of Google Slides is that I can share it easily after the meeting.
Make the presentation public, send out the link (or tell people where to find it - ex. on your site (it also directs people to your site and helps SEO).
Despite my 25 (ish) years of experience on Powerpoint, I've totally given up on it.
Just my 2c.
Olaf