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Hi all,

I recently purchased a digital photo frame on ebay (item: 180139001180). All works well until I try to plug the AV cables into my TV and try to view the pictures by changing the output to "TV mode". I get an "out of range" error on the frame's display and no image on the TV. When the AV cable is partially inserted I get a garbled signal on the TV that I can make out as the image I should be seeing. I have tried to change the video output to NTSC (I am in Canada), but this did not work. Should the images on the card be in a resolution that is compatible with the TV (e.g. 640x480 or lower)? I have a TV similar, if not identical, to a Toshiba 24AF42. Thanks for the help.

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Quick, practical checklist that builds on the replies from and :

Start simple — verify the TV input and cable. Use the composite (yellow RCA) input on the TV, try a different composite cable (some 3.5mm-to-RCA leads use nonstandard pinouts), and test the TV input with another composite source to rule out the TV jack. If the frame has a menu option for the video standard or output type, toggle it and reboot the frame.

If the TV input and cable are OK, focus on what the frame can actually output and what it can decode. Low-cost frames commonly choke on very large images, progressive JPEGs, CMYK JPEGs, or images with heavy metadata. Convert a few problem photos to a conservative, TV-friendly format: baseline (non-progressive) JPEG, sRGB color, 640x480 (or <= 800x600) and strip EXIF/comments. That reduces the frame’s decoding load and eliminates format incompatibilities that cause playback errors.

Example batch workflow (ImageMagick) to create safe test copies:

mkdir -p resized
for f in *.jpg; do
  convert "$f" -resize 640x480\> -strip -colorspace sRGB -interlace none -quality 85 "resized/$f"
done

Try just a single converted photo first. If that displays, process the rest of the set. If video still fails even with small, baseline JPEGs, the frame may be outputting a signal the TV can’t sync with (wrong scan mode or an RGB/VGA-style output), or the AV jack wiring is different from what the cable expects — in that case try a different display (or a camcorder/monitor) and contact the seller/manufacturer for the exact cable pinout or firmware update. Keep originals backed up before batch changes.

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I also got a problem with my Kodak SV710 digital picture frame.
I've added some "photoshoped" pixs (.jpg format so it shouldn't be a problem) and the frame pops a message saying:
"Current file is bad[...]"..
Anyone know wat the problem might be?

(Btw, I guess my cell has reacted in quite the same way with same sort of files...)

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managed to fix the issue. The pics where to large. Not in scale but digitaly. I noticed that pictures from and so on where playable and by that piggured that the pix could not have more than "medium" (number 6 in photoshop .jpg-scale) quality.
peace!!/m.

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