Digital Picture Frame Questions
Who doesn’t have a digital picture frame these days? Steve in Waterford, MI is a new initiate…
I was introduced to Digital Picture Frames this Christmas when my daughter and her husband gave my wife and I a small Digital Picture Frame. Having said that, I have purchased a 4 gig card and will start to fill that up for my wife to display in our living room.
My hobby is photography and I have a have a Nikon D200 and a load of lenses. The D200 is a 10.2 megapixel camera. I generally shoot both RAW and JPG fine images and that way I don’t have to run a time consuming conversion program later when I distribute the pictures to friends and relatives. My JPG fine files are roughly 6mb.
Have said this, I am now trying to do some research on larger screen size and higher resolution Picture Frames. I like the fact that many of these frames take memory cards, but I am wondering if someone makes a frame that would accept an external USB HD like the Western Digital Passport. I am thinking I might like a frame in the 15″-19″ size that will display high resolution and I see there are some out there. I have not found many reviews on these units to date and being new to this, I am a bit confused. I am told LCD is the way to go.
There are many times when friends visit us, and we want to show them our pictures. I would really like to show them on the TV in the living room. I have done this before but the clarity is not good. We generally drag out our laptop and external hard drives. The screen on our laptop is only 14″, but is has a fairly sharp LCD screen.
Sometime in the near future we will no doubt upgrade our living room TV to a flat screen. We can probably handle about 32″ in the cabinet we have. We have a Plazma flat screen in the bedroom running HD and also a dish running HD in the rec. room. Are we better off focusing our attention on a new TV that will display high resolution images than to look at a high resolution digital picture frame for this application?
With that said, I am still interested in a larger digital photo album (8×10 to 15″ possibly) we can leave in the living room to display our Nikon high-res photos…………family, friends, hobbies, etc. What do you recommend in a high picture quality digital photo album?
Not sure about making any specific recommendations. You’re likely best off running a computer through one of your TV’s inputs, and then using some photo / Flickr screen saver to stream in photos that way…?
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12 Comments
Digital photo
December 30th, 2007
at 12:11am
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Bloomedis
December 29th, 2007
at 6:06am
BEST SOLUTION EVER = tv
The tv offers music, videos, pictures and more from a tiny box using the elegant and simple Apple remote control. It can hook up to enhanced and high definition TVs. That plasma would probably work.
Just a suggestion.
KrnSidez
December 29th, 2007
at 3:40pm
I would love a Digital Picture Frame That is about 15 inches that can play videos, and music, But is mainly focused on pictures.
Sean Caldwell
December 30th, 2007
at 8:13am
I’ve bought 5 different ones over the past two years, and one of the absolute nicest has been the pandigital 8″
it has 800 x 600 native resolution and looks beautiful. Costco has been selling them for $129 (in store, I didn’t find them online). Make sure you’re buying the higher resolution model… other pandigital are closer to 300 x 200 resolution.
Here’s a link to a short review that seems to say the same:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/pandigital-8-inch.htm
Sean
Zakman
December 30th, 2007
at 3:44pm
Digital picture frames are the best! they are awesome!
I don’t have one but i have seen them in stores and at my grandmas house they have great mobility and storage power!
Idiotonuni
December 30th, 2007
at 8:19pm
I like the idea of a digital picture frame but why are they so expensive? I would love to have one and it would be a cool nerd prop but i don’t want to go out and spend at least a hundred dollars for one. Plus after that you have to go out and buy a memory card because the company’s are to cheap to include internal memory. In my opinion they are too much money right now and i will wait for the prices to drop.
DEvin
December 30th, 2007
at 8:22pm
quote”There are many times when friends visit us, and we want to show them our pictures. I would really like to show them on the TV in the living room. I have done this before but the clarity is not good”
Yes i agree! this is why i love the self changing frames! I just got a kodack one
Ryan S. (musicmaker85)
January 2nd, 2008
at 10:31am
I love the idea of digital picture frames, but have yet to purchase one. It’s been on my “list” but it just seems like other things take priority. It’s my goal in 2008 to turn my current office space into a true home office. That being said, a digital picture frame would look great sitting on my desk.
rrmarty
January 2nd, 2008
at 8:11pm
two comments:
1) to display your digital pics, you can’t beat a digital projector. Tons of variety on the market. Dell has some v good price points. Also good deals on ebay. Can’t beat this approach for throwing your fave pics up on a wall up to 30′ across! I did it on the side of my house after dark. Stunning results – just like the drive-in. And if you want to project the TV, hook it up via a TV card to your computer. You DO NOT need a large flat panel TV to show your digital photos.
2) my Coby digital picture frame does not save any of the settings after modifying them from the defaults. Was a gift, so no harm, no foul. But i will never buy a Coby product.
Mike
January 6th, 2008
at 12:35am
I am having trouble find answers to (I think to the same question). I would like to display photographs on my 60″ plasma. However, when hooking up either the camera (through composite video connection) or using a SanDisk photo viewer (http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDV-1A-Digital-Photo-Viewer/dp/B00008XOK8) the quality is sub par. Does anyone know of any products like the SanDisk photo viewer I mentioned that will show the images in High Definition (HDMI/DVI) or at least component?
I can hook my laptop up to the VGA input on the TV but I would prefer a device in which I can just slip in a memory card (some TV’s have this built in but not mine).
Janet
January 9th, 2008
at 10:00am
How do I take pictures off my computer and add them to my digital photo frame?
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at 8:05am
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