(Credit: John P. Falcone/CNET)HP has one big request for when you’re talking about its new DreamScreen product line: don’t just call it a digital photo frame.
Fair enough. The DreamScreen can display your photos effortlessly, but that just scratches the surface of what it can do. Available in 10.2-inch and 13.3-inch versions (both 800×480 resolution), the DreamScreen offers 2GB of on-board memory, plus slots for all standard flash media card types as well as USB storage. If loading your digital media via flash memory is too old-fashioned for you, the DreamScreen can also connect to your home network via Wi-Fi or Ethernet, and–according to HP–the included software lets you drag and drop the files you want to move to it via the network.
Beyond photos, the DreamScreen can also play videos (MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264) and music (MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV) through its built-in speakers (or you can use the headphone jack to connect to an outboard stereo); it can also play music in the background while displaying a slideshow. But if you don’t have a single audio file, you can instead opt for one of thousands of Internet radio stations or Pandora’s streaming audio service instead.
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