that all sounds rather fun Fastern8.
If you ever make it out to the San Francisco Bay Area hit me up and you can sit in on one of our bi-monthly Saturday sessions ;-)
I chose a flatscreen that has the properties needed for this type of use.
1). edge lit LCD for slimness (newer LCDs are actually thicker as they have an LED array behind the entire screen making it thicker and giving off more heat).
2). top protective layer of acrylic already present on tv.
Stops the mini's damaging it and because it's integrated into the display (i didn't slap it on myself) the tv retains it's slimness and hence has ZERO parallax (parallax can destroy the utility of a setup like this, making it hard to place miniatures accurately).
3). that's it!
I use Realmworks not only for battlemaps but to display / share content, clues, images etc as props for the players.
Realmworks has worked out very well for storing the reams of content that is available for Srun.
It gets the books off the shelf and in a searchable, indexable database that auto-generates cross-links easily at hand.
My players have just started using the player edition to access this content which is great because I can reveal content that is relevant to their background or where a run will be set for them to read up on between sessions.
This is pretty essential as the campaign I am running them through (A heavily modified Ghost Cartels) is a globe-spanning campaign that touches down in some sprawls that are pretty richly detailed in the sourcebooks (Seattle, Hong Kong, Neo-Tokyo, LA etc).
Looking for a late night snack between legwork sessions in Neo-Tokyo in the Yokohama neighborhood?
NP I got a restaurant right here that I scraped from my Corporate Enclaves sourcebook.
Wait, you want to hold the place up and shake down the customers for nuyen?
Ok...no problem here's a floorplan for a medium sized restaurant.
Lets hope you get this finished before the NTPD shows up ;-)