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Digital photo Frame questions

  • 29-01-2006 7:18pm
    #1
    Dalas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭


    Hey all, I really wanted to buy a digital photo frame as a present but I wanna make sure to buy the right kind. There are so many on the market and such a difference in price. The main query I have is some take memory sticks others just seem to take cards. To me this means that if you have the one that uses cards then you have to take the photos,take the card out and put it in the frame for the slideshow. However then when you put the card back in the camera you lose that slideshow and there is no way of managing the photos you have in the frame. So is the best option to go with the memory stick frame? or USB frame?


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  • #2
    franksm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭franksm


    I'd personally go with the memory stick vesion since these are more robust (assuming you're talking about the USB memory stick and not the Sony type stick). Compared to cards, USB sticks just seem to have stronger connectors, plus they are cheaper.

    Which frames are you looking at ? If they built one with a network interface (so that it could display the news, or weather, or images off the internet) that would be cool too :)


  • #3
    Dalas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Dalas


    franksm wrote:
    I'd personally go with the memory stick vesion since these are more robust (assuming you're talking about the USB memory stick and not the Sony type stick). Compared to cards, USB sticks just seem to have stronger connectors, plus they are cheaper.

    Which frames are you looking at ? If they built one with a network interface (so that it could display the news, or weather, or images off the internet) that would be cool too :)

    Thank god someone replied! I am so lost! I am not sure about a network interface the frame is for my mother who would not be the most technically inclined!(thats where I get it from!) All I want the frame to do is show a slideshow of her favourite pics but that she would be able to change them easily enough. So to me if it was usb or memory stick she could just transfer easily enough from her laptop rather than being restricted to using the photo card that she has in her camera which would mean that she can only display the pics she has taken. Or have I completed misunderstood? Am feeling very stupid!!
    I have been looking at them on Ebay they seem to be the cheapest. this one in particular:http://cgi.ebay.ie/5-6-LCD-DIGITAL-PHOTO-PICTURE-FRAME-4-DIGITAL-CAMERA_W0QQitemZ7584920000QQcategoryZ64344QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
    or at least one like in I'm not made on the modal itself but I reckon compared to the rest its the simplest to use...


  • #4
    sflinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭sflinter


    Dalas wrote:
    Thank god someone replied! I am so lost! I am not sure about a network interface the frame is for my mother who would not be the most technically inclined!(thats where I get it from!) All I want the frame to do is show a slideshow of her favourite pics but that she would be able to change them easily enough. So to me if it was usb or memory stick she could just transfer easily enough from her laptop rather than being restricted to using the photo card that she has in her camera which would mean that she can only display the pics she has taken. Or have I completed misunderstood? Am feeling very stupid!!
    I have been looking at them on Ebay they seem to be the cheapest. this one in particular:http://cgi.ebay.ie/5-6-LCD-DIGITAL-PHOTO-PICTURE-FRAME-4-DIGITAL-CAMERA_W0QQitemZ7584920000QQcategoryZ64344QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
    or at least one like in I'm not made on the modal itself but I reckon compared to the rest its the simplest to use...

    Dalas,

    the point that franksm was getting at was that Sony have a product that they call Memorystick, which is a card-type memory format, similar to CF, SD or any of the other memory cards.

    The Sony Memorystick will NOT attach to a USB port without some kind of adapter. The frame that you link to DOES support Sony Memorysticks (assuming the description is correct), but DOES NOT support USB memory.

    So, this will not do what you appear to want - to be able to take a standard USB memory stick and move pictures between a PC and the frame. To do that, you would have to have a USB reader for the card type of your choice, and that card would, as you pointed out earlier, not be available to take new photos with while it was being used in the frame.

    However, this is still not a bad proposition. A decent 512MB CF or SD card runs to about €40 on Komplett, and will store a shed load of photos suitable for displaying on a frame such as this (assuming you resize the pictures from your camera appropriately). A USB reader for the card, assuming you don't have one, shouldn't be too expensive either (~€10).


  • #5
    franksm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭franksm


    That's very cheap ! Assuming the bidding will close at 110STG like the previous auctions. I was looking at this one:

    http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=3VFJ

    which does have USB, but its says that the USB is for connection to a computer - it doesn't say if you can plug a memory stick in there.


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