Re: Photo frame recommendations

[fergus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Fergus McMenemie)]

Marcus,

Thanks very much. £117 is its current price, and it appears to meet
most of the requirements. The fact that it is being activly maintained
is also a plus.

marcus hall <marcus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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