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: My dad will be thrilled
Summary: 5 Stars
My dad's a perfectionist, a techno geek, and a retired physician. He's going to love this gift. Took me less than an hour to unpackage it, plug it in, install the software, find 50 photos to upload into it and repackage it for mailing to his home.
The control buttons are on the back. I thought "Oh, no. I'll never remember what does what." Well, talk about intelligent design! They're not only sets of different sizes, but when you hold the frame to watch the menus on the front, the functions of the buttons on the back appear on the FRONT where the buttons that do those functions sit on the BACK.
I flipped open the Quick Start guide just to check for potential problems like "you need to charge overnight before using", but I didn't see anything like that, so I just plugged in the power cable, USB cable to my PC and flew.
The screen is flawless - not a pixel out of tune. The customizability of slide shows and brightness and everything is quick and easy and obvious. And I think even my mom (who's still taking pictures with a finger over the flash) will be able to figure out how to pause and reverse the display.
I'm delighted, and sure he will be.
The only flaw - the wood frame itself is a little hokey with the gold lines. Kind of 1950's looking. Why not allow us to pay a little extra and get a really fine frame? Say, cherry? They offer a clear option. Those with traditional furnishings who have the disposable income to make such a purchase would appreciate being able to pick the wood...
So - great Christmas gift otherwise!
Digital camera Review: Nice picture
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought the product based on the good reviews and am pleased with the product. If I had to do it over again, I would have purchased the same brand, but a larger display.Digital camera Review: Nice quality
Summary: 5 Stars
The pic quality is good. I like the interface as well. It's easy to use. The wooden accent frames fit my style the best!Digital camera Review: Not bad so far
Summary: 4 Stars
The quality of the displayed photos if very nice. My wife loves it. Its a great way gain access to all those photos that have been sitting on the PC. Setting the resolution of the photos to match the native resolution of the frame (720x480) lets you store a lot more in the frame's memory or an external memory card. It also makes the transitions between photos smoother since the frame doesn't have to do convert the photos on the fly.
A couple of issues though...
The software supplied provides a method of accessing CF card which doesn't seem to work, so I couldn't download photos from PC to the a CF card in the frame using the supplied USB cable & software. The manual didn't provide enough information to get past this issue.
I fell back to copying my photos to the CF card via a card reader/writer attached directly to the PC (no frame). This works fine except windows doesn't seem to be giving me access to the full capacity of the CF card. This is not an issue with the frame itself. I tried two CF cards (1GB, 128 MB), two card reader/writers, and two XP PCs with the same result. So it seems to be an XP issue. XP shows the capacity of the CF cards correctly, but writes fail after about 36 MB on both. If anyone has any insight into this issue, I'd appreciate some assistance.
Digital camera Review: Philips DigiPicFrame
Summary: 5 Stars
After looking at many different frames this one stood out from the rest. You'll be proud to give this quality frame as a gift or display for yourself. That's what we did. Bought on for a gift. Liked it so much bought another for us! Only quip would be the control buttons take a bit of getting used to. Not so intuitive. Be sure to look at the controls on screen when using the step up / buttons. That helps a lot. Once you've messed with it a short while you're good to go. Oh, I didn't read the manual which is on CD only the quick set up guide. Just like a guy huh? You won't be disapointed. We also purchased the larger 8" unit.