jon22

Thanks very much for all the advice everyone... I'd seen these new TV's have USB slots but didn't realise you could convert PTE slideshows to MPEG4's and then play them directly in the USB slot. Like using DVD's, that would have the big advantage of not having to buy a laptop! But at better quality. Just one final question - am I right to assume that MPEG4s will have the same issue as DVD's with regard to manually controlling the slideshows - presumably they are just a video file again which doesn't recognise "slides" etc so you can't move to the next one? But presumably you can "Play" and "Pause" again just like with DVDs, but with the TV remote this time? Think I will buy a new TV first and see how it goes with the MPEG4 method. Then consider a laptop at a later date. (Think I might also start saving my pictures at a higher resolution!) Thanks again for all the help. Jon

I'm currently still in the dark ages without a laptop or a HD TV. But considering getting new equipment and that is one of the main reasons I'm trying to understand what I need to do to be able to get slideshows going on the TV. Had thought that I'd just need to get a HD TV and use the DVD method. But I hadn't realised that using DVDs would result in a poorer quality image - if I need to get a laptop or the quality is going to be poor then so be it. All my pictures are 1024 x 768 pixels. If I buy a HD TV but use the DVD method, are the images going to be significantly poorer quality than using a laptop with an HDMI connection? (I don't really understand how a TV (or monitor) squishes or expands the 1024 x 768 pixels to match the screen resolution of say 1920 x 1080 pixels. Would using a DVD, effectively compress the number of pixels and then artificially expand them again to fit on the screen, losing lots of detail?) (For anyone else who is trying using DVDs, I've been playing with it and realise that what I said above was wrong - when you use the next and back buttons on the DVD remote control, what it does is move to the next chapter - not the next slide - obvious really from fh1805's post. And the minimum chapter length is one minute - so as my slides were set to move from one to the next every 5 seconds, clicking "next" on the remote was actually skipping about 12 slides each time! In short you can't do that - the only way is "play" and "pause".)

That makes sense. Hadn't thought about how DVD's work... I guess pausing and playing will work o.k. Thanks for your help, Jon

Yes, the next and previous controls on the remote work to move forwards and backwards in the slides. BUT, the show on the DVD is automatically moving forward between the slides before I click anything. I don't want it to. I only want to go on to the next slide when I press next on the remote (just like I do on the computer using the mouse buttons). Is there any way of preventing it from automatically moving between the slides. Or at least adjusting the length of time which each slide shows for before automatically moving on. I can't seem to figure out how to adjust the way the DVD plays the slides at all... Thanks again Jon

Hi I've been creating PicturesToExe slideshows for years, and using the mouse buttons to manually move forwards in the slideshow at the appropriate time. I don't want the slides to just run through automatically. Now I want to do the same thing for a slideshow on my TV from a DVD, using the next and previous buttons on the DVD remote control. Is this possible? So far, I've created a DVD from PicturesToExe no problem, but it just runs straight through the slides automatically. I can't see where in PicturesToExe the settings are to adjust how the slideshow runs from the DVD? There are settings to adjust the main menu picture, but I can't find the settings to make the slideshow run manually... Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks Jon