All iPads Vid Conferencing question: Casting to big monitor

[cognus]

hey gang - Obviously the whole country is suddenly interested in home office & vid meetings/conferences etc.
I have a couple of questions:

- When 'casting' the video to a nearby HDTV or big monitor, does that process interfere with Mic & cam on the iPad?
- I'm needing to buy one for a lawyer who is brilliant in his field but completely non-technical - has to work simply and surely. I am reading on the Apple Support site and all over the web of problems with iPAD microphones being unreliable for one reason or other - maybe a confluence of reasons. What model of recent mint is stone-ax RELIABLE in this regard? The 'quick and easy' solution to the dearth of webcams [all sold out forever] for desktop PC's is to buy a new iPAD 10.2 and cast it, if this all works simply.... That's my "fix it today" path if it works

Thoughts?

 

[ed.]

I'd say generally your best solution would be to use AirPods: terrible audio quality in video calls is usually a fault of using the device microphones in an open environment. They tend to pick up a lot of ambient noise, echoes and so on. The new iPad Pros apparently have a 'studio quality' microphone array, but I haven't tested it so I'm not sure of the actual quality.

Also I'm not sure I've understood the setup: you will use an iPad to make a video call and then you want to cast the output of the video call to a bigger monitor? Or the big monitor is on the other side of the video call? Do you have to use a specific software? Can you be more specific?

Also, generally speaking online support sites are full only of people having problems - the millions of people for whom things work out of the box never write anything...

 

[AutomaticApple]

online support sites are full only of people having problems - the millions of people for whom things work out of the box never write anything...

I see loads of people talking about their functional products online.

 

[ed.]

Well he’s mentioned support sites, not “the internet”. Support sites exists for when something doesn’t work. Not the best place to find out about working solutions.

 

[AutomaticApple]

Not the best place to find out about working solutions.

Solutions that can already be found by searching?

 

[ed.]

Not sure where we are going, but sure.