A Digital photo frame as monitor

[lasher]

I have a Kodak Easyshare SV710 7" photoframe sat gathering dust.

Is there any way it could be used as an output as a second monitor similar to what you can achieve with the PS1 screen.

Input wise it has USB, various card slots and a lead similar to a Nokia phone usb lead.

Was after using it to display Temps etc.

link to product here

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-locale=en_GB&pq-path=10531

 

[Rastalovich]

Have u opened it up ?

 

[zak4994]

No offence mate but I don't see the point in this.

7" seems too small for anything decent imho.

 

[JN]

No offence mate but I don't see the point in this.

7" seems too small for anything decent imho.

Ur not thinking 4th dimensionally

A little 7" screen sitting on your desk with stuff like your mobo temps, rss feeds, weather, email, msn.....etc on it. Perfecto!

Edit: but to answer the question I doubt you will be able to hook it up to PC unless its got S-Video?

 

[zak4994]

Lot more complicated too.

Like Rasta said, open it up!

But be careful...

 

[monkey7]

Your best bet is the USB connection, is there such a thing as usb to vga/s-video? Maybe of another brand that also works on this.

No offence mate but I don't see the point in this.

7" seems too small for anything decent imho.

You saw the recent ps1 screen mod didn't you? Such screens are great for computer status etc.

EDIT: jim beat me to it

 

[JN]

Your best bet is the USB connection, is there such a thing as usb to vga/s-video? Maybe of another brand that also works on this.

You saw the recent ps1 screen mod didn't you? Such screens are great for computer status etc.

EDIT: jim beat me to it

My guessing is that the USB wont allow display of 'live' images anyway. Merely allow you to upload the files. A bit like saying you want to plug your keyboard into eSATA.

 

[lasher]

Yup purely for educational purposes ofc

Not a bloody clue what im looking at. Dont know what i was expecting... "Plug monitor cable in here" port!

Theres two PCBs layered. A small ribbon cable to the screen with 2 thin wires presumably backlight power?

 

[Rastalovich]

Be neat and simple if u could have the frame point to an image on ur pc, update the image and the frame would pickup the change.

Failing that, if it will read images from the pc, u could have the frame cycle between a few images as fast as it can, and update the filenames with a few lines of dos - or even a scheduled event.

 

[JN]

Yup purely for educational purposes ofc

Not a bloody clue what im looking at. Dont know what i was expecting... "Plug monitor cable in here" port!

Theres two PCBs layered. A small ribbon cable to the screen with 2 thin wires presumably backlight power?

Dont wanna put a dampener on it dude, but I think tis going to be a similar situation to the Laptop screen thread raised a while back. Unless its designed to take a vga output it simply wont have any of the components necessary to perform such a function.

 

[lasher]

blimey you lot posted quick!, only unscrewed a few screws!

Yep wasn't looking for anything fancy, Temps etc for my watercooling similar to what Stuart has.

Ive seen displays in Novatech that offer this facility must have a few extra bobbins inside to do it as im having no luck on USB.

 

[TopSecret]

Might be easier trying to find a PSone screen on fleabay mate. I got mine cheap as chips off there.

 

[zak4994]

He isn't lookign for a monitor he just has one at his disposal.

And when I said it seems unrealistic, I meant that it sint designed to have some form of VGA i/o.

 

[mayhem]

again as allrteady mentiond yes you can do it . but the converter is £199 + import fees and the rest.

 

[zak4994]

Oof...

Cor blimey!

£200? Might as well not do anything with it at all then.