How about the $4,300 Samsung “The Frame” TV? It doesn’t have an “on timer”, only an “off timer.” (But in theory it can turn itself on automatically via a motion detector?) It sounds as though displaying your own pictures can be done, but via a tedious importation process of one image at a time. (i.e., if you had a dongle that continuously went through the contents of a USB stick and turned it into 4K video, the TV could be programmed to show it) The TV can turn itself on at the same time every day and tune to a particular channel or display a particular HDMI input. It seems to have the same limitations as when I looked at Samsung and LG 10 years ago. I looked at the manual for the latest and great “Evo” LG OLED TV. Also, supposedly it is impossible to change the settings for transitioning from image to image, including both effects and timing. Their only idea was the LG Gallery TV, but I think that is designed to show art and images from LG’s servers, not your own USB stick or local NAS share. What’s the answer to these questions today? I talked to some A/V installers who charge over $100,000 for a typical home setup and they couldn’t think of any way to have a TV turn itself on at the same time every day and start showing images of the consumer’s choice. keep each image up for at least a few minutesįrom 2010, Why don’t people use a small TV as a digital picture frame?įrom 2014, Can Google Chromecast do a simple slide show?.must have low power consumption (implies LED-lit)?.must be daylight-viewable (means LCD is better than plasma?).must be programmable to shut itself off at midnight, for example, and back on at 8 am (to save power).must be programmable so that it comes on in “photo display” mode so that there is no need to monkey with a remote control after a power failure (or maybe default to photo display mode if a USB stick is plugged in) I have found the deep menus of modern HDTVs to be truly painful.From 2012, Best LCD television for use as a digital photo display?:
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