- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 12.7 x 20.6 cm ; 1.6 Kg
- Boxed-product Weight: 1.5 Kg
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- ASIN: B000EN81ZE
- Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 22 Jun 2010
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 186,154 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
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109 of 112 people found the following review helpful
excellent digital photo frame
6 Mar 2006
I bought this for my dad while he was in the hospital and have been extremely pleased with it. The screen is large and bright, and the image quality is comparable to a flat panel monitor (in my opinion at least). It is not fuzzy and all the colors are vibrant. It accepts the major memory card formats. You can also store around 11-12 (usable) MB of photos directly to the device (although the description says 14 MB). Just use the included USB cable and it is basically drag and drop. While 11-12 MB is not a lot, you do not have to use the maximum file size for a photo for it to look its best on the device. I experimented and compared the same photo at 2 MB and at around 350 KB and could not tell the difference in image quality. (I used Apple's iPhoto to reduce the image size.) The device also has a convenient auto on/off feature as well as an option to dim the brightness after 6PM. My only complaint is that the detachable stand that keeps the frame upright doesn't "snap" into place and could slide off if improperly handled. Additionally, the stand is not adjustable so it only has one viewing angle, which is fairly upright. This is just a minor quibble for an otherwise outstanding product. (Actually, I have one more minor complaint. While there is a helpful printed quick start guide, the actual manual is on a CD. I couldn't access the CD on my Apple (I presume it is intended for PCs only), but I figured everything out on my own so I don't consider this a big deal.) The nursing staff loved it and inquired about buying one for themselves.
EDIT: I recently realized the detachable stand actually does "snap" into place. It just takes an extra twist.
EDIT: I recently realized the detachable stand actually does "snap" into place. It just takes an extra twist.
86 of 88 people found the following review helpful
Nice product - could use better documentation.
16 Mar 2006
I bought one of these frames after seeing one at a friend's house. The clear / white acrylic design is like so many Apple knockoffs at the moment that it could be called iFrame.
Either way it's a nice product. The screen is crisp and clear and loading up the photos is pretty easy but there's a couple of gotchas that the documentation don't really clarify.
First, if you use a memory card - by far the most preferable way of doing it - the photos must be in a standard digital imaging folder. For example DCIM\100MSDCF. Once your photos are in there, they must be a standard digital imaging name, such as DSCF00023. Photos with names like "my cat.jpg" won't be read.
And secondly, whilst the frame is capable of rotating pictures stored in its internal memory, it can't do them directly off the memory cards. My tip : rotate them to the correct orientation before uploading them to the card.
Apart from those two little quibbles, the frame seems to be working out just great for us. Because the screen is a relatively low resolution - 720x480 - I scaled down copies of a lot of my photos to 50% of the size they came out of the camera. I've managed to get abou 120 photos on to a 64Mb memory card and the Philips frame has had no problems reading any of them.
It has a couple of timed features which are nice. You can tell it to automatically turn on and off at particular times of day, and you can tell it to dim the brightness of the display at night (at user-defined times). So for example, ours is set to dim the display at 7pm, and turn off at 11pm, to come on at full brightness again at 8am. It's a nice suite of features which adds to this quality little product.
Either way it's a nice product. The screen is crisp and clear and loading up the photos is pretty easy but there's a couple of gotchas that the documentation don't really clarify.
First, if you use a memory card - by far the most preferable way of doing it - the photos must be in a standard digital imaging folder. For example DCIM\100MSDCF. Once your photos are in there, they must be a standard digital imaging name, such as DSCF00023. Photos with names like "my cat.jpg" won't be read.
And secondly, whilst the frame is capable of rotating pictures stored in its internal memory, it can't do them directly off the memory cards. My tip : rotate them to the correct orientation before uploading them to the card.
Apart from those two little quibbles, the frame seems to be working out just great for us. Because the screen is a relatively low resolution - 720x480 - I scaled down copies of a lot of my photos to 50% of the size they came out of the camera. I've managed to get abou 120 photos on to a 64Mb memory card and the Philips frame has had no problems reading any of them.
It has a couple of timed features which are nice. You can tell it to automatically turn on and off at particular times of day, and you can tell it to dim the brightness of the display at night (at user-defined times). So for example, ours is set to dim the display at 7pm, and turn off at 11pm, to come on at full brightness again at 8am. It's a nice suite of features which adds to this quality little product.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Incredible image quality and ease of use.
21 Sep 2006
I received the Philips Digital Photo Frame a few weeks ago. After loading some of my pictures into it, I was immediately impressed by how well it displayed my photos despite the frames resolution limitation of 720 x 540. The screen also has impressively high contrast; blacks are very black and whites are very white. There is an interesting side effect to the screens high contrast; many photos actually have a layered look to them that simulates depth in the photos. To me that is very impressive.
The frame makes transferring images to it quite easy. You can either connect it directly to your computer via a USB cable or you can use any of a variety of flash memory cards (SD, Smart Media, etc.). But what is really nice about the process of transferring your photos to the frame is that when you go to transfer them it automatically adjusts the image's size to fit into the 720 x 540 pixel limitation of the frame. You don't have to do any resizing to save space on the frame, you simply choose which photos you want to transfer over and let the frame do the rest.
The frames operation can be customized to do a random slide show or to go through your photos in order. It also uses various types of wipes to transition between your photos. The delay between photos can be adjusted anywhere from 5 seconds to a full day. One of the most import features though is that you set a on and off time for it so you can trust that it isn't running during the day when you aren't at home to look at it.
Overall, I have been very impressed with this frame. The picture quality has proved to be exemplary and I found it very easy to set up. The only thing I can find that I would like to improve is to make the auto on/off feature a bit more customizable. It would be better if it would allow you to set different times for different days. However, that is a pretty small concern.
The frame makes transferring images to it quite easy. You can either connect it directly to your computer via a USB cable or you can use any of a variety of flash memory cards (SD, Smart Media, etc.). But what is really nice about the process of transferring your photos to the frame is that when you go to transfer them it automatically adjusts the image's size to fit into the 720 x 540 pixel limitation of the frame. You don't have to do any resizing to save space on the frame, you simply choose which photos you want to transfer over and let the frame do the rest.
The frames operation can be customized to do a random slide show or to go through your photos in order. It also uses various types of wipes to transition between your photos. The delay between photos can be adjusted anywhere from 5 seconds to a full day. One of the most import features though is that you set a on and off time for it so you can trust that it isn't running during the day when you aren't at home to look at it.
Overall, I have been very impressed with this frame. The picture quality has proved to be exemplary and I found it very easy to set up. The only thing I can find that I would like to improve is to make the auto on/off feature a bit more customizable. It would be better if it would allow you to set different times for different days. However, that is a pretty small concern.
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