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Customers Prefer WIRELESS Digital Picture Frames!

Cellular-News.com posted an article yesterday about consumer preferences in the area of digital picture frames.  It came as no surprise to me at all that savvy consumers rate video capability and wireless connection HIGH on their list of desirable digital photo frame qualities.    There will always be a market for digital photo frames, of course, as there will always be people who are not exactly “techies” or who have no computer at all, who still want a means of viewing their hundreds or thousands of digital photographs.  It’s very easy to just pop in a memory card or flash drive.  A wireless capability, however, remains #1 for me.  In my home, I have three digital picture frames, but the WIRELESS Digital Spectrum MF8104 is the one I love best – so easy to use, so many options, so big an RSS feed world. . . .

Here is the Cellular-News.com article:

Half of potential photo frame buyers want photo frames that are video capable, according to a recent study by high-tech market research firm, In-Stat. As this market migrates towards next generation devices, In-Stat’s survey also revealed that consumers want Wi-Fi and Internet connectivity.

Digital photo frames that are used primarily to showcase digital photos in slideshow mode reflect a growing consumer electronics opportunity. Sophisticated digital photo frames support a number of advanced functions, including Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth capability, MPEG video files, audio files, and the ability to print pictures directly from the frame to a photo printing device.

“Next-generation features will play prominently in future digital photo frame purchases,” says Stephanie Ethier, In-Stat analyst. “Competitors must carefully balance price and feature sets.”

The research by In-Stat also found the following:

* From the survey of 1,547 respondents from In-Stat’s Technology Adoption Panel (TAP), a dynamic, online panel of technology users and decision makers, Kodak is the brand owned by the highest percentage of digital photo frame respondents. Other popular brands included Pandigital and Philips.

* Although not high in current owners, HP and Sony have strong interest among those looking to buy digital photo frames within the next 12 months.

* Among users interested in purchasing a future digital photo frame, the most desired feature on digital photo frame is Movie clip playback, followed by the ability to transfer pictures from Internet photo sharing sites, like Snapfish and Flickr.

Digital Spectrum and FrameChannel: Better Than Ever!

Emily posted a week or so ago about Digital Spectrum’s new firmware upgrade and how much it will improve the functionality and reliability of your wireless Digital Spectrum picture frame.   I reminded everyone again about the upgrade, and then, on March 16, FrameChannel users were introduced to the upgraded new version of the best content provider on the ‘net.

These two upgrades together mean that your Digital Spectrum wireless digital photo frame will now be more awesome than EVER!

Whether you’ve got a wireless 8-inch frame, 10-inch frame, or 15-inch frame, your Digital Spectrum wireless picture frame will now connect to FrameChannel more easily, enabling you to use the  over 400 channels of dynamic content to your heart’s desire!  News, weather, sports, trivia, horoscopes, quotations. . . you name it, and FrameChannel offers it.

Reminder About Digital Spectrum Upgrade

This is my Digital Spectrum wireless digital picture frame, the MF-8104, my prized possession.  On my wireless picture frame, my children grow up before my eyes; people gone from my life are here again, and experiences from long ago are once again new and fresh.  Included in the slideshow of my life, too, are things that happened five minutes ago, or yesterday, or last week.  We’ve got Eye-Fi cards in our digital cameras, and within just a few minutes of taking a picture, it’s already included in the slideshow, on the wireless picture frame that’s on the back of our piano.

On March 6, Emily posted about the Digital Spectrum upgrade, and I’m here to tell you all that if you haven’t upgraded yet, you really need to do it.  It’s easy, and only takes a few minutes of your time. Just download the new firmware, and get your activation code.  Then log into your FrameChannel account and enter your new code.  Complete instructions are in Emily’s post.

The difference is amazing!

You don’t HAVE to upgrade, but why wouldn’t you?  It’s AWESOME!

FrameChannel Saved My Family Pictures!

My computer crashed last week.  Completely.

I had just finished scanning and saving the last of my mother’s family pictures, too.  Hours and hours and hours of work, lost.  Or so I thought.

Guess what, though.  When I looked at my wireless digital picture frame – my beautiful Digital Spectrum MF8104 -  on the back of my piano, it was still slideshowing pictures, just like always.  Nothing seemed to be missing at all.

I logged in to my FrameChannel account and lo!  There were all my pictures!  FrameChannel was still pulling them out of my Flickr and Picasa accounts, plus, I’d saved most of them directly onto FrameChannel!

All that work, SAVED!  Thank you, FrameChannel.  I loved you before; I thought you were the best content provider before, and now I know for dead sure: you’re the VERY BEST content provider EVER!!!!!!