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I would like to get a digital projector to play photo slideshows. I
have created these slideshows with a DVD slideshow software that gives
me lots of cool transitions and music. I can play the DVD on my PC on
Windows media player full screen.

Can I play this DVD on my laptop and wired into the projector so that
the show will project on a screen for a group presentation?

Or do I need to buy a software program, like Powerpoint. I would
rather use the software I have, if I can use it with the projector I
haven't bought yet.

Thanks, Carol R

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>I would like to get a digital projector to play photo slideshows. I
> have created these slideshows with a DVD slideshow software that gives
> me lots of cool transitions and music. I can play the DVD on my PC on
> Windows media player full screen.
>
> Can I play this DVD on my laptop and wired into the projector so that
> the show will project on a screen for a group presentation?
>
> Or do I need to buy a software program, like Powerpoint. I would
> rather use the software I have, if I can use it with the projector I
> haven't bought yet.
>
> Thanks, Carol R

You absolutely can play this on your projector.
Anything a regular external monitor can play via your laptop can be played on your
projector. You should identify what resolution is considered your projector's "native"
resolution (most likely 1024x768 or perhaps 800x600), and set your laptop's output
resolution to that setting for optimal results.

I have used this to great effect with my own projector/laptop set-up.
-Mark²

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> <> wrote in message
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> >I would like to get a digital projector to play photo slideshows. I
> > have created these slideshows with a DVD slideshow software that gives
> > me lots of cool transitions and music. I can play the DVD on my PC on
> > Windows media player full screen.
> >
> > Can I play this DVD on my laptop and wired into the projector so that
> > the show will project on a screen for a group presentation?
> >
> > Or do I need to buy a software program, like Powerpoint. I would
> > rather use the software I have, if I can use it with the projector I
> > haven't bought yet.
> >
> > Thanks, Carol R
>
> You absolutely can play this on your projector.
> Anything a regular external monitor can play via your laptop can be played
on your
> projector. You should identify what resolution is considered your
projector's "native"
> resolution (most likely 1024x768 or perhaps 800x600), and set your
laptop's output
> resolution to that setting for optimal results.
>
> I have used this to great effect with my own projector/laptop set-up.
> -Mark²
>
I prefer an application like Pictures2exe http://www.wnsoft.com as the
slide show becomes a self contained program, that doesn't need an
application like Power Point to run. It does a simple lap dissolve like a
two projector show, or you can use other effects. It's easy to synch to
music. Overall $24 usd well spent.

PowerPoint ... ? ? ?

WHY PowerPoint ... ? ? ?

ALL Micro$cum programs do nasty things to image files.






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> I would like to get a digital projector to play photo slideshows. I
> have created these slideshows with a DVD slideshow software that gives
> me lots of cool transitions and music. I can play the DVD on my PC on
> Windows media player full screen.
>
> Can I play this DVD on my laptop and wired into the projector so that
> the show will project on a screen for a group presentation?
>
> Or do I need to buy a software program, like Powerpoint. I would
> rather use the software I have, if I can use it with the projector I
> haven't bought yet.
>
> Thanks, Carol R
>

Dear Carol

You can try Slide Show Pilot for creation of slideshows. Here
http://colorpilot.com/slideshow.html are some examples of how you can
create a slideshow, add music/sound to slideshow, play slideshow on a
home DVD player and others.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Olga Panchenko
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

Why not trying photo2dvd software? It has a very nice slideshow funtion
build in with music. Do a search in help for "photo to dvd". Should
explain it nicely.

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> I would like to get a digital projector to play photo slideshows. I
> have created these slideshows with a DVD slideshow software that gives
> me lots of cool transitions and music. I can play the DVD on my PC on
> Windows media player full screen.
>
> Can I play this DVD on my laptop and wired into the projector so that
> the show will project on a screen for a group presentation?
>
> Or do I need to buy a software program, like Powerpoint. I would
> rather use the software I have, if I can use it with the projector I
> haven't bought yet.
>
> Thanks, Carol R
>

Keep in mind that unless you're feeding the projector from Photoshop,
you'll need to convert all of your images to sRGB color space.

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>> I would like to get a digital projector to play photo slideshows. I
>> have created these slideshows with a DVD slideshow software that gives
>> me lots of cool transitions and music. I can play the DVD on my PC on
>> Windows media player full screen.
>>
>> Can I play this DVD on my laptop and wired into the projector so that
>> the show will project on a screen for a group presentation?
>>
>> Or do I need to buy a software program, like Powerpoint. I would
>> rather use the software I have, if I can use it with the projector I
>> haven't bought yet.
>>
>> Thanks, Carol R
>>
>
> Keep in mind that unless you're feeding the projector from Photoshop,
> you'll need to convert all of your images to sRGB color space.

What on earth are you talking about??
She doesn't need to do that at all.
Any image that looks OK on her computer monitor is going to look similarly fine on a
projector...unless there's something seriously malfunctioning on the projector.