There has never been a better time to think about getting a digital photo frame for your home or office. The price of these frames has absolutely tumbled over the last twelve months or so – there are two principle reasons for this:

Firstly, as a result of massively increased sales numbers spread over the last year or so, producers were able to take advantage of economies of scale. The end result was a significant reduction in the cost of the materials and components used in the manufacture of electronic frames.

Secondly, in the approach to Christmas of 2008, we saw extremely aggressive pricing by the big manufacturers aimed at either growing or defending their market penetration. This led to further price reductions.

Even without the aforementioned price reductions, digital photo frames represent phenomenal value for money.

If, like a lot of people, you have a large collection of photographs built up over the years, these might be your best way of getting them on display. In all probability you have only a small percentage of your collection printed out and shown in old fashioned frames around your house. Apart from the fact that there just isn’t enough space to show all your photos in static frames, the cost would be excessive.

Forget about the cost of the frames – even although this would be huge – just the cost of processing conventional photos would be enormous. Whether you chose to do this with your own specialised photo printer or if you used a processing facility wouldn’t make very much difference – it would cost a lot of money.

So apart from the fact that you can now pick up a digital photo frame for more or less the same price as a traditional frame, when you consider that a digital frame can display, quite literally, hundreds of images, the benefits become more obvious. Even if you were to go mad and buy yourself one of the top end digital frames for a few hundred dollars then, on a “per photo on display” basis, it would still be a lot more cost effective than printing out hundreds of photos and displaying them in traditional frames.

Realistically, that may not be an exact “like for like” comparison. The likelihood is that the additional functionality of the digital photo frame will prompt you to put photos on display which would otherwise not have seen the light of day. Given that your photos are actually memories from key points throughout your life that’s arguably worth quite a lot in itself.