Comments on: When i burn my pics onto a cd or memory stick for use on either tv or photo frame they become…? http://www.watch-satellite-tv-pc.com/blog/tv-on-my-computer/when-i-burn-my-pics-onto-a-cd-or-memory-stick-for-use-on-either-tv-or-photo-frame-they-become Tue, 22 May 2012 09:04:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Elisabeth http://www.watch-satellite-tv-pc.com/blog/tv-on-my-computer/when-i-burn-my-pics-onto-a-cd-or-memory-stick-for-use-on-either-tv-or-photo-frame-they-become/comment-page-1#comment-7088 Elisabeth Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:11:59 +0000 http://www.watch-satellite-tv-pc.com/blog/tv-on-my-computer/when-i-burn-my-pics-onto-a-cd-or-memory-stick-for-use-on-either-tv-or-photo-frame-they-become#comment-7088 The medium has nothing to do with the distortion you're seeing. Most digital cameras take pictures with a different aspect ratio - the ratio of width to height - than a TV set or digital picture frame will display full screen. You have a couple of options. In the case of a digital picture frame, you can set it up to display the image without stretching to fill the display. The picture will thus be undistorted, but you will have black bands to the top and bottom, or to the sides, of the picture. Your DVD player may have a similar option for displaying stills, but this would vary from model to model Your second option is to use a photo editor to crop the pictures before downloading them to CD or flash drive. You can do this with many applications, including the Paint applet that comes with Windows. When you bought your camera, you probably got some software that will do the job. However, the application I recommend most often for this kind of job is irfanview, a free application that simplifies many image management tasks. Unlike many other applications, it has a small memory and disk footprint, and does not come bundled with a lot of other garbageware. You can get it here: http://www.irfanview.com A standard TV set (not HD) has a 4:3 aspect ratio. This translates into a number of common resolutions such as 640X480, 800X600, or 1024X768. Reducing and/or cropping your pictures to one of these resolutions should make it acceptable for display without distortion.<br><b>References : </b><br> The medium has nothing to do with the distortion you’re seeing. Most digital cameras take pictures with a different aspect ratio - the ratio of width to height - than a TV set or digital picture frame will display full screen.

You have a couple of options. In the case of a digital picture frame, you can set it up to display the image without stretching to fill the display. The picture will thus be undistorted, but you will have black bands to the top and bottom, or to the sides, of the picture. Your DVD player may have a similar option for displaying stills, but this would vary from model to model

Your second option is to use a photo editor to crop the pictures before downloading them to CD or flash drive. You can do this with many applications, including the Paint applet that comes with Windows. When you bought your camera, you probably got some software that will do the job. However, the application I recommend most often for this kind of job is irfanview, a free application that simplifies many image management tasks. Unlike many other applications, it has a small memory and disk footprint, and does not come bundled with a lot of other garbageware. You can get it here: http://www.irfanview.com

A standard TV set (not HD) has a 4:3 aspect ratio. This translates into a number of common resolutions such as 640X480, 800X600, or 1024X768. Reducing and/or cropping your pictures to one of these resolutions should make it acceptable for display without distortion.
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