Are photo prints headed towards extinction?

[baturn]

Pretty hard to mount a digital file on your wall.

 

[Buckster]

Pretty hard to mount a digital file on your wall.

Not if you're using a digital photo frame or displaying on a flat-screen.

 

[12sndsgood]

Pretty hard to mount a digital file on your wall.

Not if you're using a digital photo frame or displaying on a flat-screen.

agreed. as those become cheaper and bigger it probalby won't be long till you see 30x42 photo frames on walls that can have pics uploaded from your computer wirelessly.

 

[MichiganFarts]

Here's a photo I personally printed....I don't think it'd have the same effect on a computer screen...

 

[KmH]

They said computers would make a paperless society. :lmao:
Vinyl records are making a comback. :thumbup:
People still buy new film cameras. :thumbup:
Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Staples, Costco, CVS, etc still print boatloads, big boatloads of 4x6 prints. :thumbup:

 

[syphlix]

i'd rather make a cpl prints than pay the electricity that a 40" photo screen is gonna eat up...

 

[KVRNut]

I don't think making prints will ever die out. There's nothing quite like seeing a good piece of work blown up and hanging on a wall. A large, well done, print can do so much more than viewing the picture on a screen.

 

[oldmacman]

Pretty hard to mount a digital file on your wall.

Not if you're using a digital photo frame or displaying on a flat-screen.

agreed. as those become cheaper and bigger it probalby won't be long till you see 30x42 photo frames on walls that can have pics uploaded from your computer wirelessly.

You might already have one. I use my 52" flat screen with my Apple TV (loads of other devices do the same thing) and wirelessly synch pictures to it. I only use this feature when we are having a party, though as I wouldn't want to burn out the TV. It's still only max res of 1920x1080. What would be really interesting is if they could make a static page, like a Kindle page, that requires very low power and is in colour.