(OT?) monitor

[JoeJoe]

An organisation my wife is involved with is looking to have a monitor on the wall in their reception area showing a sequence of screens in a loop - i.e. something similar to a PowerPoint presentation. I was asked to help, but am not sure how to go about it...

Unfortunately the monitor cannot be connected to a PC or similar. Initially I thought about converting the presentation to a video format, and using a digital photo frame. However, as most of their visitors are elderly, they require the monitor to be at least 19", and I cannot find anything that can do that.

Any thoughts/ideas will be much appreciated.

TIA..

[Adrian C]

Panasonic (and others) have a range of LCD TVs that include a SD card slot, with which you can playback slideshows.

[Lino expert]

TV with built-in DVD?

[RubberBiker]

Buy a modern supermarket big-screen lcd TV.

Get hold of a cheap old laptop.

Laptops almost always have vga and (often) s-video outputs.

Modern lcd TV screens almost always have the same inputs.

Laptop can easily be tucked away near the screen - and configured to start the presentation automatically when powered up.

[dennis]

My 32" Samsung can play stuff off its inbuilt USB port, I expect others can.

[Dave Liquorice]

Burn the presentation to a DVD and put the player into loop play mode. I think you can set the disc to do that for you as well.

[Bin Thur Dundat]

How about using an all-in-one PC, effectively a monitor with a built-in PC e.g. Dell Studio One 19 - just an example.

[Owain]

A fair number of portable media players will output to external screens, playing off either hard disk or flash memory, eg Hauppage MyTV

about =A3100. Probably more reliable than a continuously playing DVD player especially if playing back from flash.

An issue is how often the information needs to be updated and who is going to do it. A DVD that the users can change is probably simplest. The screen can then also be used for playing commercial presentations or staff training films etc. An inbuilt DVD player means something less to nick. A telly with an inbuilt card reader is probably the best option though but DVD gives you more flexibility.

Owain

[JoeJoe]

Thanks for all the suggestions - the TV + DVD player is probably the best option. I forgot to mention that they are on a budget, but more importantly residing within a recently built PFI NHS building, where:

- they are not allowed any permanent fixing to any wall - no nails, screws, blu-tack, pins, etc

- It will be weeks before any new electrical device will be approved by the WHY-NOT crew that seem to occupy these places nowadays.

So a simple cheap and cheerful existing TV + DVD player setup is probably the best solution.

Thanks again.