Sony HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album

By Nick Mokey
October 24th, 2007

The concept of using a television to display photos has been around since even before the rise of the digital camera and the ubiquity of digital images. Unfortunately, it’s never quite gained the audience manufacturers have always hoped for. Kodak attempted it back in the early 1990’s with its Photo CD players, but they never quite gained widespread acceptance, and successive attempts by other companies haven’t garnered much more success.

The limited resolution of a television set was one major limiting factor for viewing anything but snapshots, but high-definition sets are helping to change that. Sony recently released its own digital photo album specifically for HD sets, the HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album, which allows users to view all their photos with much more resolution.

From a historical perspective, this leap in quality will be the S1D’s biggest selling point. A standard definition television can only handle digital images of 640 x ...

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