Kodak's 7.6-inch OLED photo frame now available on Amazon
By Ross Miller 
posted December 14th 2008 9:03PM
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I wouldn't buy a digital photo frame for one hundred dollars. And I damn sure wouldn't buy one for ten hundred dollars.
Unless each word that the picture can say worths a dollar, I do not think a picture(frame) is worth a thousand words
I could buy a normal digital picture frame, a nice camera, and a family of Bolivian orphans to take pictures of for that price.
ignoring the fact that I would never pay that much for a photo frame, the screen is so expensive because it uses organic light-emitting diodes, which look fantastic, but the technology used to produce them is still *extremely* expensive, as you can see
would just send my granny a 50" 720p lcd and a ps3 with a bunch of pictures burned to a blu ray disk.
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1. The bad
The price is xtreme (for a frame that doesn't play Doom :))
2. The fair
Still it is an OLED, so if you want to compare it, it mst be with another OLED display.
3. The advice
Just re-brand it iKodak iOLED 7.6 iN iWireles iDigital iFrame and you can stop worrying about price.
$1000, you could get better electronics for the same price
i bet steve jobs is thinking iFrame right now
Yes, he probably is. And all his iTards would buy it the same day it came out because they've been brainwashed.
BusinessWeek ran a story on then emerging and hugely expensive OLED in 2002, when only micro displays were available (about thumbnail size, but at 1200-1500 dpi, easily boosted to visible size by optics). They only lasted weeks or a very few months before degrading. At the time, they suggested that in 15 years, high quality wall-sized OLED displays would cost not much more than paint... I'd say that after only 6 years, we're not far off that estimate. Keep 'em comin'!
You could buy a hdtv with a memory stick port and have your pictures like seven times the size for the same price, plus watch tv, plus games, this oled thecnology its too expensive for what you really get.
Soooooo... How many OLED TVs have you looked at and compared to LCD / Plasma? Comparing at any electronics store doesnt count, for some reason they think that a signal that has been split 50 times before it gets to the TV is the best way to show off the magnificence of 1080p HDTVs.
Someone should tell Google Adsense that each word is worth a dollar.
I'd be a rich man.
Doesn't this shit have a 180 degree viewing angle? That's pretty nice right there. In terms of functioning as a picture frame, I would like to see my pictures from all angles, rather than be limited by an LCD screen.
That said, a grand for this is a little bit crazy for something that most people will glance over in a room.
Is the dog included?
I am fabulously wealthy and this is nothing for me. I have just placed an order for a dozen. I intend to build a video wall and all i am going to do is play pong on it. At last i have some truely fabulous contast between the white ball and the black background. It will be awe inspiring.
You poor people will simply have to wait to experience what i will have. I almost mourn for you.
And before i get negative comments, i was not born into wealth - i earned this. I became rich by selling pancakes to humans in need of something flat, sweet, hot and round. It turns out there are many such humans so my profits rolled in. I have dreamed of the ultimate pong rig since before i was born and to finally realise my dream is very arousing.
With fond memories and highly polished regards,
binarystarr
First off, it's made by Kodak... purveyor of fine craptastic cameras with horrible software. Why would I buy a premium priced device from THEM? Just so I can put it on my desk and say look at how frivolous I am with my money? Maybe 2 years ago, but not in the current economy. Good luck Kodak!
why not just buy a tv. hang it on a wall and do a slideshow of photos?
While the price for this frame is clearly unaffordable for this type of product, it is nice to see some effort being made to improve digital photo frames. I don't know if you've looked at any of them in a store before, but every single one I have ever seen has been absolute garbage. They use the lowest possible quality screens for their displays. Viewing angles of digital frames are so bad that there is almost no sweet spot. OLED would be nice when it gets cheaper, but I'd be happy with a non-TN LCD panel in a frame for $100-$200 instead of an eyesore for $50. While they're at it, they could use that screen in netbooks too which unfortunately also all use the same crappy TN panels used in digital frames.
Might as well get a huge LCD TV for that price
Yikes. You could get 2 or 3 actual dalmatians for that much!
If they could get the resolution on these up it could *almost* justify this insane price.
But 800x480 is just not ok.
what sort of OLED structure is used?
Our (yes 25% of it is mine) company sells a 10" digiframe for 500 euros, BUT being wifi equipped it lets you see all the pics and the videos and movies you have in your NAS, your PCs , or the DVDs you put in their drives;and even if the pc and nas are off it would still show you all the pics and videos from your picasa or Flikr account , plus all the media files sent to it via e mail while listening to any internet radio or podcast you like (lastFM etc).
It lets you read your Gmail, Igoogle chat/video, or POP3 mails and messages (flashing when a new message is arrived, and because its capacitive touch screen includes a qwerty k-board you can answer to those messages via touch screen or via voice command/voicerecognition and dictation, thanks to its software which lets you access by voice also all other functions.
It has a 2mpx camera and a microphone so that you can use it for Skype or google chat or any other VOIP service or as a landline speakerphone, also via bluetooth headset (which you can use also to give voice instructions and dictate texts.
Thanx to its DVB-T card and areal it's also a little TV with included IR receiver to be connected to a sat box or a set top box.
16 or32 Gb of SDD and/or (your choice) 160Gb of 5200rpm traditional disk .
Add calendar ,clock (different looks) with alarm, world clock(DesktopEarth) wheather station with clouds pattern updated every 15 minutes (thanks to iGoogle), and I think you got your 500 euros worth of digiframe.
We call it a digiframe to make it sound more friendly to our target of clients but in reality is a 10" linux based multimedia nettop that uses voice and touchscreen as input devices instead of mouse and k-board.
(if you really want you can also add kboard&mouse and stylus&tablet because it sports Bluetooth, IR, and 3 Usb one of which doubles as firewire).
So before sayng that a digiframe is too expensive and that for the same price you could buy a cheapo PC , next time check out all the specs of it; our digiframes are not cheap but they are sure a lot better and a lot more practical (for some people) than many PCs selling for twice the price.
Now that I got that off my chest I must say that I agree with those saying that this OLED crapframe is wildly overpriced BUT mind you: not all expensive digiframes are overpriced.