Need a
digital photo frame? Need a
printer? Need them to happen
within the same enclosure? If you're one of the oddballs who curiously answered yes -- and you don't actually need it until
after the holiday shopping season -- Sony's got you covered. The
DPP-F700 digital picture frame with one-touch printing that we saw pop up internationally just last month has finally been blessed with a US ship date and price, and if you've paid any attention whatsoever to the headline, you're probably well aware of what those two data points are. The frame itself will boast a 7-inch display (800 x 480 resolution), 1GB of memory, a multicard reader and will print out "professional quality" 4- x 6-inch photos at 300 x 300 dpi. There's also a nifty "screen capture" mode that prints out exactly what's displayed during a slide show, though there's literally no telling how pricey those refills will be.
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posted Oct 24th 2009 3:02AM
I am wondering if this frame has the ability to load pictures directly from photo sharing sites like filcker. cyprus car
I do find some synergy here. If I do need both, why not just get both are once? That way you can print stuff out after viewing it.
That said, if you're of the social media generation, there's little use for it since I'd just tag you on Facebook. A shame though, since this probably makes rather nice prints and Facebook only has atrociously compressed images that are have just enough detail for you to realize that you're looking at a photo. Flickr's a lot nicer on that front though, but it's not really social media.
social media generation? attempting to relate facebook to a printer that is supposed to be more aesthetically pleasing?
stop adding buzzwords to the generation. its GENERATION-Y. not social media gen, not google gen. just Gen y.
whats facebook have to do with this? the reason they added a printer is because printers take up space and dont look good, this makes it more of decoration around the house. idiot.
I simply said people who use social media are less likely to find this useful. Gen-Y is a bigger buzzword than social media generation, which simply means people who use social media.
My point is that looking good isn't the only point of this thing - there were originally intended synergies from combining a printer and photo album - namely that you can make prints for your friends after viewing them, BUT people who use Facebook would not find this as useful as some one who invites their relatives over for tea. . Start listening and stop insulting.
Ypoknons has a point. There is an entire generation of people who will have nothing but a collection of highly compressed, sub 700px wide images. Most people (people who clearly won't read this) rely on facebook as their photo album because they don't know any better. The amount of times I have been with friends and asked for photos of the great weekend we just had, and got the reply "they're on facebook, I don't have them on my computer anymore, they slow it down"...
It's such a waste. Even baby boomers have better quality photos. Facebook is the worst thing to happen to photography since... well ever.
I really hope that this doesn't need to be pointed out, but not every one from Gen Y uses facebook and the like.
While we're callng Gen Y the "social media" generation, we might as well start calling Gen X the "tool' generation. Sure, a lot of people over the age of 20 are tools but i'm pretty sure they all aren't.
The product definately falls under the "intereting idea, but i doubt i'd actually ever buy one" for me.
What they should do is build a digital photoframe with a built in scanner. You could scan photos and have them displayed without needing to boot up the pc. If they managed to make it look good, it'd be something i'd probably buy one day.
I'm Gen-Y (and use Facebook) and I print photographs all the time.
The reason is simple; my family, my elderly grandparents, my uncles, aunts, etc DON'T use Facebook, they don't use social-media sites. I also have friends that don't use social-media sites as well.
And the only way for them to see pictures is to show them via a physical print. If my parents or grandparents wast to see the latest pictures of their grandchildren/great-grandchildren I need to send them prints.
This frame/printer obviously bridges the gap between digital and physical.
The price seems okay, but printing your own photo is not economical. Most people simply share their pics online, and when needed, order a full booklet shipped via the service provider or 3rd party company.
People only prints porn at home, it's so much cheaper to print it at a real store.
What a brilliant gadget! But too bad in this wireless world, it does not support this feature :(
This seems quite clever. A lot of folks would have trouble justifying either a digframe or photo printer as a purchase, but this..? Not only that, it seems pretty portable. If the ink isn't too expensive, I'd say this will do well. Shame it won't be out for the holidays, though.
It probably won't even be out in January, either, considering I'm still waiting for my Sony ICF-CL75iP Picture Frame/iPod dock, which was supposed to ship on October 1st then it was October 15th now it is "who knows".
i agree .. ink replacement will be a little bit pricey
This is a really nice gadget, I'm always trying to find new ways to organize my photos, however, it is a bit pricey...
How cute! The device isn't bad looking little thing either.
Oh yeah, those buttons are a great accent to any room...
I don't get this. Why try to be both? I'd rather just get a real quality printer if I was that into printing my own photos... And then buy 6 regular frames for the price of a digital frame.