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I'd also like to toss out Akman video players as a possibility. They have
nice 720p solid state players that are networkable and very small (if there
is any room between the wall and the monitor they could be mounted fairly
unobtrusively). Specs are here:
http://www.akman.com/index.php?p=MV720p-HD

I think they're priced around $345 right now.

Have fun.

Daniel Bartolini
New York Hall of Science


On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Sam Dean <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Hey Dan!
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> Greetings from across the Bay!
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> 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
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> Hope that helps!
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> Samdango
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> On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Daniel Zevin wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>>
>> Wondering if any media/av tech or just clever person out there has some
>> 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 playing
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Those with ideas they're willing to share can send them direct to
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>> Thanks much!
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan
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