Almost any TV you purchase today is a smart TV. This means that you can plug a USB drive full of photos and play them as a slideshow. This turns your TV into a personal photo album. Imagine hosting a dinner party with close friends and family and having photos with everyone in attendance show up on your TV. It’s a great conversation starter and is much better to look at that a black TV screen.

There are two big challenges to being able to display your photos on your TV. The first is how do you get them from your phone or computer to a USB drive. Many people are not technically savvy enough to be able to find and copy all their photos to a USB drive. The second challenge is cropping the photos so they display properly on your 16:9 aspect ratio TV. Have you ever seen a portrait photo displayed on a landscape TV screen? There is a lot of black space on both sides of the photo and often, the people in the photo what very small. Also, many photos are rotated improperly. They may display on the TV as a landscape photo, when the photo was originally taken as a portrait photo.

If you do not know how to copy your photos from your phone to a USB drive and to edit them so they display properly on a TV, you can take the time to learn how to do this and to purchase the software necessary to edit photos properly. Or, you can use a revolutionary product called the Photo Backup Stick Universal. The Photo Backup Stick Universal makes it easy for you too copy your photos from your phone or computer to a USB drive. It is a USB device that contains specialized apps to scan your phone or computer for all your photos, copy them to the USB drive, and allow you to edit them so they display properly on your TV.

The Photo Backup Stick Universal works on iPhones, iPads, Android phones & tablets, and Windows & Mac computers. To back up from phones and tablets, install the Photo Backup Stick Universal app and plug the USB device into your phone or tablet.  Run the app and tap the button to back up your photos. That’s it. Your photos will back up to the USB drive . Once backed up, you can edit them to fit your TV screen properly. to back up from computers, plug the device into your computer, run the backup app, and click the button to back up your photos. Again, you can then edit the photos to fit your TV screen properly.

The Phone2Frame photo editor that is included with the Photo Backup Stick apps delete unwanted photos, rotate photos that are displaying in properly, and to crop photos so they take up as much of the screen as possible. Imagine going from a portrait photo on your white TV screen that is mostly black on both sides of the photo to a close up of the people in the photo that takes up the entire screen. The Phone2Frame photo editor places your photos on a virtual frame so you can visualize exactly how the photo will appear under TV.

Watch you have your photos on the USB drive and they are edited, simply plug them into your TV’s USB slot and change your input or source to USB. Depending on your TV model, it will either automatically start playing your photos as a slideshow are give you an option to start your slideshow. There has never been an easier way to get your photos from your phone to your TV to create your own personal digital photo album.