Coby DP702 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame (Woodgrain) by Coby
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Digital camera reviews of Coby DP702 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame (Woodgrain)
Digital camera Review: Nice Digital Photo Frame for the price...
Summary: 4 Stars
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This is a nice little digital media frame for the price. The resolution reflects the affordability of it, so it is in no way "cheap". The wood frame is a nice touch. It shouldn't be called a Photo Frame, since it actually does more. It plays audio as well as video. It may take some fiddling with whatever software you use to convert audio and video, but once you figure out what's what, it really is nice for the price.
The included remote is very basic and not as intuitive as I'd like so you won't get any type of DVD style interation from the video you may end up viewing on the Coby DP702. I believe the aspect ratio is locked for video as well. It will be a good thing if you can manage to match the DP702's aspect ratio. You may not need to match the resolution because I think it uses it's scaler (assuming it has one). Video may get stretched or squashed depending.
For photos, just try and crop and match if you can. Although you don't really need to, it's just advice for those who don't like any black bars. This is one caveat of the widescreen frames. I don't think any Photo Frame needs to be widescreen, they need to just match a standard 4x6. For display of photos, you may want to just compress whatever you have for mediocre visual display. The frame interpolates down, or downscales photos. So your hi-res images you may feel too lazy to resample to match will just look like overly compressed jpgs anyways. Better to resize, resample, and compress to get more photos onto your memory card of choice.
As for music, easy and simple enough. For people who like to make digital copies of their discs (yes I buy discs). You may want to make sure your libraries are purged of the album art. Or just purged of the ones you won't need. The DP702 will display the little icon versions of the larger images...anything it finds. If anything, I wished it had some type of built in visualiser like when I use Windows Media Player for music.
All in all, a nice product for a good price. Don't go being a "cheap" person and demanding the best visuals from one of the most affordable Digital Frames on the market. Now to test it's longevity.
Digital camera Review: Nice Frame
Summary: 4 Stars
I gave this to someone as a gift. She hooked it right up and loved it. The pictures came through nice and clear. I think it's a terrific digital frame and a great price.Digital camera Review: Nice frame
Summary: 4 Stars
The frame is good for the price. Has all the features that i was looking for. Got as a birthday gift and i just love it!!Digital camera Review: Not a Good Buy
Summary: 1 Stars
Amazon was fast delivery, picture was terrible, remote was ok. PPhotos become streched if you use full screen, the pics are very grainy, I wont buy another one.Digital camera Review: Not impressed - definitely entry level
Summary: 3 Stars
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First, if you have a Mac - make sure you have a card reader that can actually read the high capacity SD card you bought to use this with (duh!), because the pass through option (hooking the reader with card in it) is unreliable with a Mac (works less than 10% of the time and is SUPER slow). So, #1 - edit the card outside of the frame. End rant.
~Pros~
1)I like the woodgrain
2) it accepts lots of cards and immediately plays them
3) the hardware (stand and holes for hanging) are nice and don't look flimsy
4) It plays music behind the photo slideshow (if loaded obviously) without any extra configuration (now, in my experience, this gets old fast - really fast)
5) Set-up was easy enough once I figured out the controls
6) It can act like a digital calendar (and alarm) when you are not watching your photos
~Cons~
1) On the front of mine (on the white portion) there is a funny tiny little tab - it's detracting
2) The quality is so 2000, seriously pixelated. Granted, price is cheap, but lower your expectations - I have both Philips 8.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Clear) w/3 Additional Colored Frames and Pandigital 7.0-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame. Whereas the Philips is BEAUTIFUL, this is way more analogous to the Pandigital (which is to say, might as well paste my ipod to the wall).
3) No matter how I configured video clips, I have yet to get one to play on this. I hate having to convert video - if it's good enough for YouTube or Ammie video reviews, it should be good enough for this - but it's not. - so I cannot review that feature
4) Not all my jpeg files were viewable - I do not know why, and I don't want to bother with converting or troubleshooting, because it's got to be easy or it's not worth it. For clarity sake, I have an album in iPhoto that I have for my frames, so what I am saying is that a few photos the played in the older frames will not play in this frame - and I don't have a clue why other than they were all Photoshop jpeg saved.
Bottom line: I'll pass, because a better one can be had for only slightly more. The added features don't add too much if the pictures aren't worth viewing.