There might be a niche market for old people who don't want or need streaming media sticks in their lives, but in my experience (having bought digital photo frames for elderly relatives several times) all that happens is they ignore it (just like people ignore framed photos 99% of the time), and then absent-mindedly unplug it or let it run out of batteries and then it's just a blank screen cluttering up the mantlepiece. only to stick it in a tiny, hard-to-see, single-use device that's easily lost on a mantlepiece or tucked away on an end-table, when you could take a device like the chromecast, roku, etc that does exactly the same job, also supports online streaming and wifi automatically (simply by virtue of what it is) and displays the result on the largest screen in your house, in full colour and high resolution, that dominates the living room and can be seen from almost any angle and anywhere in the room?ĭigital photo frames were what people thought would be huge before streaming sticks took off and they realised how easy it was to get your family photos onto a screen a hundred times better, without any additional cost, and on a device that could also do approximately a million other useful things. Control electronics to load and display images.SD card reader (let alone wifi card and some sort of remote admin interface to set it up) and.Anyone else dig this idea? And who at Kodak/Pandigital/Olympus (or whoever the fuck makes digital photoframes) needs to see/hear this?ĭigital photo frames didn't fail because it as a PITA to get pictures into them - they failed because they were only ever a random evolutionary dead-end. Not sure if the cast protocol works this way where the only "apps" that can cast are Google Home for setup and Photo Backdrop, but I would buy this product day one if they could/did. Hell, take it to the next level and put solar cells in the bezel so the damn thing can be hung anywhere in the house where it'd be exposed to daylight and the power-source conundrum is solved as well. It's time for a manufacturer out there to step it up and release a digital photo frame with Google Cast support with the limitation of being a backdrop display only. The Chromecast's backdrop option has been teasing me with the very feature-set that I've been wanting in a digital photo-frame: seamless flexibility in managing what images display on the frame and quick (almost instant) access to pics taken on your phone. Let's face it-digital photo frames were supposed to take our home decor to Hogwartz-level of dynamic and awesome, but ended up sucking because it's a pain in the ass to update pictures on them.
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