An Excellent Digital Frame

I purchased this as a gift before any of the other reviews were posted. I had no difficulty loading pictures via a Kingston 1GB SD card. The images were very sharp and the colors were crisp. I do not know why the other reviewers had so much trouble with their units. My only complaint was that it arrived with a small scratch on the edge of the frame and the price was just reduced by about $30.

12.1" Sunpak Digital Photo Frame

I bought this digital photo frame as a gift. Should have tried it when I received it. Can not get a picture to show from any of my secure digital cards. It turns on but won't show any pictures. Only shows a hand when I try to start the pictures.

Now I am stuck with returning to the manufacturer and after reading the other reviews don't expect much.

Low resolution, washed out colors

I agree with the previous reviewer. My parents purchased this and couldn't figure out how to get the pictures to display "correctly", meaning in focus and with decent colors. Unfortunately, it was nothing that they were doing wrong.

The display has the capability of transitioning slides every 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds. In order to display a high quality image on a 800x600 device, the picture frame needs to down-sample the image (read real-time from a USB memory stick), and the pictures from my 10 MPixel camera took 20 seconds each to downsample and display, so the fastest transition between slides was 20 seconds for 10 MPixel photos. This wouldn't be so bad if the resulting image looked decent, but unless you stand 10 feet away from the screen and don't notice the lack of detail, you see a very substandard digital photo, not nearly as nice as one you would see on a mid-range computer monitor today.

The instruction booklet does not describe how to use the Setup function. There are  more