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Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by sgc on Sunday November 11, 2018 @09:15PM (#18430126)
I have long considered buying high end tvs just to use as slide show viewers in my house. I could probably justify it at this point with the number of available high quality images and the quality of screens. But I would really like a 250 ppi+ screen that is 40+ inches to pull the trigger.
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Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by mejackreed on Monday November 12, 2018 @01:07PM (#18434321)
I've created an AppleTV app that uses IIIF (technology behind Art Institute of Chicago image release) that was based on this. Though this content area was historic maps [1]

[1] https://www.jack-reed.com/old-map-room/

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Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by akvadrako on Sunday November 11, 2018 @11:12PM (#18430533)
you might want to consider the Samsung Frame TV:

https://www.samsung.com/us/explore/the-frame/highlights/

43" at 4K is 102 PPI, so I guess you would need a 16K TV to get 250+

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Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by petepete on Monday November 12, 2018 @04:32AM (#18431502)
I'd be careful buying Samsung TVs. They will probably release an update that injects ads into the UI at some point

https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...

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Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by paulie_a on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:57AM (#18433322)
Or just use a third party device and skip using their software entirely. Smart TVs basically universally suck.
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Re:The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images ... by sgc on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:37AM (#18450622)
8k @ 40 is 220 ppi, so getting well into close enough range.
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