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Mustek is one of the top 5 digital photo frame manufacturers around the world and the best proof that the company deserves this place is the very large number of such products they've launched over the past few years. And one such item is the PF-T150 model, launched back in January 2007 under the Ality brand, which provides a very large viewing surface for the user's favorite digital photos, as well as a couple of other interesting extras.
The display is most likely the most important component of any digital photo frame, and this is the reason why the PF-T150 has been equipped with a 15-inch active matrix TFT LCD panel, which doubles both as a control panel (touch screen). Furthermore, it allows users to view photos at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 pixels and sports a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Moreover, according to the company, the device provides an enhanced level of functionality, as it also works as a digital photo player, a music player, a card reader and, more importantly, a video player. For this purpose, the digital photo frame has also been fitted with 2 x 3W built-in speakers, and it should work with bitmap, JPEG, MPEG-1/2/4 and WAV files. Furthermore, the photo frame provides clock and calendar functions, and also incorporates a photo playback scheduler.
As mentioned earlier, the display comes packed with a memory card reader, but this function is not fantastic, since the reader works with a relatively limited set of memory cards, including here MMC, SD, CF, MS, MS Pro. Moreover, the digital photo frame also packs an USB 2.0 port, which can be used for viewing the photos stored onto USB flash drives or for transferring photos into the 512 MB internal memory (which can hold up to 2000 photos).
Another interesting feature of the PF-T150 is the fact that it has also been equipped with a TV out interface (both NTSC and PAL compatible), which means that users can hook it up to a TV set for viewing their favourite photos (not that they really need it, at a 15-inch diagonal).
Unfortunately, in the case of digital photo frames, size does come at a price, and a pretty hefty one, for that matter. Thus, the PF-T150 from Mustek retails for around 600 US dollars, which is really a bit too much to pay for such an item, even taking into consideration the numerous extra-features and diagonal size it sports. |