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Digital picture frame designed for upgradeability
July 15, 2004 - 15:49 PDT
by Dennis Sellers - PhotoVu showcased its PhotoVu PV1910 digital picture frame, which has iPhoto support, at this week's Macworld Conference & Expo in Boston. The latest such product from the company supports up to 12 megapixel cameras and a future upgrade path to standards like Wireless-G. PhotoVu's 19-inch LCD digital picture frames wirelessly retrieve from a Mac's hard drive for viewing on the wall.
"With the new picture frame, we've added an all-aluminum back," Mark Van Buskirk, PhotoVu partner, told MacMinute. "There are no fans, no hard drive, no noise. The PV1910 is convection vented for cooling."
The digital picture frame has an Ethernet cable connector in back and has a port for connecting a USB stick for those who wish to change images on the fly. When the USB stick is inserted, it overrides the photo database on your Mac (though other settings remain the same). The PV1910, unlike its predecessors, doesn't have wireless support built in. Instead the wireless connector is USB-based so the product can support a variety of current and upcoming standards, Van Buskirk said.
The picture frame requires no monthly subscription, additional image manipulation or software installation. Consumers and businesses can display thousands of digital images stored on any computer that has a network connection and is running Mac OS X (or Windows or Linux). All you do is plug in the PV1910 into your network or within range of a wireless network and turn it on. All features and operations are controlled remotely from any computer's Web browser on the network.
The digital picture frame is designed to be a self-contained unit, Robert Jordan, PhotoVu partner, said. "It's designed to be non-obtrusive," he told MacMinute. "All the documentation is online and the software management tools are handled through a Web browser."
The software lets you customize a variety of settings for the images displayed. You can set the delay between photos, how they're displayed (in order or randomly), background colors and implement password-protection, if you wish. You can also choose from 29 different types of transitions and a variety of filters. The PV1910's software supports such image formats as JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GIF.
The PV1910 can be customized to users' tastes. They can choose from five mattes and 18 frames at the PhotoVu Web site. "We want it to look like a picture frame, not a computer," Jordan said. "This also helps the PV1910 met the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor)."
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