32″ Digital Picture Frame is a Waste of $840

Written on Jun 25, 2008 by Brian and filed under News

In the digital photo frame market there are two real categories of product. First are frames that actually have a unique feature set and second is the mass of frames that are relatively indistinguishable from each other. Perhaps there’s a third category, those that are flat out a waste of a perfectly good LCD panel.

That last category is soundly where the OptiPix SP3200 32″ digital picture frame fits in. You might be looking at the picture wondering why such  frame would cost $840, considering HD televisions that size can be had for less, and oh by the way, they also have more components. Their marketing blurb doesn’t really help either:

The world’s largest digital picture frame, the 32 “ SP3200. The new flagship model of the company’s extensive and highly-successful OptiPix™ family of digital picture frames, the SP3200 is sure to turn heads wherever it’s displayed. SP3200’s 16:9, widescreen LCD panel displays photos in high definition, with a resolution of 1366×768. The frame can also playback video with sound, including MPEG, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMA and AVI files, at their native resolutions. In addition to being able to control the SP3200 directly from the unit, consumers can also operate the frame via RF remote control.

That’s not all though, the SP3200 also includes 256MB of internal memory. I think it’s actually mounted pretty well and looks nice enough, but how they can de-feature a television, slap on a frame and call it the world’s largest digital picture frame, is a bit of a mystery to me. I can show pictures from a memory card on my 50″ Pioneer plasma television, so isn’t that a larger digital frame than this product? Sure it doesn’t have a wood border…Anyway, if you have the money and like how it looks, by all means. [TFTS]

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