Philips 8.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Clear) w/3 Additional Colored Frames
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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.
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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
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
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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.
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This product delivers exactly as promised and we could not be more pleased. The pictures are wonderful. The initial downloading process was straighforward and problem-free. We actually purchased three photo frames for ourselves and our children and they love them as much as we do. The slideshow feature is wonderful as well. Everyone of our friends that have seen the photo frame are equally amazed by this product as some were not aware that such a product even existed. To be sure, they are expensive but worth the cost. We will enjoy our photo frame for years to come as we update with new pictures regularly. Thanks to the folks at Philips for getting this soooooooooooo right.
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This product is so cool. Whatever your situation is, if you have a lot of digital pictures, then I recommend going out and getting an SD card...preferably up to 1GB (or even 512MB), for use this with this product. Even if your camera doesn't use SD, you can plop the SD card right into the picture frame and upload photos from your computer TO the card! It's like a little computer, this frame. Another big suggestion I have is to find a program online that resizes your photos to the dimensions of the frame (photo size explained in other reviews). (I downloaded Visualizer Photo Resize). This will take photos down from its original size (e.g. 1.8 MB) to a smaller size (e.g. 500KB). This will let your store dramatically more photos. So far I have fit over 1700 photos in about 430MB worth of the 1GB SD card that I have! The picture quality is very good and the frame can swivel to basically any angle and could be used horizontally or vertically. Plus, it is a Philips, which is a great
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I bought 3 of these at Christmas in 2006. One for myself, and two for gifts. I bought the one for me after I received the ones to give away and I realized I had to have one. I have a Ziga that I bought a couple of years ago, and I've seen many others. Nothing I've seen comes close to this in terms of quality of the viewed image.
The frame is attractive. I have two of the plastic framed ones with different color insets, and one of the wood frame ones. The Amazon pic of the wood frame looks like gray wood, but it's brown like you might expect in reality. Both look great.
The picture is what's really great. Bright. Very wide viewing angle (this is where most others fall VERY short, including my Ziga). Vibrant colors. Very good resolution. 35mm aspect ratio so DSLR images fill the full screen. The human interface isn't perfect, just that a few of the options like the on/off timer could be a bit more intuitive, but it's not hard to use, just could be a bit better. The most confusing thing
The frame is attractive. I have two of the plastic framed ones with different color insets, and one of the wood frame ones. The Amazon pic of the wood frame looks like gray wood, but it's brown like you might expect in reality. Both look great.
The picture is what's really great. Bright. Very wide viewing angle (this is where most others fall VERY short, including my Ziga). Vibrant colors. Very good resolution. 35mm aspect ratio so DSLR images fill the full screen. The human interface isn't perfect, just that a few of the options like the on/off timer could be a bit more intuitive, but it's not hard to use, just could be a bit better. The most confusing thing
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I am usually never completely satisfied with these types of gadgets, but I have to say, this frame is GREAT! I bought a one gig SD Memory card, copied the pictures I wanted from my computer and camera, and I had it up and running literally 10 minutes later. The image quality is truly excellent. There is no glare on the screen and you are even able to view the pictures when standing off to the side. I have it placed near my TV and I find myself looking at the frame instead of the show! What a pleasure to finally see my digital pictures without sitting at the computer in another room or going through the trouble of hooking up the camera to the TV. If you can, get the 8 inch instead of the 6 1/2 inch, more options and the pictures are more visible across a room. I think the smaller frame would be more appropriate for a desk.
This was expensive, but well worth it becase it makes me smile whenever I see one of the happy memories I have appearing there!
This was expensive, but well worth it becase it makes me smile whenever I see one of the happy memories I have appearing there!
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The Philips 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame has an excellent display that will not disappoint. While it lacks some features such as video support and a remote control that some other frames offer, the display on this frame is far better than any frame that I compared. Pictures display clear, bright and sharp in all light condtions. Everything about this product reflects quality; including its packaging, documentation and functionality.
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I bought this frame for my parents and they were amazed by it -- and of course, I gave it to them fully loaded with photos! It was easier to use than I expected after reading other reviews. I had no problems loading the pictures and its a great gift for anyone. I also liked the clear frame which I was unsure about buying. Overall, this frame is terrific!
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I chose this frame over its competitors mainly because of Philips brand recognition, and because it looked the best among all offerings. The frame basically works out of the box, and if you don't touch it, you can have nice, smooth slideshows that you'll enjoy. The best mode of operation I found on it was just plugging in a CF card straight from a camera. And honestly, it does look great as a frame I'd put on a coffee table somewhere, compared to its clunky competitors.
Unfortunately, the operative words are "don't touch"!
However, these frames are meant for people who are not tech savvy, and they are meant to be updated with new pictures frequently. The Philips 8' frame failed completely on both accounts, making this purchase one of the worst electronics shopping experiences of my electronics shopping career!
First of all, it doesn't like all JPEGs, it only likes some JPEGs. If you have photos that Adobe Photoshop has even looked at (with standards compliant updates of metadata,
Unfortunately, the operative words are "don't touch"!
However, these frames are meant for people who are not tech savvy, and they are meant to be updated with new pictures frequently. The Philips 8' frame failed completely on both accounts, making this purchase one of the worst electronics shopping experiences of my electronics shopping career!
First of all, it doesn't like all JPEGs, it only likes some JPEGs. If you have photos that Adobe Photoshop has even looked at (with standards compliant updates of metadata,
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Item could be rated 4 stars if Philips stood behind their product. Mine could not connect to my PC via the USB connector. This connection is needed for transferring pictures from the PC to the Frame. After trying to obtain help from tech support they determined it was faulty and asked me to return it. They would not pay for the shipping even though it was brand new. It costs, from Hawaii, about $40.00 to ship this product back insured. This company is not like Dell who never asks customers to ship back products under warranty at their own cost! Hooray for Dell. Thumbs down for Philips. Philips website Mission Vision states under Our Values, "Delight customers". I am far from delighted, but becauser this is such an expensive item, just under $300.00, I am returning it, at my cost, for replacement. Beware that if this product is faulty you will have to pay for returning it. I feel their warranty service is bad!
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As many other reviewers have indicated, the quality of this frame is extremely high in terms of the material, build, and photo quality. The menu system is good but not great; I'd call it serviceable.
I noticed a couple quirks while setting up this frame (Note: my settings: 1GB SD card, all photos are in 1024x768 with no resizing; if you wish to maximize space usage, you can use a freeware Irfanview and batch convert to 720x540. I tried it and it works well, but adds an extra step to the process).
I first created various albums using the menu system. Then I connected it to the PC via USB, copied the pictures into the SD card, and all files are present within the various albums. However, the frame simply does not see some of the photos. The frame for some reason does NOT display all my JPEGs, even though all of them were taken from the same digital camera using identical settings. I made multiple attempts with no luck, and the problem appears to be random. Tech support had little to offer.
I noticed a couple quirks while setting up this frame (Note: my settings: 1GB SD card, all photos are in 1024x768 with no resizing; if you wish to maximize space usage, you can use a freeware Irfanview and batch convert to 720x540. I tried it and it works well, but adds an extra step to the process).
I first created various albums using the menu system. Then I connected it to the PC via USB, copied the pictures into the SD card, and all files are present within the various albums. However, the frame simply does not see some of the photos. The frame for some reason does NOT display all my JPEGs, even though all of them were taken from the same digital camera using identical settings. I made multiple attempts with no luck, and the problem appears to be random. Tech support had little to offer.
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