Big, beautiful HDTV screens fill the room with light and sound — until they are switched off. Then it’s like a black hole, sucking the light from your life. I’ve seen people drape rugs and blankets over the screen because it’s such a large black space. Your Theatre player can handle this problem nicely and in many ways. Of course you can play your own slides shows and let that fill the space. But you might be like me, and plenty of other people, and maybe your day to day pics at home are not necessarily all winners. Maybe you just want a change. Maybe your PC isn’t on for serving the pictures. Whatever, Flickr offers a cool option.
In Flickr, there is a category called Interesting Photos. This is simply highly rated pictures from the huge Flickr catalog of photos. Most are very good and some are really great. Select this icon, then pick a photo from the screen. Then move your pointer to the bottom of the screen and select play. Photo after photo. And you can accompany it with your music or Internet radio music.
You can start the slide show with fewer steps by clicking on the upper right corner of the Interesting Photos icon. Same shortcut as for other photo features.
This also works if you don’t have a Flickr account at all. It also works if you haven’t linked your Theatre to your Flickr account. And if works if you don’t have a PC server working, it only needs the Internet access — like Internet radio.
You can find Flickr under Pictures & Videos –> Online –> Flickr. You may have to click through a screen urging you to connect your account, but you can simply click OK twice and use the Interesting Photos.
Another tip: Once inside Interesting Photos, you can do a text search and get hundreds of great photos with a word or phrase. So enter “fighter jet, ” play music from Top Gun and sit back — with no black hole.