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.

ViewSonic’s DP701W4 Digital Frame: Let Me Run This One By You Again

This post about the new ViewSonic digital frame originally ran on October 18.  Because of an error, I am running the post again, with corrections.  I apologize for the misunderstanding.

ViewSonic Corporation’s new DP701W4 digital photo frame is now on the market, and just in time for holiday shopping!

The 7-inch ViewSonic DP701W4, with its resolution of 800 x 480, its 44:1 contrast ration, its 128 MB of internal memory and a maximum memory of 1 GB, is an incredible deal for its RRP of only $199.00.

The frame is available in either glossy black or white, to further fit into and enhance your home decor.

Load this digital frame with a USB cable or your camera’s memory card. In fact, almost any kind of card or flash drive can be used with this frame; it includes multiple types of card readers. The frame can display both JPEG and BMP files.

ViewSonic country manager Australia and New Zealand, Brendan Frawley, says that “As a leading display technology provider, it is a natural progression for ViewSonic to expand our portfolio of products to incorporate current digital lifestyle trends.”

The trend is certainly towards versatile digital photo frames these days, so ViewSonic is right with it.

Next step: make it wireless!  I’m betting it’s just a matter of time. . . .