Digital picture frame maker PhotoVu keeps expending its horizongs—literally. Today, the company announced the availability of its PV2265w 22-inch widescreen digital picture frame. The LCD display sports a 1,680 by 1,050 pixel 16:10 widescreen resolution, and offers a customizable picture frame and matboard to complement your images, your decor, or both. The 22-inch model follows on the 19-inch photo frame the company launched last July.
"This is clearly the world’s premium digital picture frame," said PhotoVu’s Robert Jordan, in a statement. "Our first large wide format digital frame, the PV1965w, has been very well received and we expect the PV2265w to be ‘the’ digital picture frame gift for the 2007 holiday season."
The PhotoVu photo frames support images stored on most types of USB flash drives, but perhaps more interestingly, can be lashed to a wired Ethernet or wireless Wi-Fi network to pull photos off home servers or the Internet. Once on a network, the PhotoVu frames can be configured with a Web browser, and can access image libraries accessible on Flickr, Google’s Picasa service, SmugMug, RSS feeds, and Apple’s iPhoto image cataloging software. The frames are also VESA compatible for wall-mounting (which may help explain their popularity as digital signage systems). The 22-inch unit offers 300cd/m2 of brightness, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and offers a 165° horizontal viewing angle.
The PV2265w is available now, but be prepared to get out your checkbook: where inexpensive 22-inch monitors for computers can be found for a few hundred dollars, PhotoVu is asking for $1299 USD for the PV2265w. But with the cheapo LCD, you don’t get your choice of elegant framing options.
