7" Digital Photo Frame from Walmart $58.54

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This 7" digital photo frame is simple to use right out of the box and makes a great gift for any digital camera user. Just place any major format of flash memory card into the appropriate slot on the back of the frame, and your pictures will be instantly displayed on the screen. An excellent way to share your special memories with friends and family.
Key Features:

* Display Size: 7" TFT LCD screen
* Display Resolution: 1440 x 234 (480 RGB X 234) pixels
* Memory Card Type:
o Compact Flash
o Memory Stick
o Secured Disk
o Smart-media
o Multi-Media
o MS PRO cards
* Card Slots:
o CF
o MS
o SMC
o SD/MMC Cards
* Image File Supported: JPEG
* Video File Supported: AVI (motion JPEG)
* Photo Resolution Supported: Up to 8 megapixels
* Power Supply: 9VDC 800mA Power Adaptor

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Do I have to leave the card in there for it to work or does it have some sort of internal memory that can transfer the photos so I can put the card back in the camera?

I guess this might be something to use a dinky card I have laying around since I don't want to leave a big card in there to cycle just a few photos.

Here's the company that makes it and specs. I'd say no to internal memory.

Link

hungrydog said: headusher said: Kelemvor said: Do I have to leave the card in there for it to work or does it have some sort of internal memory that can transfer the photos so I can put the card back in the camera?

I guess this might be something to use a dinky card I have laying around since I don't want to leave a big card in there to cycle just a few photos.

Good question I'd like to know if it has any memory at all internal which makes the difference if I'm going to buy or not. This will make a great Mother's day gift for wife, mom, in-law.

I don't own this, but based on the spec "Just place any major format of flash memory card into the appropriate slot on the back of the frame", I believe it doesn't have the interior memory. Therefore, you need to leave the card in.

Yeah, that's the line I saw and the reason I asked. Just thought I'd see if someone knew for sure because they've seen this in person or own it. But I'll just assume I have to leave it in for it to work. Too bad it doesn't take USB drives. I have plenty of those laying around.

happyface50 said: Anyone has this and can comment on the quality of the picture image??? Thanks.

well ti displays at 480X234 so don't expect much to start with. a 15"LCD is 1024X768 at about twice the diagonal so you're talking a little lower resolution than a typical lcd monitor .... then you have to factor in the actual contrast/brightness/scaling of photos.

If you're taking a 5mp picture you're talking roughly 2600X1900 pixels for say 4:3. So realize that any photo frame with that low a resolution is going to have to do some serious downgradng on the resolution

lzpoof said: .If you're taking a 5mp picture you're talking roughly 2600X1900 pixels for say 4:3. So realize that any photo frame with that low a resolution is going to have to do some serious downgradng on the resolution

I would use IRFANVIEW and bulk resize your images to the native resolution of the frame. You will be able to store tons more photos, and you won't lose any resolutions. I have over 900 photos on a 128mb SD card in my 14" digital photo frame. I convert my images to 1024x768 (native rez of the frame), before copying them onto the SD card.

The main degradation or pixelation that you get from some of these cheaper frames is that they don't have a very high quality LCD.
Notice they don't give you the brightness, contrast ratio, I assume it is VGA resolution, and if it is 256 color, 16-bit etc.

These FRAMES are more money, but I can attest that the image is great on all the models.

The Staples one has XD support. The WalMart one plays avi's.

It looks to be a widescreen too. Reviews on similar models (not sure about this exact one) have complained that unless you convert all your photos to a widescreen format they end up horribly stretched or cropped.

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Order Total: $71.53

MarshallM said: Anybody know of a digital frame that supports uploading to the frame via wifi (the goal of which is to upload photos to my parental's frame without mailing them a memory card).

Do you want to upload it while you're standing right by it or something you want to use as a web server so you can upload files from your own house to the frame at theirs?

Here's another one than posted above me...

http://www.amazon.com/i-mate-Momento-Wireless-Digital-Picture/dp/B000J6FVC2

With Momento live, friends and family can send pictures direct to your Momento from anywhere in the world -- share the moment as it happens.

Their website doesn't list how much a membership costs though. But you get a 3 month trial. (www.momentolive.com)

Kelemvor said: MarshallM said: Anybody know of a digital frame that supports uploading to the frame via wifi (the goal of which is to upload photos to my parental's frame without mailing them a memory card).

Do you want to upload it while you're standing right by it or something you want to use as a web server so you can upload files from your own house to the frame at theirs?

Here's another one than posted above me...

http://www.amazon.com/i-mate-Momento-Wireless-Digital-Picture/dp/B000J6FVC2

With Momento live, friends and family can send pictures direct to your Momento from anywhere in the world -- share the moment as it happens.

Their website doesn't list how much a membership costs though. But you get a 3 month trial. (www.momentolive.com)

I was not clear, over my parent's wifi at their house. I will be in a different country. If there was an opensource frame that would work with a free Photobucket account, that would be perfect! But your link comes close, thanks for posting that.

robby69 said: lzpoof said: .If you're taking a 5mp picture you're talking roughly 2600X1900 pixels for say 4:3. So realize that any photo frame with that low a resolution is going to have to do some serious downgradng on the resolution

I would use IRFANVIEW and bulk resize your images to the native resolution of the frame. You will be able to store tons more photos, and you won't lose any resolutions. I have over 900 photos on a 128mb SD card in my 14" digital photo frame. I convert my images to 1024x768 (native rez of the frame), before copying them onto the SD card.

The main degradation or pixelation that you get from some of these cheaper frames is that they don't have a very high quality LCD.
Notice they don't give you the brightness, contrast ratio, I assume it is VGA resolution, and if it is 256 color, 16-bit etc.

These FRAMES are more money, but I can attest that the image is great on all the models.

The resolution is in the description... hence wht I said:

480 RGB X 234

1024X768 is not native for these, 480X234 is, about a 15:9 ratio. I don't care what program you're downsizing with, you're gonna have to do some serious cropping to make any 5mp+ photo look right on a frame with that resolution. A 4:43 photo is going to display as 320X234 or so on this and be about 4.8" by 3.6". A 4:3 ratio'd 17" LCd (most are actually 1280X1024 a little off) is about 13.3 x 10.5 or so.

so for a 4:3 photo this is about 65pixels per inch. A 17" LCD is closer to 90 pixels/inch. If you take your photos on your pc you can try to 'zoom' them down til they take up about 40% of the height and 40% of the width of your screen. Based on resolution alone, the pics will look a little WORSE than they do on your pc at that size.

lzpoof said: robby69 said: 1024X768 is not native for these, 480X234 is, about a 15:9 ratio. I don't care what program you're downsizing with, you're gonna have to do some serious cropping to make any 5mp+ photo look right on a frame with that resolution. .

Maybe you read more into my post than was meant.

Using Irfanview to resize your images to the frames native resolution and 72dpi, was merely a suggestion to get MORE images on a media card.

When I was talking about 1024x768, I was talking about MY 14" photo frame as an example.

Sure the ratio of the image is going to have an effect on the quality, same as it does when you use the stretch mode on your 16:9 tv on a non-hd image,,but not nearly as much as a cheap LCD's alot of these lower end frames use that you can see the pixels on.

end of rant.

MarshallM said: Kelemvor said: MarshallM said: Anybody know of a digital frame that supports uploading to the frame via wifi (the goal of which is to upload photos to my parental's frame without mailing them a memory card).

Do you want to upload it while you're standing right by it or something you want to use as a web server so you can upload files from your own house to the frame at theirs?

Here's another one than posted above me...

http://www.amazon.com/i-mate-Momento-Wireless-Digital-Picture/dp/B000J6FVC2

With Momento live, friends and family can send pictures direct to your Momento from anywhere in the world -- share the moment as it happens.

Their website doesn't list how much a membership costs though. But you get a 3 month trial. (www.momentolive.com)


I was not clear, over my parent's wifi at their house. I will be in a different country. If there was an opensource frame that would work with a free Photobucket account, that would be perfect! But your link comes close, thanks for posting that.

Here's another through Costco - not sure if the link will work directly, but let's try: Link

Edited - couldn't get link working at first

clunk said: For those looking for a bit more quality (at a bit more price of course ... $139) I bought this one at Costco.com when they had their last coupon sale. Resolution is 800x600 and the image quality is stunning.

Pandigital was the other frame that on new models are going to offer RSS feeds to upload pictures remotely. RSS Pandigital Frame Release INFO

Popular Science had run an article on how to build your own.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/how20/a4a95adebbf6a010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Total cost - $80.

Now you have to build it, which is fun for some and not for others, but...
you end up with a 14" or 15" digital frame instead of 7"

And you can update it remotely at any time!
Just update the photos on the Flicker account you set it to,
and the grandparents see new photos of their cutie pies every week!

i'd go w/ the 7 inch coby from Amazon...i picked it up a few weeks ago for $67.xx wide screen and standard format...good reviews...comes w/ remote and 2 frame colors.

does it show one picture or a slide show?

omg hahaha +rep

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!