VIEWING PHOTOS ON HDTV PLASMA

I want to see my jpgs photos without lowering their resolution on a 60" tv plasma in an easy and fast way .

My tv have a home media function so i can connect a usb memory stick or any other device using hdmi and play a slide show very easy ; the problem is that my tv is painfully slow uploading the photos at 300 dpi ,until now the only way to do it is rezising the images to 72 dpi but loosing some quallity .

I have never seen my photos better than i see it @ 300 dpi in that tv , so i want to find the way to do it using an external device because the tv itself can't do it faster ( it takes more than 1 minute to upload every photo )

Recently tried an external hardrive from Lacie ( Cinema Classic ) but image quality is worst than those from my memory stick @72 dpi. because it do some upscaling and images loose a lot of detail in the process.

Hope that someone here had some solution/ recommendation .

TVs generally have very slow processors. The photos have to be resized and interpolated in memory to match the native resolution of the TV (probably 1920x1080 pixels for a 1080p hdtv, or 1280x720 for a 720p set), and the larger the photo, the more processing is required to do this... processing power that most TVs are sorely lacking. You'll note, incidentally, that the native resolution of your TV is well below that of most cameras with 3 megapixels or more... if you want to see the true native resolution of the photo, you'll have to crop or and pan and scan the photo around the screen to see it all. HDTVs simply have nowhere near the true resolution of digital photos which you need to get a true, full resolution 1:1 pixel mapping.

If you resize your photos to the exact size ahead of time so no resizing is required, it might speed up the display from the native interface... this depends on the TV in question, and there's no way to know but try. The good news is trying is free and doesn't require any new purchases whatsoever.

The fastest option is going to be hooking up a laptop or small computer to the TV, and then simply using a slideshow app to display on TV as the computer's monitor. The computer has the processing power to quickly scale the images in a heartbeat. Another option may be an external media player like an AppleTV or the Western Digital HD Media Player, Popcorn Hour, etc. They should all be more capable at scaling the photos for display at the TV's native resolution compared to the TV's onboard electronics.

I have a 52" Panasonic plasma HDTV and run my lap top into it.

After adjusting the resolution, the best thing I did was get the plasma professionally calibrated.

It was $300, but well worth it!

Stills are perfect, but Proshows incurr a slight degradation in saturation and a slight color shift - but not bad enough or often enough to throw any $$ at it.

Thanks guys

How you are connecting your lap top to your tv ? . I was looking for a way to do it using HMI but seems that is not possible . Are using S-video or composite ?

"Another option may be an external media player like an AppleTV or the Western Digital HD Media Player, Popcorn Hour, etc. They should all be more capable at scaling the photos for display at the TV's native resolution compared to the TV's onboard electronics."...............

Like i said i tried with Lacie's classic cinema media player but their upscaling is horrible . Anyone had tried Apple tv or Western Digital ?

Compudude

My tv resolution is 1,920 x 1,080 , i will try to resize my photos to that size and see what happen.

Thanks again

If your laptop and TV do not have the right connectors to join together then you can always get some converters (although I am guessing best solution is a laptop with HDMI port built in.

here are some converter ideas:

PC VGA to HDMI Format converter

some strange USB to HDMI format converter

or there is this simple thing I found .. but have no idea what it is called or where you could find one !!

Best solution would be a simple desktop with HDMI out to be used as a media center, something like the Dell Hybrid which comes with hdmi out and can sit quietly by your tv and play movies or photos or music off as a media center plugged directly into your TV's hdmi port.

Mac users can now get a single adapter that takes audio from USB and video from the Mini DisplayPort and sends it to an HDMI.

http://www.macworld.com/article/141987/200...kanex_hdmi.html

I'm not sure if this product is available yet, but it was supposed to be released this month.

And Monoprice has one, too: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product....=1&format=2

The dongle Giles has pictured above is a simple DVI to HDMI converter.

HDMI uses the exact same digital signal as DVI, so it is very easy to convert with an inexpensive adapter from Monoprice. (A converted line won't carry audio, but the display data is no problem... and audio isn't usually an issue for photos anyway!)

Few PC laptops have a DVI out, however, making it less practical (Mac laptop do, although some need an adapter cable). Cheap computers with on-board graphics are also VGA-only, which, as an analog signal, cannot be converted to DVI or HDMI without an expensive converter. (it can be converted with a less-expensive converter, but you get what you pay for)

The impression I have from the OP is that he does NOT currently have any computer connected to the screen, else we wouldn't be having this discussion. He's been trying to use the on-board television electronics and inexpensive standalone devices.

The AppleTV and Western Digital boxes both have HDMI and DVI outputs, IIRC. The Mac Mini, which is an excellent machine to connect to a big TV, has DVI output that can use the cheap DVI-HDMI converter dongle to connect to an HDTV almost as easily (the same is true of almost all Macs made in the past 6-7 years, perhaps longer). The Dell Studio Hybrid computer has a built-in HDMI output as well.

Like i said i tried with Lacie's classic cinema media player but their upscaling is horrible . Anyone had tried Apple tv or Western Digital ?

Elbuzo, I have the WD HD Media Player. It's our favorite gadget in the house. Really shines more for video playback (especially full HD). Compared to other media devices, it's really idiot proof. We don't really use it for photos that much. My 52 LG TV's built-in USB function is as horrible as your description. On the WD HD Media Player, resized photos @ 1920x1080 jpg look nice and there's not too much of a lag loading photos or running a slideshow.

If you wait awhile, WD is coming out with a 2nd generation one with build in networking (although there are some online hacks that allow you to use the current WD with a USB lan adapter).