Is Kodak’s New OLED Digital Picture Frame Worth $999?
Ξ September 18th, 2008 | → | ∇ Gadgets |
The technology behind Kodak’s new $999 OLED digital picture frame is awesome. As you probably know, OLED is pegged as the next step in display evolution, since it allows more colors, brightness, and a wider viewing angle—despite the current problem of limited lifespan.
Here’s a spec summary, straight from the press release:
- Enjoy spectacularly crisp images and videos on a 7.6-inch diagonal OLED screen, with 180° viewing angle.
- Experience extraordinary color, rich details and vivid image depth from the high-contrast luminous display (white to black ratio = >30,000:1).
- Achieve high-quality, lifelike video playback with sharp, seamless motion.
- Upload images and videos to the frame from digital cameras, memory cards, USB drives, or wirelessly from personal computers and the Internet via built-in Wi-Fi capability.
- Capacity for up to 10,000 images on the frame’s 2 GB of built-in internal memory
- Built-in memory card reader and USB port.
- Wide screen display with 16:9 aspect ratio and 800×480 resolution.
Still, is that all worth the $999 price tag? Perhaps the biggest selling point of this digital picture frame, when it becomes from kodak.com this November, is the apparently high-quality visuals.
