Have you been hankering for a central spot to store your thrilling, heart-warming family photos? Some easy-to-reach locale where you can pick up a remote, flip on the tube, and travel through a mind-blowing tunnel of memories? Well, let us introduce you to Sony's latest and greatest, the HDMS-S1D "Digital Photo Album." Coming off as a glorified DVD player with an 80GB hard drive and HDMI outs, the new device lets you store and view your precious memories, replete with a soundtrack of your choosing, and slow, dreamy fades between photos (thanks to Sony's x-Pict Story HD -- with face recognition!). How much would you expect to pay for such a device? How does about $400 sound? No good? well, you can't put a price on memories... can you? The whole kit and caboodle is available this month for your purchasing pleasure.
posted Oct 17th 2007 9:49PM
Sony steps up to the plate, a swing...
(crowd ooo's)
...and a miss.
(crowd chants "we want our money back!")
I hope they made it easy enough for grandma to use, because she's going to be the only one using it.
In many ways a product like this is still a good idea, except you want it to be rugged enough to last a couple of centuries. Your internal media had better be darn good to stand the test of time.
Great idea...but no one will use it. I can't imagine why anyone would use this over their computer.
If the Sony digital album could: Automatically sync w/ a computer (or 2, or flickr), have a reasonably large hard drive (80gig just isn't enough these days) & was made to withstand the impending doom (no specifics- just take your pick), then I'd be all up for one. Even at $400.
This is a test.
Not sure if anyone should get this when there are less expensive streaming devices out there and more coming out. $400 and another devices with a fan to add noise to your already cluttered entertainment center.
As always, Sony goes all out with a product designed for hobbyists with fat wallets. It's probably nice, but...why?
I should clarify that I understand this isn't a streaming device and doesn't really need to be connected to a network, but why have another hard drive "in the wild"? Just get a NAS and stream your stuff with a front-end.
not interested when Sony DRM's all of their products to the point of being overly expensive paperweights.
If it did video with supports for tons of codecs and picture formats, I would get one... even at 400 bucks. as just a picture viewer, no way.
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Well, i think it looks nice, and the idea is good too.
To release such convenient product is far better than the dancing music player...
I will take this as soon as there is a.....price drop
I think I'll stick with my PS3 it has good slideshow effects.
just when you think they couldnt take anything else out of the ps3... they took out the games!
and at the same price its gonna be in a few weeks!
It's awefully nice and has analogue audio-component video, USB, and Gigabit, but the $400 price tag is killer. For the money, I'd be better off getting a blu-ray player (i.e. 60-80GB PS3) with JPG, BMP, and PNG support and burn my pics to 25-50GB blu-ray discs. Or using my oldest PC with an HDMI-DVI graphics card.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sony/sony-introduces-hdms+s1d-an-80gb-networked-digital-photo-album-312158.php
thanks for the link!
wtf sony
resolution only up to...1080i?!
not for me then. I could buy 1 more PS3.
WTF? For $400 I vould get a PlayStation 3 that does the same thing, and much, much more.
$400 for a glorified 80GB hard drive and memory card reader with a couple video outs?!?! Has everyone gone mad?? Xboxes, PS3s and any computer can do this and much more for much less.
I don't need a stupid box in my entertainment area and have to explain to friends that it's a photo storage device. Then have to explain what that means and why it's better than a regular computer.
I hope for Sony's sake that it's marketed to wealthy idiots.
I cannot see anybody but those wealthy idiots buying this $hit.
Nice, but for the pricetag and what they're trying to do, they need upwards of 250GB on that thing to make it even nearly worthwhile.
might as well use your freaking ipod!
And people said that the Apple TV was a bad deal?
Get a PS3, it does EVRYTHING this does, and so much more...
Or buy an XBox 360 and link it up to your computer... That's what I've done, and I have 1TB on my computer, not a measly 80GB.