thechakra said:Kelemvor said:thechakra said:does it show one picture or a slide show?

What would be the point of an LCD picture frame that only showed one picture?

just checking.. read through many of the descriptions of these and it never talks anything about slide show.

Even a slide show on my laptop cannot identify and correctly display landscape v/s portrait kind of pictures, how does the LCD frame find that out or does it?

Some that I've seen just show the picture vertically so that it will jsut appear with a lot of dead space on the side. Other ones I've seen will rotate the picture which is somewhat lame on a picture frame because then you get a sideways picture.

I'd assume that it just takes the picture in whatever orientation it is in the file and displays it in the window that way and just shrinks it if necessary to make it fit.

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jhpurchases said:BestBuy has the Westinghouse 7" LINKon sale for $69.99 (reg. $119.99) and it much better quality than many of the cheap items in comparable price range.

Can anyone vouch if this one is better than the WalMart one linked in the OP - The specs appear to be the same when I look at it...

I stopped by Staples yesterday. They were selling a 7" Digital Photo from for $49.98 after instant rebate.

mantalcore said:Building a digital 14" picture frame w/ video, music, and internet yourself would definetly be possible at around $185 after everything's done. Here is what you need:

1. Beat up old Pentium III laptop with a 14" screen $100 on eBay
2. 2 Clear border picture frames that would fit the laptop. $50
3. White Spray Paint (or black) $5
4. USB directional adapter $10
5. Cheap USB wireless mouse (or wired) $10
6. Wifi Card or USB $20

And here is what you would do (I'm doing this for mother's day):

Before any steps: Set up your laptop, turn off all flashy system features. Get a photo viewing software and install drivers for your mouse and Wifi device. Also, remove the laptop battery if you want, or leave it just in case of a power outage.

1. Remove all parts of the LCD's frame but leave the LCD there (remove the LCD covering also)
2. Remove the top faceplate and keyboard of the laptop along with all the plastic parts covering the hard drive, ram, and etc.
3. Remove all unneccessary parts of the 2 picture frames and place them facing in on each other so it forms something similar to a box.
4. Drill a hole near the bottom left or right hand corner of the frame (at the 2 edges of the individual frames at where they connect to form the box)
5. Drill a few more holes where you need the air ventiliation to come out from
6. On the other horizontal side of the clear frame, drill a few more holes for air intake.
7. Disconnect the LCD from the laptop and using sticky tape or glue, adhere is to the clear picture frame without air holes it in (this is the front).
8. Cover the LCD with anything that would prevent spray paint from getting on it, but just barely cover the sides of the LCD so that your can paint the remaing portions of the front that aren't occupied by the LCD.
9. Spray paint all the clear parts of the frame from the INSIDE.
10. Now spray paint all the clear parts of the back frame with holes in it from the INSIDE.
11. Adhere the actual motherboard (still should have a small frame) to the back end of your LCD. Make sure it's secure. You may need to adhere the motherboard part to one of the sides also. Attach the motherboard on so that the connector to the LCD can reach the needed spot on the motherboard. This will require the motherboard/laptop be upside down.
12. Add the WiFi Card and USB mouse onto the motherboard (formerly laptop).
13. Use one of the plastic pieces removed from the bottom of the laptop to direct the air output from the laptop, to the holes you drilled in the clear frame for air output.
14. Attach your power supply to the laptop, and have the cable run out of the laptop through the single hole that you drilled first.
(OPTIONAL STEP) If you have flat USB powered fan, use it to help the air intake holes by adhereing it to the back end clear frame's air intake holes.
15. This is the trickiest step. Either by making another hole in the side of the laptop or a lever, make a way to turn on the laptop.
16. Secure the back end of the clear frame onto the rest of what you have and now you should have the picture frame assembled.


If you are new at working with computers and fixing things, this will take around 3-4 hours. If you know what you are doing, this should take 2 hours.

I was thinking about doing this too, but you have thought about it a LOT more than I have. Any chance you can take some pictures of your project and post them somewhere (or send them to me??)

Thanks for the info. I will do this...

When checking the resolution of these cheap frames, I'm also thinking of use a laptop or desktop to do the same function but with much better picture. Or, we have a new business purposal to recycle the old LCDs to much better photo frame. PM me if anybody wanna invest

so, does anyone actually have this frame from WalMart? i'm still considering getting it, but i haven't seen any personal reviews on it.

thanks...sturmie

I bought two of these recently for my wife and mother for mother's day (we have a new baby so I thought it would be nice to keep rotating the latest & cutest pictures to display in the frame).

Quite frankly, these aren't very good at all. The resolution is poor. If you hold this anywhere near your face, the quality stinks. If you look at it from across the room, it's a bit better since you can't see any pixelation.

You can pick 16:9 or 4:3 ratio and neither work well. If you pick 16:9, this unit will stretch the photo to fit the width of the fram so everything looks fatter than it should. If you pick 4:3, the picture looks "correct" but there is about 1/2" of unused screen space on each side of the photo so you aren't using all of the screen.

The outer frame is the most boring and uninspiring piece of non-descript textured black plastic that I've ever seen. You think they could have spent another $1.00 in production costs to make it silver, or faux wood, or SOMETHING more interesting.

Bottom line: these are going back to WalMart.

to those that are using junky laptops to work as frames. I tried to run slickr using a P2 366mhz laptop and it couldnt handle the opengl effects

instead, I found a program that changes the desktops background using flickr feeds. no fancy transitions, but it works!