Linx Photo 8W digital photo frame: no frills, reasonable price

It's no secret that we're intrigued by the line-up of new digital photo frames about to flood the market. Only, we find it hard to justify dropping that fat wad on a frame when we could pick up a new laptop for about the same price. Then the 8-inch, £110/$210 Linx Photo 8W rolled in touting a reasonable 720x480 resolution and 250nits TFT LCD display which should provide traditional photo-like quality visible under the most extreme of indoor lighting situations. Nothing fancy here: no WiFi, Flickr RSS feeds, and most certainly no support for Microsoft's SideShow. What you do get is a nice looking frame with the usual array of memory card slots, 2x 1.5W speakers for MP3/WMA audio and MPEG1/2/4 video, stereo and composite video outs, a rechargeable battery, and remote control. If you're not impressed at that price then you can always roll your own.

[Via TechDigest]

[PEZ @ Nov 3rd 2006 9:34AM]

Please give some examples of digital photo frames that cost as much as a laptop. I'm dying to know.

In any event, these things are the "screen saver" portion of your PC - prety useless.

Some have Wifi, some play video or Mp3 (for your music pleasure?) some even connect to a Flikr account.

WOW!

[Matt @ Nov 3rd 2006 2:48PM]

Examples? Well, this one costs more than twice as much as an OLPC.

That was easy :-p

[Blogmaniac @ Nov 3rd 2006 7:59PM]

Let me suggest something - buy a G4 iMac off ebay - it would cost you about $300 or thereabouts (700mhz would do) which has a 15" picture frame - make iphoto startup in the beginning and have an applescript display a slideshow. 200 bucks for a p.o.s like this ? extortionists, greedipigs, hedgehogs, octopus, billions of blue blistering ...

[Scooter @ Nov 4th 2006 10:03AM]

lacks CF and does not play AVI. Pretty ill-thought out. I'm in the market for a digital frame for xmas for my (retired) parents but this won't be it.

Would be nice to know the specs on the viewing angles.

[Digital Photo Frame @ Nov 6th 2006 2:15PM]

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