Coby DP772 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Coby DP772 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player
Customer Review: Display lasted 1 week
Summary: 1 Stars
I apologize to people checking the useful features of this frame, and becoming excited about the prospect. I will not offer a technical review, just a practical opinion based on my experience.
Many features sound good and the item is easy to use, accepts every media type and it's not expensive.
BUT...lasted only 1 week. Display became grayish/white, and occasionally a flickering band appeared, about 3/4 inch horizontally in the middle.
Of course I checked the SD card, the connections, turned it off/on, etc. Same result.
Called the manufacturer and was told that the display is shot and nothing can be done. End of story (BTW, it was out of the 3-month warranty since it stayed in its box for a while).
I will get a larger display from a reputable brand. As another reviewer said, "You get what you pay for".
Customer Review: Cheap price, great quality
Summary: 5 Stars
I previously had a digital frame similar to this one; it had a dead pixel, annoying electronic hum, fairly poor quality, and was twice as expensive. In comparison, this frame is absolutely brilliant.
I was a bit worried the widescreen would be a hindrance; however, after adjusting some photos (as suggested by another reviewer, scale to 16:9 and then resize to 800 pixels wide), I found that limiting the viewing area actually made for a more pleasant viewing experience. Photos have more content and a lot less 'dead area' in which nothing is happening.
I am very happy with the sound, display, and features. I would definitely recommend buying this to anyone, no matter the price range they previously thought they should look in.
By the way...there is no electronic buzz/hum present with this frame!
Customer Review: Progressive JPEGs
Summary: 1 Stars
It doesn't support progressive JPEGs. It only shows the baseline JPEGs, despite the progressive ones being as standard as baseline ones for about the last 15 years. All browsers, picture viewing software etc have displayed them perfectly for the last 12 years or so.
But it looks like digital frames manufacturers for some reason prefer to live in the first half of 1990s, not in the second half of 2000s.
Most digital cameras output is in the form of baseline JPEGs, so they should be OK. But if you have edited your images in Photoshop and saved from there, as likely as not the best compression at the given quality level will be for the progressive, not baseline, form. Which never presents any problems - unless you are trying to show the saved JPEG images on the frame like this.
Customer Review: Not a bad deal..
Summary: 3 Stars
I picked up this digital photo frame to display the thousands of pictures that I've taken over the years residing on my hard drive. I found the MP3 player option completely useless, a TV playing at a reasonable level will drown it out completely. I was also disappointed with the widescreen panel. Basically all digital cameras take pictures in 4:3 anyways so a 16:9 photo frame doesn't make much sense. A 7" 4:3 panel would make image viewing much easier and clearer. You do have the option to stretch your 4:3 photos to the widescreen format however. In all I found the interface acceptable but decided to give this as a gift to my mother since she has the same dilemma, lots of photos but no easy way to view them.Customer Review: could be better
Summary: 3 Stars
Had a problem with transferring photos to the first one I ordered. Tech support wasn't much help at all. They said it was defective. I returned it and got a new one (Amazon was great). The second was worse. My computer didn't recognize the UBS port when I plugged it in. I bought a memory card reader and transferred my pics that way. I kept it even though it was defective - gave it to my mom for a gift with the pics already installed on the memory card. She doesn't use a computer so she didn't need any features except to be able to view the slideshow. The pics look decent and for the money it was ok. I wanted to get one for my son and one for my daughter for gifts. I bought different brands!