> still the best option seems to DIY, buy a cheap TFT, make > your own bezel, put a mini Linux on the back and you'ld > have something far superior to all the commercial > offering
I've done something like this with a nano-ITX board. The new pico-ITX boards would be even better.
> I especially dislike those huge bezels they always put > around them
There's a trade-off between extra bezel size and extra depth; the guts have got to go somewhere. I have seen one DIY frame with less bezel and more depth, and it stuck about 15 cm out from the wall. The nano-ITX heatsink design is not ideal from this point of view.
> It's a photoframe, it's supposed to display still > images. Put in a well-configurable slideshow mode and > drop anything else.
I disagree; I think that a well-designed way of browsing your photos using a remote is essential. For example, I have GPS tags for many of my photos, so you can browse them against a zoomable world map. None of the commercial offerings comes close to this yet.
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spam_from_engadget @ Aug 2nd 2007 9:51AM
> still the best option seems to DIY, buy a cheap TFT, make
> your own bezel, put a mini Linux on the back and you'ld
> have something far superior to all the commercial
> offering
I've done something like this with a nano-ITX board. The new pico-ITX boards would be even better.
> I especially dislike those huge bezels they always put
> around them
There's a trade-off between extra bezel size and extra depth; the guts have got to go somewhere. I have seen one DIY frame with less bezel and more depth, and it stuck about 15 cm out from the wall. The nano-ITX heatsink design is not ideal from this point of view.
> It's a photoframe, it's supposed to display still
> images. Put in a well-configurable slideshow mode and
> drop anything else.
I disagree; I think that a well-designed way of browsing your photos using a remote is essential. For example, I have GPS tags for many of my photos, so you can browse them against a zoomable world map. None of the commercial offerings comes close to this yet.