Re: Photo frame recommendations

[marcus@xxxxxxxxxx (marcus hall)]

In article <1jv9a9t.1rrqafrfugtqN%fergus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Fergus McMenemie <fergus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I was struck by how many subtle human factors had been missed by the
>designers. Looking around the shelves at PC world, I am now struck by
>how the availability of any cheap feature now means it has to be
>included in the frame. After this experience and some thought I am now
>looking for.

About two years ago, I got a frame for my parents that seems to cover
most of these..  It was a Kodak W1020 frame..

>   - RSS or ATOM based control what the frame displays
	It can store pictures in internal flash, load from one of
	several flash devices (compact flash, SD, etc.), or display
	an RSS feed.
>   - Photos are downloaded and cached in the frame, (does not
>          re-download each photo again and again.)
	Check
>   - Say one 1GB, plus ability to use USB and memory cards
	Don't recall the internal memory size, but it only reads pictures
	from the flash cards, it doesn't use the device as a cache..
>   - NTP or SNTP based automatic clock setting
	NTP setting
>   - Wireless LAN with WPA
	Check
>   - DHCP and fixed IP addressing
	Check
>   - No sound/RC/clocks/alarms or other non picture frame functions
>         (or at least ones that can be disabled.)
	They do not need to be turned on.
>   - No touch screen, or one that can be disabled. (to deal with
>         dusters and small kids!)
	It isn't a touch screen per-se, it does have a touch sensitive
	border used to control the function.  Dusting and kids have
	not seemed to be a problem.
>   - Does not depend on special services such as flicker
	It can pull pictures from flickr, or other framechannel sources,
	but it can also use any RSS feed.
>   - (optional) Can display HTML pages
	No..
>   - (optional) Web based admin functions
	Check
>   - (optional) https/http support
	Haven't tried this, but I suspect it doesn't do https..
>   - (advanced) Combined time and light/dark sensing to disable frame
	Can turn off based on time
>   - (advanced) Combined time and noise sensing to enable frame
	Can turn on based on time

Overall it seems to be a pretty decent frame.  It has had two software
updates since we got it.

Hope that adds a data point to your search.

marcus hall
marcus@xxxxxxxxxx