mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

AlGreg

I have a winter home in South Texas and a summer home in the Adrondack Mountains of NY. We fly back and forth every year. My 17" HP laptop had some issues not worth fixing so I bought an Intel NUC mini desktop and a 32" 1080p Roku TV as a monitor. The Intel NUC was $725 and the TV was about $150. The Intel NUC is about 4.5" x 4.5" x 2.5" and fits in my TSA aproved wheeled carry on camera case with my D500 with attached 200-500, my D7200 with attached 18-140, a 50mm f1.8, a 70-300 VR, a speed light 700, a 12" Lenova laptop and misc small stuff. The Intel Desktop has an I7 10th gen processor, 32 GB of ram and a 256 GB M2 SSD hard drive. I added a 2 GB SATA hard drive as a data drive that I removed from my laptop. The PC is the fastest computer I have ever had and the TV is the best monitor I have ever used. I am flying home to NY in about 2 weeks. I will leave the 32" TV in Texas and buy a similar TV in NY. I recently had a friend ask me to help him buy a new computer. He got a slightly lesser Intel NUC and he bought a 43" TCL Roku 4K TV. That combo is AWESOME. We got the Roku because for about the same price of just a TV, you get so much more with a Roku.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

I display all my pics on HD TV's. I have 4 of them, a 32", 42" 47" and a 55". I have both Roku and Fire Sticks on all 4 of them. I've had Roku for many years, but now prefer the Firestick primarily because they have a PHOTO app that displays all your pictures you upload to Amazon Drive in slideshows, and it's free if you have Amazon Prime. I have a FireTV in my bedroom, and I look at my pics when I go to bed, and again when I get up.

Never have my pictures been better looking, and watched and enjoyed so much as they are now. The really nice thing is any picture I have that I like, I easily upload to Amazon prime and it instantly can be displayed on any or all of my TV's, along with 1000's of my other "favorite" pics. I have over 3000 now on display. I edit all my pics for display to 1920x1080, that's the size of all my TV's, my cell phone, and my 27" monitor. Same with movies, although you can only store 5 gigs of movies for free.

Any Hogger with Amazon prime should get themselves a FireStick for around $40 and see whats it's all about now. Roku has Flicker, but the free one sucks compared to Amazon's PHOTO app, not sure if the paid one works better but I know Flicker is not free for unlimited photos. I don't use Amazon drive for backup at all, although you could. I use it only for the image display of my good pics in slideshows. WAY better than slides, and WAY better than copying photos to a thumb drive and keeping track of all that mess.