[Alex Mac]

Do you think that it is worth buying a digital photo frame?

Decent ones can cost $199, but they are in fact much cheaper than buying 2000 photos worth of normal frames. (about $4000).

But if I didn't have a digital photo frame, I wouldn't put photos up.

They DO use much less space, and most of them are very easy to use, with either email or sd card, but some people think they use up too much energy. Some of them use very little, in fact.

What do you think?

[masteraa]

Do you think that it is worth buying a digital photo frame?

No, with cellphones, tvs, computers, laptops, portable dvd players, projectors, mp3 players and all the other digital screens in this world... you can display those photos some other way.

Decent ones can cost $199, but they are in fact much cheaper than buying 2000 photos worth of normal frames. (about $4000).

This is true, I don't know if I would hang 2000 photos in my house. Now don't forget the energy the frame may use.

5 watts (sounds reasonable)
bout $4-5 of power each year it runs :P (OK fine its smaller than I thought it would be)

But if I didn't have a digital photo frame, I wouldn't put photos up.

true

They DO use much less space, and most of them are very easy to use, with either email or sd card, but some people think they use up too much energy. Some of them use very little, in fact.

Usually very easy to use, some even have touch screens now.

What do you think?

Dont buy it?

[Alex Mac]

I don't know electricity measure (still a kid, see) but if is impossible to get solar powered ones, which means that the energy consumption level must be very small.

How would you use a touch screen?

[naerey]

Originally Posted by Alex Mac

I don't know electricity measure (still a kid, see) but if is impossible to get solar powered ones, which means that the energy consumption level must be very small.

How would you use a touch screen?

Huh?
Solar power = the thing must be on the sun. If it's on the sun, the display must be very bright to display the photos. If its a bright display, it uses much energy. But maybe they know how to do it another way...

Touch screen = you use fingers instead of buttons..

My personal opinion = there's better ways to spend money than on some toy. Unless you're a rich businessman and don't know where to put money. (in that case I'd opt for charity).

Anyways, even if you would put 2000 photos, would you really see them all? Maybe in the time of 2 months or so.. Are all of them so good?

Personally, I think that a frame with a printed picture is much nicer, since you choose the picture for a particular meaning and not just "wow, can hold lots of pics! lets put them there!"...

[sohailamir52]

I would say it's worth it, it doesn't use much power at all and you can display many pictures on a single frame plus they look really stylish.

[Alex Mac]

Originally Posted by naerey

Touch screen = you use fingers instead of buttons..

Digital photo frames don't have buttons!

Originally Posted by sohailamir52

they look really stylish.

Most of them do, anyway. I saw a $5 one that was horrible.

[componentwarehouse]

Well I sell a sort of photo frame on my site (so this might be a bit bias), but I sell a fair few each week. I think they are far better than just a single photo frame, you can just leave them showing photos in an entrance hall or something to everyone who walks by, instead of having the same photo every time (which gets a bit boring after a while no matter how good it is).

When it comes to price, you can buy 10 inch ones for about £50 now, so thats about 5-15 standard frames (not digital), so theyre actually very cheap when you look at it that way.

Alex

[Spartan Erik]

Do any of us like the existing photo frames? Will making them digital make any difference?

I could care less, just seems like one more useless item to fill a household

[jms.chapman]

I think there is something soulless about digital photos shown on a screen, just my opinion. Just pick a few good ones and print them off, and then use a program like google desktop so you can see the other some times, and come off $200 richer

[zen-r]

Real prints are usually much nicer to look at than images from an LCD screen. However, the costs soon mount up & it can become tedious if you regularly take photos & need to print them off each time before you can display them.

The digital photo frame is, in the long run, a much easier way to always be viewing your latest photos. Its other advantage is that moving images attract the eye much better than static photos (the slideshow of images can be made to transition between each other in various fades & wipe patterns). This means that the digital frame is also useful as a message board, advertising display, or for anything else where you need to attract the attention of other people.

When a smaller display will suffice, I often use an old/spare PDA as a digital photo frame. It does the job nicely, saves me from having to buy anything new, & is a planet-friendly bit of recycling (old/spare mobile phones can be used for the same purpose, but their display is usually even smaller!)