Recommend wi-fi digital picture frame.
December 7, 2015 10:54 AM   Subscribe

I'm looking for a digital picture frame for my very un-tech-savvy in-laws. We want to be able to upload pictures to it remotely. Can anyone compare Pix-star frames to Nixplay, or do you have other suggestions?
posted by Kriesa to Technology (9 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: We bought a Nixplay for my in laws a few years ago. We can all upload pics to it, which is nice - I think it works by emailing pictures to them. (I'm not the photo person in the family.) I think the only problem we had was it was difficult/impossible to delete pictures from the display; it had to be done through the web UI.

No experience on the Pix-star, so can't help on that side of the equation.
posted by neilbert at 11:13 AM on December 7, 2015




Best answer: I looked into these a couple years back and pretty much decided that, if it weren't for the subscription fee, the Nixplay frames were a bit better than the Pix-star ones (nicer-looking interface, nicer-looking frame overall). It seems that Nixplay has gotten rid of their subscription fee (for up to 10 GB of photos), so that would be what I'd lean towards. But, honestly, I think that they are basically equivalent at this point.
posted by Betelgeuse at 11:52 AM on December 7, 2015


The Skylight picture frame was recently developed by some Harvard business school kids. It's a neat idea: basically you just email pictures to it (to a dedicated email address) and voila they're on the frame. They're still in pre-production mode and are sold out for the 2015 holidays but you can pre-order for a February delivery now.
posted by lazywhinerkid at 11:58 AM on December 7, 2015


I got my in-laws a Pix-Star last year for Christmas and it's been great. Super easy to send photos to.
posted by missjenny at 12:06 PM on December 7, 2015


We've been sending pics to 2 Ceiva frames for about 13 years with great success - both sets of grandparents love theirs.
posted by chr1sb0y at 6:08 PM on December 7, 2015


Oh - ceiva isn't wifi but dials in to a local number nightly.
posted by chr1sb0y at 6:09 PM on December 7, 2015


My Pix-star frame works well. You can email pictures to it, subscribe to an RSS feed, instragram, etc. The local user interface is a bit clunky but functional. Build quality is solid. My initial concern would be that the company would go out of business and there would be no way to get pictures on it remotely but with the RSS/instagram/etc feeds that isn't a concern.
posted by ChrisHartley at 7:11 AM on December 8, 2015


Response by poster: We decided to go with the Nixplay frames due to price and availability during the holiday sales. We got a Nixplay Seed for my inlaws and a Nixplay Edge for my parents. They were equally easy to set up. I think the screen on the Seed was slightly nicer, but the Edge was fine, too. It is easy to upload photos using the smartphone app, but some setup, such as creating playlists, needs to be done through the website. All in all, they were successful gifts. Thanks for the input.
posted by Kriesa at 10:50 AM on December 28, 2015


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