Good morning!

I'm looking for a projector for our small-ish conference room (8-10 people) and have some questions. Here's information regarding the room and requirements:
- Projected content will be largely Office documents (spreadsheets and presentations mostly) with occasional pictures and videos
- Room can be made fairly dark but not completely
- Our initial plan is to use the wall (off-white, eggshell type color) as a projection area with the possibility of adding an actual screen if the wall doesn't provide adequate results.
- I'm not fixed on a particular screen size or aspect ratio, the wall itself is rather large - I was thinking of an area about 8ft x 4ft. Does that make sense?
- The projector will be permanently ceiling-mounted so throw distance is irrelevant (I think?), as are portability, weight and an eventual carrying case.
- Ideally we'd like to keep it under 1500$
- The main requirement I have is that we can connect the projector to our wired network as its only interface. People would bring a laptop to the conference room, plug into the network (outlets are on the table) and send their documents to the projector over the network. Initial setup difficulty doesn't really matter but once configured, it has to be very easy and trouble-free to use. This is the single most important factor for us.

That brings me to the Panasonic PT-VW440U - or any other networked projector for that matter. I read all documentation I can find on this unit and the network section is always filled with buzzwords and hype, yet never actually goes into what it really does or how it works. The rest of the specs on this unit seem to be right on the mark for our needs, very bright, nice contrast ratio, wired LAN interface, good price, etc... will it do what I'm looking for?

So, what do I need to know about networking a projector in an office environment? Is there anything I'm overlooking for our conference room? Would you have a better recommendation for the networking aspect of things?

Thanks for any help!
James

Thanks for the comprehensive answer! It's disapointing but I understand the logic behind it.

As a last shot, do you know if there's any projector that would support something like what I described but for Office documents only (spreadsheets, slides or text files), not video? If that exists it would fulfill 95% of our requirements.

If not, then we'll just have to run a video cable and deal with it I guess. In that case, based on the rest of our requirements, do you think the Panasonic PT-VW440U would be good? Or would there be anything similar in performance for cheaper?

Thanks again, much appreciated!

James