Yeah my biggest requirements are: A. Cheap B. Quality screen C. Reliable, I've had too many digi photo frames just stop working on me, end up buying a new one every couple years and they all suck the same(bad screen etc). So using a surplus ultrasharp is really the way I think I need to go. I could do the laptop/netbook…
Alright so, most digital photo frames you can buy have horrible TN panels with bad-average viewing angles, and are fairly small. I can pick up a *VA panel 15" or 17" Dell Ultrasharp for like $10-20 from the local university surplus. Then I just need a wall mount and a simple device to run the thing(and something nice to do…
Is there an LCD screen or TV with a built in USB or SD card slot in the size you want? Failing that, I found this thing while looking for things to connect up to a Raspberry Pi. http://www.4dsystems.com.au/prod.php?id=15 As far as I can tell, if you load up an SD card full of JPEGs it will output a slide show to the VGA.…