Digital Spectrum USB Digital Photo Frame (8x10)
by Digital Spectrum
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Digital Spectrum USB Digital Photo Frame (8x10)
Customer Review: Picture quality and customer service excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a little worried about buying the memory frame based on some of the reviews here which said the picture quality was lacking and the company's customer service was poor. When I opened the box and found that it contained two USB cables instead of 1 USB cable and 1 plastic stand to hold the frame upright, I thought I might be in for a bad customer service experience.
I called the toll-free number listed on the web site yesterday and left a message. I receive a return phone call this morning. When I explained the problem to the customer service rep he said they would ship out a replacement stand immediately. So top marks for customer service.
As for the picture quality, on a screen of this size 800x600 is more than sufficient. I loaded a few pictures directly from a USB drive without reading the instructions. It was pretty easy to use the menus. I couldn't get the transition effects to work right, but after loading pictures with the included software everything worked ok. There may be something about that in the instructions, but I haven't read them yet.
The software automatically scales the pictures down to 800x600. They look great on the screen. The viewing angle is acceptable, the image is bright, and the colors accurate.
This memory frame was purchased as a gift and will go to my parents so they can have a rotating slide show of the grandkids. I will be purchasing a second one for myself. Other reviewers have said it is better to print your pictures and frame them. That may be the best answer for some people, but I'm running out of wall space for prints. The memory frame will let me display 90 of my favorite pictures in one spot.
Customer Review: love it!
Summary: 4 Stars
I have had my 8X10 for about two years now and basically have nothing bad to say about it. Most electronical things take me quite some time to set up and this was no exception, but it did get set up. Very sharp picture but not from all viewing angles as others have mention but when I look at a printed picture I usually look at it straight on so this is really no different to me. I've fooled alittle with it and got the fade in/out going on, added sound, length of picture viewing. Real cool toy and everyone that comes over looks for it to see what I now have on it. I might even add that one night I heard a big crash and when I went out to the room there was glass all over the floor along with my digital photo frame. I wanted to kill my cat which had jump on the counter until I picked it up, nothing was broken on it, only the frame was damaged, plugged it in and it worked like a charm. Now my wife wants to kill the cat, the broken glass was from her glass dolphin!! I would recomend this because of my good experience with it, but again as others have said, it could be a little bit too costly for some.
Customer Review: fantastic! A winner gadget pick for my husband.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is totally wow! First off, I never bought into thefirst gen of digital photo frames since really I thought
the displays were too small, and unwieldy to download to.
I'd seen Sony's and the Ceiva pic frame in action, and this is so much more universal for our use. Honestly, just the size was an instant sell. I guess the Ceiva lets you load up pix remotely once its set up, but I hated the thought of a subscription service etc.
Pro #1 The 10" active matrix TFT is super bright, has great resolution and the pix just pop out at you. Definitely, the view angle is not as good as my flat panel monitor, but its absolutely as good as any laptop.
Pro #2 is super easy to use with my 3 yr old ME desktop. got about 40 pix loaded on and the software set up in about 15 min.
Con#1 is also a pro -- they provide a pretty basic, and not too fantastic frame, but you can snap it into many of your own styles of picture frame, to suit your decor. Can also be wall mounted.( great idea with a toddler around the house)
Customer Review: Possibly My Worst Electronics Purchase Ever
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased the 8 X 10 Photo Frame as a way to display photos at my wedding reception and planned to use it in my home thereafter. I was able to get the product running and to load a 'test' set of pictures, but the product then 'froze' at the startup screen. I checked the Pacific Digital support website, which provided steps (basically, a sequence of buttons to hold down) to 'unfreeze' and reinitialize the unit. I tried this sequence several times, to no avail, and then called Pacific Digital customer service. After repeated messages left on a voice mail system ("we're sorry we missed your call - we'll get back to you") at all times of the day and night, I was unable to contact anyone at the company and no calls were ever returned. Long story short - our wedding came and went, the problem was never (and will apparently never be) resolved, and the Digital Photo Frame is now a $390 paperweight. Absolutely useless. My recommendation: DO NOT PURCHASE A PACIFIC DIGITAL PRODUCT. This is clearly a fly-by-night outfit.Customer Review: Not Really 8x10
Summary: 2 Stars
Two problems with this photo frame.
1. It is NOT 8x10 as advertised. The frame is 8x10 matted down to a screen that is 6x8. It's resolution at 600x800 is an odd ratio that will require re-cropping all of your images.
2. The software is NOT VISTA compatible and there are no updates or patches on the manufacturers website.
If you can live with the above, it's nice. I could not get it to import pictures from my flash drive (USB) but I admittedly didn't try very long. I had to transfere the pic's to an older XP machine from my Vista machine, then to the frame.