Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Viewing pics on your TV


View the High Resolution photos you clicked from your new Digital Camera or mobile on your HD TV

 

 

The explosions of cameras everywhere, (mobiles, digiSLRs, tabs, etc)  makes it very easy and handy for us to capture photographs of the events. A very common problem that I faced in last few days in Mumbai while attending a family event was about displaying the photos for everyone to see. Gone are the days when we used to take a print of the photos or develop films. Everybody wants to see them instantly and the fact that most of the devices have very small screens doesn't help. I just found out a very efficient, cheap (practically free if you are using new equipment at home) and least time consuming of displaying the pics for everyone to see.

 

This is what you will need,

 

1.     The device on which you have clicked the photos. (In most of the cases it is likely to be a digital camera or a cell phone)

2.     A laptop for transferring the images from the device. (Again, I assume that the laptop you would be using is not more than 3 years old and that means it has an HDMI port)

3.     A modern TV set. By modern I mean not more than 3 years old (approx. again), flat screen set.

4.     A modern set top box. The box has to be an HD one. This could be from any company, what matters is the HD portion.

5.     If a HD set top box is not available you will have to purchase an HDMI cable.

A brief introduction of HDMI is given below for the uninitiated :-

 

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transferring uncompressed video data and compressed/uncompressed digital audio data from a HDMI-compliant device ("the source device") to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.[1] HDMI is a digital replacement for existing analog video standards.

 

For more on HDMI :-  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

 

And this is how the cable looks like













 

 

 

 

 



 

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