What device or electronic setup would enable an elderly, non-tech-savvy person to straightforwardly view photos and videos with a minimum of fuss? Difficulty: no wifi, no 4G, no DVD player, no ongoing tech-support access, nursing-home setting with mild theft issues. This is for someone who has mail delivery but no online access at all, so I was ideally hoping I could find a setup that'd allow simple, reliable and non-buggy playback of video files pre-saved on some sort of pluggable media that could be mailed (SD cards? cheapie thumb drives?). You'd think that e-picture frames with video capability would be A Thing, but the few I've seen seem to get terrible reviews for reliability and user-friendliness. The user has played computer games in the past (c. Win 98 era) and could probably handle simple menu navigation or icon selection, but would absolutely not be up to recognizing or fixing any issues that might arise.
Complicating matters still farther, this would be used in a sometimes-unsupervised institutional setting where there have been occasional reports of theft, so it'd be best if this could be done with either secondhand or conspicuously-inexpensive new tech. (As a side-note, if anyone has ideas for deterring such theft, or for securing belongings in these settings, I'd love to hear them!) On the bright side, premium picture and sound quality aren't necessarily a priority, as long as everything can be viewed. Thanks in advance, Metafilter!
Complicating matters still farther, this would be used in a sometimes-unsupervised institutional setting where there have been occasional reports of theft, so it'd be best if this could be done with either secondhand or conspicuously-inexpensive new tech. (As a side-note, if anyone has ideas for deterring such theft, or for securing belongings in these settings, I'd love to hear them!) On the bright side, premium picture and sound quality aren't necessarily a priority, as long as everything can be viewed. Thanks in advance, Metafilter!
