Comments on: Investors Bullish on Internet-Enabled Picture Frames

By: selma

selma — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:18:13 +0000

thnks

By: adanali

adanali — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:17:37 +0000

thnks

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:54:12 +0000

Just wait until Apple decides to get in this market. I bet those sales figure will double.

By: Magister

Magister — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:06:14 +0000

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the headlines declared digital picture frames to be electricity hogs, costing an average of $9/year to operate and if everyone had one, it'd take five medium-sized power plants just to keep them going.

By: Peter Antypas

Peter Antypas — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:59:12 +0000

They’re going for the early adopters. The technology will get better, battery life will improve, and eventually we’ll see wireless power transfer (it’s been invented already).

And, yes, I do remember Pointcast. I’m old enough

By: Chris B.

Chris B. — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:10:20 +0000

I bought a Philips model for my wife last year. It has a nice picture and the pictures look great, but changing them out is a pain. The rechargeable battery doesn’t last long and there are almost too many features. I’ve seen frames that play music and do other totally unnecessary stuff. It’s a picture frame, people!

By: 113.com

113.com — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:03:53 +0000

China users will likely love these… to show Beijing Olympic latest photos etc!!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:56:56 +0000

Jason, I hope you’re right that the electronic frames are a passing fad: http://lowtecht...picture-frames/

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:01:55 +0000

> so I need to take up an extra socket, and have ugly wires running to a highly seen place

That’s only one problem. Digital frames are not great. Congress should pass a 100% excise tax to prevent their proliferation.

Let’s see where this is headed…. consumers replace outdated bulbs with fluorescents to save energy and reduce global warming… then start adding digital frames to their homes, which soak up all those previously conserved watts… taking us back to even more fossil fuel burning. Brilliant!

By: MyMesh

MyMesh — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:51:40 +0000

These frames are great stuff, great stuff..

By: Jason Bogovich

Jason Bogovich — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:49:36 +0000

Frame Media. Idea for you. Put a Mic on one of these, and push the signal back to the PC’s speech engine. That way I can call up my calendar, gadget of choice, excedera without touching it. I’d like to have a few of these in my home but I won’t get them until they are wifi, and hopefully upnp comes out with a spec for them.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:59:39 +0000

Bah, I built my own out of an old laptop. Only recently have you been able to get ones with as large of a screen as an old laptop has.

By: fernando

fernando — Sat, 03 May 2008 00:51:59 +0000

It would be cool to have a frame hook up to a flickr account. Stream new photos to mom instantly.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:12:07 +0000

I think the digital frames are a good idea but why do you need $ 5M? All of the technology is already available. I guess you could pump it into marketing but that sounds so old-school.

How about being innovative and VIRAL (oh what a word) by feeding Twitter messages of your friends and display them in alteration with their flickr photos. You could also sprinkle in some http://twistori.com/ if you really feel esoteric today.

Sounds like a lot cheaper for a marketing plan.

By the way, just today I bought two fine art prints from here http://www.lumi...om/alexis.shtml

Although I am all digital, a well made fine art print on first class paper is still something special. And it feels good to treat yourself for a good cause.

By: jet

jet — Fri, 02 May 2008 23:01:57 +0000

Pointcast, remember that! Everyone had Pointcast

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:50:38 +0000

I’ve been bullish on this for a loooooooooong time!

If photovu.com were more affordable they would be in every home and on every desk.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:49:55 +0000

they’re just selling a TV basically. A portable, cheaper one. Picture frames with news updates, pictures, moving family clips…

just a TV.

By: Adam Georgiou

Adam Georgiou — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:47:50 +0000

Hmm, a picture frame that sits out in plain view of friends and family that takes a random picture cached on your computer and displays it. That can’t go wrong….

By: John Sykes

John Sykes — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:45:44 +0000

Finally, something usefull to view the 2,000,000 rss image feeds out there.

By: uh

uh — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:42:00 +0000

time to bring back pointcast. (how many remember that ??!?!)

By: Jay (Twitter @qthrul)

Jay (Twitter @qthrul) — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:26:20 +0000

They are the mass market Chumby on a diet.

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:19:08 +0000

Perhaps, but I have my ugly wires covered and operate a PhotoVu frame with the FrameChannel service. My family loves the mixture of family pictures with news and town RSS feeds.

By: Joke Cricket

Joke Cricket — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:17:44 +0000

Amazing!! they have one certification program also..

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:17:20 +0000

Will be cool when those eye-fi cards connect to these wi-fi picture frames! Take a picture from anywhere and it’s sent to various wireless picture frames (ones in your home, your parents’, whomever u allow and vice versa).

By: David K

David K — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:09:10 +0000

@michael so you’ve had a bad estarling experience too? does estarling have a competitor?