Scanning Photos for Viewing on TV

Yes. You'll need a signal converter so that your computer can display on a TV set instead of a monitor. Alternately, you could use screen grabs of you PowerPoint presentation to compile a series of digital still images that will later be burnt as a standard VCD or DVD that can be played back on a normal DVD player.

Some new and not so new TV's have a VGA connection on their back that will allow a computer/laptop to connect to a TV just by connecting a typical VGA cable between the two.

Other alternative (as already mentioned) is to use a DVD player to play a VCD or DVD.

You will need to compile as a slide show with a program such as NERO or even use the HP bundled software which should have the tools there to compile a VCD/DVD ready to be viewed by a DVD player.

I say that as unless your DVD player you use to watch movies with can read the PowerPoint file, the DVDplayer may not recognise the PowerPoint extension. If that happens and no other choices are available, hook up your computer to the TV using the VGA cable attached to your computer.

...I use my computer attached to a TV for home entertainment, watching movies, litening to music and viewing photos and home movies. Hooking up an amplifier to my PC is dirt easy and a big blast.

Save $$$ on accessories, adapters, DVD players etc etc...use your home PC and marry it to a TV...and feel the love.

I believe the easiest way to accomplish being able to view your photos on TV is to just create a data CD on your computer with your photos as JPG files, close or finalize the CD, play the CD in your DVD player and I believe your DVD play should automatically provide you with some sort of slide show. Everytime I've done this in the past, it has workded for me.

-- Mike in Roanoke, VA

I scan the photos as jpeg, load into window movie maker, add music track, burn to dvd and play on regular dvd player hooked to TV.

All good and accurate answers (except one!), but did you understand fully the method(s) or do you need more details?

I use Picasa 3 which I downloaded from google for free. I can scan pictures and transfer pictures from my camera onto my hard drive and Picasa keeps them organized. I can create slide shows and movies with Picasa. I can post the movies I create to YouTube with one button. The video editing is basic but is fine for what I use it for. I can also upload the albums or folders to the web directly from Picasa. You can create a "gift cd" and watch the pictures on your DVD player if it is a newer DVD and permits this which mine does. You can open the cd on your computer and look at the pictures with your favorite viewing software. You can also transfer the pictures to another computer. I would highly recommend checking out Picasa from Google.

Windows software has a program called Windows Movie Maker which can be used to create a VCD disk as well as other types of movie files. I have used this for years and even though I have tried using other programs including iMovie on the Mac, I keep coming back to Movie Maker for quick edits and splices of small videos. I would recommend this free program from Microsoft for beginning video creators.

yes, earlier i tried windows moviemaker. when i try to burn movie it takes so much time [ 90 minutes] to burn on cd. after burning it is invain when i tried play on my cd player. it shows no disc error messgae.

If you meant DVD player, it may be that your DVD does not recognise and play Video CDs. So burn a DVD instead.....

i have cd player

Please explain fully as most CD players can only play music CDs, sometimes MP3 music CDs, but almost never Video CDs....read the manual.

Thanks everyone for responding too my inquiry. We are down to the wire graduation is soon. Langyaw your response is exactly what we had hoped to do - I will let you know how we make out.

you're welcome. glad to be of help.