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 plummeted over the last year 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, manufacturers were able to take advantage of economies of scale. The end result was a marked reduction in the cost of the materials and components used in the production of digital frames.

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

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

If, like many people, you have a large collection of photos built up over the years, these might be your most effective way of getting them on display. In all probability you have only a small percentage of your collection printed out and shown in traditional frames around your home. Apart from the fact that there simply isn’t enough wall area to show all your photos in normal 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 any noticeable difference – it would take 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 normal frame, when you consider that a digital frame can display, quite literally, hundreds of snapshots, the benefits become clear. 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 mounting them in traditional frames.

Admittedly, that may not be an exact “like for like” comparison. The likelihood is that the added functionality of the digital photo frame will encourage you to put photos on display which would otherwise never have seen the light of day. Given that your photos are really memories from key points throughout your life that’s probably worth quite a lot in itself.