Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal)
by Philips Consumer Electronics
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Customer Review: Philips 8-inch picture frame
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought it for my parents so they could have all the pictures of their grandchild in one place.
This thing is amaizing. The picture quality is outstanding, the pictures look as if their backlit. Dark pictures seem to be brighter than normal prints. The internal memory is bigger than I thought it would be too. I loaded over 80 pics on it and there was still room for more, plus it has the card reader slots.
There were only two things I didn't like. One is the croping feature in the philips software. It gives you a fixed croping box that can't be adjusted. I just used a different program to crop the pictures, then loaded them to the frame. The second was that it didn't tell you how much of the internal memory you had used as you were loading pictures, so I didn't know how much room was still available.
Highly recomended. i'll probalby get one for myslef.
Customer Review: Mac user with NO regrets...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the best gift I've ever bought someone! I loved it so much I want to keep it for myself. I read a lot of reviews before spending the $200, and it's worth every penny. The LCD screen is Excellent! I use a mac iBook G4 and thought I was going to have trouble uploading my photos because of all the negative reviews from other Mac users - and I did, just like every other mac-owner has. The solution is to simply purchase a USB card reader (about $20 from Best Buy) and an SD card (512 MB for about $20 from Best Buy - holds about 150 pics from an 8 megapixel camera). I inserted the SD card into the USB card reader, plugged it up to my Mac and dragged about 100 pictures into the folder icon that appeared on my desktop. I then ejected the SD card and inseted it into the digi photo frame and a few moments later a slideshow began. It looks FABULOUS. [...].Customer Review: Great Looks, Great Picture
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a really great product. The picture is definitely top-notch...well worth the extra money compared with other cheaper models out there.
Although aesthetically pleasing, I wish the stand was a bit more stable at angles better for viewing. The preset notch where they want you to have the stand makes the frame nearly vertical...I'd prefer a little more slope like normal picture frames.
It took me a great deal of time and frustration with moving pictures from different memory cards to the photo frame memory and back and forth until I figured out that you could use the frame as a multi-card reader IF you connect it to your PC and navigate around using your My Computer explorer...it would have been nice for the instructions to share that information.
Other than that, you can't beat the quality of this frame.
Customer Review: Mechanical problems - didn't even get to load photos
Summary: 1 Stars
I've read so many positive reviews of this frame, I thought it would be a no-brainer to select it. As soon as I charged it up and began to use it, I noticed the 4-way toggle was dead when pressing to the left. This makes it nearly impossible to access certain menus. Lifting it a particular way with my thumbnail managed to engage it sporadically.
Then the metal stand shocked me - it's either a part from a different (larger) frame or was defectively formed. The frame stands perfectly vertical on the surface it's placed on (i.e., on the verge of tipping over forward). That renders it essentially useless as a table-top display.
I didn't even bother trying to load photos, so have no comment on its overall electronic performance. It's going straight back to Amazon for a refund, not exchange.
Customer Review: Nice picture, horrible software and manual
Summary: 3 Stars
Bought this as a birthday present for someone not to tech savvy. I'm glad I decided to pre-load the frame with photos and the manual that comes with it is not very descriptive. The basic concepts (an "album" versus a "slideshow") aren't defined. You really have to wing it to figure out how to get the memory card loaded.
The software that comes with it is terrible. It would transfer 20-30 photos then lock up. I had to press the reset button on the frame, disconnect the usb and restart it. I tried this on several different computers with the same result. For the price of the frame, there's no excuse for such poor software.
Having said that, once I wasted many hours attempting to load it, the final result was nice.
I wouldn't recommend this to someone who's not very technical.