Remeber the good old days of woot (2 days ago), when the server would take orders and the web page showed pictures of the item. Glad they tore down that old system and put this up.
Re: Business Model
Have a server that accepts orders
The web is a visual medium. A picture would be nice (especially of a picture frame).
I’ve had occasion to buy about a dozen electronic digital photo frames.
Most of them are junk. I THINK that this one most likely falls in the junk category.
My advice is this:
Don’t buy a digital photo frame with a “widescreen” aspect ratio. At least not unless you plan to display panoramic photos. Stick to 4:3 aspect ratios.
Don’t buy a photo frame with a resolution less than 640x480, which is ok (800x600 is even better).
You really have to see the LCD panel and how photos display to judge one of these, but I’ve tried and looked at a lot of them, a few dozen, I’ve bought a number, and I’ve returned more than half of those I’ve bought. From the printed specs, this is most likely not a good one, although I have no actual personal hands on experience with this specific brand or model. But based on the aspect ratio and the resolution, things don’t look promising.
7" digital photo frames are a little too small. I bought one for mother’s day and it doesn’t do the pics justice in my opinion. You really need to spend the money and go bigger to appreciate these.
Not too sure about the resolution on this. Found it on ebay for same price and $2.50 less on shipping. Higher resolution, then I’d be interested. Thanks woot.
…why is this night different from all other nights?
This doesn’t look like a great deal. Clear frame? At least faux-wood, woot!
In other news, the thinkirish.com woot checker announced a second item, a 2 GB MP3 player, about 3 minutes ago. As if woot-offing. Was it having a dream? OR A NIGHTMARE?
You know, the laziness of our society amazes me. Now we’re too lazy to put pictures in picture frames. So, we have digital picture frames. I’ve actually been to a house where the person had like 10 of these digital frames on their mantel, and they all switched it once. It was quite amusing to watch. A little distracting, too.
BEWARE!!! I got this exact digital picture frame for Christmas and it went right back to the store!
The software on this thing is buggy as hell. It would constantly freeze, refuse to sync to my PC and the picture looked terrible. I didn’t even look at the price of this before rushing to the comment button mainly because I wouldn’t buy this thing at ANY price.
If you like crappy images and buggy software then have fun…otherwise you might want to pass and invest in a slightly higher quality device…