The Coby DP702 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame is a decent electronic picture frame and a great value for the price (under $40 on Amazon). While it is not a high-end multi-media device, it still has all the features you need in a photo frame, making it a real bargain for everyone looking for a basic 7 inch frame.
The image quality is satisfactory and the wooden frame is really nice. The menus are easy to maneuver. The frame works with a variety of memory cards, including SD, MMC, MS, xD, and CF card slots, and USB for flash memory drives. The frame comes with a remote control. You can choose to play slide show, audio files, and video files. You can also display a calendar and clock with alarm timer. You can mount it on a wall, although you will need to hide the cable somehow.
Overall, if you are very picky about your picture quality and resolution - then this frame is probably not for you. But if you want just an inexpensive frame that will do a decent job displaying picture slideshows - then you may want to consider Coby DP702 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame - and you will not be dispapointed.
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While I was browsing the Internet for ideas about digital photo frames, I came across a document explaining how to turn a Macintosh computer into an electronic picture frame. Since I use a PC I could not test the instructions, but it seems they could be useful to everybody who has a Mac and would like to use it to display pictures in a slideshow on the screen.
“Most people display pictures on their desk inside picture frames or hung on the wall as posters. Rather than force yourself to deal with such archaic display technology, you can store and display pictures on your Macintosh screen. By turning your Macintosh into an electronic picture frame, you can display the same image or multiple images one after another in a slideshow. If you don’t yet have any pictures you want to display, you can take pictures of yourself or others using your Macintosh computer’s built-in iSight digital camera.
Project goal: Turn your Macintosh into an electronic picture frame that displays pictures in a slideshow on your screen…”
Download to read the entire document: Turning Your Macintosh into an Electronic Picture Frame
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Many people who purchased a digital frames have been pleased with the Westinghouse 8-inch DPF-0802. This frame provides some unusual features for the price (about $115 on Amazon), including a high resolution (800 x 600), 4:3 aspect ratio, 128 MB of memory (upgradeable with cards) and the ability to split the screen into quarters and display four equal-size photos at a time. A 10-inch version, the Westinghouse DPF-1021 (about $210), and 14-inch version of this frame are also available.
This digital frame doesn’t have an option to play audio and has no remote control. It has a large 8-inch LCD display for showing off your photo and video collection. The frame supports JPEG, AVI Motion-JPEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 4 file formats. You can store your media on the built-in 128 MB internal memory or use the card reader to connect CF, MD, MS, SD, MMC, and xD memory cards. Additional features included MosaicView slideshow technology, favorite picture selection, photo shuffle, save and delete function, extendable stand for angle adjustment, and auto-play after memory card insertion.
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Today, plain and simple picture frames and photo albums are becoming so passe. After all, they only show one picture at a time. YAWN! Even collage photo frames, that can display many pics at at time, are so hopelessly static.
Their main advantage over traditional picture frames is that they offer a simple, convenient way of sharing your picture collections with the world anywhere, any time. You can have an automated slide show set up, or maybe you’d can play some music in the background. You can even choose small, portable digital photo frames, or a digital keychain photo frame - so that you can carry your memories with you whenever you are traveling.
Years ago it was very common to find roll upon rolls of undeveloped film tucked away in your bedroom drawers. Today it’s typical for photographers to have their snapshots stored on memory cards, CD-ROMs, or maybe their PC’s hard drive. In the best-case scenario, they are uploaded to photo albums on the web and shared with others, but most often than not, the digital photo collections are unknown, unshared and unappreciated.
The key points that may persuade users to opt for a digital picture frame rather than either a standard frame or a photo album are the facts that digital frames can store large numbers of photos and that no cost or resource is required to print physical copies of the photographs.
Digital photo frames can store thousands of photos on a variety of electronic memory devices - some frames have their own internal memory, but for those that don’t, cheap memory cards can be used as the storage medium. The photos stored in this manner can be automatically cycled through to display a slide show with preset timings between different images - or the picture on display can be set in static mode and then changed manually.
No more rooting around in the attic or searching through old shoe boxes looking for that photo you’ve just remembered about.
The fact that the images are stored electronically is also a big benefit. It means that there is no requirement to pay processing charges, or to cover the printing costs for your collection of family pictures, travel memories, child photography or other in order to either view it yourself or to display it to your family, friends and colleagues.
I think it’s unlikely that traditional photo albums and photo frames will disappear completely any time soon. People will probably still have some of their favorite pictures printed out. But, with digital photography era when people can use digital photo albums online and electronic picture frames, I can well imagine bulky photo albums being phased out relatively quickly.
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