Digital Photo Frames with Ethernet

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#17189 16-Nov-2007 04:59

Hi All

I am looking for a digital photo frame to give to my parents for christmas (they will be missing me this christmas as I am overseas for a year and I want to full their life with plenty of photos of me during my travels)

The catch is I want one that can be pluged into ethernet over wireless or memory card and am having trouble tracking on down that is not 15'' 17'' or 19''.

Any suggestions?

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Dion

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#95452 16-Nov-2007 07:43

Sorry, cant help, but interesting concept - I guess you want to remotely update the photos in the frame for them?

Very cool idea...

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#95460 16-Nov-2007 08:12

I'll be watching this thread with interest also. My partner is wanting a digital photo frame but I'm not wanting to be tied to a memory card.

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#95467 16-Nov-2007 08:31

Yes I just want to be able to update them as I go so they will see new photos on them as I travel.
None of my family are really Tech savy so I want to just have something that I can hopefully get them to setup with out having to call on any friends and see if I can get them to setup a port foward on their router to the photo frame for me to access.

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#95477 16-Nov-2007 08:56

I am in the middle of making one, take one largish picture frame, cheap laptop off trademe and vola.

Costs around $100 - $150 including frame and laptop and of course you can run a full OS on it too and you can choise the size of the lcd

I abit more work but a lot cheaper and heaps of fun

Check out http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=laptop+picture+frame

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#95489 16-Nov-2007 10:33

Just notice this on Engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/photovus-17-inch-rss-enabled-digital-photo-frame-the-1765w/ with 17" and RSS to flickr etc.

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#95492 16-Nov-2007 10:39

DSE sell some, most of them rely on memory cards. However some can just work off a USB flash drive, or there is the kodak that has wifi built in.

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#96317 22-Nov-2007 01:39

I think I will just wait until I get home and setup something its a pain when you don't know anyone that is technically minded enough in your family to setup stuff like this.

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#96339 22-Nov-2007 09:42

ThinkGeek ship internationally, they sometimes carry products like this.
Something like this perhaps?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/94a5/

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#96371 22-Nov-2007 11:16

Thanks

have had a look and they have some good feathers like emailing the photos to it.
I could also associate it with my Photo bucket account what would make things easier than having to connect to the device all the time to update it.

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#96386 22-Nov-2007 12:50

mckenndk: I could also associate it with my Photo bucket account

That's a killer feature, pulling from one, or aggregating from multiple sources, photobucket/flickr etc. I always thought this digital-foto-frame thing was a bit lame, definately softening up on that now :-)

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#96393 22-Nov-2007 13:11

Mmm I like that one on Thinkgeek. Considering the Kodak one at DSE is around $383...
$269 USD = $363 NZD at present. The thinkgeek one seems to offer more features, is cheaper and well worth the money...

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#96396 22-Nov-2007 13:56

Don't forget about shipping. Could be around US$40 for delivery to NZ... You can calculate an estimate when you check your cart.