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| Brand: Philips
Category: Photography
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $84.99
You Save: $65.00 (43%)
New (63) Refurbished (1) from $84.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  253 reviews
Color: Clear & Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Native Resolution: 7
Display Size: 7
Removable Memory: MiniSD
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 4.1 x 9.5 x 9.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 7FF2FPA
Model: 7FF2FPA
UPC: 609585144132
EAN: 0609585144132
ASIN: B000VEUU5U
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
An almost ideal execution. December 28, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Compared to the competition in this frame size, the Philips version is a bit on the pricey side. But if you're interested in the best you can get, this is it. Many of the frames in this size show a measly 480x234 resolution. The better ones will give you a 640x480 resolution which will match the 4:3 aspect ratio of consumer-grade point and shoot cameras. The nice part of the Philips frame (other than being brighter than the ones I've looked at) is that the 720x480 resolution matches the 3:2 aspect ratio of a standard 4x6 print and most higher-end digital cameras (i.e. most digital SLRs). If most of your digital photos are in a 4:3 aspect ratio, you may not like having the tops & bottoms cropped off or having to scale things so that they're shorter and fatter. But then if you printed snapshot size photos, you'd have that issue anyway. Also, if you're the "do it for me automatically" kind of person, you'll probably hate the bundled software. I don't use it and manually scale/crop the photos I want to display so that isn't an issue for me.
If you drop native, multi-megapixel JPEGs into the onboard memory, you'll only fit a handful if you're lucky. Do yourself a favor and pick up an extra SD or CF card. I got a 512MB SD card here on Amazon for just $11. With ~250 pictures on it so far, it takes up less than 50MB after scaling (even at the highest quality JPEG compression). This extrapolates to 2500-3000 images in rotation.
The control buttons aren't the most intuitive, that is until you figure out that the button functions change a little. If you follow the screen printed icons on the back, you'll just get confused. After you enter the menus, the actual button configuration is based on what's displayed on-screen. It has auto on/off and screen dimming functions based on time of day. That's nice, but I haven't had a chance to see them in action since I set it up so that it's running while I'm at my desk. It'd be nice if the picture duration was more customizable. The preset intervals don't work for me (I'd like to be able to specify something between 30 seconds and one minute).
Functionally, there are some minor caveats. The processor they settled on isn't quite up to the task. The transitions are a bit on the choppy side and some button presses take a split second to react. The color gamut of the LCD is also a bit lacking when compared to a laptop display, though it's still the best I've seen in a digital photo frame. If I look closely enough, I'd swear it was displaying 16-bit color because there is a very slight posterizing effect.
Great display once you get it working December 28, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great christmas present for my parents once I got it setup. Took about an hour and I have more than trivial experience with other hardware and software designed for home use.
The frame almost looks like a real picture until it changes.
To agree with most other reviews, the software to upload pictures from a memory card is horrible. I still don't understand what I'm supposed to do. The best way I've found to upload was USB connection from my PC to the frame using the upload software. It was essentially drag and drop.
Loved the frames ability to automatically detect orientation and adjust and the fact that I could easily fit 100 images on it... when I reduced the resolution of the pictures.
Am considering buying one for myself and wall-mounting it. Once you get it setup, you'll love it.
Can't confirm, but several reviews running into problems uploading pictures from a Mac. Come on Philips. This is something that should have been designed for Apple users over PC users from the get-go. They're the first ones who'll buy this.
 Great resolution; very pleased December 27, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The resolution and PQ is excellent. Good heft and quality build. Excellent feature set (time between pic changes in slideshow, on/off times, brightness settings with evening brightness separate, etc). I haven't tried a computer-to-frame transfer via USB; have used CF and SD cards to load them onto the frame, letting the frame take them from 10MP and 4MP down to its native resolution - they look great. The interface is very easy, but you do need to read the manual the first go-round). This frame is far superior to others I've had (like Digiframe) with great resolution, color depth, brightness, and viewing angle. Highly recommended.
GREAT digital photo frame, horrible software to use it December 27, 2006
This frame is awesome. The picture quality and functions it allows you to customize make this a GREAT frame to buy. My only complaint is that the software that comes with it -- Philips Photo Manager -- is TERRIBLE. I am a very technical person and usually can go without even looking at the instructions. However, even after reading the instructions and trying to get the software to work correctly, I can say that the Photo Manager is a worthless piece of software. I couldn't even get it to show me the folders on my hard drive correctly. I ended up uninstalling the software and instead using the Microsoft XP PowerToy called ImageResizer to get my photos to the right size (in batch), and then just uploaded the photos from my computer as if the frame were a USB drive. If you didn't understand what I just wrote, expect to spend a lot of time on the phone with Philips customer support to get any photos off your computer onto the frame. If you are planning on just using a memory card (CompactFlash, SmartMedia, etc.), you should have no problems.
All that said -- now that I finally have my wedding photos on the digital frame -- I love it.
 disappointing December 27, 2006
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
The picture quality is quite good and the concept is great,but the memory card from my Sony camera did not fit the frame -- this was a nasty surprise. In addition, you can't rotate photos (even though they say you can) so you need all your photos to be either vertical or horizontal in a slide show. Third, the software to transfer photos from your PC is simply miserable -- not user friendly and lacking in features. I recommend you hold off buying a frame like this until they get the kinks worked out. I am very disappointed.
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