Coby DP772 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player
by Coby
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Coby DP772 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player
Customer Review: It's an OK frame at its low price
Summary: 3 Stars
Just got the coby D772 7" digital frame.
It looks nice. a little bit different from what you see on the website (i thought it's metal frame at first).
it comes with two plastic frames. one is white color and the other is black. it actually looks very similar to philips 6.5" digital frames.
There is no doubt that the shipping is very fast.
I have several concerns about this product. First, although i have lots of experience on digital camera related products, it is not easy for me to connect this frame with my note book computer by using the USB cable. sometimes my computer (Dell D800) can recognize the frame sometimes not.
second, I have to decrease the resolution of my pictures before I transfer them to the frame. Otherwise they look ugly. it took me an hour to figuer this out. to have nice pictures on this frame, i used photoshop to cut my originl pictures at a ratio of 16:9 and decrease the resolution too ~800pixels no matter how high the original resolution is. anyway, it's cheap and usable. especially it comes with dual-volt AC adaptor which is important for me.
Customer Review: My family loves it! Very cool! One small problem
Summary: 4 Stars
I used the Fastone picture converter to convert 10,000 pictures to the proper size (See X-Hobbes excellent review). 10,000 pictures will fit on a 1 gig card so I thought I was all set. Well, the frame will only recognize 223 x 9 or about 2000 pictures on the card. From the main menu it says there are 223 screens with 9 pictures each. I tried putting 2k pics in directories to no avail. Tried removing all directories and it still only recognizes 223 screens with 9 pictures each. They are all .jpg as tech support has expressed. I wish the frame would recognize all 10,000 pictures, we would not have to weed out 8,000 pictures to get down to the best 2000. I would buy it again. We set it on random with 15 second pause on the slideshow and just let it go. Oh, I tried moving a few directories and it started recognizing 2000 different picture on my card. So I don't think format is an issue. Tech support is of limited help as they say the picture frames are new and they don't really have any documents on them yet. I would buy it again though! May buy another if I can get it to recognize all my pics!Customer Review: Worth The Price but not much more.
Summary: 4 Stars
This item is worth the price it is sold at. As written, it is important that you try to keep to the 16:9 photo size. If you do that, the photos fill the screen and look pretty good. I had some problems with the slideshow feature. I use Photoshop and the slide show absolutely would not show photos that were saved in the Progressive mode. If the photos were saved in Baseline mode there was no problem. It took a couple of hours of using the process of elimination to figure that out. It is not mentioned in the documentation anywhere. Was not able to get anyone on their 1-800 help line. I was on hold for 1/2 hour until they finally hung up on me. Documentation is not wonderful. Also, if you buy this item, make sure you look on the back side of the Styrofoam packing. The black interchangeable frame is packed there. It is very easy to overlook this and throw it away with the packaging material.Customer Review: Video solution with 3rd party software
Summary: 3 Stars
No significant problems with pictures, but nearly returned product due to video problems. The documentation states that AVI and MP4 formats are both supported; however, it is up to you to determine the correct compression algorithms or you get a black screen. After 2 days and many expletives, I have a solution that works well. It isn't fantastic, but it beats the heck out of not doing anything...
First, you will need MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5. It is free and very user friendly. After importing your video, you will need to Export to AVI. On the menu that comes up, you will need to select:
1) Compression: Apple Motion JPEG A
2) Sound: Uncompressed
3) Frame Size: 640 x 360
Leave everything else on default settings. Voila! Surprisingly, the file sizes are not very large (depending on the length of the clip).
Customer Review: Great product for a great price
Summary: 5 Stars
I've purchased two of these Coby frames. I was very pleased with the ease of use. I bought a USB flash drive, copied all the photos into one folder and songs in another, plugged into the frame & pressed the slideshow button on the remote and bingo! I took the advice of another reviewer and used XNView to batch process all the photos to a resolution of 480 pixels by 234 pixels. Images look good.
I've never had any issues with the frames. I was surprised at the sound quality. Sure, it's not at Bose quality, but considering it's just a little speaker, it's great! Good volume range. It can be turned down low for a quiet setting or turn it up and hear it clearly throughout the entire level of the house.
My only complaint is that the remote control doesn't have a very long range. It's still a nice feature to have it though.