Product Description

The 10FF2M4/27 is a 10.2" LCD Digital Photo Frame that will allow you to display and manage your digital photos on a large screen. The very best high density, full color screen shows off your photos with the same "real life" rich detail and vibrant colors as high quality prints. Automatic landscape/portrait recognition employs a sensor that recognizes PhotoFrame orientation and displays each photo in its proper mode. Smart Album allows you to create and manage photo albums, as well as to set up and adjust transition effects to your photo slideshows. The PhotoEffect Wizard is an easy-to-use feature that allows you to rotate, zoom in, crop and even adjust photo color tones to b&w or sepia right within the PhotoFrame. The unit operates on AC power or cordlessly with the rechargeable battery. The unit has a 9.4 inch viewable area and a 3:2 frame ratio.

Product Details

• Size: 9.4-Inch
• Color: Clear
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 10FF2M4/27
• Dimensions: 7.09" h x 13.43" w x 10.71" l, 8.65 pounds
• Display size: 10.2

Features

• 10.2 inch LCD (9.4 inch viewable area)
• 720 x 480 viewing resolution
• Store up to 1000 photos in internal memory
• Rotate, zoom, crop, mask and add effects to your photos
• AC power and rechargeable battery

Customer Reviews

Phillips 7 inch LCD Photo Frame - Nice Middle of the Road Frame
The Philips 7-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black) hit enough of my key needs to be worth the cash for me. If you're like me, the thought of a $150 digital photo frame is simply over the top. The cost of these guys hasn't really come down too much in general. That was the main reason it took me so long to pull the trigger on one of these.

PROS
+ Great advanced menu functions allow you to control your slideshow
+ Very nice variety of slide-show transitions and collage options
+ Nice memory card slot allows you to connect up a variety of memory cards
+ Memory card slots for Compact Flash I (CF), SD Card, Multi Media Cards (MMC), MiniSD, Memory Stick (MS), and XD Picture Card
+ Convenient timer option turns frame on and off at the hours you select
+ A USB connector for easy viewing and sharing of photos stored on USB flash drive
+ USB connection to your computer (to manage the internal memory)
+ Play slideshows, single photo, thumbnails or show clock
+ Nice looking frame design
+ 7 inch screen is acceptable in size

CONS
- Pictures must be JPEG (.jpg) and work best when in native 16:9 widescreen format
- Competing alternatives from Sony natively support other image formats (RAW, TIFF, BMP)
- No video playback
- Lacks MP3 music playback for slideshows
- The list price is a bit much; the prevailing price is also on the high side
- You should only be looking to get this on sale
- Many newer alternatives coming to market which use less power than LCD
- Philips quality control has been declining the last few years
- Definitely test this within your return period to make sure you don't have a dud

DISPLAY FORMATS

The frame is listed at a display ratio of 16:9. This means it's natively widescreen, but it is still compatible with standard format cameras, including my Nikon and almost all handheld Canon models. Those with wide-format digital cameras are spared the extra step of reformatting.

Those with standard format digital cameras may want to look at one of the many standard format frames for full screen slide shows. Alternatively, this will show those standard sized photos fine if you make sure your frame is not set to "autofit." The autofit setting will stretch the pictures out to fit the frame, which is what you want to avoid for standard pictures. There are a number of options for borders to frame the extra space around your pictures.

SOFTWARE AND FEATURES

The included CD comes with a quick reference manual and Windows and Mac drivers. The CD also contains Windows compatible picture manager software. For a full PDF manual you will have to go to the website.

There's some kind of menu driven help manual on the CD as well.
But not all people will need a manual. The built-in menu is designed intuitively enough that you can find most settings by searching through it. Not all the settings are on the first screen, but with some searching you can find the buried settings to configure almost everything you need.

The optional clock display is another nice extra that makes this frame versatile. This doesn't totally make up for the lack of MP3 playback, but it's a nice feature.

The frame also has automatic orientation detection as an option, which rotates pictures from portrait to landscape. There are also collage and thumbnail view options.

This guy doesn't have the native image format support of some of the newer (and more expensive) frames from Sony. And I'm very nervous about Phillips spotty quality record of late. Mine has worked fine, but I've read too many complaints to not be concerned. Definitely put this through the paces before your return period expires. That way if you have any problems, you can get this guy replaced.

CONCLUSION

This unit is worth a look. This is a good product at a price I can accept for now. Hopefully this will come down over time.

This is at least a 3 star item, but the extra features bumps it just enough to hit 4 stars for me. Test it very well to make sure you don't have a dud.

Enjoy!

Not too good . . .
The picture quality is OK, nothing to write home about. I bought this model mainly because of the sentence from the product description here at Amazon that says it has three timers to turn it on and off. Not only does it only have one timer (no weekend timer like advertised) but that timer initially would not work. Turned out after much frustration that and time that the english version of the manual has a translation error. Rather than simply saying "turn on" or "turn off" the settings say "start dim" or "end dim." And the meaning of those prhases are opposite their normal meaning. The one timer included in the settings does work though, but I would have preferred separate weekday and weekend timers as advertised.

One thing everyone should know about all digital frames is that you should resize all your pictures to the frame's native resolution - this one is 480x234. I used a free photo editing software called faststone - and not only does resizing make your pics fit the frame, but it drastically reduces the size. I fit 4000 resized pics onto a 2GB SD card and it barely used 500 MB. Just be careful not to replace your full size images. Copy all your pics to another directory and then resize them. As far as this frame goes, I will keep it but I wouldn't recommend it. I think it is over-priced.

aspect ratio matches SLR camera and slides
I picked the Philips 9.4-Inch Digital Photo Frame (white) because it was the only medium/large frame with a 3:2 horizontal: vertical pixel ratio that I could find. I had scanned several hundred old Kodachrome slides and wanted a frame with the same ratio that they have - as well as many/most SLR cameras (point and shoot cameras more often match the aspect ration of computer monitors, which are wider). It has 720 x 480 pixels - not as many as can be found on other frames, but the photos still look excellent (although a little too dark). Curiously, it was sold as a 10.2" LCD with panel resolution of 800 x 720, although they state it has a viewing area of 720 x 480. I have no idea where those extra pixels are!! The frame can be positioned upright (widest dimension of the screen is up and down) or on its side - photos automatically adjust for portrait or landscape. Most of the time, the frame should be left in landscape orientation. The screen has a wide viewing angle when oriented this way, but in portrait orientation the viewing angle is much smaller. On the other hand, tall photos are clipped for viewing when the frame is oriented on its side (landscape). This isn't a problem most of the time, but a few of my photos showed people with no feet or cut-off heads. (if you rotate the frame 90 degrees, the image re-orients and shows everything). Perhaps this isn't a problem when showing collages, but I only show one photo at a time. The frame has a battery that allows a person to disconnect the frame from the wall outlet, sit in a chair, browse photos, etc. The product can accept all types of photo media and has some internal memory. Photos larger than 720 x 480 that are transferred from inserted cards are automatically reduced in size to match the LCD - handy for those of you who don't have software to reduce resolution. Unfortunately, all of the transferred files are renamed with numbers, which could make browsing for a single image among many a lot harder. I found it was far easier to connect the frame to my computer via the included USB cable and drag and drop photos, but I had already reduced the images to 720x480. No software is required, since Windows XP recognized the frame as if it was a hard drive. I purchased three frames from amazon.com for a little over $200 each - including one for my mother. The price is somewhat excessive, but the quality good and my mom loves it.