How to…
Show your digital photos on any TV

Remember all those cables that came with your digital camera? Chances are one of them connects to a television video-in port. Hook your camera to any TV with this cable and you can view properties and other images on a large screen–quite an improvement over the two-inch display on the camera.

Most of these cables have two RCA jacks at one end and a connector compatible only with your camera at the other. The second RCA jack is for audio, which comes in handy if your camera has recording or MPEG-movie features.

You can also use your camera to play a listing presentation or other slide shows on TV. In fact, most cameras will display anything you can save as a JPEG to the camera’s memory card. In PowerPoint, for example, when you select Save As… from the File menu, one of the options in the Save as type selection box is JPEG. A dialog box will then ask if you want to save every slide in the presentation or just the current slide. Save all the slides to your camera’s memory, then play them back on a TV screen just as you would photos you had taken.

Keep in mind when preparing images that most TV sets can handle only low-resolution images, so saving high-resolution images is a waste of memory and time.

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