Richard, my wifi photo frame mixes pictures from my parents, my sister's family, and my own family. Sometimes the first place we learn about the extended family's doings is on that frame. It's easy for me because they all use http://ourdoings.com/ but you could probably use Yahoo Pipes to mix feeds from different photo sites. The extra 30 bucks was worth it.

You can do that today with any frame that supports Media RSS. See http://ourdoings.com/

NeoteriX, I haven't seen your law degree either.

Luckily for us non-lawyers this particular question doesn't require a deep knowledge of case law or anything. You can just read Title 17 and see that there's no infringement here. I don't see why Nilay is waffling about this. See my straightforward analysis at http://ourdoings.com/ourdoings-startup/2009-02-11

Does it need to be easy for you to set up, or just easy for whoever uses it after you set it up? The SPF-83V works well for me. The Philips 8FF3WMI looks like it might be easier to set up, but I have no first-hand experience with it.

It would be nice if they would tell us if the Aequitas frame supports Media RSS feeds, so we could know if it worked with FrameChannel and OurDoings.

When you say "really works on wifi" are you talking about the Samsung SPF-83V not supporting WPA2? I've heard that, but my home network is open so it hasn't been an issue. I also discovered it doesn't require Windows XP like the manual says. It actually has a web interface. I liked it enough that I enhanced OurDoings, a photo-sharing site I run, to improve its support for wifi frames.

gurator, you're asking a lot. I've got one part of it taken care of, though: For "no part of image cut or blank parts of screen" I've set up OurDoings so that it can feed wireless photo frames just your horizontal or just your vertical pictures. When I first get new pictures I set it to send them all to the frame, but later when I just want a side decoration I'll limit it to one orientation.