Every time I take a look at some digital frames out there I get a tingling sensation as people could only picture those would exist in Science Fiction movies years ago and now they are a reality. Who knows what SF feature will appear in the future and will take over our lives. Getting back to the subject at hand, we can notice Viewsonic getting into this SF (for me) topic and launching their first ever digital frame. It will come with an 8 inch wide screen frame that can cover a nice 800 X 480 pixels resolution and can display the most popular movie formats while coming with integrated speaker for different MP3 sounds you might choose to include plus a remote control. Everything sums up to the quite affordable amount of $200, which is not much if we are thinking about decorating our home with high fi technology in mind.ViewSonic will also appear with an 8 inch DF87G frame that will bear an 800 X 600 resolution. We can basically choose from a wide screen or regular frame model but the good news is that the regular gadget will be under $200. To make things even better, a third version of the ViewSonice digital photo frame will also appear on the market and it will come with a 7 inch DP701W4 wide screen that will bear a resolution of 800 X 600, a 400 to 1 contrast ratio, a response time of 30 ms and a 220 cd/m2 brightness.

Unfortunately we still do not know how much storage space we will get for the frames but ViewSonic did say that it will be enough to hold around 400 photos shot at 5 megapixels. As expected, pictures will be transferred via USB or memory card from the camera or computer directly to the digital frame. An official announcement is expected in a few weeks concerning the company’s digital photo frames line and we do know that the plans are for around 10 digital frames types to be built.