Hello Matt, this sounds very interesting. The existing
digital frames appear to have many issues related to
their practical use- and yet how can digital content be
displayed 'on a screen' that is affordable and of quality
imagery, such as with a slideshow or even audio-video
aspects of a computer screen? This appears to be what
the higher-end digital frames aim to do, be a laptop screen
without the laptop. The part that intrigues me is that there
is a lot of content which does not require a full computer,
even a hidden computer, and could be run by a chip in
a blackbox, as AV-media (movie, sounds, or photographic
or graphic imagery in slideshows). The interaction, then,
may be passive (not needing to interface with a computer)
in a way and yet the display may be active (more than a
video playing on a TV, possibly, but what content would
this be, flash-animations?). The question of showcasing
1,000 works of digital artworks and artifacts in a single
frame is intriguing in that digital media can compress
the space needed for the screen display. Yet things do
not seem 'there' yet, to make it affordable and easy to do.
I've been reading reviews about TV-presentation systems
like the SanDisk Digital Photo Viewer, which takes smart-
media or compact flash and puts it into a TV screen system.
Yet, are there any such devices that could run a VGA-based
monitor or do these require computers to drive the displays
and cannot be run without a computer-- I do not know, only
that to show computer based works on a TV, as a display,
confuses their relationship aesthetically, it would seem.
If anyone has any ideas how to present information from
one of these TV photo viewers straight-to-a-VGA-monitor,
please e-mail me with any details. Brian
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 10:12 AM, Matthew Celeskey wrote:
> We've recently installed a small (5") LCD screen inside a vitrine with
> a set
> of dinosaur jaws. It runs a repeating animation showing the mechanics
> of the
> dinosaur's chewing motion.
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