Your PhotoBridge HD1000's image viewer has several user-configurable options:

• Fit/fill mode
• Delay between images in a slideshow
• Info display mode
• Preferred rotation direction

These options can be accessed in two ways:

In the browse screen (where you look at your images as miniature thumbnails), there is an "Options" button. Move the highlight onto the button and click Select on the remote to bring up the options dialog. While looking at pictures full-screen, just press the Select button on the remote. (Note that bringing up the Options window with a slideshow playing will pause the slideshow. Press Play/Pause on the remote once you've closed the window.)

In either case, you just make your choices and click the Done button. Your settings are remembered until you change them, even if you turn your HD1000 off. Press Exit on the remote to dismiss the dialog without making any changes.

When you press the Slideshow button on the Main Menu, insert an image card, or launch an Art Pack, your PhotoBridge HD1000 automatically advances through the images on the selected media source. Sometimes, you may want to linger over a particular image. This is easy: just press the Play/Pause button on the remote. Notice that a pause icon appears momentarily in the lower right corner of the screen. The image will now stay on screen until you manually change it. You can use the Next or Previous keys on the remote to move at your own pace, or you can press Play/Pause again to resume automatic advance. The Options screen (see Tip #1) allows you to set the length of time each picture is displayed.

If you're browsing your pictures in the thumbnail browser, there are two ways to launch into the full screen viewer, as well. Press Select with a particular image highlighted to view that image. The image will stay on screen until you change it. Or, you can press Play/Pause with a particular image highlighted to begin viewing a slideshow starting with that image.

Whether you're clicking your way through your images manually using the Next/Previous keys or you're letting the PhotoBridge HD1000 do the work for you, you may find yourself wanting to back up a few pictures or skip over a few. Even a high-performance image viewer like the HD1000 takes a couple of seconds to decode a large file, so it would be a bummer to have to wait for each picture to come up before you could press Next or Previous again.

Happily, there is no need to wait. If you want to back up three pictures, just press the Previous button on your remote three times. Same goes for skipping forward.

While television is moving on into the brave new wide-screen world, photography is still pretty much back in the old square (well, 4:3 anyway) box. Therefore, most pictures taken with a digital camera won't fit perfectly on a 16:9 HDTV. Also, many artists (especially the pesky Renaissance types) were a bit lax in maintaining a proper 16:9 wide-screen aspect ratio as well.

Fortunately, your PhotoBridge HD1000 has more than one way to fit a non-16:9 image onto your wide-screen HDTV.

First up is the most basic: "Fit". In Fit mode, the entire image is displayed centered on the screen. If the image isn't the same shape as your screen, the remainder of the screen is filled with black.

Next is "Fill". Fill mode zooms in on the image until it fills the entire screen. If the image isn't the same shape as the screen, then part of the image will be cropped.

Last but far from least is SmartDisplay^TM. This mode will fill your screen unless doing so would cause too much of the image to be cropped. If filling the screen crops too much, then the image is fitted to the screen instead. This mode works great when you have a mixture of portrait and landscape pictures.

In any of these modes, what is being adjusted is really just the initial zoom factor for the image. You can always zoom in or out on any given image, using the zoom rocker on the remote.

Your HD1000 supports a multi-level zoom feature. As mentioned in the first tip, the initial presentation of your image will depend upon the fit/fill mode you select. But, maybe there's something in a given image that you want to look at more closely. Or, maybe you've selected "Fill" mode, and something interesting is being cropped on a particular image.

No worries. The zoom rocker on the remote control allows you to zoom out until the entire image is visible on the screen, or in to several levels of magnification.

As you zoom, notice the little indicator that appears in the lower left part of the screen. The transparent box represents your image, and the gray shaded portion represents the portion of the image visible on your screen. When you zoom all the way out, the whole box will be filled with gray - the whole image is visible. But, as you zoom in onto a small portion of the image, the gray-shaded region shrinks, showing you only the portion of the image that's on your screen. This indicator can be pretty useful for finding your way around a picture while at high magnifications.

When you zoom in on a freshly-displayed image, you're zooming in on the center of the image. But maybe the interesting part isn't in the middle! No problem. Use the four arrow keys on the remote control to scroll a different portion of the image into view. Press the up arrow to move towards the top of the image, the left arrow to move towards the left edge of the image, and so on. As you do, again check out the pan & zoom indicator in the lower-left corner of the screen and notice how you can make it scoot around.

By the way, both the zoom keys and the arrow keys repeat if you hold them down. No need to press "left" 20 times to get to the left edge of the picture. Just press and hold.

If you take a picture holding the camera right-side up, you get what's called a "landscape" picture - one which is wider than it is tall. Sometimes, though, the subject calls for a "portrait" picture - one taken with the camera rotated 90 degrees to the left or right so that the resulting image is taller than it is wide.

Some cameras actually have a built-in sensor which records whether the camera was rotated for a given picture. If you're lucky enough to have one of those cameras, your HD1000 will rotate the image right side up for you automatically. No muss, no fuss.

For the rest of us, there's the "Rotate" button on the remote. Statistically, most people rotate their cameras counter-clockwise when they take a portrait picture, putting the top of the subject at the right edge of the recorded image. By default, pressing the rotate button on the HD1000 remote also rotates the picture counter-clockwise, which for most images will put the top where it should be.

Some people, however, rotate their cameras the other way. In the Options screen (see Tip #1), you can change the default rotation direction to match your preference. When you press the Rotate button on the remote, you'll notice that a rotation indicator pops up in the lower right corner of the screen. The direction of the arrow shows the direction of rotation.

By the way, sometimes a picture might not be rotated in your "usual" direction. Perhaps you're looking at pictures taken by a friend, and they prefer to turn the camera the other way. Not to worry. As with Next and Previous, you can press the Rotate button more than once in quick succession. Three presses will rotate an opposite-direction picture to the right orientation - no need to wait for each rotation to complete.

Finally, what if you want to get your pictures ready for a slide show rather than having them initially pop up sideways? Easy. The Rotate button works in the thumbnail view as well. Just rotate the pictures so that their thumbnails look right, and your slideshow will look great.

(Two quick notes on the subject of rotation: First, some PC image editing software will rotate an image but leave the thumbnail in its original orientation. If you've used this type of software, your thumbnails won't be an accurate representation of what you'll see on screen. Second, in version 1.0 of the HD1000 software, your HD1000 does not remember image rotations once you've changed media sources or exited back to the Main Menu. That feature is in the works for a later software upgrade.)

If you're like a lot of digital camera owners, you have lots and lots of pictures. You may have so many of them that you can hardly remember when you took them. Fortunately, your PhotoBridge HD1000 can help.

When viewing a picture, press the Info key on the remote. In the lower left corner of the screen you'll see some information displayed. The first line is the name of the file. Unless you've renamed your pictures with descriptive file names, this will probably look like "IMG0005.JPG". The second line is the time and date that the picture was taken, as recorded by your camera. (*)

Photography buffs may want even more information about the picture: What was the f-stop? What was the shutter speed? Did I use a flash? Well, take heart photo-buffs. Press Info a second time to show exposure and flash information, as well as the dimensions of the image.

Press Info a third time to dismiss the display.

If you find yourself pressing the Info button a lot, you may want to set your HD1000 to automatically display info for each image when it first appears. This is done in the Options screen (see the first tip). You can choose whether to display the brief (2-line) info or the whole ball of wax. After a few seconds (a little longer for the detailed info), the display disappears automatically.

(*) If the time and date display is all zeros, the clock wasn't set on the camera. You may want to double-check to make sure that it is properly set for your future pictures. Refer to your camera's instruction manual.

If you are in the "Browse" feature looking at your image thumbnails, there are lots of ways to get around. The four directional arrow buttons on the remote control move the highlight one item at a time. The Next and Previous buttons advance the highlight sequentially through the images, as you would advance through a slideshow. And, the Zoom In/Zoom Out rocker does double-duty here to allow you to scroll a page at a time. In all cases, if you reach the first or last thumbnail, the display will wrap around to the other end of the list with an additional press.

Art Packs come on a CompactFlash card similar to the ones used in digital cameras. When you insert the card with the Main Menu visible on screen, the Art Pack will start automatically, playing images and music.

If you return to the Main Menu, you'll notice that there are probably more options visible on the menu than you usually see with your own cards. The Browse and Slideshow buttons are available, as well as the Listen button. And, there's an extra button at the bottom of the screen representing the Art Pack itself. You can use Browse, Slideshow and Listen just as you would on any other media source. To play the pictures and music together, just press the button under Roku Applications that corresponds to the Art Pack.

The music will stop when you exit the slideshow, either to the thumbnail browser or to the main menu. To start the show again with the music, go back to the Main Menu and press the button corresponding to the Art Pack.

One thing to note: some Art Packs may select a different delay between images than what you have set for your usual viewing. This is normal.