Wireless/Digital Frame Shipments To Reach 5.6 Million!

Over on Twice, reporter Greg Scoblete tells us that, according to digital imaging solutions program director, IDC, Ron Glaz, “6 percent of digital-camera-owning households own a digital frame. Unit shipments in the United States will reach 5.6 million this year, up from 1.6 million in 2006.”

“Digital frames will penetrate the market quickly,” Glaz said. By 2008, IDC expects 9.3 million digital frames to ship, ballooning to 23 million in the United States and 42.3 million worldwide by 2011.

“Twelve percent of digital frames shipped worldwide this year will include built-in wireless connectivity, up from 4 percent last year, Glaz noted.”

I find these statistics very easy to believe, because you all know by now that a wireless digital picture frame is NUMBER ONE on my list of “Please, Santa, Please” requests.

Besides which, tonight I bought a Kodak Easy-Share S510 digital photo frame for my sweet mother-in-law’s Christmas gift. It’s not wireless, but neither is she, and I’ve been experimenting with it for hours. I’m not sure I can part with it, actually.

I know it’s hard to believe that something as cool as a digital picture frame could also be so absolutely EASY to use. I’m telling you truthfully, the Kodak Easy-Share is a cinch!

I’m filling a thumb drive with pictures right now - just sliding them over from the desktop file where I keep my digital pics. After while I’ll take the memory card out of my little camera and use that, too. When my husband gets home tonight, I can guarantee that he’ll be looking this digital frame over VERY carefully. He’s a sucker for electronic gadgets, as who isn’t. Then we’ll repack the frame in its box, wrap it for Christmas, and take it over to her house on Christmas Eve. When she opens it, it will be ready to plug in and give her a show! I’m even scanning really old snapshots and putting them in my thumb drive. I want her whole life in there. And yes, it’s easy to get old non-digital photos in your digital frame if you have a scanner. We’re talking some old black-and-white Brownie Starmite pictures, folks. And they look great as part of the digital frame slideshow. I even scanned a few tintypes and they look great, too.

Whatta you want to bet that my husband will secretly unwrap and play with the frame whenever I’m not home. I know I’d be surprised if he didn’t.

Now, if only this frame were wireless, I’d be in hog heaven. As it is, it’s pretty darn awesome.

P.S.  WalMart has the Kodak Easy-Share S510 for five dollars less than the online price.

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