Considering that "digital picture frames" are everywhere from BestBuy to Walmart, you would think that the technology to make nice reasonable sized displays is here...
OTOH, look at the cost of even the tiny ones... it is almost cheaper to just buy a laptop... you can get a good display size on a cheap $400 laptop, a display that beats any "digital picture frame"... 640x480 resolution is so 1992. I don't know the cost of those displays (certainly can't be much if they can have such cheap laptops) in quantity, but, yeah, it would be neat to have Logitech make a HUGE digital picture frame, like 8x10" equivalent or better (ie, a laptop display) and an 802.11g (or maybe wired, since you need to run power to the thing anyway... POE maybe to keep cable count down) connection. And of course an API so that "other software" (at least SlimServer) could toss up a sort of 'Now Playing' image). A toy like that would really fit into the Logitech product line well, and I would only demand 1% of all sales for my idea. Making it general purpose enough (some memory so a computer could "upload" a dozen pictures to it so it wouldnt go black when the PC was turned off, for example, but less hassle than SD card-swapping) would help quantity sales for the best pricing on displays. (um, okay, a free one as a bribe would also work... I'm cheap.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42636 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
