Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Wood) by Philips Consumer Electronics
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Digital camera reviews of Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Wood)
Digital camera Review: Great product
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this for my parents, so they can watch their first grandchild all day long :) I haven't spent a lot of time with it because I won't be keeping it, but I used it enough to load a bunch of pictures on it for them and found it to be very easy to use, with a great picture.Digital camera Review: Happy with product with two exceptions:
Summary: 4 Stars
From reviews on Amazon, this digital picture frame is said to have excellent picture quality and indeed it has met my expectations. I like how the pictures from memory cards can change almost instantly in the no effects mode without having the picture slowly displayed line-by-line. And those are 7.1 MP photos on a SD card! With effects enabled in slideshow mode, the transitions can be random and they are are very acceptable, no complains there either.
The two exceptions I mentioned in the subject are:
1. The manual says photos that are stored in the unit's internal memory can be rotated. I could not get this to work. With the frame set to landscape mode, photos in the portrait mode are displayed sideways and can only be rotated 180 degrees so they are sideways in the opposite direction. One has to do the 90 degree rotation in the computer using a graphics program and then load them into the digital picture frame in order to have them displayed properly. I see that another Amazon reviewer for the 7" Philips digital frame mentions the rotation problem so it must be a factory defect.
2. The second exception is that the description on Amazon says the displayed resolution is 720x480 which is normally a 4:3 aspect picture from video camcorders due to rectangular shaped pixels. But this Philips unit must be using square pixels so the aspect ratio is actually 3:2. The manual says that the 4:3 aspect photos from most digital cameras are cropped to allow them to display properly on the 3:2 aspect screen. This means that the top and bottom of the photos are cropped off. So frame your photos with ample space on the top and bottom to allow for this cropping effect.
I'm happy with my purchase despite the two exceptions listed and they can both be worked around once the user is aware of them. Hopefully the rotation problem will be fixed in a future firmware upgrade.
Anyway, I believe my son will be thrilled with this gift because of the picture quality, speed of display and overall functionality.
Digital camera Review: If all you want is to display photos, this is an excellent frame!
Summary: 5 Stars
The display on the frame gives excellent photo quality, which is the number one concern for me. It's useful to note that the aspect ratio of the display is 3:2, which fits photos you took from your digital SLR perfectly. That's the way I think it should be. If you load photos from a point&shoot camera on the frame (4:3 ratio) without cropping, There will be slim areas of black on either side of the picture.
The frame provides some auto on/off function that allows you set the time. Personally I would prefer an ambient ligth sensor that will brighten the display as the room gets brigher, and dim as the room gets darker. Controls and adjusting are well done. The frame is good quality and classy. Exactly what I expected, nothing less.
Make sure you pick up an SD card, as the internal memory fills up fast (even if you downsize the pictures).
Digital camera Review: It died on me after the 3rd day, terrible product
Summary: 4 Stars
Before I start off, I'd like to say I am using this product in a way not many people will. I have loaded around 2,000 pictures on a 2 GB SD card and loaded it up in the picture frame. This was meant as a X-mas present for my Dad, who is not technical at all.
When the frame is loading pictures from the internal memory, it is fast and stable. When the frame loads pictures from the SD card and I set it to update every 5 seconds, it will quickly crash and restart. Yup, that is correct, crash. After wanting to smash it out of frustration, I decided to change the settings to 15 seconds or so and it has worked well until now.
The picture quality is very good, crisp and clear. The price is OK after doing some research. I will write something more in the future if anything bad happens. So far, it is what I expected and it was relatively easy to set up.
Update: 2 days have passed since I turned on this thing. I went to check it out and it was displaying noting, screen was blank even though the unit was on. I tried resetting and nothing, I have unplugged it and will wait for the battery to run out in order to reset it.
Yet Another Update: 3 days have passed and the unit does NOT work anymore! I let the battery run out, connected it and now it does not show any pictures. Nice Christmas gift, eh?
The bottom line: if you want to give this product to a person who is non-technical, stay away from it. It is very very very far from plug and play. I definitely regret buying this and will most likely return it.
Digital camera Review: JUNK - DO NOT BUY !!!
Summary: 3 Stars
Junk - ZERO STARS - I can not edit that for some reason ???? Amazon???
SEND IT BACK !!!
Unit crapped out with in Two Weeks of Use.!!!????
Freeze frame on one photo for hours on end.
Blank White and Black frames !!!!!!
Because it has a battery you can't turn it off !??!!
JUNK !!! DON NOT BUY !!!!!
Beautiful picture. With out a doubt - Good Looking !!!!
This is one of the ONLY frames you can connect too with a MAC. ++++
BUT what they don't tell you is that the Frame only has 12mb of built in memory. That raises the price because you MUST buy some kind of memory card to expand the usefulness of this Frame.
These frames should be easy to use - they are not.
These should work like a VCR - load and watch......? Who is the idiot
that programed this ? The menu is not easy - the buttons do NOT work
as explained in the manual.
You Must format the pictures ( to a smaller resolution ) in order to get more than 10 to fit on the frame.
I would rather have bought an old iMac and just set it up for slide show?