 Picture Perfect Gift! |
| Review Date: July 5, 2007 |
| Reviewer: blackcreek, Republic of Texas :) |
| I bought this for my husband for Fathers Day. I collected pictures by email from everyone and put it on a 1GB card. To get the full benefit of the 16:9 display you need to be sure your pictures are taken in landscape mode. Otherwise they can be narrow in the middle of the screen. Still, it doesn't seem to bother him. He absolutely loves it! He keeps it on all the time on the table next to his recliner. Beautiful picture quality - much better than I had expected. And whenever the kids send us pictures or I take some he has me add them to his card. It plays a slideshow all the time. Adding pictures is so simple. Then you just plug the card in and it starts right up. Too easy. I am getting ready to buy our son one for his birthday and I am going to give my son-in-law one that is battery operated to take to Iraq when he is deployed in November. Don't hesitate to buy this for a gift. It's a no brainer :) |
Great Price/Quality Pairing
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| Review Date: August 29, 2007 |
| Reviewer: W. Peters, Reisterstown, MD United States |
Not sure about the complaints listed - for the price you are paying, this is an outstanding buy. I was easily able to load over 700 pics onto a 1GB card and have them all display beautifully. For the most part, I loaded them as fairly high resolution - 1 GB gives you plenty of room - but if you are using a smaller card there are many readily available freeware utilities to change the resolution of a bunch of pics all at once.
I have no idea why some other reviewers have issues with pixelizing - for the most part, it is quality in and quality out - sure, the resolution is lower than your PC or a print, but it is not grossly distorting pictures.
Ultimately, I purchased 4 of these for various gifts - watch for specials when they fall below 60 bucks. |
Great digital frame
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| Review Date: April 17, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Sandeep Srinivasa, New Delhi, India |
This is a really nice frame - looks like an expensive black wooden frame. It has an extensive setup menu, but it is really a no-brainer. Just pop the card in and the slideshow starts.
cons: Does not have a remote |
Great photo fill technique. Plus a suprize...
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| Review Date: November 2, 2007 |
| Reviewer: S. Johnston, St Louis |
| Great photo fill technique. I used irfanview batch conversion to resize my pics to 800x600. Perfect display and the file size was @50-100kbytes each. I got 150 great looking pics on an old 16mb SD card. When I popped my camera 512 SD card in, I noticed it would even play a video on it taken from my Canon A630 camera too!! If I clicked on one they all would play one time through. You may be able to watch computer edited MP4 / AVI(s) this way.((from frame menu and no speaker sound) not during auto slide show mode though). |
It Does the Job and More!
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| Review Date: September 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: C. Smith, Jamaica |
Firstly, I would buy another one.
This frame is not the best frame out there, but I am not seeing another 7" frame with these features for this price on the net. So far, the ONLY problem I have with the frame is that it stretches parts of the picture when displaying in cinema mode and truncates (deletes) part of the top and bottom of the picture when in widescreen mode. That is, for cinema, the picture is divided into 3 parts, the middle remains fine but the outer parts are stretched. It doesn't look bad, sometimes even unnoticeable. The good thing is that you can choose not to view using cinema or widescreen. The "Normal" (no stretching) mode gives a dark area to the left and right of the picture, like the dark area above and below a widescreen movie when watched on a regular TV. Personally I prefer the widescreen mode which is perfect for panoramic widescreen shots!
The frame comes with a simple intuitive menu. It allows you to select language, set brightness, colour and contrast. It has about 14 transition modes including normal and random. It can even traverse folders on your memory.
The frame is made of hard plastic. Not the type that seem to crack easily and discolour over time. It has photo rotation, Thumbnail preview, uses only AC power (5V), response time 15 seconds, uses MS, MS Pro, MMC, xD and SD cards. interval times available 3, 5 & 10 Seconds, power switch, 4 feet power cord/adapter.
Note however, the display is not as sharp as a laptop screen. You may have to pay about $200 for that kind of quality. the quality is about that of a decent cell-phone. You will only see each pixel if you go as close as about 12 or near inches. It looks very sharp from about 36 inches, which is about the same distance you sit from your monitor.
I tried a 2gig SD card and it worked, even an old 16meg memory stick. |
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