Instead of firing up your computer each time you want to view your photographs, how about displaying them on your TV?
If you have a group of friends and family over to show off those vacation photos, doesn't it make more sense to gather comfortably around the TV instead of crowded around the computer screen?
There are many ways to display photos on your TV. Let's take a look at the variety of options in this article.
The most obvious way to display digital photos on TV is to make use of your digital camera itself. Most, if not all digital cameras these days come with a video-out cable. Simply connect one end of the cable to the video-out of the camera and the other end to the video-in of the TV. Simple as that - play back the pictures on the camera and they will display beautifully on the TV.
The downfall of this method is that you are limited to only being able to display the photos available on the camera's memory card. If you only have a 32MB memory card, you will realistically have a small number of photos that can be shown.
Another method is to use a photo viewing device. The SanDisk Digital Photo Viewer is one such device. This neat little gadget sits on top of your TV set and it accepts popular memory cards like CompactFlash, MultiMedia, Secure Digital, SmartMedia and MemoryStick as input. There is a video-out port to connect the device to the TV. Compare it to using a digital version of a 35mm slide projector, so to speak.
I've also noticed some DVD players coming out in the market which accept memory cards as input. One of these is the Sampo DVE-631CF. It's a reasonably priced DVD player which also allows you to play back MP3s and JPEGs from both CD-R/RW and CompactFlash Type I cards.
Still, whichever of the above options you use, you are still limited by the memory on your memory card. Again, a small capacity memory cardfewer pictures to display in a presentation.
Many consider it to be the best method of all, you can convert your digital photos to DVD format. The DVD you create can then be played back in any DVD player to display all your pictures as a slideshow. The advantage of this method over the others is that you can store a large number of photos on a 4GB DVD-R. It's also convenient to send a DVD of pictures (instead of a memory card) to your friends or family members who live faraway.
All you need is a DVD burner and some special software. Ulead CD and DVD PictureShow are among the best software available for this.
This software is user friendly and allows you to convert all of your digital photos to DVD in a few easy steps. You can even insert special effects to your photo slideshow, including transitions, music and DVD menus. You can find a full set of tutorials at the Ulead website to guide you if needed.
Once you've converted them to DVD format, the software burns them into a DVD-R for you. Then simply pop the DVD into any DVD player and play back your picture slideshow.
We have gone over three options for displaying photos on your TV set. Photos on TV makes much more sense when you have a large group wanting to see your photos. The method you choose is up to you, but keep in mind that the DVD format will let you show off more of your photos. Have fun and enjoy!
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