Digital Photo Frames?

[Mrs. Bradbury]

As a recent first-time grandmother (yay!), I told my kids I wanted a digital photo frame for Christmas. My daughter thinks it's a bad idea and that no one likes them. Is this really the case? Please share your opinions and experiences with me. Thanks!

 

[MagicalMawMaw]

I love my digital photo frame. It is a table top one & is a big one with a nice wooden frame.
I got mine for a birthday gift at least 6 years back... Problary longer than that.
I upload a few new photos to it every couple of months. My Grandkiddos will stand and watch it for ages just to see the new photos of themselves.
I totally love having so many photos of our fun times on that frame. Like this thanksgiving my family went to the coast & we took a sand castle building class. Our family group with the awesome sand castle is already on there. Circus trips, Disney trips, camping, Grandkiddo sleepovers , vacations, etc... So many memories can be all on that one frame!

 

[Mrs. Bradbury]

I love my digital photo frame. It is a table top one & is a big one with a nice wooden frame.
I got mine for a birthday gift at least 6 years back... Problary longer than that.
I upload a few new photos to it every couple of months. My Grandkiddos will stand and watch it for ages just to see the new photos of themselves.
I totally love having so many photos of our fun times on that frame. Like this thanksgiving my family went to the coast & we took a sand castle building class. Our family group with the awesome sand castle is already on there. Circus trips, Disney trips, camping, Grandkiddo sleepovers , vacations, etc... So many memories can be all on that one frame!

Thanks so much for your reply! I think I would enjoy it. As it is now, I'm staring at my phone pics all day long . . . may as well make it easier on me, lol! I'll do some research on Amazon.

 

[moniqueand2]

I asked a similar question just last year!

http://disboards.com/threads/can-yo...i-fi-email-photo-frame.3337769/#post-52410430

I bought the Pixstar for $150.00 on Amazon last year. The grandparents seemed to like it enough. I didn't really pry comments out of them but it still works as far as I know.

 

[okeydokey]

As a recent first-time grandmother (yay!), I told my kids I wanted a digital photo frame for Christmas. My daughter thinks it's a bad idea and that no one likes them. Is this really the case? Please share your opinions and experiences with me. Thanks!

Well, obviously if you want one then it is not a bad idea for you.

If you think you will use it, then it is a perfect idea.

 

[ajwolfe]

I think they are a great idea if you plan to use it and update it often. Personally, I know I would slack on the updating so it wouldn't probably be the best for me.

 

[tvguy]

I think they are a great idea if you plan to use it and update it often. Personally, I know I would slack on the updating so it wouldn't probably be the best for me.

Interesting observation. Never updated mine and I've had it on my desk for about 5 years. But that's no longer an update period that when I have printed photos framed at my desk.

As for nobody using them, looking around my office I'd say THAT is NOT the case.

 

[LJSquishy]

You would probably love a Nixplay like this one (there are also both cheaper and more expensive models):

http://www.amazon.com/Nixplay-Digit...e=UTF8&qid=1449080268&sr=1-1&keywords=nixplay

You or your daughter can load photos wirelessly directly to it using email, the phone app, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, etc. I don't have one of these but I figured once we finally adopt I'd get one for my parents. I always thought it would be neat to be able to send photos that were captured right then and there, like how people post photos on Facebook right away...she could be sending them directly to your photo frame!

 

[novatwinmom]

I asked a similar question just last year!

http://disboards.com/threads/can-yo...i-fi-email-photo-frame.3337769/#post-52410430

I bought the Pixstar for $150.00 on Amazon last year. The grandparents seemed to like it enough. I didn't really pry comments out of them but it still works as far as I know.

I recommended the Pixstar in the link she quoted! We still love it, and it's been going strong for a couple of years. I'd get another one in a heartbeat but don't know anyone else who needs one. You get an email address that you send pictures to, but I can send a text to that email address from my smartphone to send in new pictures. When I send texts to people with cute pictures, I just copy the frame on it too and it works fine. That eliminates the "complaint" above about not updating the pictures! Glad to see someone bought it and is enjoying it!

One thing to remember though - if your wifi password changes for whatever reason, you have to update the password in the frame to make sure it can still access your wifi network. Don't ask how we figured that one out (though we should have figured it out much faster because it makes sense...)

 

[PerfessorZ]

I bought a smaller one a few years ago & really enjoy it, and my DD loves it, too. Sometimes she watches it more intently than she does a TV show! My only issue with it is that every time we lose power, I have to reset the sleep function so it doesn't run all night long, and it's a pain to remember how that's done. And Murphy's law dictates we'll lose power again within 30 days of me resetting everything.

That automatic upload is a great feature. Mine doesn't have it, but I'd have a lot more photos "in rotation" if it did. I tend to update once a year around the holidays & add in the "Year in Review" about this time of year. Also, I just can't pay as much for a digital frame as I could pay for a Chromebook, which I could make do the same thing AND use it for a computer

 

[elphaba91]

We have a couple. Mum has a fairly small one (like a regular photo size) that she's had for several years and I got a big 15 inch one for my birthday. We absolutely love them! The bigger one is definitely better though - I'm convinced my photos look 75% better on my photo frame than printed, etc. We gave the smaller ones to several family members a few years ago and I don't think any of them even plugged them in. Then my aunt's husband died a few months ago and I set up a slideshow of photos on my frame for after the funeral. My aunt loved it and then decided she wanted one - we had to remind her that we already gave her one, along with a USB stick of photos from her childhood that we had scanned from slides (of course she wants a big one like mine though!).

 

[scrapquitler]

As a recent first-time grandmother (yay!), I told my kids I wanted a digital photo frame for Christmas. My daughter thinks it's a bad idea and that no one likes them. Is this really the case? Please share your opinions and experiences with me. Thanks!

It shouldn't matter 'if no one likes them' if that's what you want!

 

[Mrs. Bradbury]

It shouldn't matter 'if no one likes them' if that's what you want!

By that I meant people who have them - if it turns out that people who have bought/received them don't like them after all. Much to my family's dismay, I don't give a hoot what other people think in most cases.

Thanks everyone for your replies! I'm really excited about the wifi phone-to-frame action.

 

[loves to dive]

We have had one since they first came out (I think we are on our 3rd or 4th one now). We had one of the ones hooked to the internet for awhile but it always had issues so we switched it out for an old fashioned one with a digital card in it. We don't upload to the card very often, usually if we take pictures they are always uploaded to our server (DH is a self employed computer consultant we have a number of servers) and if there are any we really like we'll tag them and every once in awhile update the memory card. Ours sits on our mantle, there is no way I would have ever printed all the pictures that cycle through it since I'm not a fan of albums. I can't tell you how many times people who are at the house will comment on a picture that cycles through. We have pictures of us a kids, our families, underwater pictures I've taken through the years, WDW pictures, picture of my son through the years.