Sony HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album Serves as High Def Image Storage Solution

If you’re anything like us then, try as you might, the sheer number of digital photographs you own result in numerous folders scattered across your PCs hard disk – but help is at hand in the form of Sony’s new HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album which offers a single, versatile high definition storage solution which ought to not only bring order to the chaos but which should allow easier access to your ever growing image collection without having to fire up your PC or burn imagery to CDs and DVDs for viewing via TV sets.

Built around a 80GB hard disk, Sony’s HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album can store up to an astounding 50,000 high resolution images which can be imported via and Ethernet connection, flash memory cards, USB memory sticks and CDs and DVDs into a single, manageable centralised collection – which can subsequently be organised by date or user definable occasion (which a possible 3000 separately ordered sub collections being definable).

Once stored, image collections can be selected with ease courtesy of a remote control unit with the resulting slideshows being output via HDTV or HDMI units to a suitably captive audience.

The Sony HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album, which also comes with basic image manipulation tools as well as the ability to create slideshow transitional effects (complete with your choice of backing music, should you wish) as well as face detection technology enabling transitions around faces – though we’re not sure as to whether this would look particularly impressive in practice.

The device – which, if paired with Sony’s new Cybershot T2 digital camera would complete a killer setup – also comes with Sony’s x-Scrapbook application allowing for digital scrap-booking via templates and retails for around $400.

[Source | Ubergizmo]