PhotoVu launches 17-inch wireless digital picture frame
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 16, 2005 at 9:19am
PhotoVu has released the US$899 PV1740, a wireless digital picture frame. It’s for those who don’t need the company’s larger, pricier 19-inch models.
The PV1740 includes a custom frame and mat made to order, built-in support for Apple’s iPhoto photo management software, as well as an optional 40GB removable hard drive for stand-alone play. It supports up to 12 megapixel cameras and a future upgrade path to standards like Wireless-G. PhotoVu’s 17-inch LCD digital picture frames wirelessly retrieve from a Mac’s hard drive for viewing on the wall.
The digital picture frame has an Ethernet cable connector in back and has a port for connecting a USB stick for those who wish to change images on the fly. When the USB stick is inserted, it overrides the photo database on your Mac (though other settings remain the same). The PV1740 doesn’t have wireless support built in. Instead the wireless connector is USB-based so the product can support a variety of current and upcoming standards.
The picture frame requires no monthly subscription, additional image manipulation or software installation. Consumers and businesses can display thousands of digital images stored on any computer that has a network connection and is running Mac OS X (or Windows or Linux). All you do is plug in the PV1740 into your network or within range of a wireless network and turn it on. All features and operations are controlled remotely from any computer’s Web browser on the network.
The software lets you customize a variety of settings for the images displayed. You can set the delay between photos, how they’re displayed (in order or randomly), background colors and implement password-protection, if you wish. You can also choose from 29 different types of transitions and a variety of filters. The PV1910’s software supports such image formats as JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GIF.
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