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I want to somehow put all my of digital camera pictures on a CD-ROM (or DVD) and display them on my TV's DVD player.

Supposedly, a large retail store DOES this for digital camera pictures so they can be viewed on a DVD player. They charge $6.99 for 40 pics.

But, I bought a digital camera so I did not have to pay for film development!!!!! So, I'm certainly not going to pay the store to do this, especially if I believe there is software on the 'net that does this for free.

Does anyone know where I can find software that will write JPGs to CD or DVD in a way that my TV's DVD player can display them?

I don't know of the software but when you find out can you make sure to post it? I'm a digital nut. And bombarded by floppies!!!!!!!


Thank you ;Þ

Found some, just tried this one!!!

http://tvcd.biz/try.htm

Free trial, will only write 10 pics using trial version.

Just tried, on my DVD player it displays a promotional screen with their name and then proceeds to flip thru the 10 pictures I put on the CD.

It displays each pic (I supposed you could press pause) for about 10 secs. Not 100% happy with ability to move to next pic pressing Fast Forward/Reverse or the Skip forward/reverse.

But at least I know it is possible because I just did, and it was simple!!

This particular one is a 4.6 MB download and is easy to use as hell. Like I said, not 100% happy with ability to flip thru pics when CD is in DVD player, but it is adequate.

It is $24 to buy, $0 to download and try it.

Other apps supposedly having this ability:

1) Ulead DVD Picture (probably $100 bucks ... screw that)
2) Roxio Easy CD Creator Platinum ($99 bucks ... uh, no)
3) NERO 5.5 ($59 to buy) http://www.nero.com/

Hmmm, Nero 6.0 is a fully functioning free-download: http://www.nero.com/en/631934351031098.html

I may eventually try out Nero's fully functioning free-trial and see if does it better than TVCd.biz's product.

I probably will continue to look for a free-ware alternative.
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[although reading the product description, Nero looks like a mighty product. It appears to do some bad-ass shit like DVD-video and auto-backup ... might be worth it plus some.

But I still dislike the concept that I must pay $$$ to put pics on CD to view in the DVD player, after all, many of the newest DVD player can view JPGs as a built-in feature, like this DVD player

This DVD Player does JPG's off a CD-Rom as a built-in feature


http://www.nextgenelectronics.com/apexad2500.shtml

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Nero is da bomb

Awesome --- just absolutely awesome --- for the CD you make to play in the DVD player, you can design a menu, pick a background wallpaper, make title text and include not only JPGs, but pretty much anything including AVI movies (which my digital camera does --- and it isn't anything fancy --- just a $99 digital camera I purchased on a whim).

The download link: http://www.nero.com/en/631934351031098.html

It's a full functional 30 day trial ... $59 to buy and is definitely a very powerful tool.

Thanks Baker. I did some looking after this topic came up and found alot of different programs. Not knowing the ins and outs of how to format a good copy or what to look for to do so kept me from d/ling alot of different programs that I didn't fully understand and wouldn't like. I will grab this one! My digital is a Mavica which means alot of disks on my desk!!! And the price is about avg. from what I saw.

I'd recommend trying TVCD (http://tvcd.biz/try.htm) first. Nero has a lot of features, but I ended up getting agitated with a couple of things when I tried to do some more ambitious things.

The TVCD program is simply and easy. Nero has a "wizard" but things started getting complicated when I did certain things, and the Nero home page states that it has a conflict with certain CD burners and has problems when certain other CD writing apps are present (namely DirectCD/Roxio CD Creator).