There does exist photo dvd software. It burns a slideshow of pictures on a tv for TV viewing. Here is an example, never tested it, but open source / free.
DVD's are inexpensive, play around with some open source software to find the right result.
Basically, you have two choices: * the photo dvd: contains mostly only pictures (jpg,png,bmp,...) or in some cases small chuncks of video * a data dump: you just throw all files, sorted in folder, on a dvd. This way, everything is on it, but that counters your goal
For both there are free/open source solutions.