Photo-Sharing For Your TV

Eastman Kodak and LSI Logic are going to make it possible for you to annoy your visitors with a slide show of your summer vacation on your television. The agreement, originally signed by LSI Logic's recently acquired C-Cube Microsystems, will allow you to view digital pictures from a Kodak Picture CD directly on your TV (without a computer) using your DVD player. New features added to the LSI DVD players will include automatic picture scaling to fit the TV display size, slide show capabilities, one-screen thumbnail display, and image rotation. The whole thing may sound trivial at first glance, but this is the kind of little thing that will help move DVD players and set-top boxes into the homes of the tech-wary masses. At the same time, it could make digital cameras a heck of a lot more popular with folks that don't have computers and let the less technologically challenged send digital pictures (on a disk) to those who haven't embraced the wonders of the digital world.