Product Description

Digital picture frame with 8.5-inch viewable LCD display. Wood-colored frame, high resolution 720x480, 170 degree viewing angle, USB connect to PC for easy picture downloads, holds up to 60 digital photos with internal memory. Create slide shows, up to 8 hour display time on rechargeable battery, or use direct AC power connection.

Product Details

• Color: Wood
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 9FF2CWO/37
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 12.00" w x 6.00" l, 3.40 pounds

Features

• 8.5-inch viewable high-resolution display; 680x480 pixels
• Wood frame
• Holds up to 60 digital photos with internal memory
• Two built-in memory card slots
• Operates on AC or with rechargeable battery

Customer Reviews

Good image, decent features, 8-inch screen
I just received this in the mail. I think the feature set is decent, and it was able to connect to my PC without much ado. Transfer of images isn't too hard. You can load images from memory cards or directly from your PC (or Mac, apparently) via a USB cable. And it has good control options (frequency of image changes from 5 seconds to 1 day, effects for changes, auto on/off for weekends and 3 on/off settings for weekdays). I also like that it has different "fill" options for shots that are portrait when the display is oriented for landscape (and vice versa). It will take the full-size portrait and surround it with smaller portrait images to fill in the display, thus avoiding any cropping of the main large image. This is a particularly nice feature. You can also create separate albums to segregate the images that are shown...

HOWEVER, do be warned that the display measures 8-inches diagnoally, not the advertised 9. This isn't unusual for old TV sets, but it's a bit unusual to have an LCD screen overstated by this much.

Also, the leg on the back of the frame is a bit odd. It has two "pre-set" options that force the face of the frame to be too steep in my opinion. You can swivel it outside these "preset" ranges, but doing so too much causes the fame to tilt off-center. The user manual even recognizes this problem by stating you should only use the pre-sets. There is a mounting backet included, which is handy.

The frame plugs into an outlet and charges the battery. I'm not sure how long the battery will last, though. The cord is white, and the plug is a larger, cell-phone size rectangular cube (about 1 inch x 2 inches x 1.5 inches).

The colors in the display are good, but dark colors lose their saturation, so a dark blue looks almost black. But other colors have good tone and don't appear too bluish, an issue with many LCD displays.

I like the wood grain w/ silver frame, which is magnetic and snaps onto the front. I'm not sure if you can purchase other frames that snap on, but it seems likely.[...]

Love it, best out there at the moment
I bought 3 of these at Christmas in 2006. One for myself, and two for gifts. I bought the one for me after I received the ones to give away and I realized I had to have one. I have a Ziga that I bought a couple of years ago, and I've seen many others. Nothing I've seen comes close to this in terms of quality of the viewed image.

The frame is attractive. I have two of the plastic framed ones with different color insets, and one of the wood frame ones. The Amazon pic of the wood frame looks like gray wood, but it's brown like you might expect in reality. Both look great.

The picture is what's really great. Bright. Very wide viewing angle (this is where most others fall VERY short, including my Ziga). Vibrant colors. Very good resolution. 35mm aspect ratio so DSLR images fill the full screen. The human interface isn't perfect, just that a few of the options like the on/off timer could be a bit more intuitive, but it's not hard to use, just could be a bit better. The most confusing thing is sometimes it forgets your slideshow and you have to reselect the card of images, but really that's a minor thing. I think this happened only when we let the battery run down when it got unplugged one day by accident.

Having the built-in rechargeable battery is cool, too. My mom likes to unplug hers and sit and watch the images in her chair sometimes, and it's nice to have the battery for that. Lasts between 1 and 2 hours on a charge, and just plug it back in and recharges. Mostly, usage model is plug it in and just leave it on all the time. I think many won't ever even know there is a battery in the frame.

Looking at pictures on this is just great. I can't say enough good about the picture quality. Picture quality is 10 stars. Human interface is 4 stars. Frame attractiveness is 5 stars. Value compared to other choices is this is the best IMO.

Good Quality
The Philips 9FF2 is a quality digital frame. Never mind the diagonal measurement, the screen measures roughly 4 3/8" x 6 5/8" which makes for a picture size you can actually see from across the room.

Pros: good picture quality, easy to use, internal memory holds 80-90 cropped-to-fit pictures, plus it accepts CF/SD/MMC/xD cards, internal battery for when you want to go "cordless," stylish.

Cons: pricey, no easy-to-view battery meter, menu navigation could be much better, user manual is wanting.

Summary: This digital frame is a very good unit despite the minor annoyances and I do not hesitate to recommend it to anyone looking for a good quality digital picture frame.