Similar problems with a Sony TV? Yes, plenty which I can summarise as a
cavalier attitude to industry standards! No more Sony stuff for me (I should
have learned the first time round).
Piers
On 3 December 2014 21:32:20 GMT+00:00, Brian Gray <bsg017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike
>One point that my experience suggests that you should bear in mind. My
> 4 year old (Sony) TV in the UK seems fussy about the type of .jpg
> offered to it!
>Thus, I have an ethernet link to it from the household computer network
> and can view pictures stored on the computer hard-drives (after
> arranging the necessary permissions). BUT, it will only show some of
> my pictures, and reports others to be 'inaccessible' or similar. I
>think the same happens if the pictures are on a USB stick. I have not
> identified the cause of this effect but believe the inaccessible ones
> are ones which I have edited in some particular way.
> As far as I know, the problem does not arise if I run a slideshow on a
> laptop and connect the latter to the TV with an HDMi cable. Thus I
>assume it is something to do with my TV's software, possibly similar to
> that which I met long ago when trying to play CD's on a Philips
> portable CD player which I came to believe would not accept CD's which
> did not conform to a Philips patent ie a DRM issue.
> Perhaps you should attempt to try a selection of your .jpgs on any TV
> before buying, and not rely on a demonstration using .jpgs selected by
> the salesperson - difficult if you cannot buy locally.
> I would be interested to know if any other listee has had similar
> problems.
> Brian Gray
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