Does this frame store the images locally? Or does it only show them from the cloud? What would happen if the internet connection were to do down?
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I am not 100% sure but my guess is that the slideshow is stored locally. Otherwise it would make it slow and use too much bandwidth.
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The Frame stores images in the cloud. Were the internet to go down, whatever photos that are on your frame would continue to display (and also remember they're still safely stored in the cloud). The only difference is that, so long as there is no internet connection, there would be no new updates going to your frame. But that wouldn't affect the current slideshow on the frame, that simply continues to play.
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A little more info... There are a lot of options for storing and viewing pics. The device makes these fairly intuitive. Cloud storage is the method the company would rather you use. You upload pics to the cloud and they are downloaded to your device. Once downloaded they are on your device and stored in the cloud. This is useful but not my preferred method. You can store pics on a usb or sd card and view them on the device. I haven't experimented with moving pics from the sd / usb to the cloud or vice versa so I don't know if it's possible but that would be a great option. My guess is that's not possible currently. (Nixplay, if you're reading, that would be a great option. Did I mention that would be a great option?) Pics that are emailed to the device end up in the cloud. Again, it would be great if one could move the pics from one type of storage to the other. Basically, the same goes for Facebook or Picasa or whatever accounts. They end up in the Nixplay cloud (as well as in your original FB / Picasa / whatever account). As previously stated, if the Internet connection were to go down you'd still have whatever was already downloaded or on a usb or sd card.
95686
Because we have many thousands of pictures for the frame, we only run it off of a thumb drive. Sorry, don't know
677488
No subscription fees or other charges. Data is stored on the local drive which is also accessible through your network as a network resource. You'll need an internet connection, of course, to let this drive access the outside world. Data is NOT stored on a WD server somewhere. That said, you do access the drive through an app on your mobile device, so data flow is presumably going through a middleman somewhere, but the actual data is stored on the drive.
1678841
It is a network storage device. Windows should be able to see it over the network, and you should be able to map a drive to it.
1533404
No. It is just a storage device. To view photos you will have toconect it to a computer.
1232176
Did you get yours yet? I just ordered mine after much research. I don't plan to use the software that comes with it. Instead, I'm going to transfer pics to an SD card. If I'm happy with the frame, I'd like to get one for my parents for Christmas.
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You can watch LIVE video for free. However, if you want to view anything that happened in the past, you MUST PONY UP $$$$. Offering the cloud service is fine but requiring it and not allowing people to save video locally instead is a deal breaker for me as well. Good business model in theory... however, too many people see through it and will buy another camera that allows local storage. For me, I want to save to dropbox. That way, it's saved (and synched) to all of my computers and laptops at home and the office.
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The frame does have a slide show feature and has nice transitions between pictures. Transition types and rate can be adjusted. The frame has a built-in wireless NIC which can be used to connect to your home wireless network. I purchased this frame because of the wireless support. I configured the frame to connect to my Flickr account and gave it to my mother so she could see our family photos. The problem that I and others have encountered is the frame loses its wireless configuration after a few days. I'm considering replacing the frame with an Android tablet.
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It appears that it is saved to the memory card, not the cloud. You do have the option to download videos to your phone from the cameras memory card. You would have to do it before the crook unplugs it though.
645134
This can act as an online backup device of sorts, but it isn't a replacement for a cloud back up service such as carbonite. you get a free license for their packaged online backup solution though. The files are all stored on the hard drive locally on the network. The "cloud" portion comes from it allowing you to access the local networked files remotely through a web browser interface, much like an FTP server.
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Hello there Andrea. I am really not sure if the frame has that capability however what it can do is what I believe may be a "workaround." You have the ability to upload your photos onto an SD card. Those pictures are uploaded in the order you indicate such as folder names or dates etc. If your looking to display photos of Christmas you may do so either by photo name or date or random within the specified folder. That way you can play the holidays in order of year and even further filter by person/child. Now, what I do is something I have gotten quite a bit of feedback on. I have two children that I have taken on several trips all over the globe. I fly for a commercial airline so I have well in excess of 20k photos. I have them randomly playing from randomly chosen folders with random transition between photos. So literally you never see the same photo twice. All in all you have to remember, you are going to get out of your frame only what you are willing to put into it. Also, at this price point, you simply cannot beat the performance. One piece of advice, just when you think you have ordered the right size, go larger. I have quite a few now and truly the larger size frames are incredible. I hope this helps! Best and good luck! Brian
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I don't think so, but at the same time I didn't have any large format (raw) picture upload to my cloud my average size pictures are 1920X1080 to 3840X2160. I think if your able to upload it to the cloud it should be able to display on the frame since it's streaming through wifi from your cloud
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They use their owe server XXX@pixstar.com So yes if they go out of business and drop there server you are in the same boat. It still should work as a photo picture frame you just will not receive photos through the wifi connection
946578
This unit has a USB port which can be used to display your photos/movies, provided they are in a format compatible with the WD player . It won't read any other external storage device such as a hard drive on your PC. If you are watching photos/movies using the USB port, you don't have to be connected to the internet.
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The unit is self contained. Meaning you don't need access to the Internet if you don't want to; and you can control it completely from your internal network. If you want Cloud access, then that is also supported but in that case you need to make sure the unit can access the internet. In other words it supports both local access and cloud access, but you get to choose if it should use the Cloud or not.
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I don't actually know. What I use is a thumb drive with the photos on that and it allows me to load several gigabytes
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I want to purchase this item. Is there any update to this issue? I have .img files I would like to upload into this memory. Does anyone know if it is an issue?