The New PhotoVu PV1765w: Outperforms Them ALL!
Last Thursday, Photo-Vu announced the availability of their newest wireless digital picture frame, the PV1765w. This new wireless frame is full-featured and possibly the perfect gift for the 2007 holiday season.
The price is reasonable for such a large (17 inch screen!) and fully-loaded wireless digital picture frame - only $699.00, and watch for sales during these holiday shopping weeks.
With a Photo-Vu wireless frame, you have two options: you can have unlimited storage by using the wireless function and using the pictures stored on your computer: on Flickr, Picasa, Google, Apple, iPhoto, .Mac, and SmugMug, or any web albums you might have made for your picture. Photo-Vu wireless digital frames make use of RSS (really simple syndication) feeds; any time you see this symbol, 
on a page, it means you can subscribe to the page and whatever is on there (news, weather, pictures, etc) will also be accessed by your Photo-Vu wireless frame. You can even send pictures from YOUR Photo-Vu wireless frame to your friend’s Photo-Vu wireless frame, over the miles. How awesome for families who want to keep in touch visually across great distances or even just across the street!
There’s no waiting, either; once the pictures are in your computer, they’re in the frame. Set them to display pretty much any way you wish, although slideshows are probably the most popular. You can program the frame to check for RSS updates whenever you wish, too.
The Photo-Vu’s 17-inch wide-screen, with its clear, beautiful LCD TFT display and 1280 x 800, 24-bit or up to 16,000,000+ colors, is large enough to see clearly from across a large room, whether you’ve decided to display it on the wall or on a desk or table-top. (The frame weights about 18 pounds, so be sure you hang it on a wall stud.) These frames look nice on top of a piano, too. The large 17-inch display makes this frame ideally suited to be placed on a tripod or portrait display, to slideshow wedding, baptism, shower, funeral, business, advertisement, or reunion pictures so everyone can see them.
Oh, and if you don’t want to use the wireless connection every time, you can always use any memory card or flash drive to load the frame with pictures, although naturally not as many as when you have the virtually unlimited resources of the INTERNET.
Another aspect that makes the Photo-Vu PV1765w so unique and easy-to-use is the fact that all of the software is built into the frame; there is no software to install on your computer; all you have to do is open up your favorite web browser and type in the PhotoVu’s name or IP address (don’t throw away the paperwork; this information is in there!) and after you do that, anything goes! Manage all of your picture display options, connect with your RSS feeds, and program in start and finish times for your frame to start up and turn off. You don’t even have to worry about the simple stuff, let alone any complicated stuff. Oh, and you an always turn the frame on or off manually.
What if your computer is a laptop, and you take it with you every day? Can your Photo-Vu wireless frame carry on without it? Of course it can. Just use the USB removable hard drive option to create a copy of your digital photo collection. This provides several benefits:
- It creates a backup of your digital photos.
- The digital frame is not dependent on the laptop being available for photos since it uses the USB removable hard drive.
- The laptop can control the PhotoVu using your wireless network and web browser
Besides being superior in almost every possible way already discussed, the Photo-Vu PV1765w is also superior in another way: You’re not limited to the one frame that came in the box. You can have your pick of TONS of “looks” for your wireless frame. Just check out the “Build Your Own” page on the Photo-Vu website.
Mark Van Buskirk, Partner, PhotoVu, says that “This is clearly a premium digital picture frame at a very affordable price, making a PhotoVu the perfect gift for the 2007 holiday season. And our new PV1765w still includes all of the industry leading features and customization options that PhotoVu is well known for.”
Wireless/digital photo frames are already THE hot gift item for this year’s holidays. Get yours while you can; they’re flying off the shelves. Or, go to the PhotoVu website and order yours online.
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8 Comments
jamie wrote at November 18th, 2007 at 8:25 am
whats the big deal. whens the last time someone hacked a WEP unless you make it so easy to guess.
Bob wrote at November 18th, 2007 at 9:08 am
Well I do worry about security and WEP is fairly easy to crack with the right tools.
But I am not worried as much about the fact it can be cracked, more so that my entire network uses WPA and WEP cannot be used with a WPA network and most other people are also moving towards that direction with most of the newer routers and workstations.
Also having an 802.11g wireless would allow for either WEP or WPA security protocols (which ever you decide you want to use) and also complement PhotoVue’s capabilities of supporting such large image files that would not be able to transfer that efficiently using an old and slow 802.11b protocol. Majority of my photo’s are shot with a Canon DSLR at 10MP or higher and transferring such images through an 802.11b wireless network is worthless!
I am just very disappointed that they have been advertising for a very long time the ability to use 802.11g and WPA through an upgrade but NEVER making it an available option. I have no problems paying for such capability but to lead people on that this is something that is about to come out is very misleading.
I had even called them about 12 months ago asking them about it and they told me it should be out very soon. But since then they have released 3 or 4 new revisions of their picture frames and still no ability for 802.11g either internal or an added option.
Thats why I am saying this is a JOKE for such a great digital Picture frame solution with such a limited and easily fixable wireless feature.
Darryl wrote at November 19th, 2007 at 6:22 am
The advertised wireless capabilities are a scam. I’ve owned a photovu for over a year and they constantly promise future upgrades to Wireless G, WPA (as long as you keep paying an annual upgrade fee). I’m stuck using Wireless B for the Photovu, while the rest of the house is wireless N/G
Bob wrote at November 19th, 2007 at 7:32 am
EXACTLY what I have been talking about…..
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Marc from Austria wrote at December 29th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I just got 2 of these very modern 22″ digi-frames … in Europe absolute top! .. made in USA 
I got them for Christmas .. great! .. but .. to connect them to my WLAN .. it needs WEP! .. I could not believe .. WEP! 3 years ago this was already little bit old fashioned .. but today! WPA or WPA2 is not possible until now! .. size does matter .. but the technique does it too!
Brian Kelly wrote at March 9th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Eh this is a Problem… If it’s still WEP dependent…
It’s not going to work with my network… and thus.. NO deal.. I’ll email them to see what the hold up is..
It’s not so much that WEP is insecure, which it is, but if it’s going to get used with my setup, it has to be WPA2.. so I sure hope they fixed it.
Bob wrote at November 17th, 2007 at 7:21 am
what amazes me is how they have yet to release an upgrade to their wireless capability to include (or add on) 802.11g and WPA security. 802.11b and WEP is a JOKE! I WANT to buy two of their frames but I refuse to since I was promised this upgrade almost a year ago!
Thats to bad….