Sony Introduces Its Newest Wireless Digital Picture Frame: the VAIO CP1

Just yesterday, Sony introduced its newest wireless digital picture frame, the VAIO(R) CP1 Wi-Fi photo frame.

What will the wi-fi technology in this frame do for you?  Plenty!

A wireless digital frame can stream photographs, videos, music, and anything with an RSS feed directly from your computer to your picture frame.

Xavier Lauwaert, product manager for VAIO product marketing at Sony, says, “How many times have you uploaded images to your PC - vowing to share them - never to see them again?  this new frame provides an easy way to retrieve and share these precious memories that otherwise would have been forgotten.”

Sony’s newest wi-fi digital frame can connect to Google and Picasa, allowing you to view any or all of the pictures you’ve stored there.

Besides all the magical wireless capabilities, the Sony VAIO CP1 can also display images from most memory sticks or SD cards, and if you have a digital SLR camera, you can use your CompactFlash(R) media card.

Or, you can just upload up to 100 digital pictures directly to the frame; it’s got 128MB of internal storage.

This frame’s RSS reader will let you view headlines, entertainment, weather, sports scores, and countless other information - in real time - from the internet.

You can listen to your favorite podcasts on this frame, too.

The Sony VAIO CP1 digital photo frame keeps your pictures and slideshows organized, too.  According to the press release on the SunHerald.com website, “Content is grouped into sections called “frames,” making it easy to enjoy photos, information and music.  You can choose from Slideshow - for movie-like presentations, Flow - which creates a slideshow with fun, special-effects, and Dissolve - a more traditional view that fades images into one another.”

The new Sony VAIO CP1 wireless digital photo frame will retail for about $300.00, and will be available in mid-October.

Impecca Introduces A New Wireless Digital Picture Frame

Mother’s Day is May 11, and it seems that everyone is convinced that they know best what Mom really wants on “her” day.

Impecca is one of those who really know, however. Impecca knows that your mother wants a wireless digital picture frame for Mother’s Day, and they’ve got a lovely new one for her, and just in time, too!

The new Impecca 10.4-inch wireless digital picture frame is the perfect gift for your mother. Even if she won’t have a computer in her house, you can still get an internet connection for her, and then you can sit at your desk or easy chair a thousand miles away and send pictures to her; the wireless frame updates at a touch from YOU, and it doesn’t matter WHERE you are when you do it!

Is your mother in the Middle East? You can sent pictures to her there, too!

If your mother is computer-savvy, all the better. But whether she is or not, the new Impecca wireless digital frame is a wonderful Mother’s Day gift for her.

The Impecca can access unlimited pictures, movies, and music using basic search engines such as Yahoo and Google. I’m hoping the new Impecca is FrameChannel-compatible!

The Impecca Wifi Frame will give your mother a bright, clear LCD picture (800 x 600 resolution) and can be controlled with the wireless remote, as well as by YOU, far away. The frame can connect to more than one computer, too, so tell all the relatives! They’ll want to send pictures to your mom, too!

The Impecca 10.4″ Wireless Digital Picture Frame is priced at $349.00, and its uses are limitless.

You can upload pictures to the Impecca using almost any memory card or flash drive, too.

FrameChannel On Your Computer Monitor!

This is my very own wireless digital photo frame again, just as the picture is beginning to change. See how this particular change is from the bottom up? Each picture change is different!

I stand in front of my wireless frame and stare in wonder for at least five or six pictures’ worth of undivided attention every time I walk through this room.

If you don’t have a wireless digital picture frame yet, but would still like to be able to use the fabulous FrameChannel, you can!

The FrameChannel Google Gadget is what you need!

For Yahoo and Mac users, there is the FrameChannel Yahoo Gadget.

They’re both easy to download and easy to use, and you’ll be able to run your pictures and RSS feeds on your monitor.

You can run FrameChannel on your monitor if you already have a wireless digital picture frame, too. I do.

Can we ever get enough of pictures of people we love? With FrameChannel, we can see them every day!

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:

1. It creates a backup of your digital photos.
2. The digital frame is not dependent on the laptop being available for photos since it uses the USB removable hard drive.
3. 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.