Digital Picture Frames
edith head
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has anyone actually seen these in someone's house
they look so tacky and it boggles my mind how expensive they are
they look so tacky and it boggles my mind how expensive they are
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Um...my sister got me one of those for Xmas. It's not that bad (tacky-wise) but then again, we only use it when company is over.
Umm...I got that EXACT one for Christmas, mine came without the photo of the Becky Triumvirate though. Hiding the wire makes a big difference and reduces the tackiness level immeasurably. I finally set mine up yesterday, it's pretty cool. Holds 100 or so pictures and doesn't look bad at all.
I've been in places where people had their laptops or desktop monitors running slideshows in the background, I like this better.
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-8-Inch-Dig...99917759&sr=8-2
^^^^^^^^^^ Damn near made me do a spit-take.
Not to say you are all jaded. I think it works for a certain demographic, which is probably not ours.
Oh, yes it is!
What exactly makes it tacky? Who still shoots with film? To me, the device makes sense as a consumer item.
My main complaint with it is that the resolution on the screen is kind of weak; if they really want this to look like a "real" pic frame, they need to step that up.
I'm pretty sure mine didn't cost $200; my guess is that it's more like $100. That's still pretty expensive but you're basically buying a 9" LCD screen.
"Kirk, crackers are a family food. Happy families. Maybe single people eat crackers...we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know. It's a market we can do without."
I don't know man, I'm probably in your demographic and it works for me just fine. I'm like your grandma, not all jaded and stuff. I like the pictures that change.
well for me, i think it looks more like a little tv then a picture frame. also something doesn't seem right about the image quality. it doesn't compare to a real photo at all, and it doesn't have anything to do with film vs digital. printed digital pics printed on photo paper still look better than ones projected on an lcd me thinks.
HAHAHA!!!! That's 'cause your picture frames are probably all handmade, ridiculously awesome, are made to look like diaramoamas, and contain professional grade photos of lightweight mexican wrestlers in a trailer park!
no, I'm with you. I don't think I'd drop the loot on it, but it would be fine with me. I just meant that to someone like my grandma it's cool. She doesn't really know shit about megapixels and whatnot, so to her it's exactly what it is. A bunch of pictures of her great-grandkids in one frame.
I ain't mad at that.
no
I mean - how many of ya'll own iPods?
We don't, unfortunately. We just like looking at all the pictures of happy times.
or fake record findz!
We got one for my grandfather back a bit ago. Just over 10 inches and something like 1024 x 768 res. I scanned a ton of pics and dropped them on a 2 gig SD card and it plays really well. You can even drop video and music on it and it has a remote.
I took a video of my gramps messing around with photobooth and dropped the video on it during christmas. He flips when he puts it on and sees himself looking like an alien.
Shit, the frame even plays movies downloaded off the net HA!
But, I really think it's a good thing for seniors. They don't have to pull out photo albums any longer and their prints are safe stored away.
I have it run behind the wine refrigerator that it's sitting on top of.
When digital pic frames go wireless = A-Damn will cop!