Sony announced the HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album.

The Sony HDMS-S1D allows you to store your digital photos on an 80GB hard drive, connect to a HDTV via HDMI and display up to 50,000 high resolution photos with slide-show or Scrapbook-style displays. The black box offers a ton of methods for importing photos, including multiple flash memory card formats, CD, DVD, USB or Ethernet. Once imported, photo collections can be managed with the supplied remote control.

Photos can be organized by date, special occasions such as birthdays and travel (using pre-selected icons), or into as many as 3,000 different photo albums– enough for every major family milestone. The digital photo album also provides the ability to review, edit, rotate, delete and arrange photos for a slideshow or digital scrapbooking with Sony’s x-Application features.

The HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album uses Sony’s face detection technology to locate faces in photographs and adjusts the slideshow transitions around the location of faces.

The Sony HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album will be available in October for about $400 on the Sony Style store.