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| Brand: Philips
Category: Photography
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $7.37
You Save: $142.62 (95%)
New (62) 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
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| Customer Reviews:
 NOT user friendly! December 27, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After spending way too much time getting my mother-in-law's to work, I then tried to set up mine. It froze during picture transfer and now doesn't work. The user manual is worthless. Now I'll most likely spend the rest of my holiday with custom service or just return it. Looks nice but a royal pain!
Ruined Christmas December 27, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I purchased the Phillips Digital frame and out of the box it worked for about fifteen minutes. After that the screen went dark and could not be restarted. I checked out the support page online and followed all the tips including using the reset button. No Luck. I suppose I wouldn't have been as upset if this was an ordinary present for an ordinary occasion. But this was a Christmas present for my wife. In preparation for this I had gone through all of the photographs and slides I have taken throughout the thirty-five years of our marriage and digitized them so that she could see them at work. Now all of that work is wasted. It took months to do when my wife wasn't at home. (I suppose I'll transfer them to DVD's.)
Anyway I ran into another problem that caused some concern. The Philips online service states that you have to put the pictures in the top directory of the media card that you are using. But compact flash cards only allow a maximum of 128 files in that directory. I found out that this is due to a FAT (File Allocation Table) error. Evidently some media cards are formatted to work with both Macs and PC and since both of those platforms were originally DOS based many cards are formatted in MS-DOS (FAT or FAT16 on PC). The downside to this is that DOS has a limited file directory depth. An analogy might be appropriate here, as sent to me by Andrew G. of San DISK Technical support. Think of it this way. If you have a 2000 square foot home, you cannot fit 2000 square feet of merchandise in any single room, as your room is built in sections. The FAT file system, too is built in sections. Therefore in order to utilize the full capacity of a FAT formatted device, it is sometimes necessary to separate your information into directories. Bottom line, you need to check with your media card's producer before you start to transfer pictures onto your cars. If you are limited to FAT constrictions the most pictures you'll be able to put on the card will be 128.
Although the above FAT restricitions are not really a problem of the Philips unit, it would be nice if Philips would alert its potential buyers to the problem. Given the 128 file limitation buying a 1 gig card is simply a waste. You are much better off purchasing some small cards ie. 128 mg or less and creating a series of slideshows.
 The Digital Frame comes of Age December 26, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Remember the early days of consumer digital photography? In 1998
people asked whether printers could ever be as good as "real"
prints. No-one asks that question anymore because the answer
became "yes, obviously" in about 2002.
These photoframes are in transition now: this one is *almost* as good
as a print, it's a really high quality unit: silent, heavy and pleasing.
The screen has bright, densely spaced pixels that are visible from a wide
viewing angle.
But the main thing is that it looks like an elegant desktop picture frame,
even close-up. It's not till the picture changes that people realise,
and they always say "Wow, I though that was a picture".
I loaded 300 pictures after resizing them to 720x480 pixels onto
a memory stick, and they run flawlessly.
This frame (the six inch one, not the eight inch) is worth the
money, and is a quietly spoken delight on the desktop,
well done Philips.
Awaiting a wall-size model for ordinary money....
Great little digital photo display December 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm very happy with the display. Thanks very much to the earlier reviewer who included the 3:2 and 4:3 aspect ratio facts and 720x480 pixel size information! This was helpful and probably facilitated my speed and ease in my having no problem in getting the unit up and going in a short time. I used pictures both from a Canon camera with its 3:2 ratio and pictures from an Olympus camera with its 4:3 ratio. The Canon pictures filled the frame perfectly. The display left small black border with the Olympus 4:3 ratio, not quite as perfect looking as the Canon pictures, but fine none the less.
I gathered a collection of pictures, then used Photoshop to batch re-size them to 720x480 (72dpi). I then copied that folder of pictures onto a CF card wich was plugged into a card reader. From there it was a simple matter of removing the card from the reader and plugging it into the display and powering on. I used two lower resolution levels when re-sizing. I couldn't tell any difference in display quality.
Overall I'm extremely happy with the display. The owner's manual did a good job of describing how to operate the unit. I turned the brightness down one notch. A good choice of options are available with the slide show mode. I didn't utilize the copy from card function, but it seemed very intuitive. It's simply faster for me to plug a card into the back of the display. The slot for a Kensington lock is a very nice feature. The included color frame borders are also nice touch.
Great Product; poor software December 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As noted in other reviews, the picture quality is great but using PC software is terrible. All the software does is let you copy pictures to the frame, but there are no editing features.
When plugged in, the frame shows up as a USB drive - it's easier to size and edit your pictures on the PC and then just drag them to the frame.
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