Digital Foci Announces the Release of the Picture Porter Elite Portable Digital Photo Album

 Digital Photo Album with Large 3.6” LCD Securely Saves Photos on the Road in its 40GB & 80GB Portable Hard Drives

Digital Foci Press Release Summary:
Orlando, Florida, February 7, 2006– Digital Foci, Inc. announces today that it will be introducing at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) Conference Picture Porter Elite portable digital photo album with 40GB and 80GB hard drives and a memory card reader. Featuring a large 3.6” LCD for easy viewing, Picture Porter Elite lets you instantly and securely save and view digital photos and video on its hard drive wherever you go, so you can keep snapping away and stop worrying about limited memory card space on your digital camera.

Portable Digital Photo Album
With its high-capacity hard drive, you can now carry your collection of digital photos and video with you all the time right in your pocket and view them anywhere. While viewing photos on Picture Porter Elite's bright LCD, you can rotate, zoom, pan, view EXIF information, and play picture slideshows . You can also connect Picture Porter Elite to a TV and share your photos and music with family and friends on a big screen in the comfort of your living room.

Especially valuable for vacations, trade shows, special events, parties, and for pro photographers who take and show a large number of photos, Picture Porter Elite saves photos on its hard drive, so you don't have to lug around a heavy laptop on the road. Picture Porter Elite takes the worry out of losing precious photos stored on easily damaged memory cards. Its built-in memory card slots let you copy and archive photos directly from any digital camera memory card, without the need for cumbersome peripheral attachments or cabling.

Print Without a Computer
Picture Porter Elite supports the PictBridge ® standard so you can print directly to any PictBridge compliant printer without a computer. All you have to do is connect Picture Porter Elite by USB to a PictBridge compliant printer and print photos as you view them on the Picture Porter Elite screen. Imagine the convenience of printing photos directly to your printer without the hassle of using a PC or complicated image-editing software!

Works with All Popular Media Formats
Picture Porter Elite works with all popular media card formats, including CF I/ II , MD , MMC , SD Card, Memory Stick, MS PRO, and MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo, so you can copy and save your precious pictures directly from just about any digital camera memory card format. You can also take advantage of its multi-format memory card support and use Picture Porter Elite to archive all your special picture moments. While traveling with a group, you will be able to copy everybody's digital photos onto Picture Porter Elite, regardless of the digital camera brand or model.

Portable Media Player -- MP3/Video Player and Voice/Video Recorder
Picture Porter Elite is also perfect as a portable MP3 and video player -- keep your entire collection of content in one place for easy access. With built-in microphone and recording capability, you can use Picture Porter Elite as a voice recorder to record lectures, interviews, or conferences. Picture Porter Elite also records videos straight from TV or any other video source using high-compression MPEG-4 encoding. The MPEG-4 format will keep the file sizes small for easy sharing while maintaining a high level of picture and sound quality.

Data Bridge
Compatible with Windows and Mac , Picture Porter Elite lets you easily transfer files to and from your computer and between computers with different operating systems through its high-speed USB 2 connection. Moreover, bi-directional data transfer lets you copy files directly from any memory card to the Picture Porter Elite hard drive and vice versa.

Picture Porter Features:
• Photo, video, and MP3 player
• Large 3.6” Color LCD screen for viewing pictures and videos
• Directly reads & writes to memory cards
• Memory card format support of CF I/II, MD, MMC, SD Card, Memory Stick, and MS PRO (xD-Picture card, miniSD, RS-MMC, MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo with adapter)
• Bi-directional data transfer that allows direct transfer to and from memory cards
• Output to TV
• Directly print to PictBridge compliant printers
• Archives and backs up files
• Digital voice and video recorder
• Image format support for JPEG, Tiff, BMP, GIF, RAW
• Music format support for MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV
• Video format support for MPEG-1, MPEG-4, DivX 5.x, WMV, MJPEG
• Includes Ulead Video Toolbox 2 to edit video clips, create slideshows and convert video files
• Includes Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5 SE for easy digital photo management
• Transfers files between multiple computers running different operating systems

Picture Porter Elite is compact and light-weight weighing only 11 oz. (with hard drive and battery included) with dimensions of 5.3” (W) x 3.1” (L) x 1.1” (H) . It c omes in styl is h black metallic and has 2 storage capacities: 40GB and 80GB. Picture Porter Elite comes complete with Ulead management software (a $70 value), USB cable, video/audio cables, earphones, AC adapter, Lithium-Ion battery for 4 hours of video and 10 hours of music, remote control, carrying case, and user's guide. Picture Porter Elite will be available in summer 2006 with pricing starts at $499.


About Digital Foci

Digital Foci helps consumers manage and enjoy their digital content collection easily. The company enhances people's lives by allowing them to seamlessly move digital photos, video, and music from one place to another. With Digital Foci products, consumers are able to enjoy any of their digital content on any device without ever worrying about format compatibility. Digital Foci products include digital picture frames, photo displays, storage devices, and card readers for transfer, storage, and management optimized for any setting where you choose to enjoy your digital content.

Digital Foci (pronounced “foe-sigh”) is the plural form of the word “focus” and symbolizes the many d is tinct points where light and sound converge and diverge. It is at these digital focus points, or foci, where you view and share your digital pictures, watch your digital video, listen to your digital music, and access your digital files.