Sony is about to bring to the market a Digital Picture Frame for Christmas.  The 7” DPF-D72N/BQ Digital Picture Frame features a LCD WVGA display, has a remote control, has clear and vivid colors, comes with a 16:10 aspect ratio LCD, has several playback selections, and has a resolution of 800×480.  It will sport 1GB of internal memory to save and hold your pictures.  As stated on Sony’s website, the internal memory can hold up to 2,000 images!  This Sony digital frame can display 2 image types: RAW and JPEG.  And since every single digital cameras do support JPEG, then this Sony digital frame will certainly work with all of them!

It is able to use a large variety of the today’s memory cards and it is also able to get pics by using a USB port.  The following is a list of all the many memory card types that the frame supports: Secure Digital (SD), xD-picture cards, Compact Flash Card Type I and Type II, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, and Multi-Media Card (MMC).

Other features include Auto Resizing and Auto Rotation, and these two features will always be handy.  Auto Resizing automatically shrinks or magnifies your photos for best display, without loosing the photo’s ratios or attributes.  Auto Orientation, is able to automatically decide if the photos should be in portrait or landscape format!  The use of this feature you are allowed to put up your digital lcd frame horizontally or vertically, but, images are displayed better in landscape.

Additional features include an assortment of viewing modes, a clock and a calendar.  The frame will be around 150 U.S. dollars when it enters the market.

However, there are several things that are missing in this Sony digital picture frame, namely video, audio, and wireless.  While today wireless is common practice, it is very interesting that Sony would release this digital picture frame that doesn’t have wireless support.