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PowerPoint on a HDTV?

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Valnar

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I need to show a presentation on a TV and have it repeat over & over. The first idea is to put a laptop on the TV via HDMI and show it from there, but I'd prefer something smaller and less steal-able. It doesn't necessarily need to stream from a remote location. Something that holds a local file is fine, as I can update manually as needed.

Does such a device exist?
 
Some newer TVs have USB ports for viewing media (pics/mp3s/vids) and they'll usually have a rudimentary slide show application built-in. I'd convert your PPT/PPTX to jpegs, number the files (use two digits) so they'll run in order, save to a thumb drive and load them to the TV.

Alternatively, you can get a Roku set top box (with USB port, not all Rokus have them) and play the jpegs that way. Roku is easier to conceal than a laptop.

And PPT 2013 has the ability to record slideshows as MP4 files. You may want to go that route if you need better slide timing control than the jpeg slideshow.
 
Saturn_V said:
Some newer TVs have USB ports for viewing media (pics/mp3s/vids) and they'll usually have a rudimentary slide show application built-in. I'd convert your PPT/PPTX to jpegs, number the files (use two digits) so they'll run in order, save to a thumb drive and load them to the TV.

Alternatively, you can get a Roku set top box (with USB port, not all Rokus have them) and play the jpegs that way. Roku is easier to conceal than a laptop.

And PPT 2013 has the ability to record slideshows as MP4 files. You may want to go that route if you need better slide timing control than the jpeg slideshow.
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That might work too - converting to MP4 and just using a modern TV's built-in slideshow. Thanks.
 
Valnar said:
I need to show a presentation on a TV and have it repeat over & over. The first idea is to put a laptop on the TV via HDMI and show it from there, but I'd prefer something smaller and less steal-able. It doesn't necessarily need to stream from a remote location. Something that holds a local file is fine, as I can update manually as needed.

Does such a device exist?
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Raspberry pi or some other cheap linux+hdmi capable box? Should be able to hide it behind the tv though power will have to come from somewhere other than the tv given the pi needs more than the 500ma the tv's likely to be limited to on it's usb ports.
 
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