These were all the rage a couple of years ago, everyone was selling them and the market was flooded with cheap Chinese rubbish which had a pixel density of about 3 ppi. They've fallen off the face of the earth, did they just flop that badly or am I just not noticing them anymore?
What happened to electronic picture frames?
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They were a fad, my parents had them everywhere glad they died a death tbh!
Yeah, their biggest issue imo was having power. No one stores all their frames on tables near plugs, they just get in the way, and frankly no one goes, ohhh I want to stand here looking at 30 photos. You just have that special 1 on the wall.
Glad they're gone too.
Glad they're gone too.
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They were an answer to a problem that didn't really exist on top of being a very short-lived fad.
The only thing that could make them fadder was if they were PIR triggered and switched on only when someone walked passed them.
To begin with - having pictures of your closest or weirder yet - of yourself on display in your own home, is somewhat old fashioned anyway. Distance is no longer an issue, you don't need Alzheimer triggers to match the voice on the phone to the memory of someone's face on the mantlepiece, you can now face time or skype them from anywhere you wan...
To begin with - having pictures of your closest or weirder yet - of yourself on display in your own home, is somewhat old fashioned anyway. Distance is no longer an issue, you don't need Alzheimer triggers to match the voice on the phone to the memory of someone's face on the mantlepiece, you can now face time or skype them from anywhere you wan...
They were terrible and tech isn't good enough and still isn't., and who's going to pay the hundreds it would be for a decent one, then you still have a power cable, snaking up the wall.
Good idea but far to expensive for something worth it and some downsides.
It doesn't have to be pictures of family. You could download anything of the net. Any art.
A 20"+ 4k e-ink display, that was very thin would be cool. But they don't exist yet and would be very expensive. But would get rid of that annoying bright glow and generally look better. Less power and heat as well. I would like one like that, download art from deviant art or similar and have it on the wall, get bored just change it.
Good idea but far to expensive for something worth it and some downsides.
It doesn't have to be pictures of family. You could download anything of the net. Any art.
A 20"+ 4k e-ink display, that was very thin would be cool. But they don't exist yet and would be very expensive. But would get rid of that annoying bright glow and generally look better. Less power and heat as well. I would like one like that, download art from deviant art or similar and have it on the wall, get bored just change it.
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I bought my folks one of these as well but without the games side of things. Think they loaded it up with photos put it on once and its sat about doing nothing ever since!
wasnt there a last ditch attempt at reviving these things, with wifi transfer so that you could update them from your PC?
the other main issue I found was aspect ratio, if the picture was not cropped to the exact aspect ratio of the frame it would display with black bars, making the picture really small.
the other main issue I found was aspect ratio, if the picture was not cropped to the exact aspect ratio of the frame it would display with black bars, making the picture really small.
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I never liked them. Always something not quite right with them IMO
I actually quite liked them. Yea they were a bit kitsch, but I thought they made a nice alternative to your usual still picture in frame.
well I guess if your family and friends make Quasimodo look like the Mona Lisa I can understand you not wanting them up on the wall
I don't like pictures of myself or family plastered everywhere as it is, who on earth would want rotating pictures of friends and family all day????
well I guess if your family and friends make Quasimodo look like the Mona Lisa I can understand you not wanting them up on the wall
I don't think they'll fully disappear and at some point some form of displays along those lines (but likely networked and acting as a touchscreen too, IoT innit) will be commonplace.
Wouldn't be surprised if homes ended up with lots of multipurpose screens that can power down and become part of the wall or power up and become a TV, photo frame, touch screen interface etc..
Wouldn't be surprised if homes ended up with lots of multipurpose screens that can power down and become part of the wall or power up and become a TV, photo frame, touch screen interface etc..
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I was thinking the same the other day.
We've got an Amazon Fire Stick and as a screen saver it plays your photos you've stored in the Amazon Cloud service. Our 2 year old daughter loves it, gets to see all the family and days out we've been on. I looked into getting a digital photo frame but couldn't really find anything decent.
We've got an Amazon Fire Stick and as a screen saver it plays your photos you've stored in the Amazon Cloud service. Our 2 year old daughter loves it, gets to see all the family and days out we've been on. I looked into getting a digital photo frame but couldn't really find anything decent.
Wouldn't 20" 4k be fantastically pointless?
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It was a good idea but the flaw was that they were mostly fitted with **** poor displays and a res of 300x150.
for a start you missed the +
and if you are displaying art then perhaps you and others would want t take a closer look, and not just have it look good from 6 ft away.
remember lots of people are just talking about their own photos for some reason, when a such displays can display anything. I would say a decent e-ink display would be far more useful at displaying more normal art and being able to change it when you want.