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Philips 7-inch Digital Picture Frame w/Clear Frame
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Product Description
How many digital pictures are hidden on your PC? See, share and relive your memories with Philips Digital Photo Display, the easiest way to display your digital photos in print quality - without a PC.
Product Details
- Brand: Philips
- Model: 7FF1AW
- Dimensions: 8.10" h x 5.00" w x 10.00" l, 3.50 pounds
- Display size: 6.5
Features
- Smart software minimizes required storage space without compromising photo display quality
- A USB connector built into the device, for easy and quick reading or downloading
- Print-like display quality
- Multiple viewing modes
- Memory card slot
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer Description
Every picture tells a story. How many digital pictures are hidden on your PC? See, share and relive your memories with Philips Digital Photo Display, the easiest way to display your digital photos in print quality - without a PC.
High quality, print-like picture display
- High pixel density for top quality photo display
- Full color display to show photos in print-like quality
- Brightness adjustable to match ambient light conditions
- View photos directly from memory cards - no PC required
- Create a slideshow for all stored photos
- Display single photos, thumbnails or slideshows
- Store 50 or more full-screen photos
- Read photos from cameras or download them from your PC
- Automatically turn on and off display at preset times daily
- Simple, intuitive operation - no programming needed
- Your choice of landscape or portrait display
- Operate on AC power or cordlessly with rechargeable battery
Digital Photo Display shows 88 percent more pixels per square inch than a 17-inch monitor. This high pixel density displays your treasured photos with all the rich detail and vibrant colors you're accustomed to in printed photos.
Memory card slot
A built-in multi-slot memory card reader for easy viewing and sharing of stored photos. One memory card slot accepts Compact Flash I (CF) cards while the second accommodates Memory Stick (MS), SD Card and Multi Media Cards (MMC).
Intelligent photo storage
Intelligent photo storage employs smart software that minimizes required storage space without compromising photo display quality.
Adjustable brightness
Adjustable display brightness delivers a better viewing experience by giving you the ability to match display brightness to ambient lighting conditions regardless of whether you're viewing treasured photos in daylight or at night.
USB port
A USB connector built into the device, for easy and quick reading or downloading photos from most cameras or PCs. Please visit Philips web site to check your camera's compatibility with Philips Digital Photo Display.
Multiple viewing modes
Flexible display modes give you the freedom to display your photos one image at one time, in thumbnail mode for quick, easy searches, or to create a slideshow of your most treasured photos.
Customer Reviews
excellent digital photo frame
I bought this for my dad while he was in the hospital and have been extremely pleased with it. The screen is large and bright, and the image quality is comparable to a flat panel monitor (in my opinion at least). It is not fuzzy and all the colors are vibrant. It accepts the major memory card formats. You can also store around 11-12 (usable) MB of photos directly to the device (although the description says 14 MB). Just use the included USB cable and it is basically drag and drop. While 11-12 MB is not a lot, you do not have to use the maximum file size for a photo for it to look its best on the device. I experimented and compared the same photo at 2 MB and at around 350 KB and could not tell the difference in image quality. (I used Apple's iPhoto to reduce the image size.) The device also has a convenient auto on/off feature as well as an option to dim the brightness after 6PM. My only complaint is that the detachable stand that keeps the frame upright doesn't "snap" into place and could slide off if improperly handled. Additionally, the stand is not adjustable so it only has one viewing angle, which is fairly upright. This is just a minor quibble for an otherwise outstanding product. (Actually, I have one more minor complaint. While there is a helpful printed quick start guide, the actual manual is on a CD. I couldn't access the CD on my Apple (I presume it is intended for PCs only), but I figured everything out on my own so I don't consider this a big deal.) The nursing staff loved it and inquired about buying one for themselves.
EDIT: I recently realized the detachable stand actually does "snap" into place. It just takes an extra twist.
Nice product - could use better documentation.
I bought one of these frames after seeing one at a friend's house. The clear / white acrylic design is like so many Apple knockoffs at the moment that it could be called iFrame.
Either way it's a nice product. The screen is crisp and clear and loading up the photos is pretty easy but there's a couple of gotchas that the documentation don't really clarify.
First, if you use a memory card - by far the most preferable way of doing it - the photos must be in a standard digital imaging folder. For example DCIM\100MSDCF. Once your photos are in there, they must be a standard digital imaging name, such as DSCF00023. Photos with names like "my cat.jpg" won't be read.
And secondly, whilst the frame is capable of rotating pictures stored in its internal memory, it can't do them directly off the memory cards. My tip : rotate them to the correct orientation before uploading them to the card.
Apart from those two little quibbles, the frame seems to be working out just great for us. Because the screen is a relatively low resolution - 720x480 - I scaled down copies of a lot of my photos to 50% of the size they came out of the camera. I've managed to get abou 120 photos on to a 64Mb memory card and the Philips frame has had no problems reading any of them.
It has a couple of timed features which are nice. You can tell it to automatically turn on and off at particular times of day, and you can tell it to dim the brightness of the display at night (at user-defined times). So for example, ours is set to dim the display at 7pm, and turn off at 11pm, to come on at full brightness again at 8am. It's a nice suite of features which adds to this quality little product.
Incredible image quality and ease of use.
I received the Philips Digital Photo Frame a few weeks ago. After loading some of my pictures into it, I was immediately impressed by how well it displayed my photos despite the frames resolution limitation of 720 x 540. The screen also has impressively high contrast; blacks are very black and whites are very white. There is an interesting side effect to the screens high contrast; many photos actually have a layered look to them that simulates depth in the photos. To me that is very impressive.
The frame makes transferring images to it quite easy. You can either connect it directly to your computer via a USB cable or you can use any of a variety of flash memory cards (SD, Smart Media, etc.). But what is really nice about the process of transferring your photos to the frame is that when you go to transfer them it automatically adjusts the image's size to fit into the 720 x 540 pixel limitation of the frame. You don't have to do any resizing to save space on the frame, you simply choose which photos you want to transfer over and let the frame do the rest.
The frames operation can be customized to do a random slide show or to go through your photos in order. It also uses various types of wipes to transition between your photos. The delay between photos can be adjusted anywhere from 5 seconds to a full day. One of the most import features though is that you set a on and off time for it so you can trust that it isn't running during the day when you aren't at home to look at it.
Overall, I have been very impressed with this frame. The picture quality has proved to be exemplary and I found it very easy to set up. The only thing I can find that I would like to improve is to make the auto on/off feature a bit more customizable. It would be better if it would allow you to set different times for different days. However, that is a pretty small concern.
