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Title: Digital Picture Frames Post by: MrHat on September 21, 2006, 11:58:21 AM So, having just got married, we have a ton of digital pictures that we want to print/display. Instead of that, the wife and I started looking at digital photo frames at the local best buy. They only had 2 Westinghouse ones, the biggest size being 8". And it was $200.
Since there are already monitors coming out with media readers built into them (the 24" dell has one for $799), how much effort would it take for the makers of these monitors to allow stand alone display capability? I don't want to shell out $200 for 8" of tiny tiny glory. I can buy a second hand computer for that price and fish up a cheap 15" LCD to display onto, but I want a more elegant solution. Title: Re: Digital Picture Frames Post by: Krakrok on September 21, 2006, 05:55:35 PM I have a Ceiva. I wouldn't recommend it. I don't really know why other than it is rather lame. I don't have mine turned on. You have to update a website with the photos and then it sends 10 random photos to the frame. The frame dials a phone number once a day to get the photos. There are a couple things you could do. Dealdump.com has the top 10 offers from about 10-20 different deal sites on one page. A) Buy a cheap Dell. I see a 3Ghz w/ a 19 inch LCD for $495 right now. You could probably get one w/ a 19" for $350. The problem with this is the big ass case. B) Buy a cheap 19 inch LCD and a Shuttle PC. I just picked up a Hannspree 19in HC-194D lcd Monitor with DVI for $99.95 (I have to send in rebates to get that though). You wouldn't need a hard drive as you could boot a Linux Live CD. C) Buy a cheap 19 inch LCD and a portable DVD player. Burn your photos on the DVD and just have it play them over and over. I don't know how long the DVD player would last. D) Buy a Viewsonic 27'' High Definition lcdTV for $599.99 (buy.com found on techbargains.net) and a cheap PC or dvd player same as above. E) Just get a portable DVD player w/ an 7 inch screen and leave it at that. They are around $100 (I either paid $120 or $79 for mine). Use a repeating Photo CD or whatever. Same as above. F) Buy an old 15" laptop and just run that. Again the HD on it doesn't matter as you can boot w/ a CD. I think a laptop only draws something like 35 watts? G) I saw a LCD picture frame thing (not a Ceiva) on eBay for $50. Title: Re: Digital Picture Frames Post by: Ookii on September 21, 2006, 10:46:11 PM Get an old laptop and make one!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9745954/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9745954/) Title: Re: Digital Picture Frames Post by: Righ on September 22, 2006, 12:00:15 AM The slick but pricey approach:
http://www.photovu.com/pv1955.html Title: Re: Digital Picture Frames Post by: JoeTF on September 22, 2006, 03:28:12 PM Laptops, especially cheap ones, have super mega shitty viewing angles.
you don't want an laptop as a digital picture frame. You really don't. |