[Honda_Civic_Si]

My parents just bought this really cool new all in one video player that plays DVDs, CDs, VCD, VHS, and it has a plug in the an SD Card! I have a lot of images on my SD card that I show to my parents on our TV upstairs!

Technology eh?

-Justin.

[Honda_Civic_Si]

My parents just bought this really cool new all in one video player that plays DVDs, CDs, VCD, VHS, and it has a plug in the an SD Card! I have a lot of images on my SD card that I show to my parents on our TV upstairs!

Technology eh?

-Justin.

[Gary Sheynkman]

at least you are going to show them the pics....i am yet to print my New Years pictures :lol: ops:

[ux4484]

Thanks for all the great input!

I've done the VCD route, and it does give you much more control on how the pics look, but even recent DVD players can be very picky about VCD compatibility (I usually burn 1.0 as not all players support VCD 2.0). I prefer a .jpg disk as it gives more ultimate control to the person who receives it, and saves me a lot of time setting up before burning. My current rack DVD player (a Medion DVD+R/+RW) does a great job at making a slide show of a .jpg disk (goes automatically to a 3 second (each) slide show for a .jpg disk until you hit pause), and much like XP's photo viewer it only requires a quick remote touch to rotate the pic if taken vertically. This makes life easier providing quick and easy disks (eventually) for both people with DVD's and PC's.

Concerning archiving: Presently I backup my pics, music and videos to a spare hard drive on my daughters machine (I'm all IDE/SCSI deviced-out on my PC) and make a redundant backup to DVD+RW's.