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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:
 This is an excellent product December 3, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this for my parents for Christmas, but I like it so much I am going to get another for home and one for my office. The quality is excellent and the controls are very intuitive. I didn't want to have to be remote tech support for my parents on this product, but it is so easy to use I am not worried about that anymore. I can just mail my parents new Compact Flash cards, and have them slide it into the back to refresh the pictures.
I highly recommend this product.
 Poor Operating System December 3, 2006
18 out of 33 found this review helpful
OK I am sending my first one back for replacement since it froze up.
I am very technically minded and I spent 8 hours or more jerking with this thing until I finally loaded the internal memory full of pictures and it froze it up. I wanted to set it up for my Mom with a couple hundred pictures so it would last for a long time. It did fine with 10 to 15 pictures on the internal memory but started screwing up when I loaded 80 to 110 pictures on an SD memory card and tried that.
I could not get it to work with the external memory card for more than a 1/2 hour without freezing on a picture and then going to a black screen with intermittent flashes. I thougth I had a bad memory card so I went and bought two brand new ones and it continued to have the same problems with the new cards. That was when I connected it directly and loaded 30 pictures on the internal memory leaving only 500 kb of internal memory. That bricked the thing. It would not recover and would not mount up on any usb port on either my PC or my Macs. Customer support says there is no way to erase the internal memory and the reset switch did me no good. Lastly, I tried the firmware update on an SD card and even that would not erase the internal memory and restart it.
It seems to have issues with the way the pictures are formatted (size) or the way they are named or the directory structure of the flash media. There is no mention in any of their literature as to how the thing likes its pictures formatted or named and it cannot find jpegs loaded onto flash cards if they are not formatted a particular way. The operating system is too picky about the way it needs the pictures and instead of just giving an error message, it locks up and needs to be rebooted. (Sounds like Windows 98)
It has a beautiful display though and bright pictures look great on it. Dark pictures need to be brightened up with software before they look good. Don't waste memory with pictures larger than 720 x 540 since it will scale them to that size before it displays them. The options for turning on and off and dimming at night are nice as are the options for random shuffle slideshow and different transitions.
I will try the software upgrade on the new one I get before I try working with it.
Be careful with the way you load pictures on it if you buy one. Use their software if possible and stick to a memory card don't mess with the internal memory.
Just like a hot chick it is beautiful to look at but a pain to deal with.
Archon
 Didn't work November 30, 2006
My husband purchased this digital picture frame for me. After receiving it, it worked the first few times. But then quit working all together. I had to contact Philips, because it was after the 30 days. I had to pay for the shipping the unit back to Philips. Philips then sent me back another unit, that didn't work! I have to again pay the shipping back to Philips. I'm sure that the third unit I receive won't work either. I am so mad that we have spent all this money on soemthing that doesn't even work!
The few tiems that the first unit worked the picture was great and we were considering buying several for gifts. I wouldn't reccomend this to anyone. The lack of customer service is so frustrating. I used this unit a few times in September and it's now almost December. We bought this to show off pictures from a vacation without having to drag along the laptop. I've been having to use my lap top this whole time. I don't foresee this problem being resloved so now we're out a few hundred dollars.
Buy it- Do not hesitate November 30, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have other frames and they are a convenient way to see my photos but I have never been pleased with the screen quality vs print quality. An 8 megapixel camera quality is lost on the lesser screens.
Enter this philips. It is like night and day. I am running it side by side on the same slide show and it looks like a 3 megapixel camera vs an 8 megapixel.
Oh yeah and it will operate off of the charger so viewers with eysite limitiations can pick it up and view it in their hands just like a photo.
Hope this helps.
Note three additional colored frames are just accent frames November 30, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
On reading the description of this product, saying "with 3 additional colored frames" my impression was that the colored frames would hide the acrylic frame i.e. go completely over it, but they actually just cover what you see in the picture as white/metal looking. I didn't even try out the frame because I will be returning this one for either the milk frame or the metal one but I look forward to playing with it! Just wanted others to be aware!
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