Great product, but not so easy to use

I've purchase three of these frames, two for gifts and one for us. They work great but the human interface is confusing until you figure it out. It has internal memory but it is preloaded (partially) with Philips stuff that I did not want, so I deleleted all of it to have enough room to store photos. The quality of the pictures with the Philips frame is very nice, and we have ours running for a few hours a day, a couple of days every week. I bought another brand before I bought my first Philips frame and had to take it back because it was dead out of the box.

Philips 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame

Good quality. Attractive frame. Nice, bright picture. Very easy to use -- I had it up and running in 10 minutes, and I still haven't looked at the instructions. I like its ability to automatically turn itself on and off every day. Great way to display your best photos and take advantage of digital technology's ability to automatically rotate to a new photo in a slide show every few minutes or every day.

I have two complaints, though. The first is it's too expensive. At $300, it's twice the price I would expect given how quickly the price of LCDs are dropping. Second, the picture size itself is smaller than I expected. Somehow, an 8-inch picture sounds like a 8x10 size, but it's no bigger than a 5x7 picture display, and probably smaller. Works well on a desk or small room, but it's too small of a picture for a display in a large-sized room in your home.

I'm hoping the price will drop dramatically and the size increase by the end of the year. If it does, I'll buy one for my parents  more

Great picture frame

I've seen some bad digital frames- ones that stretch out the picture, making everyone look fat, or dim displays with bad color. The Philips frame is absolutely the opposite: it's delightfully easy to use and the picture quality is great. Pictures are automatically sized, cropped, even rotated when you turn the frame. I didn't need the software they included. I just dumped a pile of pictures on a CF card (using my camera wired to a computer) and then plugged the card into the frame. The menus in the frame are navigated with a little joystick on the back. It's not the nicest menu system, but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. If you are buying this for Grandma (of course) here's a tip: buy two memory cards so that you can switch photo albums when you visit.