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DaveC
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:24 am    Post subject: HD interface in a camera, a first! Reply with quote
Hi,

For a long time I have been looking for a simple and relatively inexpensive
way to do a slide show, displaying my high resolution images (jpgs) on a big
HDTV. So far this seems difficult, complicated and expensive.

However, I just read in the New York Times (3/16/06 business section) where
Samsung has included a HDMI in a camera! (see
http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/content/Samsung-Presents-Digimax-L60-and-L85-With-HD-Interface-Ability-.htm
for more info)

Samsung, I want you to know that I appreciate the HDMI interface just to
show that it can be done - probably very cheaply if you didn't insist on
building a complete camera around it.

What is the essential problem with putting the HDMI on the output of a cheap
sD card reader? Let people keep their own cameras.

Any comments?

Thanks,

DaveC
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Charles Gillen
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:04 am    Post subject: Re: HD interface in a camera, a first! Reply with quote
"DaveC" <dcutchi2@nospam.san.rr.com> wrote:

Quote:
For a long time I have been looking for a simple and relatively
inexpensive way to do a slide show, displaying my high resolution
images (jpgs) on a big HDTV. So far this seems difficult, complicated
and expensive.

Not at all. I believe some new DVD players have memory card slots to
display photos from your camera's memory cards.

My 42" Sony projection LCD HDTV has a memory stick slot with a slideshow
function. I simply copy photos to a memory stick, insert it in the TV, and
run the Sony's slideshow with MP3 music. Batch-downsizing photos (in
IrfanView) to a longest dimension of 800 pixels yields small file sizes
that still look like fantastic on my TV. On a 256-Mb stick I can keep
multiple slideshows of multiple images.

Also, I'm sure somebody makes a memory card gadget you can plug into a TV
to get displays similar to my Sony.
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m Ransley
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:32 am    Post subject: Re: HD interface in a camera, a first! Reply with quote
Then my sony W5s analog tv output is not my recorded resolution? I think
it is. My photos are in my laptop which has Hdmi, composite, component
and S video out. All should be outputting what I want. Umless I am
missing something.
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DaveC
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:35 am    Post subject: Re: HD interface in a camera, a first! Reply with quote
Well, I am trying to get around using a PC to feed the HDTV. My approach is
to put some high resolution images on a CD, and to play them on a couple of
different DVD players hooked to big HDTVs. Most DVD players down convert
to lower resolution before sending a signal to the HDTV - which then expands
the image to fill the screen. The results are terrible!

The new Samsung camera has the HDMI interface built in. All you need is a
cable. No PC. Probably all of the electronics are on a single, very tiny
chip. The chip reads the images from a flash memory card and codes them for
HDMI output. I have never seen the results, but I presume that Samsung has
done a reasonable job. I would like to get this functionality without
having to buy a $500 camera.

DaveC
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m Ransley
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:35 am    Post subject: Re: HD interface in a camera, a first! Reply with quote
You dont get HD on dvd you might get 1/3 mp, no wonder you dont like it.
I just plug my W5 into the tv or a memory card. Either way most HD tvs
are only 1 mp, I know some new sonys are 2..3, but go big and it still
isnt right
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Leonard
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 3:38 pm    Post subject: Re: HD interface in a camera, a first! Reply with quote
m Ransley wrote:
Quote:
You dont get HD on dvd you might get 1/3 mp, no wonder you dont like it.
I just plug my W5 into the tv or a memory card. Either way most HD tvs
are only 1 mp, I know some new sonys are 2..3, but go big and it still
isnt right


If those sonys are the ones I've been looking at, they claim 2.7
megapixels but are using the familiar marketing trick of counting
each one three times. They've got three LCDs with 1280x720 pixels,
one for each colour.

- Len
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