Mitchy260

Looking into buying a 10''+ digital photo frame for the front room and want it wall mountable so no horrible wires running upto it.

Had a quick google, and there appear to be Wifi frames Does this mean it needs a permanent wireless internet connection to stream the images from? How is the thing powered/illuminated?

Apologies, just wanting to see if there are any that will do the job, but without having to have the computer switched on 24/7 Or is this even the case??

As you can tell, newbie to all this

scoobyboy

a lot have a small amount of memory space so you can download pics to so it doesn't need to be connected to a pc all the time most also have slots for all sorts of memory cards as well. the wifi ones just do the download bit over the air so to speak so you don't need to connect to a pc at all.
some also have an internal battery to power it but it doesn't last long only a couple of hours so all are mainly powered by a transformer

Gordo

as above - you'll still need to plug it in

apples24

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i was gonna say if they have invented a wireless power source things are gonna change lol

zs_phil

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i bought a digital photoframe for her christmas present from my daughters ,they are great its got built in memory and can play music and home video's too but does need a power source unfortunately as i bet it costs a fortune as its on for about 18 hours aday .


by the way one of the best prezzies i have bought her very

boxst

They are getting there .... BBC NEWS | Technology | An end to spaghetti power cables

Steve

rossyboy

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As you said, wireless are pointless without having your PC/Laptop on permanently to feed it the pics.

Just get one that accepts SD cards and fill up a 4GB card with pics, Job Done.

apples24

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thats incredible, imagine how it would change our day to day lifes, everything would be different