Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal) by Philips Consumer Electronics
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Digital camera reviews of Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal)
Digital camera Review: Great picture frame
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen some bad digital frames- ones that stretch out the picture, making everyone look fat, or dim displays with bad color. The Philips frame is absolutely the opposite: it's delightfully easy to use and the picture quality is great. Pictures are automatically sized, cropped, even rotated when you turn the frame. I didn't need the software they included. I just dumped a pile of pictures on a CF card (using my camera wired to a computer) and then plugged the card into the frame. The menus in the frame are navigated with a little joystick on the back. It's not the nicest menu system, but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. If you are buying this for Grandma (of course) here's a tip: buy two memory cards so that you can switch photo albums when you visit.Digital camera Review: Great picture, but FLAWED software.
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought one because it was reputed to have the best quality and picture. It has a good picture, but equal to the Infini 8" frame sold at Comp USA (also flawed quality) and it is very nicely built. Trouble was that when I loaded my Memory stick with about 80 ordinary JPEGs it would only recognize the pics sometimes, other times not. I had to repeatedly plug in the chip before it would recognize them, and it NEVER played them all the way through. It kept cycling back to the source selection screen when I tried to play them. A terribly frustrating exercize. Save the extra money and look for the Infini 10.4" frame. It has a pretty good picture but it plays first and every time no matter what. The 8" model has a picture equal to this Phillips (but I had to return both Infini 8" screens due to quality and software issues: remotes bad and software flawed in one.) All in all, Phillips needs to refine the tolerance of this device to files and chips and greatly simplify the functionality. I feel we should be able to plug in a loaded chip and just press play... that's all. Not this one! . I had no folders, no odd types of files, and still no luck (I tried folders too, to no avail) Sorry, it's NOT ready for prime time.Digital camera Review: Great product - metal frame useful
Summary: 5 Stars
Great product! Easy to use, independant once you save the pictures on the frame or a memory card. It is useful to reduce the size of your pictures. You can choose all the effects and transitions.
Metal frame is useful as it doesn't scratch (the acrylic one is more sensible to scratches).
A great gift also for parents, etc.
Digital camera Review: Great product! Very happy with it.
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought the 9" digital frame the other day. So far have been very happy with it. Yes, the lcd screen is only 8" not the 9" that I and some others expected. The picture resolution is very good. Even though it states the resolution on this frame is slightly lower than the 7" model, I don't think it really makes a difference. The menu control buttons on the rear could use some improvement. They are not labeled except for the power button. This has lead me to push the wrong button on occasion. The onscreen menu is very easy to navigate. I was able to set up the frame in just a few minutes with very little input from the manual.Digital camera Review: Great quality
Summary: 4 Stars
This photoframe has the best image quality I have seen of the photoframes I looked at. The new controls are easier to use than previous models. The only fault is that we could not get it to work with our Mac computer even though I thought the product info said it was compatible. We had to use a PC which worked fine. Also, for as much as the product costs it did not come with an instruction manual so there was no easy way to troubleshoot why the photoframe was not working with our Mac. All that being said, it is still the best photoframe I have come across.