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Answer» Hi I'm not sure if this is where I should be posting for this sort of help....I am a bit of a novice regarding programs. I have recently become secretary of my local bowling club and would like to advise our members on upcoming events on the TV in the lobby. I would like to be ABLE to put the info on a USB stick which I can update weekly and then plug it into the TV. I would be obliged if anyone could tell me if there is a program I could use to do this or please tell me if I shouldn't be asking for this kind of help here Thank You ASRWell if your TV has a option to display pictures for a SET period of time and then move on through the folder of pictures as a slideshow that is one way to do this.
If the TV requires you to manually select each image to view then you would want to have a computer such as one with a HDMI port to cast the output of the computer to the tv set through its HMDI input. One of my favorite slide SHOW programs to use is Power Point to which you can create really good informative slides and have them set to a timer for each slide to show for a set period of time and then move to the next, as well as you can have neat animations happening that draws the eye to the screen to see whats there vs a static picture with no movement or text showing up creatively to the screen. If you have Microsoft Office you would have access to power point. If you don't have Microsoft Office and willing to use an open source free program to do this then your choices are Open Office or Libre Office to which Impress can be used. https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/impress/
Lastly if your TV has a VGA port to connect a computer to it, you can use this to display the slideshow from a laptop or desktop computer; however, VGA can not display the higher resolutions as HDMI can and so HDMI should be used instead of VGA if you want sharp picture quality and are casting the slideshow to the TV from a PC.Thanks for your reply I do have Powerpoint (2003) and I never thought of using it because I was looking for something to run independent of a computer. Anyway you have given me a couple of ideas and I will see if I can work out something. Thanks again Alex
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