Comments on: New England’s Vizit Turns the Digital Photo Frame from a Dumb Display into a Sophisticated Media Hub

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Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:47:09 +0000

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By: Red Velvet

Red Velvet — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:22:57 +0000

It already appears that Vizit is way better than the HP ScreamScreen. See today’s review on two other frames that look far inferior to Vizit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/technology/personaltech/24pogue.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

By: TD

TD — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:06:19 +0000

HP’s doing this too! And seemingly a whole lot better: Check out the DreamScreen.

By: Wade Roush

Wade Roush — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:12:27 +0000

Geez, everyones’s so negative today!

I guess the irony in Growney’s comment didn’t come through. I’ve added a phrase to the story to make it clear that the grandmother quote was tongue-in-cheek. My impression from meeting with Isabella Products is that they care deeply about increasing human communication. The great thing about digital media devices, obviously, is that they make it so much easier to stay in touch with the people you care about, even when you can’t be in the same place with them.

By: Nokama

Nokama — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:02:41 +0000

““My mother didn’t feel like a grandmother because she couldn’t ever see her grandchildren, living in Chicago,” says Growney. “Her solution was to come and live with us for months at a time. I said, ‘We can solve this problem with technology.’”

I can only hope this quote was taken out of context, because if that isn’t a sad commentary on our society today, I don’t know what is. Replace a face-to-face interaction with a close family member with yet another screen!?? I can’t believe that this is how somebody thinks.

By: Indy Will

Indy Will — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:27:47 +0000

A 10.2 inch screen is a mighty big screen for sure. But once you account for the size of the actual frame around the larger screen and considering how a consumer “typically” uses a frame, the Vizit frame might be too big for a typical book-shelf, night-stand, end-table or desk. I think this why MOST frames, sold by many different manufacturers,tend to be the smaller 7 or 8 inch screen size.

Your critique of the image quality is not quite right. A larger frame NEEDS more pixels to create the image quality equal to a smaller frame with less pixels. I would HOPE Vizit understood this! So your point that the image “quality” is better is misleading and really an unfair statement.

Finally, a touch screen might seem like a cool feature at first, but it is a nightmare to keep clean. How do I know? Well my personal frame is a touch screen and now that I have owned it for awhile I wish that I had a remote to operate it instead.

Will

By: Wade Roush

Wade Roush — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:42:15 +0000

Bowerbird, the device does access the Web, in a sense — it gets new photos from the VizitMe Web service, which in turn connects to other photo sharing sites. In any case, I don’t think you’d really want to surf the open Web over a cellular modem, and Isabella’s pricing model wouldn’t cover the expense. I see the Vizit as being similar to other dedicated wireless devices like the Kindle — which is $299, and does have a rudimentary Web browser, but is designed for reading books, just as Vizit is designed for viewing photos.

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:48:39 +0000

a $250 “media hub” that cannot access the web?

oh yeah, that’s a good idea. a really good idea…

-bowerbird