Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal)
by Philips Consumer Electronics
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal)
Customer Review: Problems with using a Mac with this, also chip
Summary: 1 Stars
Warning - I bought this product after a great experience with the smaller frame but I have had two big problems. (1) - a product problem= It would not accept photo transfers from my Mac laptop as the mac laptop disconnected the USB connection saying it was drawing excessive power (I have never had this problem before and it happened twice) - note that there are quite a lot of posts on the smaller Phillips frame reporting extensive problems with macs both at the operating system, hardware and photosoftware level (2) - an instructions plus user problem it turns out it seemed not to take the memory chip used by either my Sony or HP digital cameras which are reasonably popular makes but the slot looks to a reasonably sensible consumer as if it is the right one (and the paper instructions are misleading) so I jammed the slot which lost me my chip and incapacitated the slot ! Be warned.
So I would be (very) wary if you are a Mac user or if you assume that a popular camera memory chip will work with this without very carefully checking. A disappointment considering how much I liked the smaller frame, which I loaded direct from camera.
Customer Review: Like so much, I bought 3
Summary: 5 Stars
I have bought 3 of these I like them so much (1 for me, 1 each for 2 sets of parents). Good picture, lots of options for storage, including onboard storage. This one may cost a little more than others, but has a lot of nice options. You can set weekday and weekend on/off time, you can randomize your pictures, lots of different display times (same pic on for 4 seconds, on up to hours), and randomized transitions.
My mom said her friends got frames for Christmas, and she has seen them, and likes this one much better because of all the options.
You need to be moderately technically literate to set it up--I did it for my mother-in-law who has no computer or digital camera. If you can transfer pics from a digital camera to your computer, you can handle this.
Don't install the software that comes with it. Plug the frame into your computer, and it will just be recognized as a drive. You can just drag and drop your pics to it.
The frame's menu is the only downfall. I don't think it is very intuitive, but not a major problem. I just had to peck around a little more than I would expect.
Customer Review: Absolutely wonderful !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I have bought two of these (one for us and one for her parents). The screen is extremely clear and bright. The size is perfect to view your digital photos. It is simple to hook-up to a computer and download pictures from a digital camera or a scanner. With a 1 GB SD flash memory card we have about one thousand pictures loaded and plenty of room for more pictures. It's great to see all your pictures easily instead on them being put away in a photo album or stored on your computer doing nothing. We love the different transitions in the slide show mode that are available. We also like being able to unplug from the AC adapter and sit down and look through them one at a time at our own pace. The rechargeable battery lasts about one hour. The built-in clock allows us to automatically turn the picture frame on and off at set times.
This digital picture frame is a winner. If you have a digital camera then you will absolutely love this. It also makes a great gift for parents and grandparents. Just load your family pictures both past and recent and enjoy the memories.
Customer Review: More than I expected.
Summary: 5 Stars
I did a lot of research on these frames, and I couldn't be happier with my choice. I got it for a present for my technologically-challenged mother. The intuitive buttons are a snap to learn and make this frame SO much nicer than other frames. There is a joystick and 2 smaller buttons right at the location that your right fingers hold the frame. All of the functionality can be done with this. The screen looks awesome - nice and bright, and adjustable brightness of course. The transitions are cool too. This is definitely a superior product to most of the other frames. I used a 1gb SD card with no issues - the simple software resizes the images automatically and puts them in the albums you create. So you don't have to worry about resizing each individual picture or anything. The frame also has auto-tilt like an iphone; so if you stand it upright, the next pictures will display that way.
The internal battery lasts quite some time and is a great feature. Overall I love this product and would buy them all day long if I had the money!
Customer Review: What a frustrating product. Phillips should be embarrased.
Summary: 1 Stars
What a frustrating product. I've had the picture frame for about a year, and I did try to research the best product. I hope this isn't the best. The frame comes with inadequate memory so you must add a memory card. The picture frame will format the card as FAT by default. That limits the number of pictures that can be stored to far below the capacity of the card. I got the dreaded error 0X80070052. Googling that error indicated that I needed to format the card in NTFS to be able to store more than about 150 pictures. It took more than 6 tries to format the card with NTFS.
Copying pictures to the card is an exercise in futility. I wanted to copy about 300 pictures to a 1 GB card. After 4 hours of slow copying and two blue screen crashes of my main computer (an otherwise very stable system), I decided to donate the picture frame to the local charity resale shop. Maybe someone with too much time on their hands will buy it and make it work. For me, I'll wait until the electronic picture frame makers make a product worth buying.