Photo frames to support internet radio
That's some differentiator
A TIE-UP between the UK's CSR and Korea's Telechips will enable manufacturers to create a Wi-fi enabled digital photo frames which apparently can support internet radio, too.
Products can be created using CSR's Unifi single chip offering for the Wi-Fi and Telechips' TCC8300 media processor for the multimedia side.
Telechips have apparently built in support for music subscription services
such as Rhapsody, ShoutCast, WM Audio and vTuner.
Plus there's RSS feed support from sources including Yahoo, MSN, CNN, and the
good old Beeb.
Telechips' reference design envisages digital photos being sent to an eight inch LCD via Wi-fi from multiple sources including some mobile phones.
As a boring old digital photo frame, Telechips claims snaps can be uploaded via Wi-fi with Flickr and/or other photo sharing websites such as Picasa.
The INQ is still getting its head around the concept of listening to the radio on a picture frame. As Minho Seo, CEO of Telechips, said, "increased functionality remains a key differentiator." Quite. µ
Comments
The best possibly wi-fi advertisment.
big screen in crowded area, with wifi up, and this pictue thingy. A big board next to it, with details of how to show your picture, and that it gets say a 2 second slot.You can upload via your phone, laptop and what not, voer the local wi-fi free hotspot.
mind you, not sure everyone would want a pickture of someone's ass, but hey! that would be down to content filtering i guess!
Alarm Clock
How about adding Alarm clock functionality to go with the IP Radio?That would be funky...
Pointless functionality
A radio on your digital photo frame? That's yet another example of manufacturers adding functionality "because they can" not "because they should". The convergence of Digital Photo frames and radio's just makes no sense. It's like having the keyboard on the Kimble - a keyboard on an e-book READER? Why?Anyway....
Being able to upload photos remotely, that for me is the killer feature. I'd love to buy a frame for my parents but couldn't bear having to help them upload new photos all the time. If we could do this remotely then that'd make buying them a photo frame a much more realistic proposition.
wow
Sound and pictures. they could make the pictures move then they would have invented something cool. i propose we call it "television" and waste the technology on crap programming.