PhotoVu Digital Picture Frames

Playing your photos on a TV requires use of a media adapter, of which there are many on the market. The media adapter takes your photos from a network connection or attached storage drive and converts them to a format for displaying on your TV. While viewing your digital photos on a big screen LCD or Plasma TV seems like a good idea, and many people do just that, in reality, it doesn’t work very well. First, a TV is more of an interactive device, where a PhotoVu is a “set and forget” device.

While you can certainly watch your digital photos on your TV with a media adapter, it is a distinctly different experience which becomes more of one time event, with everybody gathering around the TV to flip through some photos. It’s an interactive, planned event experience, rather than an everyday enjoying your life’s great moment’s experience.

This is probably the most powerful concept and feature of our PhotoVus’, but one that is the hardest to understand the power of, until you actually own one. In fact, many of our customers comment on this powerful concept after they get their first PhotoVu up and running on their wall, shelf, or fireplace mantle. The idea with a PhotoVu is to have a dedicated device that displays ALL your photo collection silently, day in and day out. It’s meant to be unobtrusive, silently playing your life’s special moments up on the wall. It’s there for you when you glance up at it while you’re preparing or eating dinner in your kitchen. It’s there for you when you wake up in the morning getting ready for work. And it’s even there for you, yes, as you are watching TV!

In fact, we are always amazed to see how well our own PhotoVu’s work in the same room with our own LCD HDTV’s when we have guests visiting. They are constantly gazing at the PhotoVu at the same time they are watching the HDTV. We initially thought this would be “too much overload,” but we quickly realized, that as long at the PhotoVu is not in the direct line of viewing of the LCD or Plasma HDTV (a head turn away on another wall), that it was a very complimentary experience.

Lastly, our PhotoVu wireless digital picture frames have been designed from the ground up to be a digital photo frame and do one thing and do it very well. Any time you have a multifunction device, there are always design compromises involved and playing your photos on your TV is no exception. Properly formatting and auto scaling the pictures to fit the screen without distortion is not a trivial process. If the adapter uses a wireless connection, will it be able to properly maintain a wireless connection for weeks and months without having problems?