Iomega 31308 FotoShow Digital Image Center

List Price: $129.99 Discount Price: $33.33

Features:

• View digital photos on your TV
• Display PowerPoint slides when saved as JPEG files
• Organize, edit, crop, and enhance photos without a computer
• Use as external 250 MB Zip drive for your computer
• Compatible with PC and Macintosh

Accessories:
Targus DMC111 Digital Memory Card Case - Black (Koskin)	Jensen JF25 Stereo Headphones	Koss TD-80 Closed-Ear Home Stereophone	Koss R-10 Home Headphones	Iomega 11067 Zip 250 MB Disks Mac Formatted (4-Pack)

Customer Reviews:

RIP OFF [Posted on 2002-01-26]
Don't buy it unless you either already have "POWER POINT" software on you system or are willing to pay [PRICE]to purchase this software. Without "Power Point" you will not be able to use a computer to organize, create, or manage your shows. The editing features that run on the TV are poor ar best. When you copy from a Compact flash card to the zip drive it deletes the originals therefore you must copy these files to your computer before you copy to the zip drive All in All I sorry I got the thing!

3 features add up to a decent product. [Posted on 2002-02-26]
Feature 1. USB zip drive.
Feature 2. Compact Flash/Smart Media to zip drive transfers.
Feature 3. Television Display of Images.

The biggest reason I got this was the ability to dump my compact flash card to disk. A 20 gig hard drive digital wallet would be
nice but, its about 3 times the cost.

I plan on going to Australia from the US, and did not want to lug by laptop with me. I bought it for this reason alone, although since it was a ZIP drive as well that gave me extra incentive.

I tested it this weekend on both smart media and CF flash and it worked perfect.

Copy of 38 images off smart media took less than a minute. It seemed the same for compact flash.

Retrieving the images from the Zip drive to a computer was efficient. The photos are under a folder called originals.

Hooking it up to your TV and having it display is simple, it just takes a bit of time to process NEW images.

The TV display is so so. SOme of the editing capabilities are nice, but a bit cumbersome.

It was a big plus to display the images on the TV for my wife and parents.

AS a sample of the usefulenss. A friend had about 150 pictures on A CD of my daughter playing baskeball. I copied the images from the CD to the zip drive, (when it was hooked up to my computer of course). I brought the unit to "grandma's" house. Hooked it up to the TV turned it on, and it took about 15 minutes to "process" the picutres. After that we had a nice slide show....

I think grandma is going to buy one......

The only minor issue I had is

The AC power adapter is only 110 60 cycle. Most digital products these days the AC power adapter is 110/220 60/50 cycle. I have a UNIVERSAL power adapter so I should be OK.

CF tranfer too Slow [Posted on 2002-02-28]
It have nice resolution, but the transfer time to Zip drives are extremely slow!, it take about 30min to transfer a 128mb Compact Flash to a 250M ZIP drive.

It does what I need it to do. [Posted on 2002-03-21]
I got the Fotoshow mainly to serve as a zip drive and as extra storage for my digital camera when I go on vacations. As a zip drive, it works as expected. It's nice to have the option to take it with me as additional storage for my digital camera. I thought of going with a digital wallet, but the thought of carrying (and dropping) a harddrive with all my pictures in it worries me.

There are a few things that I think would make the Fotoshow better.

1. The card slots are useless when the Fotoshow is connected to the computer via USB cable. It would be nice to be able to use the Fotoshow as a card reader.

2. The power transformer is big and heavy. It should be smaller and lighter for travel.

3. Option for battery/portable power.

4. Faster operation when using the TV.

Overall, I like the Fotoshow. I would like it better if Iomega would fix the items above.

Three years experience [Posted on 2002-04-22]
A friend asked about mine and wanted to buy one. On checking the Iomega site to send him a link I discovered they no longer make this. It is a grat product. I don't know of any other way to view digital pictures on a TV other than directly from the camera if it has a video out jack. The Iomega software works pretty good except that you have to put the pictures in viewing order from the Fotoshow. If you put them in order from your computer in Windows Explorer for example the pictures will revert to the order that Fotoshow had them. Other than that it's a great product.

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