Who Wants A Digital Picture Frame?
What is a digital picture frame and who wants one? A digital picture frame is the latest gadget for showing off your digital photos. If you're like most people, you have an extensive collection of digital images on your PC or Laptop, but they rarely see the light of day. Enter the digital picture frame.
A digital picture frame lets you show off your digital photo collection to friends and family when they come to visit in a way which will still fit into your home's interior style. Digital picture frames are designed to look like traditional picture frames and come in many colors, styles and finishes so you're sure to find one to match your home's internal furnishings.
Most digital picture frames consist of 3 basic parts - an LCD screen, a PCB to hold the device's software and an outer frame to add to the aesthetics of the device. The frame will normally display either a single picture or a slide show.
Frames come in a variety of sizes with screen sizes of around 7 and 8 inch being common. However sizes from 5 inch right up to 15 inch (and even larger) are readily available.
Almost all digital picture frames come with support for your digital camera's memory card. Compact Flash, Secure Digital, MultiMedia Card and Memory stick formats are readily supported with some offering support for xD-Picture Card format as well. In the most basic models, all you need to do is plug in your memory card and the frame will display your photos either as a single image or as a slideshow.
A nice feature to have in your frame is internal memory. This will allow you to transfer your digital photographs to the memory of the digital picture frame and to continue displaying your photo's even after retrieving your memory card to fill up with more photos. A USB interface is also handy to have in this case. You can transfer images from your computer (or a USB device like a thumb drive) to your frame's internal memory. If you have a large digital photo collection, this will save you messing around with memory cards, transferring the images piecemeal.
As you go up the price scale, you can expect to see features like built-in speakers and support for various video and music formats.
At top end of the digital picture frame range you will find WiFi enabled models some of which even offer integration to photo sharing sites like Flickr. This way, you can share your photos with friends and family no matter where they are - even if they don't have access to a computer. This is obviously subject to WiFi access.
So as you can see, a digital picture frame has many benefits not only for the more technically minded - but also for the rest of us. And as the technology advances and market penetration improves, digital frames are likely to become more affordable.
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How do I transfer pictures from computer using USB to Kodak digital picture frame?
I have a Kodak easyshare camera and recently got a Kodak digital frame. I can not figure out how to transfer pictures from my computer using a USB cable to the picture frame. I have the book, read the book, but it honestly doesn't say. Please, any help/step-by-step instructions would be wonderful!!
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8:21 am
I was checking this out today…the Kodak looks awesome.
JPG, AVI support (movies!), just about any memory card
and USB! Let me know if you find something better!
9:03 am
OK, if you can use a cable to transfer photos from your computer hard drive to the electronic picture frame those instructions will be located in the user manual. If there isn't any instructions for this action then this picture frame does not support that type of data transfer. Look in the manual which came with the picture frame. If you don't have a detailed manual, (but you should, a 2000 capacity isn't a small or inexpensive item and so should have plenty of documentation) you can go to the manufacturers website, enter the hardware device in the Support Area, then enter the serial number or type, and this should lead you to information on the use of the device and offer downloads that may be required.
I would just insert the data card into my card reader, copy the photos to that card, remove it and insert it into the picture frame. This is a very simple procedure and usually the normal method of transfering such data to an electronic picture frame.
Most such electronic picture frames also support transferring of music files to play while the photos are displayed in the picture frame. Just follow the instructions and you should be good to go in a short amount of time.
If you do not have a card reader on your computer you can buy an external card reader at any electronics store. These external card readers are connected to the computer via either an USB or Firewire cable. You might need to install drivers for the external reader, just read the instructions which come in the manual, which will be in the box with the reader.
Good luck and much fun with your new electronic picture frame. These are so cool and fun! Have a nice day.
8:15 am
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9:52 am
Does anyone know if I can or should buy ANY brand of Frame for my 94 yr. old Dad who is in the hosp? I am very far away and cant visit often. I would love to play some youtube videos of his favorite wartime music. Thanks so much
1:35 pm
Worst piece of electronic junk I have ever purchased.
The slide show cycle freezes after 15 minutes, regardless of what the reviewer says. The WPF388 frame was faulty out of the box (received as a gift) and the company offers to accept questions but religiously refuses to answer questions on this issue. A forum of people with this same problem have all been ignored. I'm tossing it and buying a non-wi-fi unit from a company that cares. If you have one of these (WPF388) units you will regret it.