Digital Photo Frames

Digital photo frames are a category of consumer electronic products that are starting to grow in popularity, with many styles, sizes, and brands of digital frames available. Prices usually start around $150 for an average digital photo frame, though these prices are expected to continue to drop as the popularity of digital photo frames grows.

With a digital photo frame, you can create slideshows for your own household, share photos with friends and family, and even add audio or music to your images with some models. Although digital photo frames cost more than a traditional photo frame, they are much more flexible and appealing in that numerous photos can be shown in a slideshow and updated easily when, for instance, a grandchild goes through a new stage of development. Once loaded with images, the digital photo frame can then be placed anywhere because they do not need to be connected to a computer.

Digital photo frames have the potential to capitalize on the swelling numbers of users of digital cameras and the desire of these users to display their digital photos outside of their computer. Americans bought more than 22 million digital cameras in 2005, adding billions of photos to the ones already on the hard drives of home computers. At the same time, less than 5% of U.S. households own a digital photo frame to easily display these unseen digital photos. The prices of digital photo frames are expected to continue falling as the frames catch on, which has been the case with the prices of other consumer electronics products that have dropped quickly once enough have been sold.