Coby 8-Inch Photo Frame with Multimedia Playback DP870 (Contemporary Design) Review

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(More customer reviews)I got one digital frame (which is very very bad, it doesn't even show the complete pic)before I bought this product. I am absolutely satisfied with the clearity and color, I should see excellent pics. What I didn't expect is the high quality of sound effect, which is a surprise. Also, the operation system is easy and thoughtful. It has a remote control, and the voltage goes between 100-240 V, which is good to give as a gift use in other country. All in all, I want to give my highest recommendation to this product, you will never regret for buying it!!!

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Philips USA AJL308 Clock Radio with 7-Inch TFT LCD Color Display and USB/SD Card Slot Review

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(More customer reviews)There is a lot to love about this product. It's sleek. It's stylish. It's bright, bold and clear. (It can be dimmed!) It's a clock-radio with two independent alarms that also plays audio files (.mp3 and .wma), video (mpeg4 and divx codices) and photo slide shows (.jpg only). It has built-in "relaxation" sounds to help you fall asleep. It has so much going for it! And just when you think it can't get any better...
It doesn't get better. It slips a little. You start thinking to yourself, "If only..." and "Why didn't they just take the next step?" Why isn't there a tiny bit of built-in memory so that I don't need a SD card or USB stick to be attached to change the cute-but-becoming-annoying default photo? Why can't I select an audio file on the SD or USB as my alarm music? Why only three built-in sounds for the "relaxation" music? Why isn't there an AM tuner? Why isn't there a headphone jack? Why can I only display JPEG-format images? For a widescreen 7" LCD picture frame, why is the resolution only 480 x 234? Why isn't there a back-up battery?
This is such a near-perfect little gadget that it's painful to see how close Philips came to making the best device on the market. Yet despite these flaws, it is still so wonderful that it demands four stars. Lucky for Philips, there don't seem to be any viable alternatives with all of the features it does have at this price point... yet.
And regarding the day-of-the-week issue: Philips posted a firmware update on their Web site on September 14, 2007, that fixes this issue. Visit the Philips Web site, type in "AJL308" to find the product page, select the Support link tab (just above and to the right of the product image), and scroll down to the Software section. There is a PDF read-me file and a ZIP file with the actual firmware update. Read the PDF and carefully follow its directions to update the firmware. You'll need a USB drive to transfer the firmware update to your AJL308, and it takes several minutes to complete the update, but once it's done the day of the week should be correct.

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Start the day right with the Philips AJL308 Clock Radio, where you can wake up to the 7-inch color showing off your favorite photo, song, or video. In addition to clock, radio and calendar functions, you can even use pre-loaded relaxation music that will help you fall asleep. Built-in USB and SD card slots let you store all of your photos, music and video clips. You can enjoy music or radio channels with FM digital auto tuning and presets. Set dual alarm times and wake up gently with the increasing alarm volume.

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Coby 3.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame with Alarm Clock DP356WHT (White) Review

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(More customer reviews)As the title says, it's a great alarm clock but it's really not meant for displaying your photos because the screen is too small. This is an Alarm Clock with benefits. It wakes you up in the morning and you can glance over in the evening to see one of your photos and you'll say, "I remember when I took that."

Pros:
3 alarm tones
Displays your photos
Lots of settings
8 minute snooze
Easy to use
Automatically turns on/off
Cons:
To small for displaying your photos to others. (who cares, it's in your bedroom)
Goes into Slideshow when I turn it on. I would rather it be Calendar mode.
Other notes:
Music mode is decent.
Snooze stops working after the second time you press it. May be a good thing or a bad thing.
It forces you to get up or you could fall asleep after second snooze and be late for work.

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Pandigital PAN7000DW 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)The Pandigital PAN7000DW 7" digital photo frame is the best digital photo frame I've found yet. I've purchased 4 other models in different sizes from Axion, Phillps, Smartparts, and Opteka. All of these others had various issues (16x9 when I wanted 4x3, didn't always start picture show automatically, buggy software).
The PAN7000DW is reasonably priced (about $65 from Amazon as of 11/9/2009) as compared to the Sony models which are all much more expensive.
The PAN7000DW display is excellent -- showing 800x600 pictures crisply and vividly. The software is very good with a reasonable user interface and useful options. I like displaying my photos using their original dimensions (the optimized view attempts to maximize the amount of display used but will chop off edges to accomplish this) - you can pick the view mode you want.
The frame accurately shows the EXIF photo date/time if you want to display it. It will also optionally show the current time. It has a nice calendar w/ picture view as well as the normal full frame photo view. And it seems to show ALL your photos eventually (I had a strange problem with an Opteka frame not showing all the photos, only a subset). The remote is small and is held on the back of the frame by a magnet. The remote works well (some remotes I've used have buttons that are hard to press or control). The menu structure (frame software) is logical and well arranged.
The clock functionality and auto turn on/off functionality is useful if you have power available to your frame at all times. However, I've hooked my frame up to a motion sensing power strip in my office and the time/date gets whacked when the sensor shuts off for the weekend (the time/date seem to survive for a few minutes or hours without power but not over a weekend). So if you use your frame with a motion sensing powerstrip, forget using the clock/calendar feature.
As I've discovered with many photo frames, if you want to display pictures in a particular order, they must exist in flash memory written down in that order - this is not a visible ordering - it does not depend on file name or file creation time. If you start with a totally empty flash card (or internal frame memory) then it will be the order in which the files are copied to the memory device. Macintosh and Windows file copy routines are the fastest way to copy files but the order in which copying takes place is not under your control if you move a large number of files all at the same time - the operating system parallelizes the copying for speed but this places the pictures in different physical memory order. It is too bad that most photo frames do not allow you to display in creation date order or EXIF date order or even file name order.
The best way to lay down the photos in sequence is to start with an empty flash device. Then copy the files either one by one by hand or using an automated method that copies files only one at a time. A cmd file on Windows that can do this is like:
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dir /b /od>c:\junk.txt
for /f "delims=*" %%i in (c:\junk.txt) do copy "%%i" f:-------
[...] (you need to change this script to fit your exact situation)
Alternatively you can use Photoshop Elements or some other photo management tool to export photos in sequence directly to a memory card or your picture frame.
Hopefully future photo frames will become a bit more intelligent and allow you to pick your display order.
Overall I've found the PAN7000DW to be a good value and to work as you would expect.


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The world's first 7" frame displays in 4:3 aspect ratio for no stretching, cropping or distortion. Digital screen displays up to 6400 images on 1GB of internal memory. Transfer images, audio and video from a memory card via 5-in-1 card reader or from PC with a USB cable (Not included). Customize the look of your frame with the interchangeable white and charcoal mats. WiFi/Bluetooth compatible.

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Panimage PI8004W01 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)This review is for the Pandigital PanImage 8" Digital Picture Frame Model Number PI8004W01. Purchased 1/19/2010.
First, I should share that I am very technically oriented and a perfectionist. I won't put up with a poor quality or pporly engineered product. Second, I just cannot for the life of me understand some of the comments in the negative reviews for this product based on my experience. I am not sure whether Pandigital has upgraded the product but maintained the same part number or what but there are some clear differences between those posts and my experience. The product I received does have a full 1GB memory and does display photos in a clear and crisp full 800 x 600 resolution. I was almost impressed with the playback of a video. In fact, out of curiosity the first thing I transferred was a 150mb video file that played perfectly sound and all.
Features I really like:
+ The ability to schedule the frame to turn on and off at predesignated times as I am giving this as a gift to my wife who will be putting it on her desk at the office.
+ The ability to select "auto convert" which converts the images being imported to the ideal image size for display (saves storage and saves time from having to do it myself manually on a PC).
+ 8" display as the 7" just seemed a little small to me.
+ 4:3 aspect ratio. I was actually planning to go with something that had 16:9 but then realized most cameras still use/produce 4:3 so this will display most images perfectly vs. having black bands on the right and left (like watching non-HDTV picture on an HDTV.
+ Connectivity - Supports most memory card sizes, USB cable connection to a PC, direct access to a USB drive, and more.
+ Sound - the ability to play a video and hear the sound or even background music if desired.
Last but not least, I was considering a Sony as an alternative but found that many user reviews are complaining about the inablity to load and play a photo that was edited by PC software. I retouch and/or edit photos using photoshop and other tools so I decided to avoid the Sony product.

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The Panimage 8-inch frame holds up to 3,200 compressed images can be stored on 512 MB of internal memory. Transfer images directly from a memory card via 6-in-1 card reader or from PC with included USB cable. Customize the look of your frame with the interchangeable white and charcoal mats. WiFi/Bluetooth compatible.

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ZOpid - Wood 10.4" 800x600 Resolution LCD Display Digital Photo Frame w/ 2GB Built-in Memory - Multi-Function (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good photo frame for every day use. As someone that owns a lower resolution photo frame I can assure you that 800x600 make a lot of difference. The 10.4" diagonal provides a reasonably large viewing area. Power consumption is minimal at 6 watts. The photos come out well balanced for color and brightness. They even provide a 1G SD/MMC card with the photo frame, so you have one less thing to buy. Videos and music are supposed to play on the device but since I don't have any intention of using the frame for either, my reviews are only based on photos.
Overall the photo frame looks well made. I didn't bother reading the instructions -- its pretty easy to figure everything out.
I'd have given it one more star if it had a wooden frame. The frame looks good in its matte black color, but it looks like a plastic frame at the end of the day.
The manufacturer is unknown -- perhaps some generic electronics factory in China. However the seller seems to have done their quality control well. To be on the safe side, use the product heavily in the first month -- if it stands up to use, then it will probably be fine for a long time. If not, you have Amazon's return privilege.


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Sony DPF-V1000 10-Inch Digital Photo Frame Review

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(More customer reviews)Having upgraded from a smaller Philips digital photo frame, the Sony DPF-V1000 is a welcome surprise.
Before getting in to the meat of the review, I feel it's worth pointing out a couple of improvements in the product right up front.
A lot of reviews here complain about three common gripes:
- the illuminated Sony logo on the frame
- when you're in date/time mode, the frame only displays the date and time the photo was taken
- non-camera images don't display
I bought my frame on June 28th 2009 and all these items have either been fixed, or the other reviewers didn't read the manual far enough. The illuminated Sony logo can be turned off via the setup options now. There is a smorgasbord of date and time modes available too, most of which will display the current date and time rather than the date and time the photo was taken. And finally, the non-camera images problem seems vastly reduced now. I filled my frame with all sorts of images including straight-from-the-camera JPGs and ones that had been altered via Photoshop. Out of 400 images, only two didn't display, and they turned out to be TIFF images I'd put on by mistake. Otherwise, images taken from 8 or 9 different makes and models of camera all showed perfectly, as well as those taken from 5 different cellphone cameras.
So on to the frame itself - what's it like. Oddly, bigger than you might think. OK so you can read the dimensions in the product specs but when it arrives, the box is huge, and the frame is much larger than you might imagine. The quality of the LCD panel seems to be top notch with a bright, clear display and a pretty wide viewing angle. The screw-in "foot" which makes up the frame's stand is quite long (for stability) which means that you can't push this frame up against a wall when placing it on furniture - it's going to stand out quite a way. You can hang it on the wall though - it has keyed notches in the back for that purpose. The frame can be oriented in landscape or portrait mode and it auto-rotates the pictures to suit. The picture display itself can be "original aspect" which shows the whole picture with black bars padding the screen where necessary, or it can be "zoom to fit" in which case the image is zoomed slightly to entirely fill the display.
The frame comes with 1Gb of built-in memory as well as memory card slots for most types of card. There is one gotcha here though which isn't mentioned in the manual, and is buried deep in the product FAQ on Sony's website : when you connect this frame to your PC via USB, you can ONLY upload images to the frame's inbuilt memory. Any cards plugged in do not show up - you either need to load them up separately, or copy images to them using the frame's inbuilt copy tools. Whilst this isn't a biggie, if you don't have a separate card reader for your chosen type of memory card, it's a pain having to shuffle images everywhere. Having said that, 1Gb of onboard memory holds a respectable number of images - enough that you might not need an expansion card. Realistically, I think the card slots are there for straight-from-the-camera image viewing, rather than long-term storage.
There are plenty of setup options to keep the both the nerdiest photo frame enthusiast and the absolute beginner happy. One thing I was pleased to see was the option to set the inbuilt clock to 24 hour mode. Why anyone still uses AM/PM in this day and age is a mystery to me, yet so many consumer electrical products insist on the 12 hour format. Not so in this case. As well as the clock, there's a calendar built in too, and in many of the display modes, you can show the clock and/or calendar along with the photo. Another nice feature here - you can set the date display to American or rest-of-world - ie. month-day-year or day-month-year respectively. The clock has an alarm mode which can be turned on or off using a slide switch on top of the frame. Seems a little pointless to me, but then I have a clock radio to wake me up in the morning.
The included remote control is a nice feature. My old Philips frame had no remote so all changes needed to be done using the frame's hardware buttons. With the Sony remote, you can fiddle with the photo frame remotely, including all the setup and display features. It has hidden benefits too - for example if you've got the frame set to refresh every half hour and you decide you don't like the current picture, you don't need to wait - just click 'next' on the remote and on you go.
As with most digiframes, this one has an auto on/off function where you can tell it when you want it to turn itself on and off. It has a simple and complex mode of operation for this feature. In simple mode, you just give it an on and off time and that's it. In complex mode (the default setting) you can set multiple on/off times for individual days of the week. A little too much gravy for a photo frame if you ask me.
The slideshow modes have the usual array of fades and swipes, as well as sequenced or random image mode. For the most part, you'll typically end up in random picture mode, and random fade/swipe mode. The slideshow delay has several preset options from every 3 seconds right up to once a day for the picture change. Common choices like 5 minutes, 10 minutes and half an hour are all present and correct.
You can do some rudimentary image editing in the frame although any serious amount of image touchup is out of the question. It has a scrapbook mode where you can frame the pictures with backgrounds and other add-on graphics although it does seem a bit pointless to buy a large digiframe and then deliberately shrink the images you're displaying on it ....
In short - this frame has more than enough features for the technophile, whilst being pretty easy to just pick up and use for those who want to throw some photos on and be done with it. You can't argue with the clarity of the LCD panel either. All in all, a good choice if not a little pricey. Sure you're paying for the Sony name, but if they did an identical model with all the frills removed - ie. no touchup mode, no alarm, no scrapbook mode and no card slots, that would be a product with more mass-market appeal. That being said, I don't think you'll regret this purchase - it simply is that good.
So why 4 stars and not 5? Well the internet is full of people who either think product X is the best thing since sliced bread, or have an axe to grind with the manufacturer. Those two review types account for 5-star and zero-star reviews. Very few products warrant a full-on 5-star review because most products have one or more features that a chunk of the buyers won't like. So 4 stars is my rating here - ie. it's a bloody good piece of kit but it's not perfect. I don't think the perfect 5-star digital photo frame exists yet.

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LCD panel size: 10.2" (222.7 x 130.5mm)
Actual viewing area size: 217 x 130.5 mm
LCD panel resolution: WideSVGA 1024 x 600 (viewing area 1000 x 600)
Display type: TFT
Display back light type: CCFL
Max. viewable number of colors: 262,144 colors
TruBlack: No
Clear Photo LCD: Yes
Viewing aspect ratio: 15:9
Contrast: 400 (Typ.)
LCD viewing angle: 130degrees (H) / 110degrees (V) (Typ.)
LCD brightness: 300cd/m2 (Typ.)
Lifetime (at 50% brightness): 20,000hr (min.)
Screen angle adjustment: No (Fixed)
Screen angle: 12 degrees (Landscape / Portrait placement)
File system: FAT12/16/32
Available file format: DCF format
Max. number of image files to handle: 9,999
JPEG: DCF Ver. 2.0 compatible, Exif Ver. 2.21 compatible, JFIF* (*Baseline JPEG with 4:4:4, 4:2:2, or 4:2:0 formats)
TIFF: Exif Ver. 2.21 compatible
BMP: 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 bit Windows format
RAW: SRF, SR2, ARW (2.0 or less, preview only*) (*RAW files are displayed as thumbnail preview.)
JPEG file decode speed *1: 1.6 sec *2
Max. pixels available to decode: Up to 8,192 x 6,144 (48 megapixels)
Compatible memory card: Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick PRO Duo, HighSpeed Memory Stick, HighSpeed Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Micro (M2) (available with optional adaptor), MagicGate Memory Stick, MagicGate Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo (8-bit parallel transfer of Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo is not supported), SD card, mini SD card (available with optional adaptor), micro SD card (available with optional adaptor), SDHC card, mini SDHC card (available with optional adaptor), micro SDHC card (available with optional adaptor), MMC, RS-MMC (available with optional adaptor), MMC Plus, CompactFlash Type I, CompactFlash Type II, xD-Picture card, xD-Picture card Type M, xD-Picture card Type H
Auto orientation sensor
Alarm
Auto dimmer
Search function
HDMI output
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Altaz AZICR101 3.5-Inch Internet Clock Radio with Net Applications (White) Review

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(More customer reviews)I was looking for something like this for a while now but nobody made it, so I was happy to hear of the Altaz Internet Clock Radio. I was a bit worried though when it arrived. First off, it's very small which normally isn't a bad thing but with a touch screen it makes it that much more difficult to use. Also, it feels very cheaply made. Second, the touch screen. This touch screen is absolutely horrible. Even after you do the initial calibration it doesn't respond well at all. Some of the menu buttons are so small and close together you end up hitting the wrong one each time or it just doesn't do anything. Lastly, if this is supposed to be an alarm clock (which means it will be on your night stand), why the heck is the screen so ridiculously bright (even on the lowest brightness setting)? At night it lit up half of my room. I had to turn the device completely around so it wasn't facing me, so what's the point of even having it. If this product was only $20 then it might be worth it to someone but definitely not at nearly $100. Needless to say, I have returned it.

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Chumby one Review

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(More customer reviews)My wife was thinking of getting me a Sony Dash for my birthday but then heard me say "Why would anyone want something like that - why not just buy a netbook" in passing, so she opted not to get it. She let me know afterward she was looking at the Dash and Chumby (which I hadn't heard of even though they make the Dash). After looking at it, I thought it was really cool and got the Chumby One to surprise her.
Whether we want to admit it or not, we vote with our wallets. Two days after we received it, I ordered two more. It's not perfect but it's great.
The FM Reception is non-existent as another commenter noted. I'm going to try using a 'real' antenna today to see if that makes a difference, but if not, I really won't be too bothered. If it's a feature it should work, but FM clock radios have been around for years and FM stations aren't why I bought it.
We've only had it about a week but we have experienced none of the reception problems others mentioned. We have a ton of wireless devices in the house and have had a lot of problems with interference on other devices, but so far, the Chumby has worked without a blink. Although we have several repeaters throughout the house, I connected it to the primary link which is on the far side of the house (which has a moderately weak signal in our bedroom) and we still didn't have any problem. Full disclosure on that - I just did it as a test and let it run for about two hours but if a problem was going to surface, i'm quite sure it would have by then. Suffice to say - at least so far, we've had great connectivity and no problems.
The setup process was very simple. I wished I had a real keyboard when setting up the wifi b/c our Wifi keys are insanely long, but that's not the fault of the Chumby. The sync between the web site and the unit during registration was one of the coolest things I've seen in a while (basically, you fill in a bunch of circles on what looks like a giant tic tac toe - the pattern is then used to transmit the unit id to the web site so you don't have to). The whole process took about 10 minutes but much of that was b/c my wife and I were talking about how cool each aspect was. [Make sure however that when you align the screen, you use your fingernail as instructed. It's easy to just use your whole finger but if you do that - the sync will be off slightly. We goofed the first time around and had trouble using the keyboard - until we went into settings and re-adujusted everything. After we read the manual and did it the way we were supposed to - all was fine. But it's an easy thing to overlook. It's also easy to think the thing is your iPhone or Android and try using the screen according - your mileage will vary)
Once it was loaded, she spent about 30 minutes getting rid of default apps she didn't want (like ESPN, which is why I ordered two more - b/c I like a few of them) then adding new ones. Facebook, check. Twitter, check. Gmail check. Craigslist, check. We hadn't found an app to check Exchange or SMTP email but what she did was create a Gmail account and had her other accounts forward to it. While having email invade the bedroom might sound like insanity - it can actually be really helpful - you can glance over at the email list and quickly determine if it's ok to sleep in for a bit or if you need to rush to work early to put out a fire.
There are a ton of apps and b/c the API is open, you can build your own if you want something that isnt' there. I've taken a stab at two such apps and will be giving the upload process a try later this week. While most people aren't going to take advantage of that b/c it requirest some specific development experience, it's a great touch.
She's found an app for pretty much everythign she's wanted including a great backlight app, some amazingly cool wake up applications and the standard stuff you'd expect. Setup was amazingly straightforward and everything other than the FM tuner works as advertised (if the aux antenna works, I'll update the review). All in all from start to finish the experience is delightful and considering the price we love it - like I said, so much we wanted a few more for the rest of our house. I also ordered a pair of Beats by Dre just to make the whole thing perfect and it's a great combination (although being my wife's present, I feel guilty using it too much that's one reason for the other ones). That brings up one issue though - these aren't as generic as we thought. What I mean is, this is the type of thing that becomes "Mine" and the customizations are what makes it so cool. We have different facebook, twitter, pandora settings even though they're mostly similar and we're married. So one generic one for the family probably won't do for most folks especially if you have kids - get one kid a Chumby and I promise you the ohter will scream bloody murder until he/she gets her own. However that's the nature of anything cool and useful so it's not a knock.
Additionally, this will make one heck of a Christmas present. It's quite easy to spend $100.00 on a gift card which will partially go to waste or a similar present that will just get regifted or sit in the garage - this is guaranteed to be loved by anyone but hard core luddites.
Like I said, the wifi has not been a problem although we've only had it about a week and I'm comfortable saying that b/c although we have several repeaters , we've connected to links that have moderately weak signals and didn't appear to have any issue. I'd still be loving it if it was twice as much - if it was much over $250.00 I'd have my second thoughts just b/c a netbook really would be in order there, but for the price, it's an amazing value and packs a lot of bang for the buck. It's right in the gift price range and pretty much everyone has wifi these days so I don't think you can go wrong with it.

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ViewSonic DF88W 8-Inch Wide Digital Picture Frame Review

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(More customer reviews)The picture frame works extremely well in displaying pictures The brightness, color, contrast and resolution are all excellent. Loading pictures is very easy. I was very impressed with the overall quality of the ViewSonic product, and I usually find this the case with this company.
Some minor problems:
1) The remote doesn't work very well. First, I found putting the battery in with the right orientation wasn't obvious. The remote control did not work very well and would respond only intermittently. For instance, we would want to freeze a picture in slide show mode, or go back a frame or two. This did not work consistently and could be quite frustrating.
2) I would like to have seen a little more control over a few features. Two that come to mind immediately. First, the setting of slideshow could use more settings for pause between picture or provide a entry field to set your own. In particular, the slowest setting was not very slow. It is slow enough to review the pictures with others at your liesure, but there should be a setting where pictures only change every few minutes.
The second is that it would be nice to change whether pictures are shown in portrait or landscape mode. The frame will show pictures properly such that narrow pictures will fill as much of the screen as possible. It would be nice to have a setting where the pictures are rotated 90 degrees (and you would have to rotate the frame 90 degrees), so that portrait pictures automatically fill most or all of the frame, and landscape pictures will end up being smaller.

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8" Digital Photo Frame 800x480 250 nits 300:1 contrast ratio Ultra-high screen resolution delivers stunning picture quality supports up to 12 megapixel photo format easy to use on-screen menus 128MB of internal memory USB 2.0 port allows for fast photo imports from your computer Alarm clock and calendar features keep you on schedule create slideshows with background music remote control

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HP 7" LCD Digital Photo Frame ( DF780A2 ) - Black Review

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(More customer reviews)Before considering this product please be informed that there are 3 variants of DF780 7" Digital frame - A2, A3 and A4. As of 1/1/2009 Amazon sells a DF780A2, Buy.com sells a DF780A3 and Bestbuy sells a DF780A4. I tried finding out the difference between the three but could not. The specifications for all the three seem the same, and manual is common too. So for now I am writing this review for DF780A2 even though I own a DF780A4.
I spent three good months in identifying the best digital photo frame that fits my budget but still do not compromise on quality and features. Finally I bought this one as a gift for my parents during the Thanksgiving sale for 89.99 from bestbuy.
Following are typically the features that the digital photo frames these days boast of:
1. Screen resolution
2. MP3 Capability
3. Video Capability
4. Calendar/Clock/Alarm
5. Touch Screen
6. Wireless Photo transfer capability
7. Types of External Memory cards supported (SD/SDHC/MMC/Memory stick etc....)
8. Internal memory capacity.
9. Ease of setup and operations.
10. Picture display options ( Sequential, Random order, Multiple pictures at a time etc.. )
11. Remote control operation
12. International voltage considerations (110-240v)
13. International Support.
I personally did not want a touch screen because I would keep my digital photo frame in a show case and would not have to keep touching it. (If i require to operate it, I would prefer a remote control instead of dirtying it). I do not need to upload photos wireless because I did not think its difficult to plug a digital frame to my computer and then drag and drop the photos from my computer hard disk to the frame.
After looking at the numerous options available in the market, I shortlisted three based on my requirements. First I went and bought a Sony 7 Inch digital photo frame in Circuit City on a very good deal.. I must say I was happy with the screen resolution that Sony offered and the looks but I got only 256MB internal memory and it would display only pictures. I returned it and then bought this HP 7" digital frame. I must say I am happy with this frame; its worth every penny that I spent.
Pros:
1. 512 MB internal memory - Believe me its a huge amount of memory. Please do not compare it against the memory offered by external cards in the range of 4GB, 8GB etc.. The reason is that Digital photo frame have a fixed screen size and a fixed resolution and hence having any picture that has better resolution than the resolution offered by the photo frame, its anyway of no use. Hence when you optimize all the photos to a resolution offered by this digital photoframe, you can save around 1000 pictures without a need for additional memory.
2. Support for MP3 - Attach a cheap SD card ( u get a 2GB for 7-8 dollars) and load them with MP3 files and play as u are watching the pictures.
3. Support for Videos - It supports all your videos files in Avi/MPEG format ( May be other formats that I am not aware of yet) ...
4. Good looks. (But if this is your most important requirement, consider Sony DPF-D70-it has the most elegant look in my opinion)
5. Easy set up.
6. Voltage range of operation: 110V to 240V -> Very useful if you plan to gift to someone in Europe or Asia as the voltage range is universal
7. Remote Control - Everything can be controlled with it.

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HP DreamScreen 100 10.2-Inch Wireless Connected Screen Review

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(More customer reviews)The HP DreamScreen is at its heart, a digital photo frame that's begging to be much more.
As with so many of 2009's consumer electronics, the DreamScreen is yet another example of a company trying to bolt on extended connectivity to popular sites. This time around, we have access to Facebook, Pandora, and Snapfish via built-in wired and wireless networking.
Setting up the DreamScreen is fairly painless. It quickly found and connected to my WPA2 network without any problems, and the built-in applications all ran as I had expected them to, albeit, very slowly. I thought that the slowness may be due to the product being so new, and immediately checked for a firmware update. Sure enough, there was one. However, it didn't seem to improve the response time.
The DreamScreen is quite large. Probably larger than what I'd want on my desk, and a bit too large for a normal end table. And while the back has slots to accept every type of flash media under the sun, it also makes the unit itself quite deep, making wall mounting an unattractive option.
As I had said previously, the included applications all work pretty much as I had expected them to. Facebook is a passive stream of status updates or photos. Snapfish can be pointed to someone's account, and Pandora seems to do the right thing if you already have a Pandora account with stations set up. The weather application updates quickly and often, and is visually appealing. The inherent problem with all of these, is that they aren't integrated or well executed.
So, mixing photos between any of the applications is just not possible without navigating between the different applications. On one hand, I can understand that the DreamScreen doesn't claim to do it, but if you're going to bundle multiple photo options, being able to see them all in a rotation seems like a natural function to me. And while Pandora works, the controls are not well thought out (e.g. making the music stop) and as you'd probably expect from a device like this, the audio quality is not very good.
Ultimately, you end up with a product that you'd normally "set and forget", but that really needs a lot of interaction to make any of the features work. I could see having this mounted somewhere that I could enjoy glancing at the pictures, and notice every once in a while that it's telling me what the weather's like, or that one of my friends has posted new pictures on Facebook. But in execution, I'd need to go find the remote, and navigate to each function. If I'm going to take the time to do that, why wouldn't I just grab my computer? (Or if I didn't have one, why wouldn't I spend about as much money on a netbook?)
The image quality is decent, but not nearly as good as what you'd see on the similarly sized Sony DPF-V900 9-Inch Digital Photo Frame (and a popular choice, now that I see it on another review). Again, it does what HP says it does, but it doesn't do it as well as it could, and seems almost an afterthought.
The DreamScreen really begs the question: "What need does this fulfill?"
If you're looking for a photo frame, you have better options from Sony, Kodak, and others.
If you're looking for an easy link to Facebook, the interface and one-way nature of the device puts a wet towel on that.
If you're looking for a portable media center, the audio quality is a serious barrier.
If you're looking for a "keep Grandma updated with something easy to use" device, you're hitting limitations with the interface (and wireless availability).
I just can't think of a single reason to buy this over another product, other than to say "Hey, check out this frame. Look at everything it can do."

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Coby DP700BLK 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I think this frame is great, it's a great little gift for someone that doesn't have alot of room or for an office desk. I think the resolution is great and the features are great too. It's very easy to work, I didn't need the instruction book at all. My slideshow shows every pic on my sd card so I'm not sure what other peoples problems are when they say it only holds 10 pics. This is not true. Great deal for the price!

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Sony DPF-D82 8-Inch LCD WVGA 15:9 Diagonal Digital Photo Frame (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a review for the 8" Sony DPF-D82 digital photo frame. The frame looks good, is well designed, very easy to use. The photos look great. I loaded the pictures on a Kigston SD6/4GB SDHC memory card, plugged it in the unit, and the frame operated flawlessly. You can display the photos a number of different ways, controlled by a remote. A bit more expensive than some of the competition, but worth it.

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Viewsonic VFM1536-11 15-Inch Multimedia Digital Photo Frame Review

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(More customer reviews)I was quite impressed with this product for this price. Based on the past reviews for the prior version, I think Viewsonic must have upgraded the software (firmware?).
It was easy to download the photos onto the frame. There is a quirk, that when you first attach the frame to your computer, it won't recognize it. But when you reboot the computer and attach the frame again, it will recognize it. It was documented in the manual so I was prepared. It will also read pictures off of a memory card (not Compact Flash, however) or from a thumb drive.
The slideshow feature works, shuffling the pictures. There are a variety of transition effects available.
The actual frame itself is also attractive.
The only reason it isn't getting five stars is because the pictures originally looked a little flat on the screen. I went in and boosted the saturation on all of them, and they now look fantastic.
Pros:
Low price
Easy to get pictures on the frame
Nice picture quality (once I boosted the saturation)
Attractive frame
Cons:
Quirk about USB connection
Won't work on batteries

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