Archive for September, 2007
PC Magazine Online had a really, really good article on their website last Thursday about several different wireless/digital photo frames. Writer Molly K. McLaughlin did an excellent job comparing and contrasting several major brands, and if you are in the market for a wireless/digital photo frame, and I sincerely hope you are, this article would be a really good read before you made your final choice.
In her article, McLaughlin states that “. . .Still, there are many things to consider before making your purchase, including screen size, picture quality, ease of use, and media compatibility. We’ve reviewed several digital photo frames, each which offers different features and levels of quality. Most come with remotes, which is definitely a plus, since the on-frame controls aren’t
very convenient (plus they force you to get up from your chair). Some include onboard memory so you can store images right on the frame, while others offer multiple ways to transmit your photos: via memory cards, via USB — even wirelessly.
The article discusses the Kodak EasyShare EX811, the Pandigital 8.0″ Digital Photo Frame (DPF-80-2), the Image Moments 8.0-inch digital picture frame (IMT-081) from Digital Foci, the Westinghouse DPF-0561, and the Westinghouse DPF-1021.
Don’t forget to check out the Digital Foci slide show while you’re looking at the PC Magazine 
website!
The #2 satellite TV provider, EchoStar, just bought Sling Media for $380 million and will likely spin-off a new company containing its technology assets.
Sling Media makes SlingBox, which funnels content from a user’s home TV content to any Internet-connected PC or mobile device, including WiFi-Enabled Gizmos (WEGs).
VCs had poured $57.1 million into the company in two rounds since 2004.
WEGs are for video as well as audio, where there’s Appliance Intimacy– we call it TV Me and Radio Me. The SlingBox is about anywhere, anytime media (good fit with EchoStar, which offers subscribers a 30 GB PocketDish). The PocketDish lets subscribers record TV shows or transfer photos or music to the handheld device. WEGs are about time and space shifting; they’re the ripe target for one’s own playlist….
Along with competitors like #1 satellite provider DirecTV and the cable companies, telco giants such as AT&T and Verizon Communications are offering triple play packages of voice, Internet, and TV services based on Internet Protocol. Satellite companies have yet to match the triple-play offerings.
Our ANWO survey on WEGs is complete, and the results with our accompanying analysis are now available for purchase [delivered electronically: a 35-page Powerpoint and an Excel Market Sizing model that allows "what if?" analysis], via our eStore.
This report is also available in Japanese.
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It might still be September, but already the stores are filling their shelves with holiday merchandise, and it won’t be long at all ’til you need to be thinking about what to give Grandma and your very hard-to-please sister for Christmas. You’ve got a lot of nieces and nephews and you love them all, but how old are they again? Would you know them if you saw them on the street? Sure, you all exchange family photos whenever you think of it, but it sure does get expensive, having the store make all those copies for everyone.
Wireless digital picture frames are a bit of an investment at first, sure: The Digital Spectrum MF-8104 is approximately $350.00.. But you’ll end up saving a fortune in developing costs by simply emailing your latest photographs to all the relatives, who will also have a wireless digital photo frame on the living room wall because you’re giving them one for Christmas.
Think about it. You get home from work and take a look at the picture on your wall and HEY, your brother sent you the latest pictures of his baby and WHOA, the kid is really growing! You counter with a few pics of your son’s t-ball game, and in a minute your phone rings. It’s your brother and he’s so excited about the new way the family has of keeping in touch, he’s almost incoherent. Fortunately, the pictures he’s sending you are clear as a bell.
There are many good wireless digital photo frames on the market right now, but Digital Spectrum’s MF-8104 is one of the very best, anywhere, anyhow, any time.
The Digital Spectrum’s MF-8104 Wi-Fi photo frame can leap onto your wireless connection and talk directly to your computer, or anyone else’s computer IF you send that person the address. Don’t worry; strangers can’t access your pictures.
Flickr. . . Picasa. . . .FrameChannel. . . Webshots. . . Windows Live Spaces. . . this wireless frame will hook up with almost every known photo program, so whatever pictures you upload there, the Digital Spectrum MF-8104 will always be up-to-date. The 10.4-inch frame is crystal clear, and you can even program it from your easy chair with the wireless remote.
It will play your favorite Mp3’s, too.
Bluetooth fans, pay close attention! I’ve posted before on this blog about how the Parrot Photo Viewer is perfection on a stick for Bluetooth users. I think this black leather is my favorite Parrot frame, but as Bluetooth people know, there are many styles to choose from. The Parrot Photo Viewer adds an element of style to our home, and HEY, you can display and share your digital photos with your Bluetooth mobile phone!
The Parrot Photo Viewer is a 7-inch wireless digital picture frame that is already a smash hit. Not only is it beautiful, it’s mind-bogglingly versatile. (You’ll be able to choose from a variety of leather and wooden frames in a variety of styles and colors to match your home decor.) (I think I already mentioned that.)
Just point your Bluetooth phone at the frame and hit the button. BOOM! Your photos are instantly transferred, WIRELESSLY, to the Parrot frame.
The Parrot Photo Viewer is WIRELESS, and that means, not only will your Bluetooth phone transfer pictures, but so will almost any Bluetooth electronic device! If it was able to access FrameChannel, it would be absolutely PERFECT in every way!
Did I mention that the transferring of your pictures will only take a few seconds? That’s SECONDS, not minutes. It will happen before your very eyes.
The Parrot Photo Viewer has a wide TFT screen, backlit, and with a resolution of 720 x 480 pixels. This wireless digital frame will store and display over 500 JPEG pictures. The Parrot will also adapt any picture to the TFT screen, no matter what its size.
You can choose to display your pictures one at a time, changing them on occasion, or you can program the wireless frame to send a breathtaking slideshow of all your pictures, or just the ones you want in a particular slideshow. The choices are yours. Display the frame vertically or horizontally; the pictures will be rotated and resized automatically, to match the position of the frame.
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