I visited a friend recently and he had some sort of Streaming Media Server atop his TV.
It was a commercial system (boo! hiss!) called a Pinnacle Showcenter.
Anyway, it looked pretty nice.
Quite a bit smaller than the one I had built.
It had some funky blue LEDs, but my case has funky blue LEDs.
It doesn’t have an LCD panel though, so I win on that one.
But one really nice thing that it did do was to show photos as a slideshow on the TV.
“I can do that” I thought.
So I will.
First step, buy a cheapo (silent) video card with TV out.
Next step, write some code to display photos. On-screen display of photo titles would be a nice touch too.
Don’t get a silent one. You are bound to think of something else that you want it to do. Why shut down your options?
Too late, already ordered it.
I doubt if I’ll want to run 3D games on it, so can’t see that I’ll need a state of the art card with a state of the art (noisy) fan to keep it cool.
Anyway, it was cheap.