I've already tried using two different slide show programs and both are lacking. Typically I'll set up a slide show using my 5 year old PC. I then run the images over to a 47" HDTV for optimum viewing. I got in a rut by always using the XP Slide Show option found in My Pictures. That was okay....for awhile. But then I became disappointed about not being able to set the view time, or alter the view time in any way. And I was disappointed that the files always played in alphabetical/numerical order (no shuffle mode), which over the course of time became a problem.
I then discovered XP's Screen Saver, something I had never had a use for.
When I discovered it I was very surprised to see that you could set the view time for as long as three minutes. That was great for showing images! Even better, it did not play the files in sequential order! But after a week of testing Screen Saver it did not appear to really shuffle the images as good as it should have... all 2,354 of them. That's a lot of images. But even with all of those images there appeared to be a small amount of redundancy built into XP's Screen Saver, which is no good and a bit of a buzz-kill when you're having a slide show in front of friends.
And so now I'm off to buy my first thumb drive, something I'd never done before, since I never had the need for one until now. And that's because I have a PS3. I'm a casual gamer, nothing hardcore. I rarely use my PS3. The 2,354 images that are kept in a folder are 4 GB's worth of data. PS3's Photo Gallery looks as if it has quite a few options for a user to employ, which is very interesting. I can only hope that the PS3 program offers the user a wider variance of view times to select from so it doesn't always run at one continuous warp speed the way the slide show in My Pictures does. And I hope it has a shuffle mode, which is what it should have if their developers had their heads on straight when they drew up the blueprint.
I then discovered XP's Screen Saver, something I had never had a use for.
When I discovered it I was very surprised to see that you could set the view time for as long as three minutes. That was great for showing images! Even better, it did not play the files in sequential order! But after a week of testing Screen Saver it did not appear to really shuffle the images as good as it should have... all 2,354 of them. That's a lot of images. But even with all of those images there appeared to be a small amount of redundancy built into XP's Screen Saver, which is no good and a bit of a buzz-kill when you're having a slide show in front of friends.
And so now I'm off to buy my first thumb drive, something I'd never done before, since I never had the need for one until now. And that's because I have a PS3. I'm a casual gamer, nothing hardcore. I rarely use my PS3. The 2,354 images that are kept in a folder are 4 GB's worth of data. PS3's Photo Gallery looks as if it has quite a few options for a user to employ, which is very interesting. I can only hope that the PS3 program offers the user a wider variance of view times to select from so it doesn't always run at one continuous warp speed the way the slide show in My Pictures does. And I hope it has a shuffle mode, which is what it should have if their developers had their heads on straight when they drew up the blueprint.
