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Photo slideshow over HDMI
AtomBomb
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At my work, we have various televisions that run promotional and informational stuff on a loop. I purchased most of these, and I made sure that the ones I purchased all took USB drives and would run the slideshow how I want. Super simple and reliable. However, we have one 42" 1080p TV that I didn't buy that can't do this. Currently, we have a somewhat shitty old PC running PowerPoint driving this display. This has a few disadvantages.
It takes up a lot of space.
It can't be very power efficient.
Staff has to VNC into the box to make changes, and this is confusing for them.
Someone managed to get a virus on the PC.
The onboard video can't to 1920x1080, so it doesn't look as good as it could.
I'm looking for something that we can hook up via HDMI that will run a series of pictures in a loop from a USB flash drive, the simpler the better. If it could do this without user intervention (plug in power and it just starts, resumes after power loss, remembers delay setting) that would be ideal.
I'm considering the Sony SMP-N200, mostly because it's cheap ($50). I looked at Roku, but they seemed to have taken the USB ports off all but their most expensive model. Also, I have one and I know it can't go straight to the slideshow after a power loss. These boxes do way more than I need them to, but I don't know if a simple jpeg slideshow box exists.
Any ideas?
It takes up a lot of space.
It can't be very power efficient.
Staff has to VNC into the box to make changes, and this is confusing for them.
Someone managed to get a virus on the PC.
The onboard video can't to 1920x1080, so it doesn't look as good as it could.
I'm looking for something that we can hook up via HDMI that will run a series of pictures in a loop from a USB flash drive, the simpler the better. If it could do this without user intervention (plug in power and it just starts, resumes after power loss, remembers delay setting) that would be ideal.
I'm considering the Sony SMP-N200, mostly because it's cheap ($50). I looked at Roku, but they seemed to have taken the USB ports off all but their most expensive model. Also, I have one and I know it can't go straight to the slideshow after a power loss. These boxes do way more than I need them to, but I don't know if a simple jpeg slideshow box exists.
Any ideas?
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