Philips 7-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black)
by Philips Consumer Electronics
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Philips 7-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black)
Customer Review: OK, but colors are off and control is difficult
Summary: 2 Stars
The 16:9 ratio is to long for this sort of product. Photos are seldom in that format. The controls (setup and menu) were difficult to use. The colors were slightly off (too yellow). A shuffle mode on the slide show would be an improvement.
On the positive side are good brightness, OK picrure quality and nice finish.
Customer Review: Really, really bad
Summary: 1 Stars
Phillips had really good photo frames before with high resolution screens. I bought this one because I presumed it would be the same, high quality. Totally wrong.
The resolution is so low that most of the images look pixelated and unbearable to look at.
As others have said, the "Baby" on the internal memory cannot be deleted and so makes the internal memory useless (unless you want to constantly see the Philips ad and a baby .......).
The "USB" connectivity only works with memory cards.. not the internal memory, so to use this (with the baby of course) you have to copy each and every picture one by one from the memory card.... Waste of time!
Setting the "dim" timer needs a lot of patience to set up as "dim-start" means the opposite of what you would think (ie it actually switched on the display rather than starting the dimming process....
Last but not least, the screen is not positioned properly leaving a gap of about 3 pixels at the Top/Left hand side (depending on if you have it vertical or horizontally placed) between the screen and the frame.
Summary: avoid this frame unless you want sore eyes and questions from friends about a baby that's not yours.......
Update - I really did want to view my digital pics and so took the plunge to get the "upmarket" version of this unit - the 8" one (8FF3FP) with 800 x 600 pixels. In this world you get what you pay for.... well so I thought. And paying twice the price should get twice the quality, right?
This new unit worked great ... for a few hours after which the "auto-fit" function stopped working and it put nasty rainbow coloured borders around the pictures instead of fitting pictures to suit the position of the frame (landscape/portrait). Even worse, ALL the portrait orientation pictures were distorted and looked extremely pixelated.
What a waste of my weekend.... It always seems the same these days. When a new technical thing comes out there are always bugs... then down the road they fix them with a "firmware upgrade".
So again - my advice is to totally avoid this range of photo frames!
Customer Review: Awful
Summary: 1 Stars
I've bought digital photo frames before - even ones from Philips. I got this one for my mom for Mother's Day, and it is a huge disappointment.
Here's why:
1. The screen is 16:9. It doesn't automatically "letterbox" 4:3 pictures though - instead, most of them come out looking skewed. You have to do a lot of manipulation of the pictures to make sure they "work" before you can load them to the frame.
2. You can't access the frame's internal memory through USB (at least not on Win XP). It doesn't show up. See, the frame acts as a reader for the two memory card slots. They show up, but the frame's internal memory doesn't. This means in order to load pictures, you have to copy them to a card, stick the card in, and then either leave the card in or use the menus to copy the pictures into the frame, which brings me to...
3. The menus don't have "bulk" options. You can't say "copy all of the pictures from the card to the internal memory" - it simply isn't an option. You also can't delete all pictures in one shot. Basically you can't do anything in one shot.
4. If that wasn't enough to make the internal memory completely useless, this settles it: There's a Philips ad with a baby's face in the internal memory that you simply cannot delete. When you try, it says "Operation fail!![sic]". I called their support line, and the person, while nice, was utterly unable to help me delete the picture. So, unless you like long tedious times copying pictures and an occasional Philips ad in your slideshow, you can't use the internal memory at all.
5. The display looks pixelated in a lot of pictures. Much moreso than other frames I've used.
If this hadn't been for Mother's Day and Mother's Day wasn't so close, I would be returning this immediately and getting something else. As is, I'll see how mom feels about it. It's definitely the last Philips frame I'll buy.
Customer Review: Horrible. If only I had read the reviews...
Summary: 1 Stars
Horrible. If only I had read the reviews...I would never have purchased this item.
Let me start by saying I work in technology, so I know what quality and simplicity should look like. I was hoping for a fair quality, simple to use picture frame to give to a moderately computer savvy relative for Xmas.
Reasons not to buy this:
-Display quality is poor:
Mine came with several pixels dead, right out of the box.
-Navigation is awful:
The buttons are on the back, and you have to look at the front to see the menus as they change. You end up feeling around back there...its not good.
-On Board Memory is useless:
It contains sample photos that cannot be deleted (the infamous baby from other reviews) and which continually display along with your photos in the slideshow.
-Widescreen Display is awful:
If you are scanning old 4:3 aspect ratio family pictures into this 16:9 ratio frame, you get two choices: diplay them with black bars to the sides or stretch and distort them. Neither is terribly attractive.
After two hours of scan then crop of the family photos, I put this thing back in the box, and bought one of the kodak easyshare frames.
In summary, I would not recommend this device to anyone who is not an expert at manipulating photos, and even then be ready for the time commitment.
Update: The kodak easy share frame is working out great! Highly recommended as an alternative.
Kodak EasyShare P720 Digital Picture Frame with Home Decor Kit
Customer Review: Pathetic
Summary: 1 Stars
1. Got most basic resolution. I played photos from my Nikon D40 SLR camera, but even those pictures looked broken even from 5 feet distance.
2. No wireless feature, no backup battery. Your nightmare starts when you reconnect it to power supply. It wont boot automatically, there is one lousy power button in the back. Even after you power it on the default Foto playback is the firmware and not your memory card or USB. So you need to point it to your memory device by clicking 5-6 buttons.
3. Although it says 7 inch display, you cannot play photos with 5"x7" aspect ratio. The aspect ratio of the frame is 4"x6".
4. No remote, no MP3 playback, no sound.
You can get all these features on a Coby or Nextar frame by spending 15-20 dollars more.
I returned it the next day !!