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Also, IMHO, most of the frames themselves are ugly. For some reason, a lot of them have these huge ugly plastic borders around the actual screen. This makes the screen look even larger and the thing ends up not really looking like a frame at all.

I think where all these companies go wrong is obsession over the "frame" part. IMO, they should be producing a raw display that's 5" by 7" so that the user can put it in any frame he wants, just like a real picture.

But you're saying to yourself "but, Bitt, a photo is a thin sheet of paper while this thing would be a thick piece of glass." True, but most frames come with a sheet of glass in them. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of problems with my idea, but I think that one of the biggest problems is that the people building these things couldn't design a decent-looking picture frame if their life depended on it. So leave that to the people who do it for a living.

Another idea would be to use e-paper. Of course, I don't think that there's any full-color e-paper yet. Just black-and-white. So that may be the future.
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Bitt Faulk