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| Brand: Philips
Category: Photography
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $7.37
You Save: $142.62 (95%)
New (63) Refurbished (1) from $7.37
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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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Plug and Play March 27, 2008
This frame is super easy to figure out. You can simply plug it in, put in your memory card, turn it on and you are ready to go. It also has a lot of features (i.e. black and white, transitions, etc.) if you are interested. The picture quality is good and the price is not too high.
Great product March 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great product. I'm very picky about picture quality as I am a photo editor and graphic artist. The reason I haven't purchased one in the past was that I didn't like the quality of any of the units that I've seen in stores.
My wife bought me this one as a present this past Christmas and when I first opened it, my thought was "I probably won't like the quality", but I turned it on and she had some pictures pre-loaded in there and I was very impressed with the quality of the product and the resolution, no distracting pixelation whatsoever, even close up.
Though not as great as some monitors out there for contrast, the color quality was quite good and accurate and the resolution is great for this size of a screen. Changing the brightness helped make the color balance better as well for my lighting conditions. It will make a great addition to any desk or wall.
I've read of people having issues with using cards or menus. I didn't have any problems at all learning it or using any external media and haven't had any issues since. I just turned it on and learned all of the functions playing with it for about 15 minutes, not even needing a manual. I resized my photos to 720X480 pixels and to match the native resolution of the screen and to save space on the SD Card and then placed a few hundred on a SD chip and plugged it into the frame. It instantly recognized it and started to display the pictures from the chip instead of the on frame memory. No issues then-- and none in the 3 months since.
Again, great product and highly recommended.
Love it... I am getting a second one for my office!!! March 23, 2008
I love this product!!! Pictures are rich in color and the images are super clear...just like looking at a 35mm 400+ speed photo. The only thing that I warn is that you should make sure that the silver stand adapter is well adjusted because mine wasn't and it broke into many parts (thank goodness that 3m glue fixed it).... Other than that, I recommend this product.
Love it! March 9, 2008
I absolutley love this! It works perfectly, is easy to use, and looks great! I love the auto on/off feature. That way it isn't running all night long. If I had to complain about something, it would be that it loses all memory when unplugged. The time, date, and your auto on/off setting all go away. So that's kinda a pain to have to re-do every time the power goes out, but it's not a huge deal. Overall, I'm very happy with the product.
 7FF2FPA not exactly what I was looking for... February 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pros: Bright screen, clock, alarm clock, timed operation (set start/stop time), reads multiple card formats, USB port, allows you to rotate images from landscape to portrait orientation
Cons: Poorly designed 'kickstand' won't allow use in portrait orientation, no auto-rotation of portrait images, rotated images are centered & cropped, no support for multiple albums of photos, klunky user interface, only one each start & stop time, oversized 'wall-wart' plug, no internal battery, lightweight plastic has no friction or weight to keep it in place
Details on the cons:
The kickstand that lets the frame stand up is surprisingly heavy; apparently there's a lot of metal in there. That's a good thing. However, the way it mounts into the back of the frame is not. You push it in straight on at the 6 o'clock position and then twist slightly to the right. It would make more sense to push it in at an off angle and then turn it to the 6 o'clock position. And there's very little friction to hold it in place once it's in there, so a bump of the frame can knock it loose. If you think you might want to turn the frame from landscape to portrait -- which is shown in the product description on Amazon's page -- forget it. The kickstand falls right out when you do that. Guess the product description must use a photo of a different model frame. It also holds the frame nearly vertical; the photos look great if the frame is at eye level, but when sitting on a desktop, they appear a bit washed out.
The software allows you to rotate portrait images so they're not sideways in this landscape frame, but you have to do each image yourself. The software isn't sophisticated enough to recognize the orientation of an image and adjust it automatically. And after you rotate the image, it doesn't show up scaled so that the whole image fits the frame. The software cuts off the top and the bottom, leaving the middle of the image centered in the screen.
Want to have multiple photo albums on different subjects? You'll be limited to three, and you get that many only because there are 2 media slots in addition to the internal RAM. It's one 'album' per media source. You can have one set of pictures in the internal memory, another on a compact flash card, and a third on one of the other supported media formats. Want to see a different grouping? You'll need another media card, or you'll have to wipe one of your existing ones and put new photos on it. Having multiple 'albums' means spending some money or spending some time.
Navigating the rather primitive user interface with the top-mounted buttons gets very old very fast. Although it's nice that you can copy images directly from your media into the frame's internal memory, doing it is a pain as you slog slowly through the media's images, selecting the ones to move, and then moving them. I think I'll just assemble everything that I want on my Mac and then transfer them via the included USB cable.
Setting the options -- date, time, alarm, start/stop times, transitions, background color is equally klunky but you only have to do it once... until you unplug the frame and then all your settings are gone. I guess it was too much trouble to use nonvolatile RAM to store the date, time, and other settings.
Although it's nice to be able to operate the frame on a timer -- set a start time and a stop time -- it would have been nice to have more than one setting. Then you could have one setting for weekdays and another for weekends.
The power cord terminates in another one of the oversized wall-warts that takes up way too much space in a plug strip. This one goes sideways. I guess that's a good thing on a wall outlet, but not in a plug strip. Why not put the power supply inside and use a regular plug? And why does it cost $40-$60 more to get a frame with an internal battery? About that battery... I really wanted a frame that had a battery so that I wouldn't have to find a spot near an electrical outlet for regular use; I was thinking about mounting it on the wall above my desk at work. I took for granted that the customers who entered reviews a frame and the battery were actually talking about this frame. However, I should have realized that if the product description didn't mention a battery, then it didn't have one, despite the reviews. There appear to be add-on battery packs available... and they cost about the difference in price between this frame and it's $169 brother.
The plastic frame is extremely light in weight, and it's edges are very smooth. The kickstand comes to a point that is also smooth. Even a slight bump can shift this frame on a smooth surface like a desk; the weight of the cord can drag the frame off the edge if it's sitting very close when you bump it.
It's not worth the trouble it would take to send it back, so I guess I'll find a safe spot -- near an electrical outlet -- to put it, and I'll use it for awhile until it comes time to give someone a birthday/anniversary/holiday gift. If I do buy another one for myself, I'll do in a bricks & mortar store so I can try everything out first. Hmmmm... maybe I can glue this to the back of a wooden frame from the arts & crafts store and attach that frame's stand...
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