Instead of hiring a medical illustrator to prepare high quality illustrations, computer software is now available to show physical injuries. Slides from ADAM can be used with medical witnesses during their testimony, thereby assisting the experts to testify as effective teachers, without the cost of individualized medical illustrations. To display computer-generated images to the jury, an attorney must choose the mechanism for viewing, either a television, large screen computer monitor, or movie screen. The least expensive method is the movie screen. Some courtrooms are already equipped with movie screens.
Televisions are the next least expensive.
However, television is not of equal clarity and brightness with computer monitors for showing animation or graphics. Movie screens may be of equal clarity with computer monitors if the projection equipment is of high quality. More and more lawyers are using videotape to present evidence at trial. There are several options for presenting videotaped depositions at trial. First, is to present witnesses by playing the entire video.