The Movie Poster Flatscreen

[master_8ball]

Came across this site and thought people with this set up might find something of interest. A lot of its obscure movies.

http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/

[Kreacher]

So much for my 'simple lightbox' idea...

[Mr.Poindexter]

I looked at that winscape thing and thought it would be so much cooler if they could get it to work with a Kinect so the person wouldn't have to wear an IR emitter necklace.

[TKNice]

Originally Posted by Mr.Poindexter

I looked at that winscape thing and thought it would be so much cooler if they could get it to work with a Kinect so the person wouldn't have to wear an IR emitter necklace.

Yeah, I've been a PS3 guy since it was released and the Kinect really makes me want to get an xbox. I look at the hacks people are doing for it and can't help but imagine how cool some of them would be up on a big screen.

[mrmichaelbeck]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone ever considered using Google Screensaver to display the images? It's capable of displaying images it finds on a folder available to your computer, but the cool part is that it can display images that it can link to from places like Flickr or DeviantArt using it's RSS capabilities. If someone was able to locate an RSS feed that stocked movie posters Google could automatically update itself and rotate through any new movie posters that it finds.

It's actually quite a cool little screensaver to have on your regular computer, particularly when you hook it into Flickr's interesting feed.

MB

[michael5155]

First of all to TKNice, thank you for sharing this idea and how you put it into practice. I read the first three pages of the thread then had to jump to the last page. Hopefully the answer to my questions isn't in the pages I didn't read.

I get that I can buy an LCD screen with an external drive (thumb drive, flash drive, etc.) input to play images that are loaded on the drive. What I don't get is how do you get the vertical viewing? Is there an adjustment on the TV that allows to switch between vertical and horizontal perspective or do you simply load the vertical images horizontally then flip the TV vertically?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

[roar]

Originally Posted by michael5155

First of all to TKNice, thank you for sharing this idea and how you put it into practice. I read the first three pages of the thread then had to jump to the last page. Hopefully the answer to my questions isn't in the pages I didn't read.

I get that I can buy an LCD screen with an external drive (thumb drive, flash drive, etc.) input to play images that are loaded on the drive. What I don't get is how do you get the vertical viewing? Is there an adjustment on the TV that allows to switch between vertical and horizontal perspective or do you simply load the vertical images horizontally then flip the TV vertically?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

i dont think you need anything that advanced, just save the pictures rotated, so when you are looking at them on your screen they look sideways, but when they are on the sideways tv they will be upright.

[TKNice]

Originally Posted by michael5155

First of all to TKNice, thank you for sharing this idea and how you put it into practice.

You're quite welcome michael!

Originally Posted by roar

i dont think you need anything that advanced, just save the pictures rotated, so when you are looking at them on your screen they look sideways, but when they are on the sideways tv they will be upright.

I think you are right roar. I haven't tried this way but rotating each image in a program like paint or photoshop should do the trick. Hopefully it will expand to fill the screen properly.

[michael5155]

Thanks for the feedback, guys! I'm going to my local Walmart tomorrow to see what they have for inexpensive 32" LCD TVs. Will any LCD with a thumbdrive input work? Or is there certain software the TV needs to run the images loaded on the thumbdrive?

If I'm going with a 32" and using it only for movie poster displays, will I notice a big difference between 720p and 1080p? If I find a good deal on a 40" should I then go with a 1080p?

Thanks!
Michael

[michael5155]

TKNice,

I took a peek at your theater pictures... SWEET!

I noticed your last photo showed your vertical monitor with a Mac desktop but with a vertical aspect rather than a typical horizontal aspect? How did you do this? There must be some setting in the system preferences that you adjusted, right?

[roar]

Originally Posted by michael5155

TKNice,

I took a peek at your theater pictures... SWEET!

I noticed your last photo showed your vertical monitor with a Mac desktop but with a vertical aspect rather than a typical horizontal aspect? How did you do this? There must be some setting in the system preferences that you adjusted, right?

If you can find a TV that will take photo's from a USB drive then you don't have to worry about any other settings than that, it really should be as simple as saving the files to the thumb drive in the appropriate orientation and then let the slideshow functionality of the TV do the rest.

As far as the decision to go 720p or 1080p, I haven't checked TK's archieve of posterse out recently, but I'm guessing they are all largers than 1280x720, if that is the case you will see more resolution if you were to move up to 1080, but on a 32" screen I'm thinking you may not really appreciate the difference unless you are standing a couple of feet from the screen and staring at it closely. I would shoot for the 40+ screen only to have it feel more like a movie poster as theatrical movie posters are 27x40... much larger than a 32" screen.

[michael5155]

Thanks for the info. Good point!

[TKNice]

Originally Posted by michael5155

TKNice,

I took a peek at your theater pictures... SWEET!

I noticed your last photo showed your vertical monitor with a Mac desktop but with a vertical aspect rather than a typical horizontal aspect? How did you do this? There must be some setting in the system preferences that you adjusted, right?

Thanks Michael!

I'd have to look for the exact setting, but there one in the Mac OS under display settings to rotate the display by 90, 180, 270 etc. 90 degrees is the setting you want.

Regarding size and resolution, like roar said, I'd focus more on the size of the TV than 1080p. When I ran the measurments, a 42" tv was closest in size to a real movie poster which is what I was going for. If you can swing a 1080p tv then it will be clearer up close. If I'm standing very close I can see pixels on mine and I think it would be less noticeable if I could have afforded 1080p. I wouldn't worry about 720 though, it looks perfect from 4 or more feet away.

Good luck in your search--and I'd love to see pictures!

-TK

[tacomaprime]

Curious what you had to do to get the monoprice tv mount in order to mount is sideways like that?

[TKNice]

Originally Posted by tacomaprime

Curious what you had to do to get the monoprice tv mount in order to mount is sideways like that?

Had to cut about 5 inches of the mount off with a hacksaw so it didn't stick out from the side.

[tacomaprime]

Originally Posted by TKNice

Had to cut about 5 inches of the mount off with a hacksaw so it didn't stick out from the side.

But when you mounted the tv to the mount itself, it doesn't want to just slide off?

[BLindsay]

i have a spare 40" 1080p tv now and i think i am going to give this a shot. Been wanting to try this for a while now

[roar]

Originally Posted by BLindsay

i have a spare 40" 1080p tv now and i think i am going to give this a shot. Been wanting to try this for a while now

Cool thread over on avs with some slideshow software someone created... Worth a look:

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1439406/mo...#post_22632762

[flyinmunky99]

After some thought i think im going to have a go at this, will use it as a center feature for my blu ray storage wall.

As i work in retail im going to take a usb stick in and try it out on some of the 40" LED tvs, hopefully i can find a cheap one thats decent and auto scrolls smoothly through the pics

[flyinmunky99]

* Im currently still looking for a tv bargain :S