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Hey Dan!

Greetings from across the Bay!

We have pretty good success using Medeawiz digital players.

We've used the stand-alone players (dv-68's) for lower-res stuff, but  
the dv-76 has the ability to do 1080i....
They're tanks - solid-state players, they don't really have moving  
parts like dvd players to foul up, and they're not too expensive.   
Can program times for showing, and play right from boot-up.  The HD  
model can also show media streamed from a network.   Listed at around  
$235 for the dv-68 and $400ish for the dv-76.

http://www.medeawiz.com/products.htm

Hope that helps!

Samdango


On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Daniel Zevin wrote:

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> Wondering if any media/av tech or just clever person out there has  
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> possible fix to a problem we're having.  We've mounted multiple
> Panasonic plasma monitors (model # TH50PZ85U) to a long hallway in  
> order
> to continuously run a slide show of hi-res astronomical images.  Plan
> was that each morning when the monitors powered up they'd start  
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> the slideshow from internal SD drives.  But we discovered that doesn't
> work, you have to physically insert the SD card into each drive to get
> the show going. We then tried an external SD card reader which  
> fixed the
> start up problem, but the image quality was poor, probably because the
> reader's output resolution is too limited. Anyway, the Panasonic tech
> rep we called said what we want to do can't be done, but we hate to  
> give
> up now considering our investment in this project.  (And yes, we could
> just leave them on 24/7, but we're not going there.) We currently
> looking at buying small laptops (with HDMI lines out) for each  
> monitor,
> but that idea makes aesthetic mounting on the walls rather  
> challenging.
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