Epoq Introduces Wireless ATSC TV’s That Are Also Digital Picture Frames

Our electronics are getting more and more versatile with each passing day!  Now we’ve even got an HDTV that is also a digital picture frame!

From iTechNewsNet comes this information about the Epoq EPT-LC10AT Wireless ATSC TV’s:

“Epoq introduces a new lineup of portable ATSC digital TV’s, including the EPT-LC10AT, EPT-LC7AT and EDP-AT02.

The 10-inch EPT-LC10AT has a 480×800 display and built-in lithium-ion battery. The 7-inch has a 7-inch 480p screen and battery. The EDP-AT02 gets also a 7-inch display but comes with no built-in battery. It can also be a digital photo frame and comes with USB 2.0 port and SD/MS/MMC card slot.

The price of EPT-LC10AT is not yet announced while the EPT-LC7AT and EDP-AT02 are priced at $279 and $249 respectively.”

CrunchGear has this to add:  “Now that the digital transition is just months away, and already happened in some parts, analog, handheld TVs are going to stop working. You know, the type of TVs you used to sneak into church overnighters and ‘hunting trips.’ Epoq is here to make sure that you can continue to see the game even if you’re in the middle of the lake ‘fishing’ with these three new models.”

Item:  Currently, the Epoq tv’s are the only truly portable HDTV’s in the USA, for the other companies’ small ATSC sets can receive only SD, not the HD channels.

And in between shows, you can watch all of your favorite digital pictures slideshowing across the screen!

Putting Old Prints on your Wireless Digital Picture Frame

Ever since I got my Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame, I’ve been borrowing pictures from friends and relatives to add to my FrameChannel account so they can be added to my slideshow.  Recent pictures are all digital, of course, and those are a cinch to add to FrameChannel.  I also want old and older pictures, though, and most of my family don’t even have a negative for those any more.  Those pictures must be scanned.

There are all kinds of scanners: big ones, small ones, expensive ones, less expensive ones. . . . the best ones, of course, cost a lot. There are profesional scanners made especially for photographs, too.

Until such time as you can get your hands on a professional top-knotch scanner, however, you can make do with the scanner you probably already have.  Mine is a a Canon Canoscan D646Uex.  It was never really intended for pictures, but I’ve been scanning old photographs with it for months now, and it does a pretty good job!

I’ve had my scanner for several years; I think it cost well under a hundred dollars at the time.

Digital pictures look the best, naturally, but I’m serious when I tell you that the really, really old photographs that I scanned onto my computer with that old Canon Canoscan D646Uex scanner look really good on my wireless picture frame.  A professional photographer or artist might be able to tell the difference, but I can’t.

When you buy a wireless/digital picture frame for older people, especially, they’re going to want to see their older pictures on it.  That means a scanner, but don’t panic.  I can tell you from experience that your old scanner will work just fine.

If you’re loaded with cash, you can take the old pictures in and have a professional scan them for you with a fancy, expensive, professional scanner, but if you’re like me, that’s completley out of your reach.

Just use the scanner you’ve already got.  It does take a while, but the results are worth it.

These are my husband’s grandparents.  This picture was taken back in the Roaring Twenties.  Was it digital?  Not hardly.  But it is now.

With a little patience, and a LOT of time, you can scan all of your family’s old photographs and put them on your wireless picture frame.  You an also email them to people and otherwise share them.

Scanning these old pictures also preserves them.  Old pictures tend to fade, and it would be terrible indeed if your family’s cache of memories were lost.

Save them, and look at them anew, on your wireless digital picture frame.

Put A Digital Spectrum MF8104 Wireless Digital Frame in Your Child’s Dorm Room!

Many of you are sending your son or daughter off to college this week, and did you ever imagine having so much stuff in YOUR dorm room back in the day?  I considered myself lucky to have a window fan, and my daughter is leaving tomorrow with a microwave oven, and little refrigerator, a toaster, a TV, and DVD player, a computer, a stereo system,  and a wireless digital picture frame.

Me, personally, I think the wireless picture frame is what she’ll enjoy the most.

Her dorm is wireless, so we got her a Digital Spectrum MF 8104, the same as I have at home.  I’ve not had a single problem with it and I can happily and honestly recommend it to all of you, too.  I’ll be able to send digital pictures to her with lightning rapidity, and she can send them to me, too.  She’s in the process of setting up a FrameChannel account for herself, too; it’s the best content provider out there.

She’s going to subscribe to the local hometown news and her new college news.  She was scrolling through the dozens and dozens of FrameChannel RSS channel choices as I left for the grocery store and when I returned,  she wasn’t finished checking all of them out yet!   She’s going to let FrameChannel handle her Facebook pictures, too.

If you have a child who is leaving home for college, think about geting him/her a wireless digital photo frame.  It’s an excellent way to keep in touch.

Product of the Month: FrameChannel!

FrameChannel has been named Product of the Month at Picture Snob!

To be exact, the direct quotation from Picture Snob, about FrameChannel, was “”We love this service from Frame Channel–it’s simple, useful and a little ahead of its time .”

Read the full Picture Snob post about FrameChannel HERE.