Digital Photo Frames

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Digital photo frames and related topics.

2010-Jan-12: Kodak's wireless picture frames are rather insecure allowing the public to browse the feed for them and potentially to load content onto them. [8919] [1]
2009-Dec-06: Epson is trying to make a cross over between the stand alone digital photo printer and the digital photo frame with their PictureMate Show that prints 4x6 photos and has a 7-inch display. [8826] [1]
2009-Nov-13: The Sony S-Frame DPP-F700 (see here also) combines a digital photo frame with a printer, which might be a good thing for someone who does not have a computer in the house. [8742] [1]
2009-Oct-13: The WD TV HD Media Player from Western Digital is a small media player box that you hook up to a TV via composite or HDMI (1080P supported) cables and then hook up a USB hard drive (or flash drive) and use it to play the media files from the drive onto the TV. It has appeared at Buy.com and BestBuy. A little video review is here. Another short review is here including some pictures of the insides. Western Digital now has some pages about it here on their site. Some people are now hacking the firmware of this. WDLXTV is a user-enhanced version of the firmware that adds support for networking and other features. A new version of this which includes a network port, should be appearing in late 2009 (starting to show up on Best Buy in Oct'09). [7129] [1]
2009-Jul-27: album is a portable 7-inch 800x480 digital photo album for about $200, it looks like it will be offered under the Hama brand too. [8331]
2009-May-14: Photo frames will soon get smarter as Android is being ported to some. [7972]
2009-Mar-02: The PanTouch Clear 10.4 Inch Frame is only 1/3 inch thick and has a 1024x768 resolution and WiFi for $229. It also has clock and calendar functions and programmable on/off times and can play video and MP3 files. [7667]
2009-Feb-02: The SR-7 and SW-7 from AMEX Digital are 7 inch photo frames that include additional functions for time and weather. [7519]
2009-Jan-10: Seagate's Free Agent Theater HD (available in a few versions) is another hard drive media player solution, starting at $129. The demo video gives an example of the use of the device for showing photo slide shows, performance looks pretty good. [7429] [1]
2009-Jan-10: Samsung is partnering with Chumby to make a new digiframe that can provide a greater variety of functions. Maybe this way we will finally be able to get a Chumby-like device in Canada. [7425]
2009-Jan-10: LG is adding a digital photo frame mode to some of their TVs in 2009. They claim that when in this mode the TV will also consume only 10-15% of the power it normally does. [7424]
2009-Jan-08: The Kaleido R7 wireless digital photo frame from IPEVO looks like it might launch some new trends in how wireless capabilities are implemented in photo frames. [7411]
2009-Jan-01: Some digital photo frames are being distributed with viruses. [7404]
2008-Dec-14: iRiver is getting into the photo frame market, this 7-inch unit appears rather like a current one from Sony and has a number of features including playing video. [7347]
2008-Nov-13: The iGala wireless digital picture frame from Aequitas gets some praise from Engadget. Still, at $239 that's nearly as much as the low end Eee PC. [7212]
2008-Oct-31: Engadget gets asked: What's the best digital photo frame out there? [7127]
2008-Oct-30: The Pocket Album Deluxe OLED 2.8 is a small photo frame designed to be carried with you for $99. [7121]
2008-Oct-04: The HD-0310 is a 1080P digital photo viewer, made by PIE United. It has an HDMI output for connection to a TV and has card slots for regular flash media and a USB socket for thumb drives or portable hard drives and can display both photos and movies. Engadget notices it here. [6968] [1]
2008-Sep-24: At 32 inches the Smartparts SP3200WF digiframe is about as big as photo frames get. [6906]
2008-Sep-17: Kodak may be bringing OLED technology to photoframes. In Sept'08 Kodak announced their first OLED picture frame, its going to be expensive at $999 and it's got a bit of an odd base. [6724]
2008-Sep-16: The df1000 and df300a1 are a pair of new photo frames from HP, the df1000 is a 10 inch unti and the df300a1 is an update to their 3.5 inch portable unit. [6862]
2008-Sep-05: The Sony VAIO CP1 seems rather pricy at $299 for a 7 inch photo frame, but it has some additional features (networking, music playing, RSS feeds) that may make it worth the extra cost. Engadget gets a look at one in the flesh. If only it had a web browser. [6804]
2008-Sep-02: The Jobo X7 is a 7-inch photo frame designed to be passed around. Though its rather on the expensive side at about $300. [6785]
2008-Aug-30: SPF-85H, SPF-85V, SPV105P and SPF-105V digital photo frames from Samsung can also be used an additional mini-monitors (through ubisync) to alleviate congestion on your crowded computer desktop. [6761]
2008-Aug-27: The Sony DPF-D100 and DPF-D80 photo frames will have 800x600 resolution in 10 and 8 inch sizes and become available in Oct'08. [6751]
2008-Aug-26: A new photoframe from picwing is based on Linux, this is at the public prototype stage. [6743]
2008-Aug-14: The JOBO S4 is a mobile photo frame, it has a 3.5 inch display and a rechargeable battery capable of 2.5 hours of use. Pass it around the room. [6684]
2008-Jul-22: The AOC 2230Fm HD3 is a computer monitor with an integrated media player that could also function as a 22-inch digital photo frame. About time! About the only thing it could do with adding are a few video inputs (it has DVI-D and HDMI but no analog inputs) or a LAN port. Engadget has already spotted one flaw, the built in media player did not play back HD video they tried to test it with. Discussed here on Slashdot. It gets reviewed here. [6503] [1]
2008-Jul-03: The T.photo 720 digital photo frame is a cross between a portable media player and photo frame. [6467]
2008-Jun-02: The UFOTO UF735 digiframe from ASUS may also act and a secondary display when connected to a computer. Now if someone would just wise up and add a photo display hardware module into a series of regular LCD computer monitors we could have nice large photo frames for only a little more than a standard LCD monitor. [6266]
2008-May-09: The HP DF300A1 digital photo frame (here at FutureShop) is a 3.5 inch unit designed to be easy to slip into a pocket or purse. [6081]
2008-May-03: Digital Foci is introducing a new set of photo frames at CES 2008. Also mentioned here, the 8 inch unit uses an LED back light. The Image Moments 8 frame (which has LED back lighting) shipped in time for Mother's Day. [4525]
2008-Apr-09: Viewsonic announces a new set of 7, 8 and 10 inch digital photo frames for spring 2008. [5752]
2008-Apr-02: The PanTouch series of photo frames by Pandigital will feature touch sensitive screen mattes for control. This is like these Kodak QuickTouch screens, so should help to keep the display free of finger prints. [5374]
2008-Mar-27: Kodak adds Quick Touch borders to its photo frames, allowing for easier interactive use. [5340]
2008-Mar-18: Sony is introducing two stand alone photo printers with built in displays and HDMI output ports so they can be used for showing slide shows on large screen TVs. [5303] [1]
2008-Mar-14: At last, a photo frame that crosses over into TV and other spaces from Pandigital. I wonder if they include the under the cabinet mounting hardware in the $399 proce - or is that a $99 option? For this sort of functionality the thing must have a computer embedded in it, I wonder when it will get hacked? [5269]
2008-Feb-16: The Insignia photo frame virus is much worse than originally thought. [5106]
2008-Feb-12: While not a true photo frame the Cowon A3 PMP has slide show capabilities as well as component video output so it could be used as a portable presentation tool for showing slides on a large screen TV instead of using a laptop computer. [5086] [1]
2008-Feb-11: The PF-D240 digifram from Mustek combines a number of functions (clock radio and photo frame) in a useful way but skimps on the size of the display. A redesign with a 5 to 7 inch display size would make this much better. [5079]
2008-Feb-05: The SmartParts SP8PRT is a photoframe with a built in printer. [5046]
2008-Jan-30: Sony is going to be producing some photo frames (DPF-V900 and DPF-V700) that have HDMI outputs. This means that you could hook up a photo frame to your large screen HDTV and have a classic slide show evening. [5019]
2008-Jan-12: AgfaPhoto is producing the AF5080W a Linux-based digital photo frame with WiFi. More info on LinuxDevices.com. This has clock, calendar and alarm functions and can play mpeg video. [4661]
2008-Jan-11: The Touch-Screen digital photo frame from Shogo, this is meant to be passed-around like a photo album and has WiFi and a touch sensitive 800x600 screen. The internet accessible content is done through some sort of portal system, so its not a unconstrained browser type device. [4648]
2008-Jan-10: DigiFrames.com has a wide selection of digital photo frames. [4637]
2008-Jan-10: The Time-Style, its a watch crossed with a photo frame. So if you like a really large watch you can now take your family photo album along in really small format. As displaying photos on PDAs never really caught on, I can't see this doing any better. [4636]
2008-Jan-09: If you are looking for conventional photo frames, Frames by MAIL has a wide selection. [4628]
2008-Jan-08: Some new photo frames from Ceiva, with the largest being 19 inches. [4613]
2008-Jan-08: MediaStreet is adding six new eMotion photo frames to its line up, from about 7 to 15 inches in size. [4608]
2008-Jan-07: The Digital Message Centers (more info here) from Audiovox, some more photo frames intended for mounting on the refrigerator, one even has a built in webcam for recording short video messages for later playback. [4606]
2008-Jan-07: ViewSonic will be entering the digiframe market in 2008. [4604]
2008-Jan-07: Westinghouse is introducing a number of new photo frames in 10, 14 and 15 inch sizes at the 2008 CES. [4594]
2008-Jan-06: The DSM-210 is a 10 inch photo frame from D-Link. This includes WiFi (or wired) ethernet support and has support for RSS. It also has a rechargeable battery in case you want to pass it around the room [4586]
2008-Jan-04: The SP3200 from Smartparts will be a 32 inch photo frame with 1366x768 resolution. [4577]
2007-Dec-22: The PIXXA photo frame from Ality is an 8 inch 800x600 unit with WiFi can the ability to sync with various web based services. There is also a Photo Messanger feature that allows photos to be pushed to the device. [4510]
2007-Dec-04: The PhotoPlayer 1080i from Hama is a photo flash card player that displays on hi-def televisions. It can read from most flash cards or from an attached USB drive. It connects to the TV through component or composite cables. A bit better photo of it is on Engadget. [4392]
2007-Nov-27: Epson and Philips have teamed to produce PhotoViewer which is a device that can display photos to hidef TV (up to 1080i) from memory cards. To be available in Dec'07. [4195]
2007-Nov-20: The Jobo PDJ105 and PDJ100 10-inch photo frames have a 640x480 resolution and also have clock, calendar and alarm functions plus will automatically power down and wake up at certain times of the day. [4178]
2007-Nov-14: Here's a hands on look at the Chumby from Engadget. While the display is a bit small, this could make a nice photo frame combined with alarm clock, MP3 player and other functions. [4150] [1]
2007-Nov-11: EDGE Tech will be producing a 12 inch photo frame for about $130. [4066]
2007-Oct-30: The Kodak EasyShare HDTV Doc is now available, this allows one to display photos from USB drives, SD cards, or a docked Kodak camera on a 1280x720p style HDTV. Not a bad solution for $99, but they could have done better by supporting full 1080p resolution as well as allowing for composite video output for use on Grandma's old tube-TV. Another change that would have made this a very good product would have been to have included a DVD-D port or an HDMI connector so that it could be used with an LCD computer monitor to make a very large and nice photo frame. [3840]
cenOmax (a LiteOne spin-off) is getting into the photo frame business with their 7 inch F7012A. [3893]
Aluratek has announced an 11 and 15 inch pair of photo frames at prices of $200 and $300 - almost reasonable. [3892]
The T.photo 710 photo frame from Transcend, this will play background music, has a musical alarm clock and has clock and calendar modes. [3891]
While not a photo frame the Kodak HDTV Dock (announced Sept'07) allows you to display photos (from SD cards, USB drives or the docked Kodak camera) on your huge HTDV. While this is not the first such product its appears the be the first with HDTV output (though only at 720p resolution through component video) and the ability to show photos from more than just the docked camera. According to their online documentation you can use this to copy from the SD card slot (or camera) to an attached USB device and you can use the doc to print photos to a USB-attached PictBridge-capable printer. If this had DVI-D or VGA output you could use it to turn a LCD monitor into a very large photo frame. [3890]
Philips will be offering some new photo frames, including a 10 inch unit, in time for Christmas 2007. [3889]
The PDJ700 and PDJ701 photo frames from JOBO have an 800x480 resolution which is high for 7 inch frames, they also include calendar, alarm and timer functions - so put one in the bedroom or kitchen. [3888]
The Gigantor, a 15-inch frame at a reasonable price [3887]
Seven-inch digital photo frame shootout, compares a five of the current digital photo frames and has a feature comparison chart at the end. [3886]
A 19 inch photo frame from PhotoVu, at $1200 its rather expensive, why doesn't someone just put the brains of one of these into a little box with a DVI plug for output and then leave it to the user to hook it up to whatever LCD panel he wants? [3885]
In July'07 Pandigital announced a series of digital picture frames that can be customized by changing various modules, including WiFi, Bluetooth and battery packs. [3884]
The Red Post makes a 19 inch digital picture frame, it is somewhat user-modifiable as it uses a Linux core. [3883]
In June'07 eMotion announced a 15 inch digital picture frame [3882]
MediaStreet has added bluetooth connectivity to their eMotion photo frames [3881]
A DIY photo frame project [3880]
Slashdot discusses photo frames and asks if any can be remotly updated without the need for a special service subscription [3879]
KoolVu.com has a number of photo frames [3878]
Aluratek is now offering a 10.5 inch photoframe for about US$199, the ADMPF110 [3877]
The BenQ FP791, a 17inch LCD computer monitor (reviewed here), also has a optional snap in module that turns it into a digital photo frame (they also have an external TV-tuner box option). [3876]
The Creative Zen Vision, a photo display device [3875]
The Show Center from Pinnacle Systems is a media viewer that attaches to your network (wired or wireless) and provides the means of displaying files on your TV or playing them through your stereo. It handles MPEG 1,2,3 and JPEGs. [3874]
Vosonic has a digital photo viewer with S-Video output [3873]
SanDisk has a digital photo viewer that has an S-Video output [3872]
Delkin Devices makes the eFilm Picture Vision TV slide projector [3871]
The Linx Photo 8W photo frame, is an 8in frame with 720x480 resolution for about US$210 [3870]
The Image Moments digital photo frame [3869]
Digital Spectrum makes the MF8104 digital picture frame, this is a 10.4 inch device that features WiFi connectivity [3868]
Living Pictures Momento photo frames also have WiFi. i-Mate are shutting down their Momento Live update service. [3867]
The Smartparts 5.6 inch digital photo frame appeared in Sept'06 - they also make larger units like this 10.2in model. [3866]
RadioShack has a picture viewer called the TV Picture Share that does a good job of a TV-slide show from compact flash or other media. It has quite a nice digital zoom function and pan capability. Seems to work quite a bit better than using the built in TV-out of the Canon G1. While its not necessarily faster a loading a single image, it does a "read-ahead" of the next image so the transition to it (when you are done with the first) is much faster. It also has various wipe effects on the transitions. It also has a USB port so that you can use it as an adapter for you computer and load/unload pictures that way. [3865]
The Pure eMotion 128 digital picture frame is a 7 inch unit that plays slideshows from most flash cards for about US$129 (Aug'06) [3864]
Westinghouse makes a few digital photo frames, still only up to about 8" in size, but they will display photos off most common flash memory cards. [3863]
Here's a digital photo frame that uses a USB connection to load in new photos [3862]
Here's how to turn an old laptop into a digital picture frame, quite a nicely executed hack. [3861]
The PhotoPort TV 100 from Visioneer, is a device for displaying (and manipulating) digital photos on TVs, something like this is going to be very popular some day. [3860]
Computer Geeks (Sept 02) is selling off this media player which will allow you to view images (and other media types) stored on various flash cards. Might be useful for reviewing photos that have been taken if you do not have a video output on your digi-cam. [3859]
Pandigital is going to ship the PAN-150 digiframe (15 inch) in Apr'07 for $299 [3858]
The Digital Foci Image Moments 6 Frame, announced in Mar'07, is a small frame (5.7 inch) with a built in reader for all the main card formats and a socket for USB thumb drives. [3857]
Mustek has announced 8 to 15 inch photo frames for 2007 [3856]
Ziga USA has 7 and 8in digital photoframes [3855]
An 8in digital photo frame from ARTMU, the ePHOTOZIP DEF080PM announced in Dec'06 [3854]
A 7 inch digital photo frame from Summit. [3853]
Pandigital has announced some new photo frames (from 5.6 to 9.2 inches, and the ability to play MPEG3 sound and maybe video too) for the 2006 Christmas season. In Jan'07 they announced a 10.4 inch photo frame. [3852]
Philips is adding a 9in photo frame to its product line up (Sept'06) [3851]
Smartpants and Siren are introducing some new digital picture frames (Aug'06) [3850]
The PhotoVu PV1955 is a 19 inch digital picture frame accounced in Jan'06. PhotoVu has a few digital frames, including 17 and 19" models [3849]
Samsung has announced (Jan 2006) a digital photo frame. This model was shown at CEBIT in Mar'06 [3848]
Staples in Canada is carrying these MMV Multimedia Viewer units (Jul 03) [3847]
Philips is introducing (Sept'05) a new photo frame, the 7FF1AW is reviewed here, while quite expensive for a 4x6in display apparently it is well thought out, fast and their use of a rather high resolution LCD results in a very nice display [3846]
Artpix makes a digital photo frame, this one just displays pictures off a CF card [3845]
Making a digital picture frame out of a Juicebox [3844]
Another do it your self digital picture frame project [3843]
Building picture frames out of small form factor PC motherboards [3842]
Here's a digital photo frame made (or distributed) by Pacific Digital, that RadioShack (in Canada this became "The Source by Circuit City") carries, it has a USB port for photo download (Jul 03). [3841]

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