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I don’t know what happens in your house, but in mine all we hear at family BBQs is something like this: “You know with these digital cameras we never see the pictures any more. They go onto the card, stay in the camera, and that’s it no slideshows, no emails, and NO PRINTS! What a waste.”

Hopefully the Panasonic HDTV Photo Player, DMW-SDP1, can slightly remedy this problem. It allows users to view photos taken by any SD digital camera in High Definition quality on a large screen TV.

By connecting the SDP1 (using supplied HD component cable) to a HDTV and inserting their SD/SDHC memory card into the slot, users can view their photos in 1080i high definition quality. The viewer offers a variety of playback options including three special transition effects, rapid image search, and automatic rotation of images what were taken vertically. It will also play motion JPEGs in addition to the normal VGA (640 x 480), wide aspect VGA (848 x 480) motion images, and high definition motion image (1280 x 720, at 15 fps).

The DMW-SDP1 will have an MSRP of $129.95. Considering my father is obsessed with his plasma I think we have solved the “seeing the pictures” problem. Regarding emailing or printing pictures, well I guess I’m still out of luck.

Read [Panasonic]

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