The Creative unit is about as close as it gets, BUT and this is important, your dad has a fatal issue with the plan.
NO BACKUP COPY!
This is where people loose it all. It's never been cheaper to put the pictures on sets of CDR.
Bob
Hi,
My dad's looking for a portable device which can basically store all his pictures and where he can look at them wherever he goes.
He's not very digitally competent, so right now he just keeps buying these big memory cards so he won't ever have to delete pictures from his digital camera!
I was looking at the new Creative Zen portable media center, and also the Archos Gmini and Archoz Video Recorder - but not sure which would be the best fit. He's also computer illiterate, so ideally he would like a device that can download pictures directly from his Sony cybershot camera (with just the USB) , instead of having to go through a PC... any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

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