Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal)
by Philips Consumer Electronics
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: Philips Consumer ElectronicsModel: 9FF2CME/37
Color: Metal
Product features:
- Displays your digital photos with professional print quality and the full spectrum of colors
- 9-inch TFT LCD display screen features of adjustable brightness to match ambient light conditions, and intuitive operation that doesn't require any programming
- Connects via USB directly to your camera or PC; supports up to 12-megapixel photos in the JPEG format
- Runs on AC power via the included adapter, or lasts up to 8 hours on its included rechargeable battery
- Weighs approximately 2.2 pounds
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- Power 2000 SD1 Aluminum Case
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal)
Customer Review: Here are some technical details you won't find anywhere else
Summary: 3 Stars
I have learned that every specification given by a manufacturer is a lie, and my job as a consumer is to try to find out just how big a lie it is. Mind you, I like this product, and for all I know all digital picture frame manufacturers lie, but here's what I know about the 3 examples of this product which I bought.
As others have mentioned, this 9" frame is exactly and precisely 8". To be fair, the packaging does not use the numeral 9 and the only way to learn that it has been characterized as a "9 inch" is during software setup, when you have to choose between 7 and 9 inch models. Of course the Philips website calls it a 9. . . .
Next I set out to determine how many pixels it has, vertically and horizontally. Philips is very coy about this. Some numbers that float around are 720x480, 680 x 480, 680 x 520, 800 x 480 and 688 x 448. This last image size is the very size that Philips uses on their demo screens built into the product, and this is the closest size I have discovered which will properly display. Why do you care? Any size other than the native pixel dimensions must be interpolated and the picture will thus be degraded. So if you have the choise you might as well crop and size the photos on your PC before loading them to your flash card.
Ah, but there is a problem even when using 688 x 448. As far as I can tell the product is simply sampling two adjacent pixels and painting average-value stripes 2 pixels wide. Thus the true resolution is only 344 x 448. I tested this by creating an image of all vertical stripes, 1 pixel wide, alternating black and white. They displayed as a gray screen. The vertical resolution is very close to 448, but I haven't been able to pin it down and of course there is no mechanism to talk to a Philips programmer. When displaying an image of all horizontal stripes, about 10 of the stripes display correctly, followed by a band of several improperly-display stripes. I will probably continue my tests but the bottom line is that, while the images are pleasing, they could be far better if Philips would either (1) document the true resolution or (2) have their proprietary software produce images of this mystery size. They were so close to having a great product and they dropped the ball.
No matter what photo display device you choose I think you'd better expect this kind of shenanigans. No specification is ever honest. Just look at the crop of "32 inch 'class' LCD TVs" which are universally 31.5".
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