TV & Home Theater

[mwood]

Our college recently purchased some TV's for our lobby areas to scroll information.  Our IT department insisted that we have to hook them to computers remote access and a lengthy number of other steps.  My church recently did the same, but they bought TV's with the ability to take the camera cards and they just update those.  No wires, computers, anything.  How can I do the same with the TV's I have or can I to eliminate the issues of computers offline etc?

Thanks,

[Entropy]

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mwood wrote:

Our college recently purchased some TV's for our lobby areas to scroll information.  Our IT department insisted that we have to hook them to computers remote access and a lengthy number of other steps.  My church recently did the same, but they bought TV's with the ability to take the camera cards and they just update those.  No wires, computers, anything.  How can I do the same with the TV's I have or can I to eliminate the issues of computers offline etc?

Thanks,

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Some TVs have this feature, some do not.

There are external solutions such as maybe the WD TV devices ($100 each plus the cost of a USB thumb drive for each unit to store pictures.) that might fit your needs.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+Digital+-+WD+TV+HD+Media+Player+for+USB+Storage+Devices/9689944....

[mwood]

Would hat have the features to loop pictures?  You have to forgive me I am technology stupid! 

[Entropy]

Honestly, no idea - it's optimized towards video.  It almost surely has a slideshow mode, the question is whether it loops when the slideshow completes.

[mwood]

how would lI find out without purchasing and finding it does not do what I want?

[TheLexMachine]

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mwood wrote:

how would lI find out without purchasing and finding it does not do what I want?

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Look as the manuals from the manufacturer website.

[Entropy]

Yup.  Another option, since it sounds like the final goal is multiple installations, is to purchase one unit and evaluate it.  If it's sufficient, buy more.  If it's not - you can probably repurpose the single unit for something else a lot more easily than a large batch.

[germanplumber]

Samsung TV's have USB and Panasonic TV's have SD card slots.  It you want scrolling text or something text based neither will work.  It needs to be an image file, like a JPEG or something.  So just convert a text document into a picture file.