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Looking For High Quality Small LCD For Photo Frame Application
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Bloomington, IN, USA
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I have an old G4 tower that I'd like to turn into a machine to serve a DIY photo frame. I'd like it cheap and bright. I'm figuring that this could be possible since I got 15" NEC LCDs a year ago for $50 each. It wouldn't have to have a stand or housing, as I'd frame it. I'm thinking no bigger than 10" diameter. Ideas?
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Two things: a small display is going to have a high pixel density and won't be produced in much volume, which will both drive the cost up.
17" LCDs are actually cheaper than 15", mostly because of volume. Is there a reason you want the photo frame smaller?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Bloomington, IN, USA
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Good points. I'm looking for a 10" or less so it will blend in more...like a regular 5x7 or slightly bigger. I was thinking that perhaps there's a good display meant for installation in cars (non-touchscreen) would be produced for this need. Further, if I could get just a standard photo frame normally used with RAM that had a VGA or DVI input, that would work. It should be easier to do this than provide the functionality to use cards, etc.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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You can actually buy these things. I saw one at Zeller's for about $99 CDN. It didn't run off a computer though, it took the pictures from a memory card.
It would probably cost you the same to make it. You need to find a good cheap parts store like this one Displays for G3 Pismo - iFixit although I'm not sure that one is cheap.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Bloomington, IN, USA
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I know that you can buy photo frames, but I'd really like one that I could use from a computer to provide more flexibility. Perhaps flikr streaming or slick transistions like OS X's photo screensaver.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Bloomington, IN, USA
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Bump. It seems like there's got to be some photo frame that you can use with a VGA or DVI input, and it would sure be nice to be able to use OS X's advanced tools to display those pictures. Ideas?
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