The line between consumer and professional electronics continues to blur. Pacific Digital makes a line of LCD still picture frames that display slideshows of JPEGs from digital photographers. The company also packages frames along with retail content management software for digital signage applications. The signage models can be fed by USB, SD cards and WiFi links and the latest frames can autodownload fresh sign copy from a web address.
At CES, Pacific Digital upgraded to TV with the MemoryFrame PV1, a 5x7 LCD screen that plays MPEG4 video at 640x480 at 30 frames per second. At 7" x 6.2" x 0.8" it fits easily on a store shelf. Pop in a 2GB SD cards to play more than three hours of video, or connect a WiFi link through USB and feed live data to the picture frame. Here's the punchline: the street price for the Pacific Digital video picture frame is $195.00. It's a low cost personal media player as well as a component of a storewide retail messaging system. Pervasive digital video is getting so cheap it's inescapable.
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