FrameChannel for the Holidays: PhotoVu 17″ Wireless Digital Picture Frame

Photo-Vu has several different wireless picture frames, some of which I’ve already talked about here - the 22″ wireless frame, for one.

I have a feeling, however, that the full-featured PhotoVu PV1765w, smaller than the 22″ but still a VERY large wireless digital photo frame, was under many a Christmas tree this year.  That’s why, even though I’ve blogged about it before, I’m doing it again!

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 after-the-holiday shopping days.

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 - every few minutes, once a day, every hour on the hour, etc.

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; just make sure the frame sits on a large-enough surface - remember, a 17″ wireless digital frame is a large frame! 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. Of course, you can always turn the frame on or off manually whenever you wish, too.

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. . . our new PV1765w still includes all of the industry leading features and customization options that PhotoVu is well known for.”

Wireless/digital photo frames were THE hot gift item last Christmas, and even more so this past Christmas.   Get yours while you can; they’re flying off the shelves. Or, go to the PhotoVu website and order yours online.

The PhotoVu PV1765w has tons of fantastic features, but the best feature of all, in my opinion, is the fact that this wireless picture frame is FrameChannel-compatible.  With a free FrameChannel account, you’ll be able to program your wireless frame in almost any way imaginable; FrameChannel can take care of it for you!

Remember, all of the BEST wireless digital picture frames are FrameChannel-compatible frames.  Therefore, the PhotoVu PV1765w is one of the BEST wireless digital picture frames on the market!

If you didn’t get one for Christmas, maybe you’ll get one for New Year’s.  Actually, ANY time is a good time to get a wireless digital picture frame!

Edge Tech’s 8″ Wireless Digital Photo Frame: Just In Time For The Holidays!

Edge Tech’s new 8-inch wireless digital picture frame has so many fantastic features, it’s hard to know where to start!

Therefore, I’ll start with the feature I personally like best:  Edge’s new wireless picture frame has built-in FrameChannel!!!!!

FrameChannel is by far the very best content provider, and it’s so easy to make an account for yourself and get started.  For your new Edge frame, just go to FrameChannel and follow the very simple directions.  FrameChannel can integrate easily with most photo services, including Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Webshots, MAC, and MSN Live Spaces.  You can use FrameChannel with your Facebook, as well!

Edge’s new wireless frame has an 8-inch active matrix LCD screen with a resolution of 800 x 600 and an aspect ratio of 4:3, so your pictures are going to look really good.  You can view your pictures via the wireless connection, or you can also use almost any memory card or flash drive.  With 256 MB of internal memory, the Edge wireless frame can also hold several hundred pictures.

Having company and want to dress up the frame and the wall a little?  Unplug it and tuck the cord away for a few hours; the built-in battery will give your guests up to 80 minutes of viewing time before you have to plug it in again.

With the Edge 8″ wireless digital photo frame, you’ll also get a one-year warranty and toll-free tech support.

Remember, with FrameChannel, you can see far more than just pictures and videos on your Edge wireless digital picture frame; you can also subscribe to ANYTHING that has a feed!  That includes sports, weather, news, business information such as stock quotes, horoscopes, CNN, MSN, Fox news, ESPN, and many others.  FrameChannel has dozens and dozens of channels you can subscribe to, all of them absolutely free.

You can listen to your favorite Mp3’s with your wireless Edge frame, too.

The price for the wireless Edge frame is amazing, too: ordinarily, it’s around $180.95, but Edge is offering a $40.00 rebate right now and you can get this 8″ WIRELESS digital picture frame for only $149.95.

The new Edge wireless digital picture frame will ship next month - just in time for the holidays!  You can pre-order yours right now at the Edge website.

Lasonic 7″ Digital Picture Frame On Sale For Only $52.99 at Amazon.com

The Lasonic JL-016 7-inch TFT LCD digital picture frame is on sale right now for an unbelievable price on Amazon.

The price?  $52.99, for a 7-inch widescreen digital photo frame.

With a resolution of 480 x 234, the Lasonic digital frame will present your digital photographs clearly, with bright colors.  There is no built-in memory, but all you need is a flash/memory card, loaded full of pictures from your computer, and you’ve got a slideshow unlike any other.  In addition, the Lasonic digital frame can handle a memory card with a really large capacity, up to 8 gigs.  Many digital frames can’t handle that much power.

The Lasonic digital frame supports both Windows and vista, 2000/XP, and MAC 9.0 or above.

This frame can also showcase your videos, as well as your JPEG photos.

Think how nice it would be, to sit comfortably and cozy in your easy chair and program your Lasonic digital picture frame with its wireless remote control.

Now, check out the video review for the Lasonic JL-016 on Amazon!

the iMate Momento 70 and Your Computer, Even If It’s A Mac

A happy customer is the best kind of advertisement for any kind of product or service, and when someone writes a blogpost praising something, and recommending that all of his/her friends get one, too. . . well, that is the most believable kind of positive advertising that any product could possibly wish for!

I know that if I am contemplating trying a new restaurant, or a new hairstylist, or, actually, ANYTHING new, word-of-mouth is the kind of endorsement that means the most to me. You can pay people to say anything, but when people try something and love it so much they just HAVE to share the news, then that ’something’ must really be SOMETHING.

Em, for example, won an iMate Momento 70, a 7-inch wireless digital photo frame, and she is sharing her opinion of it with the Blogosphere, which includes us right here at FrameMedia!

So click on over to Em’s blog. If you’re a Mac user, she might have some tips for you, too, when it comes to a wireless digital picture frame.