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Graphic Display / Still Store Device

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I'm hoping someone might know of an inexpensive product that can display a graphic (our company logo) - from a flash card or on-board flash type memory.

This image will be used as the warm up and cool down video source of our room AV systems, as well as the picture mute video.

I've bought and tested some inexpensive digital photo album players - they work, but they require user intervention to get the correct image up on the screen - if we lose power, I can' t go to each room to setup the video output of such a device - but they do what I need -

So....is there anything that you know of that will output a video image on power up, no questions asked?
post #2 of 4
Could you run a cable from a central location to each of the AV systems? If so, why not take an old PC with a composite video (think "yellow RCA") output, hook that to a cheap video distribution amp, and send that signal around the office?

Then, you can have a moving graphic, a video loop, whatever you want.

Alternately, you could burn it on a DVD and buy a cheap DVD player that autoplays and get the same effect if you can't source it centrally.

I seem to think that my Philips digital photo display will auto-display the first image on power-up, but I'd have to check that at home.
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Unfortunately, I can't source it centrally, so I'll need a setup in each location. A DVD player might work, I'll look into that too. What I really would like to find is a digital photo display system that I can get to work - no moving parts= longer life, I hope.
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I found it - the San Disk SDV-1A Digital Photo viewer. I got one for $25. This is not the most current model, but if I stick a memory card into the unit, it will fire up and show that image, no button presses required.
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