Digital Spectrum USB Digital Photo Frame (5x7)
by Pacific Digital
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Digital Spectrum USB Digital Photo Frame (5x7)
Customer Review: Very cool
Summary: 4 Stars
This frame is great. Very good product. It was easy to load and unload pictures. The only draw back is that sometimes the pictures are displayed to dark.
Customer Review: Fun and adequate but not stellar
Summary: 3 Stars
This product is fun and makes a good photo frame, but I was not blown away; it met my expectations but did not exceed them.You get a 5" by 7", 320x240, 4:3 aspect ratio LCD frame. The picture quality is decent, but not spectacular. I would say it is fairly faithful to the original pictures, but viewing them side to side with how they are displayed on a regular PC, they look inferior. But it is a 320x240, so it's not unexpected.
Viewing angle is a little limited, and the picutre colours and luminosity are noticeably different when viewed from different angles.
Setting up the frame was easy; in all, it took me about half an hour to get everything done (including installing drivers, programs, and even updating the firmware) and have it displaying my photos.
A couple of complaints; I would have liked the slide show to have a "random" feature, ditto with the transition effects. Also, it would have been nice to have a drag-and-drop from any Windows folder to the slide show composition screen. As it is, you can only place photos by using a clunky dialogue box to select pictures to be included in slide shows.
I'm conflicted about this product being good value for money, though; on the one hand, the screen is clearly NOT top of the notch and leaves quite a bit of room for improvement.
On the other hand, I looked around for similar products and found that they are substantially more expensive(Digi-Frame DF-560) or are clunky(Ceiva Picture Frame requires subscription and phone line connection). I guess the technology isn't mature enough for these types of products to be affordable and great quality (they are currently expensive and so-so quality).
I bought this to place on my office desk, and I'm pretty sure it will do its job. If you want a great looking frame, I would hold out a little more. If you can afford it, the Digi-Frame products look pretty good. ....
All in all, I find this product fun because it does what it says it does quite well, but the display is its achilles' heel. I have a feeling this category will pick up in popularity and technology soon so wait some more and you'll begin to see truly great products by around 2005. As a relatively early adoptor, I am content with it.
Customer Review: Not to shabby
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this product for my mom and after a little exploring and playing around I finally got it to do what I wanted. The picture quality was ok but I expected a little better. The transitions from computer to the piture frame are very fast and exporting pictures from other files was accomplished after some trial and errors were done. Overall I think it's a little overpriced for what you get but my mom loves it so that's all that matters. I would definately recomend this to someone who has a digital camera.Customer Review: Pacific Digital Photo Frame
Summary: 3 Stars
Am a bit disappointed with this product. The clear digital photos that are loaded onto the unit become blurry for viewing. The photo frame is also advertised as a 5 x 7, which is deceiving - the photos only view through a 3 x 4 inch window.Customer Review: Not yet ready - poor picture quality
Summary: 2 Stars
Very easy to use. Easy to load pictures. Unfortunately the screen quality was very grainy and difficult to look at. Returned the item. Sony frames I've seen seemed much better, although at a significantly higher price. Still this frame is not worth the money. Also, be aware that the viewing size is much smaller than 5x7.