Displaying Disco/Portal Dashboards on Large LCD Panels

Hi,
Something slightly different for you all.
My company is planning to put in place several large LCD displays on our sales floor to show information relating to sale performance etc. They ideally want to use a combination of Portal/Discoverer reports to generate the information.
Has anyone had experience of doing anything like this, and if so, do you have any tips that might be helpful?
I've also managed to find a Firefox plugin that will force automatic refreshes of the current displayed page, so that gets over the problem that Portal doesn't refresh automatically (at least not as far as I can see).
Of course, if what my company wants to do would be lunacy with Disco and Portal then please feel free to let me know!
Thanks,
Andy

Hi Andy,
Any luck with this?
Nate

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