Digital frames, also known as digital picture frames or digital photo frames, are a fun and easy way to display your favorite digital pictures in your home or office. Digital frames are also a great way to share your most recent digital photos with friends and family in their own digital frame. Digital frames allow users to create slideshows of their favorite digital pictures to display in their digital frame at any time.

The definition of a Digital Photo Frame

Digital Photo Frame is the display of digital photos rather than paper-based photo frames. Digital photography is bound to promote the development of digital photo frames, because the digital photo printing digital photos less than 35% of the total. Digital Photo Frame is usually a direct plug in the camera's memory card display photos, of course, there are also some digital photo frame will provide internal storage space.

Two types of digital photo frame
Digital Photo Frame on the whole can at three categories:
1, simple function of Digital Photo Frame (jpeg format can only display the picture)
2, simple Multimedia Digital Photo Frame (not only can display pictures, can also play music and video)
3, advanced multimedia digital photo frame (not only pictures, audio and video, often support the 802.11 wireless connectivity, even e-mail from the site can download pictures)

Digital Photo Frame features
Most digital photo frame to slide (General to adjust the function of time interval) in the form of display of photographs, some Digital Photo Frame can also play video formats such as MPG camera film clips or MP3 audio files.

Digital Photo Frame components
Digital Photo Frame by the three major components: LCD screen, PCB board and frame. LCD screen can be simulated can also be digital, to distinguish them by size. PCB circuit board is the core of digital photo frame, as it contains the necessary software. For the end user, the frame is an important criterion. The frame is usually made of wood or plastic.

Some digital photo frames can only display JPEG pictures. Most digital photo frames display the photos as a slideshow, and usually with an adjustable time interval. They also can send photos to the printer.

However, others support additional multimedia content, including movie clips recorded in a digital camera's movie mode, MPEG video files and/or MP3 audio. Certain frames can also load pictures over the Internet from RSS feeds, photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Picasa and from e-mail. Such networked models usually support wireless (802.11) connections. Other ones can display txt files.

Digital photo frames typically display the pictures directly from a camera's memory card, though certain frames also provide internal memory storage. Certain frames allow users to directly upload pictures to the frame's memory via a USB connection. Other digital photo frames have built-in memory, due the high price of in-built memory this feature has been relatively expensive and the memory provided has been small. Some of them also include a rechargable battery.

Most 7 inch (17.5cm) models show images at 430 x 234 pixels. With some models the width of each landscape image is stretched to achieve an aspect ratio of 16:9, which results in very noticeable distortion.