Hide your Flat Screen?

[ericgcollyer]

I am looking for a cleaver way to hide my plasma TV that is sitting on my wall. Any Ideas?

[red930]

Something that jumps to my mind when i read this is a frame used for a painting.

[radodrill]

Or have the screen recessed in the wall and have a picture/painting cover it when not in use (Like Robin Masters safe in Magnum PI :cool: )

[JackOrlowski]

Yeah why not put a a nice picture frame around it and hook it up to a pc as well and run a slideshow/still pic on it when your not watching it. I would steer clear of any mechanical hideaway solutions as those get insanely expensive real quick and they always break. How big is your plasma screen?

[ericgcollyer]

The TV is going to be 40'' wide including the non screen part of the TV. I am hanging it over a fireplace in my bedroom which is 40" wide so thats where I want to put it. I like the frame idea, what program can I use that contains minimal setup for a slide show, but also looks relatively decent (i.e. varying transitions and the ken burns effect)?

[DuTcH]

most "photo album" software have slideshow functions or a simple screensaver creator wud work fine

[ericgcollyer]

any specific programs that you can recommend?

[red930]

any specific programs that you can recommend?

 

Picassa might do it.

[momoceio]

If you're running Vista you can use the Sideshow program...

[ericgcollyer]

I was running vista and I REALLY liked that program...Unfortunately it didn't run Adobe Production Studio as well as XP, so I had to switch back for work...