Thoughts on these digi frames please?

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Well having got my money back from wedodigital im after a digi frame again for my good lady for christmass to load up with pics.
All input welcome these are a few ive pulled from the either,

This is wifi,

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Ele...ss-Digital-Photo-Frame-With-WiFi/Product.html


This i just noticed is rechargable,

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Ele...uxe-Digital-Picture-Photo-Frame/Product.html#


This is well sony,

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Ele...DPF-D100B-10-Digital-Photo-Frame/Product.html

Perhaps you have your own recommends.
all the best,
James
 
No Input from anyone????
What are others using and how do they find them?
All the best,
james
 
you could wall mount a 19" monitor for less than £100, seems silly spending so much on one of those tbh.
 
Yantorsen said:
you could wall mount a 19" monitor for less than £100, seems silly spending so much on one of those tbh.
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Not always the best solution though. I want to buy one for my Nan for her 80th, can't really get her a wall mounted monitor:lol:
 
kelack said:
Not always the best solution though. I want to buy one for my Nan for her 80th, can't really get her a wall mounted monitor:lol:
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Wall mounted monitor also needs a PC to run it and is a little difficult to convince her indoors about.
 
Pointers on this idea please,
Now a hd tv and a sd card reader,
it reads the SD card and runs a slide show through the composit connection.
Now this sounds a winner to me!!!
Now class Discuss!!!!!
 
a1ex2001 said:
Wall mounted monitor also needs a PC to run it and is a little difficult to convince her indoors about.
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you don't need a pc to run it, could run it from a network.

or you could build a really small cheap rubbish pc just to run windows slideshow or whatever, or linux eq., probly getting a bit complicated though i guess.
 
james_death said:
Pointers on this idea please,
Now a hd tv and a sd card reader,
it reads the SD card and runs a slide show through the composit connection.
Now this sounds a winner to me!!!
Now class Discuss!!!!!
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well you can do slide shows of pics from a camera, so you could just plug it into a cheap camera? and put the pics you wnt on it .
 
I have a Kodak SV811 & love it, have hundreds of holiday pics on it, nice & clear, sharp with good colours, wouldn't be without mine :)
 
Well im looking at £130 for tv and £18 for the slide show viewer card reader.
Then ill need a decent visa mount!
But we have one i still havnt put up for the one in the bedroom!!!
 
james_death said:
Well im looking at £130 for tv and £18 for the slide show viewer card reader.
Then ill need a decent visa mount!
But we have one i still havnt put up for the one in the bedroom!!!
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Well a mount isn't gonna cost too much, make sure the TV isn't a TN panel one though, because then it'll have rubbish viewing angles.

only other thing is, how flush to the wall does it need to be? and where are wires/cables going to go?
 
Whats a TN panel?

As the tv would need to be a bit away from the wall due to the way the kettle cord goes in there should be room behind.
Wires will be fed up behind some conduet.

There are still cable problems with digital picture frames...
You got me started on this bigger picture lark....dont bring me down now...Please!!!
 
james_death said:
Whats a TN panel?

As the tv would need to be a bit away from the wall due to the way the kettle cord goes in there should be room behind.
Wires will be fed up behind some conduet.

There are still cable problems with digital picture frames...
You got me started on this bigger picture lark....dont bring me down now...Please!!!
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I just mean a wall mount might stick out more and not look as neat? but I dunno, you can get low profile ones, and I guess picture frames must stick out anyway.

Most "TVs" as in ones with tuners and that are sold as tv's are not TN panels, but computers monitors except some more expensive bigger ones are usually TN panel, its the technology used in the screen. It basically means unless your looking directly at the screen the colours will go slightly funny, of course this may not bother you, but people are likely to be viewing the images from different angles. It should not be too hard to check if a given screen is TN or not, a quick google of the model will tell you.
 
Well by the nature of the tv a low profile mount would be no good.
However now having measured up to visualise a 19" would not be big enough as the walls are such large expanses and i have some normal large frames up with veteran signed battle of britain pictures in them the 19" would be dwarfed. Doh.
Well in digital camera mag they have tested digi frames and the 10.4" jessop won but having seen the smaller ones on display they are scratched on the perspex sheet that covers the front.
Oh Hum.
 
Of course you can could get a 32" HDTV for about 250-300, but thats getting more expensive, and I don't know what your main TV is but you'd probably want to use it for that?
 
Just mulling over a wifi digital photoframe not least to fend off that "You don't do anything with all those photos" remark from the lady of the house. Thinking about dongling my usb Phillips HD storage device to my network router and thence appending a wifi photoframe thereto.

Thought I out do a search first and so found this thread which was running just over a year ago: presumably there will be plenty of experience around to give this subject a thorough update, as well as commenting on the practicalities of my idea?

WDYT?
 
Tbh, I would get a tv with either a media reader (sd/cf) or even a dvd player, and put the slideshow on dvd.
 
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