Digital frame should i bother?

Cyrus

was thinking of getting the girlfriend a digital frame as a small present, she loves photos and itd be nice to have a few slideshows, ones of us, ones of her family and ones of her friends.

Does anyone have one and is it worth getting, do they use horrendous amounts of electricity?

can they do different slide shows, and is there any one thats recommended at the circa 100 price range?

thanks

Borderfox

Cheapest on I have seen was €74 in PC world, I would say they use the same amount of juice as a small LCD which is quite small. Looks pretty good to, they have a selection of them and you can see them working too. I am looking at putting these into my wedding package as an extra..

PaulieC

Borderfox wrote: »

I am looking at putting these into my wedding package as an extra..

Nice idea Keith, I'd imagine that they would go down very well and wouldn't cost the earth - you can pick them up for less than 50 quid on the ebay

Borderfox

I must look at the net prices for some of the better resolution ones, just put a selection of the day on there and happy bride

PaulieC

I wouldn't be too concerned about geting the high-res frames. It's more of a lovely add-on to the wedding package that makes the bride very happy, I can't see them being too concerned about resolution.

Back OT, these frames, while they look great in advertisements, rarely look as good in the flesh. They have a power cable hanging out of the back, so it's hard to find a good place to hang themand if you display them on a table or sideboard, it has to be near a power outlet. The biggest PITA about the frames though, is having to crop the pictures to match the aspect ratio of the frame, otherwise the pictures end up squashed or stretched to fit the frame.

RichyX

Nobody seem to be overly impressed with the cheaper digital frames.
I was working for an online retailer over the summer and we seemed to be having a lot of them returned purely because the buyers thought they were crap.

Might not be the best for present unless you're willing to shell out for a good one. Still, you should head into the shops & see for yourself.

TJM

I've been looking for a digital photo frame for a while. But so far almost all the ones I've seen have been unimpressive - low res, low contrast, stuttering transition between frames, bulky, and generally with ugly plastic surrounds. The most impressive have been the Philips range (e.g. -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HWS0OY/ which have high-res and bright screens, but which are still quite expensive and suffer from the overall plastic-y effect.

god's toy

I read about a cool Philips one (I think) that had networking built in so you could give it as a gift and update the pics yourself from your own pc, cool eh? Weekley updated Pics of new born for granny anyone??

RichyX

TJM wrote: »

The most impressive have been the Philips range (e.g. -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HWS0OY/ which have high-res and bright screens, but which are still quite expensive and suffer from the overall plastic-y effect.

150$ isn't bad for a good digital frame.
That translates to about 3€, give or take a few cents.

thedarkroom

Check the pixel count before purchasing. I was looking at the ones on the Kodak site and they were very low res and I would consider worthless. A 5.6 inch frame has 320 × 234 pixels, 7 inch frame has 480 × 234 pixels, 8 inch frame has 800 × 480 pixels and the 10 inch has also 800 × 480. This all equates to approx 72 dpi, web resolution rather than print or HD TV. Until they go HD, the quality will be disappointing.

stcstc

but all screens are 72 dpi (actually its 96 ppi) dpi is a print thing


but the difference is the density of the screen