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So you are starting your holiday shopping early! Congrats! Are you looking for the perfect gift for your parents in Florida, your son in college in Colorado, or your technology-savvy husband?
We have a suggestion! A wireless picture frame and FrameChannel.
FrameChannel is a free service which provides a web interface for the selection and intelligent delivery of content to wireless picture frames. With over 300 channels of content and integration with popular photo-sharing sites like Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa, FrameChannel allows you to program what you want, when you want it!
So, which frames work with FrameChannel today? Digital Spectrum, MomentoLive, PhotoVu, and Samsung all have frames which are FrameChannel enabled. More will be introduced in 2008.
Here’s a list of FrameChannel-enabled frames:
MF-8000 Premium – Wireless Digital Frame – 8″
MF-8104 Premium – Wireless Digital Frame – 10″
MF-8115 Premium – Wireless Digital Frame – 15″
Momento 100 – 10”
Momento 70 – 7”
Samsung Wireless Frame SPF-72V (7”)
PhotoVu 19”
PhotoVu 17”
Documentation on setting up your wireless frame is available at FrameChannel. Before you order your frame, try setting up a free account at FrameChannel. Happy Shopping!
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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MarketIntellNow is a frequest contributor to this blog and is a leading research firm in the area of wireless picture frames and WEGs.
New Wi-Fi Enabled Gizmos (WEGs) are springing up by the day. This week the iPod Touch. It’s an iPod that looks like an iPhone. It has a 3.5″screen, the Multitouch interface, WiFi, and the Safari Web browser.
And there is a WiFi version of the iTunes store to buy songs over wireless on the iPod Touch and the iPhone; these songs can be transferred later to a computer.
And today the word is that both Amazon and Google are entering the eBook business by year-end, joining Sony and others who already have products (the image above is Sony’s Reader).
The new Amazon offering is called The Kindle and will compete directly with Sony. Google will begin charging users to read the full text of some of the books they’ve indexed, according to a variety of high-confidence industry sources.
Amazon has been hyper-aggressive of late, adding e-payments and an iTunes competitor. The Kindle will be a device to read books: black and white screen, internet connectivity via WiFi, and a keyboard to take notes and surf the web. The device, which will bear a price of about $450, will interact with an eBook service run by Amazon.
The WiFi connectivity is a major selling point over the Sony Reader, which sells for $300.
Google doesn’t appear to be rolling out a device (well, besides the Google Phone), but will help spark the creation of more WEGs by virtue of their full-text book database. They will soon begin charging users to view some full text books that they’ve indexed, although this appears to be distinct from the Google Book Search Library Project.
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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Digital Frame 2007-2011 Forecast: Reigniting Softdisplay Imaging Solutions
This IDC study provides a high-level, comprehensive view of the worldwide digital photo frame market. It contains 2006 actual unit shipments and total 2007-2011 forecasts. Data is presented for the United States, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific (including Japan), and the rest of the world (ROW).
“Low prices, solid products, and surging customer interest reignited the digital photo frame market in 2006, and if the industry can manage looming supply issues, we expect stellar growth well into the future.” – Tom Mainelli, senior research analyst, Monitors and Projectors
“As the desire to view digital images on soft displays rather than hardcopies grows, digital frames will realize significant shipment increases in all regions around the world.” – Ron Glaz, program director, Digital Imaging Solutions and Services
The study covers companies such as Kodak, PanDigital, Philips, Westinghouse Digital and provides projections for Europe and North America. Â Study tables include:
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Key Forecast Assumptions for the Worldwide Digital Photo Frame Market, 2007-2011 |
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Worldwide Digital Photo Frame Shipments, Average Selling Price, and Revenue by Region, 2006-2011 |
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Worldwide Digital Photo Frame Shipments by Size, 2006-2011 (000) |
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Worldwide Digital Photo Frame Average Selling Price by Size, 2006-2011 ($) |
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Worldwide Digital Photo Frame Revenue by Size, 2006-2011 ($000) |
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U.S. Digital Photo Frame Shipments, Average Selling Price, and Revenue by Size, 2006-2011 |
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Western Europe Digital Photo Frame Shipments, Average Selling Price, and Revenue by Size, 2006-2011 |
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Asia/Pacific (Including Japan) Digital Photo Frame Shipments, Average Selling Price, and Revenue by Size, 2006-2011 |
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Rest of World Digital Photo Frame Shipments, Average Selling Price, and Revenue by Size, 2006-2011 |
The study sells for $5000 and is available at IDC.
