Coby DP-769 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player & 2 Frames
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Coby DP-769 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player & 2 Frames
Customer Review: Nice frame
Summary: 5 Stars
The frame is nice and works like it should. Like the ability to change frame colors.Customer Review: Overall a good deal
Summary: 4 Stars
Summary: Buy it, but expect little nuances.
SO it appears most of us purchaed these for mom! Well, I guess we'll all see if mom is capable of handling this product once she gets it home.
I'm preloading the card I bought with a hundred or so pics, and will go through the painful but necessary process of resizing each pic in software before I send her home with it.
She doesn't know if her Mac has a card reader, so I'm giving her one. It would be much easier if the unit plugged into the mac or PC via USB, which is at least a method she understands. So I worried that she'll never be able to put more pictures on the unit unless I do it for her when I visit.
In any case, I think mom will enjoy this product very much.
I bought one for myself also. I have been unable to find any video files, including those little vids that come with Vista as examples, that will work with the unit. There is no codec information in the instruction booklet (calling it that is a little extreme... it is poorly written and the English translation was done poorly enough to qualify for engrish.com). Animated GIF's do not work. In fact, I have several JPG's that don't display as well, no idea why.
New purchasers and gift givers should combine this product with a memory card and reader (combined, about $30-40 at most) because the unit is useless without it.
Customer Review: Good Value - Basic Photo Frame
Summary: 4 Stars
I am very satisfied with the COBY DP-768. It is a basic photo frame that provides all that I require. The set-up is not terribly intuitive, but not too bad. I did find that I had to experiment quite a bit in order to get my photos to properly fill the 16:9 frame. I ended up cropping my jpeg photos to 700 x 460 pixels (that is 8.75" x 5.75" at 80 pixels/inch). I set the frame to 16:9 format, and then set the image to "origial" size. This worked for me, but I don't fully understand why these dimensions don't equate to a 16:9 display proportion. I also don't understand why photos cropped to match the instruction manual display resolution of 480 x 234 pixels did not work well for me. At those setting, the image did not come close to filling the screen. I feel that the instruction manual was lacking in describing the process required to properly crop photos to an acceptable format. My camera only takes images in 4:3 format, so some tinkering was required.Customer Review: This product works great
Summary: 4 Stars
Easy to assemble and use out of the box. The remote is rather small, but usable. Other reviews stated some photos did not reach edge to edge, but there is an adjustment on the remote to change from the 4:3 ratio to the 16:9 making the photo larger. The only negative is fragmentation in some photos sometimes. Not sure of this cause. Otherwise, I would recommend this product to everyone. For a first time buyer of this type of digital frame, I am well pleased.Coby DP-758 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo FrameCustomer Review: Great Frame
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great digital frame. I bought it for my Grandparents for Christmas and they loved it. It is clean looking and will fit into almost any rooms theme. The fact that it can stand on a table or hang on the wall is a major plus, because you can put it just about anywhere. I gave it a 4 because setting up the menu and getting it going can be slightly confusing for someone who isnt used to technology. I wouldnt consider the menu issue a problem though, it just might take a few minutes to play around with to get the settings correct.