Digital Picture Frames?

Posted by Cliff on Monday September 11, 2000 @05:42PM from the can-holo-frames-be-far-behind dept.

EuroBryce asks: "What is the current state of digital picture frames? I've found the Digi-Frame ($600 for the 5.6" model), the Sony Cyberframe ($800), and the Ceiva ($250 + $79/year service). The Ceiva unit is the right price to give to Grandma, but the frame is useless if Ceiva ever goes under. Is anyone working on a hack? Is anyone else shipping similar devices?" Interesting! How well do these things work? If I upload an image into one of these things, will it still be working in 5-10 years (assuming they have been properly powered that whole time). This is one of those areas where I still believe that paper is more robust and permanent than anything digital.

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I-Opener 2001 == $320.95 picture frame by Vito · 2000-09-11 14:19 · Score: 3

With the new "I-Opener 2001 Membership" charging you $299 for the I-Opener plus $21.95 a month with no commitment, you can get the unit for $320.95 plus shipping and handling.

Take the I-Opener off it's stand and build a light plastic stand for it, and you've got a nice 10" dual-scan LCD, for less than the Ceiva with a year of service.

Now, you'll apparently need to buy a new BIOS chip from a place like BadFlash before you can hack it and install Jailbait, the 16mb distro for the onboard flash disk, but you can gut Netscape off it and save yourself 8mb, write a custom image displayer, and have the unit either dial out to any one of the myriad free ISPs, or plug in a USB ethernet adapter to download images off of Grandma's DSL or cable connection.

--Vito