I am very keen of the idea of a electronic photo frame to let me mother see what is happening within the family. I bought a photo frame a few years ago and it turned out to be a disaster which she unplugged and now keeps in the wardrobe. It was an utter pain.
Clock needed reset after any power interruption Photo storage was tiny Photos needed custom preparation for the frame Frame, which was used in the bedroom, was like leaving the TV on all night. Awkward to set clocks and the frames inactive periods. 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.
- RSS or ATOM based control what the frame displays - Photos are downloaded and cached in the frame, (does not re-download each photo again and again.) - Say one 1GB, plus ability to use USB and memory cards - NTP or SNTP based automatic clock setting - Wireless LAN with WPA - DHCP and fixed IP addressing - No sound/RC/clocks/alarms or other non picture frame functions (or at least ones that can be disabled.) - No touch screen, or one that can be disabled. (to deal with dusters and small kids!) - Does not depend on special services such as flicker - (optional) Can display HTML pages - (optional) Web based admin functions - (optional) https/http support - (advanced) Combined time and light/dark sensing to disable frame - (advanced) Combined time and noise sensing to enable frame
Reviewing the market it looks as though some of the Samgsung frames are good, but the 'tech specs' do not really cover much.
Any ideas, recommendations or comments.