Reframing Digital Entertainment
Business Week published an article today discussing FrameChannel’s role in the burgeoning digital frame market. Frame Media CEO Alan Phillips is quoted in the article, which reveals something many FrameChannel users are already aware of–the unique service FrameChannel provides will help drive the wireless frame market as frames are incresingly adopted not simply as a means for displaying digital photos, but as an information device that is central to the modern household.
An excerpt of the article is below. Please visit Business Week to read the full article.
Reframing Digital Entertainment
As prices fall and services expand, digital frames are poised to become the new media hearth
As Alan Phillips’ family gathers around the table in their kitchen’s breakfast nook, they’re greeted by a massive, 22-inch wall-mounted photo frame. But it’s not displaying shots of the kids, or the latest trip to Orlando. This frame serves as a screen that broadcasts news headlines, box scores, and traffic snarls around Boston’s Big Dig.
The frame picks up these feeds from FrameChannel.com, a sort of a YouTube for digital photo frames, owned by Frame Media, a startup run by Phillips. The service lets digital frame owners sign up for more than 300 types of content such as National Geographic nature shots, Garfield cartoons, and Bible quotes, delivered to subscribers’ frames through wireless Internet connections.
