Sony's latest BRAVIA - it's a TV turned photo frame

[HEXUS]

Take a look at Sony's "pretty as a picture" BRAVIA E4000 series.

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[McClane]

By displaying a single image does it not suffer from screen burn?

[chrestomanci]

Displaying a single image won't be a problem with an LCD, after all you don't see a burn in of your windows task bar when playing games or movies. It might be a problem with a plasma, but even there things have got a lot better over the years, and you are not going to see bad burn in like you used to see on old green screen cash points. Slight burn in can probably be corrected in software by keeping track of how much each pixel may have faded and adjusting the brightness to compensate.

Back on topic, I think that using an LCD TV as giant digital photo frame is a very good idea, and I have always wondered why it is not a standard feature on most of them, after all they would only have to fit a card reader on the side, and have a simple upgrade to the electronics & software to support displaying pictures from it.

Probably the main downside with using a TV as a photo frame is that it would encourage users to leave their TVs on all day, which would use up lots of electricity and be bad for the environment. Perhaps there is some energy saving regulation that prevents such waste, and that is why we have not seen TVs as photo frames before now.

[TheAnimus]

You do actually get burn in on TFTs. My old place i had terrible burn in on two of the 19" NECs, they couldn't of been *that* old either.

[Sinizter]

If you look at the new airport screens which have not been in use for that long - burn will be evident.

Newer generation stuff is less susceptible to burn, but it takes a lot more abuse.

As for the picture frame, why not have changing pictures - which would take care of the burn problem. Even if one of them was displayed for five minutes at a time it wouldnt be a problem.

Its not a standard feature because not everyone would want to run a picture frame which sucks up around 300W when its on. Every additional feature comes at an additional cost. The large screen TV market is pretty tight nowadays - and prices have to be extremely competitive to compare with cheap tat displays that stores market as own brand displays when 90% of people are confused about what HD means let alone the difference between HD Ready and full HD.