Ky3.com, from Springfield, MO, did a very interesting post about Consumer Reports and its testing of ten different wireless/digital picture frames. They compared and contrasted several different brands and types of frame, and concluded that HP and Smartparts led the pack, of the frames their reporters looked at closely.
You can read the report, and watch the video, right here.
Remember, of course, that different people will choose different products, based on their personal tastes and needs. My own wireless digital frame is a Digital Spectrum MF8104.
Consumer Reports has some very good advice for people who are in the market for a wireless/digital picture frame, too.
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There’s more news about the three awesome Sony digital picture frames that we featured here at FrameMedia last February!
According to the April 24 DIGITIMES:
“Lite-On IT has secured OEM orders for digital photo frames from Sony, with shipments to begin in the second quarter of 2008, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Online orders for three Sony digital photo frames for sale under its own brand S-Frame, the 7-inch DPF-D700, the 7-inch DPF-V700, and the 9-inch DPF-V900, opened in March 2008.
Succeeding in competition with other Taiwan-based makers including Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry), Lead Data and Qisda, Lite-On IT has landed OEM orders for the DPF-D700 and DPF-V700 models, the sources indicated.
Lite-On IT obtained OEM orders for digital photo frames from Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2007, with production outsourced to Taiwan-based maker Action Electronics, the sources noted. For Sony’s orders, however, Lite-On IT will . . . be responsible for production.”
From EMS Now (The Global Source for the Electronics Manufacturing Industry) comes this information about Lite-On IT Corp.
“Lite-On IT Corp., the largest maker of optical-disc drives in Taiwan, recently announced that it won HP’s order for digital photo frames and is scheduled to begin shipment the first batch to the new customer in the third quarter.
Lite-On claimed that it aims to deliver about two million digital photo frames this year, including items shipped on both own-brand and original equipment manufacturing (OEM) bases, making the firm world’s largest such supplier.
Currently, Lite-On contracts local Action Electronics Co., Ltd. to produce all of its digital photo frames, the small- and medium-size thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels of which are supplied by local Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. (CPT), the No. 3 large-size TFT-LCD panel manufacturer on the island.
Industry sources said that the global digital photo frame market has been heating up and attracting more and more big international brands to jump onto the bandwagon. HP is scheduled to announce its entry into the market soon at its American headquarters and plans to jointly hold a press conference with Lite-On in early August.
HP targets to ship 500,000 digital photo frames this year, but the ordered volume would be adjusted according to the market response.
Lite-On has been maintaining a close relationship with HP, which contracted the Taiwan partner to produce its first high-definition (HD)-DVD drive. Industry sources analyzed that HP tied up with Lite-On in digital photo frame business in a bid to accelerate its market entry, while Lite-On contracted Action to turn out such products based also on concerns for on-time delivery.
Lite-On also plans to launch own-brand digital photo frame products. The company said that it aims to ship about two million units of such product this year, accounting for about 20% of the global demand.
The Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands shipped about 500,000 digital photo frames in 2006, and the firm’s shipment in the first half already reached last year’s total. Philips said that it expects to deliver about 1.5 million units this year.”
Digitimes reported on Friday that HP and Viewsonic were both “eyeing Taiwan-based makers which could produce the segment for them.” According to a Taiwan-based OEM, “The amount of the combined deals from HP and Viewsonic would be at least 600,000 to one million units.” Apparently, HP has recently asked for quotes from selected OEMs.
With the growing discussion of the wireless photo frame as the home “push” information appliance, it is likely that Apple has been eyeing this lucrative market opportunity. Taipei-based Topology Research Institute is predicting digital frame sales of 9.5 million units worldwide this year, growing to 16.3 million units in 2008 and then to 50.2 million units in 2010.
Could the “iFrame” be coming to a store near you? Time will tell!
