OK...I agree completely...BUT.....If you were to get a good frameshop to frameup your artwork the costs could conceivably come in somewhere close to the cost of the photo frame. Not that I'd pay that much....but I've framed museum quality items that were smaller for around $400 bucks. So the stretch to 800+ doesn't seem quite so far fetched when you consider you can change the item being featured. Artwork with weather....Artwork with twitter....Artwork and daily calendar. Now it's interesting.

DCGaymer

@ps61318:

Cause that's a pic of my house (hangs head low)

LMAO

Good point..

genius74

@nutbastard: I'm thinkin' "AY-Fruh", but this is certainly open for debate. I was working with the blam template, but you're right, it doesn't quite flow as well.

Dook_In_The_Urinal

still* ;)

techcolllide

if i was told its for free,i'd steal freaking bargain for a better deal!

techcolllide

@nutbastard: I had an afru when I was younger. It was the style, but it screwed up my hair for years.

ps61318

32 inches is definitely over the top, but I still don't get all the digital frame hate.

Spyrojoe

@genius74: How do you know it's not a three-wick, 24" bar of butter, huh, huh?

That would be awesome and convenient. Mood lighting and a nice spread for crackers. All you need is a bottle of Ripple and some Barry White on the stereo, and it's Katie-Bar-The-Door!

ps61318

@Dook_In_The_Urinal:

afru? sounds like he married himself, like bradjelina or something. i'll stick with frooch. because is that AH-Froo or AY-Fruh or AY-Froo...?

nutbastard

@Sora57: That's a 3 wick candle, but your comment was funny as hell...

genius74

I'm still waiting for a small (8-10") that does not cost over 100$

Y2KGTP

I kind of like the look of it though, how much do you think it'd cost to mat & frame a 32" aquos or something equivalent? Since I know I'd end up cutting off one of my fingers if I tried.

graffiksguru

If you bought one, YOU ARE AN IDIOT!

HawkSkater0

I think the extra cost comes from the matting.

GeekyNerdGuy

I'm going to buy it right away and return it once the 40" comes out!

halfshafter

In an interesting product placement deal made with Pixar, Wall E will spend 90% of his time compacting unopened OptiPix sp3200s.

My favorite fun facts about digital photo frames is the bizarre aspect ratios that leave black bars bordering your photos and the screen resolution which makes every photo look like a study of dog feces.

thechansen

Could they not have at least taken a photo of the real thing on a wall in a real room? That image is so obviously a horrid fake that whoever made it should have their copy of Photoshop taken away from them. If you're going to try to do a composite like that at least learn how to use the perspective distort tool, folks! (compare the right edge of the frame to both the left edge and the door frame to the right - an eight year old could have done better than that)

Sean Robertson

LOL. As much as afru hates digital photo frames, this one surely gave him an aneurysm.

Dook_In_The_Urinal

Lighten up, guys, I'm sure this is the product that'll turn The Sharper Image around!

AmishJohn

Dont you guys ever worry about the electricity bill?
These things eat up 300W easy...if you let it turned on the whole friggin day, thats a lot of € per year :/

desostros

I have a couple of these. They are really great because they are so SIMPLE. Put in memory card, watch blurry photos because I don't have enough resolution... I'm hoping they come out with 40 inchers soon.

Housapan

I like the 24 inch bar of butter on the coffee table/ottoman.

Sora57

...plug it in Adam... S Q U I R T !

ANoel

Glad to see I am not the only one who did not take his medicine this morning.

Monty

Who buys a 32 HD picture frame, and yet keeps there tiny 7 inch REAL picture frame on the end table? Who I ask you, who!

Darrone

[adultmode]In today's energy crunch how stupid must you be to purchase this item? Seriously, even the little ones are stupid.[/adultmode]

GadgetGhurl

@Sora57: Seriously, you can't ever have too much butter. After all, what if your favorite neighbor surprises you during Venture Bros. with a plate full of warm croissants?

wild homes and gardens

@genius74: oh. OH... It's lovely, really. Nice use of... butter...

ahem

ps61318

It could be a really really nice frame, I had a hand crafted one from italy that set me back $350 ones and it was for something smaller than an 8x10.

mattindustries

@Darrone: The kids are too ugly to blow up the photo to wall size.

Git Em SteveDave has a crush on the Swedes

The idea of having to plug in a (relatively) expensive picture frame to display pictures that most people hardly change has got to be up their for the "most stupid" or "least green" award.

usa1

For less than $300 more, you can get a 32" Samsung 1080P HDTV that lets you display slide shows off of a USB stick.

For about $60 more, you can get a 720P that does the same.

cirby

I wonder what size their TV is...

ttech10

Butter candles, FTW!

[I had another wink and I had a cup of tea and a butter pie..]

ideaman2020

I want to see a video of Frucci going completely apeshit on one of these things.

Filmed with a Casio EX-F1 of course.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Think of it as evolution in action.

strider_mt2k

@ideaman2020: Yes, thank goodness for the convenience of THAT EDIT BUTTON THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN CLAMORING FOR....

ahem. I know - If I'm not part of the solution then stfu. Okay.

ps61318

Edit: ...I had another look and I had a cup of tea...

ideaman2020

Give me a digital photo frame that only uses power when you change images and doesn't require a backlight and you have my money. Until then, I just don't see the point in them.

Wraithen

Why hate on the TV? Its not a horrible idea, and the frame (and presumably better picture modes) make it a somewhat unique object. So what if most of us could hack this cheaper?

the thing I don't get is the 16:9 aspect ratio on many digital frames. Who the hell has lots of 16:9 photos. DSLR's shoot 3:2 and most people have 4:3 cameras. So a 3:2 digital frame would be ideal, and a 4:3 would be acceptable. A 16:9 nearly always leaves horrible black bars, especially on portrait orientation photos. They need to add panning modes, etc so at least you can use the real estate.

1roll20s

If they can call this a "picture frame" and sell them,I should be able to sell a rebadged cucumber as an "eco-friendly sex toy"-WTF???

FiveLiters

@ps61318: Of course, you meant "TFSU"...

ideaman2020

when this company goes bankrupt woot should try and buy their inventory and stick em in random bags of crap during a woot=off

discounteggroll

I'm sure this only has about a 45 degree viewing angle and 500:1 contrast ratio. It would be much better to go to Wal-Mart and get a 32" TV because even the cheapest of TVs is going to be better than this piece.

ceilingFANBOY

@ps61318:

edit buttons destroy the integrity of the chronology and content of posts. typos be damned, on giz you better be sure you mean what you say, because theres no going back. imagine if people could change the wordings of their arguments AFTER someone has responded - now the responder looks like he's taken liberties with verbatim and context. slippery slope.

nutbastard

not to be confused with a digital painting

Electricity