There has never been a better time to think about getting a digital photo frame for your house or office. The price of these frames has absolutely plummeted over the last twelve months or so – there are two principle reasons for this:
Firstly, because of hugely increased sales volume spread over the last year or so, producers were able to take advantage of economies of scale. The end result was a marked reduction in the cost of the materials and components used in the production of digital frames.
Secondly, in the run in to Xmas of 2008, we saw very aggressive pricing by the large manufacturers aimed at either growing or maintaining their market share. This led to additional price reductions.
Even without the aforementioned price reductions, digital photo frames represent phenomenal value for money.
If, like a lot of people, you have a large collection of photos built up over the years, these might be your most effective way of getting them on display. In all probability you have only a fraction of your collection printed out and shown in conventional frames around your house. Apart from the fact that there simply isn’t enough wall area to show all your photos in normal frames, the cost would be prohibitive.
Nevermind the cost of the frames – even although this would be large – just the cost of developing conventional photos would be enormous. Whether you chose to do this with your own dedicated photo printer or if you used a processing lab wouldn’t make a great difference – it would take a lot of money.
So apart from the fact that you can now buy a digital photo frame for around about the same price as a traditional frame, when you consider that a digital frame can display, quite literally, hundreds of images, the benefits become more obvious. Even if you were to splash out and buy yourself one of the top end digital frames for several hundred dollars then, on a “per photo on display” basis, it would still be a lot more cost effective than printing out hundreds of photos and displaying them in traditional frames.
Realistically, that may not be an exact “apples for apples” comparison. The likelihood is that the added functionality of the digital picture frame will allow you to put photos on show which would otherwise never have seen the light of day. Given that your photos are actually memories from important points throughout your life that’s arguably worth quite a bit in itself.