Ceiva Advanced Digital Photo Receiver with Silver Frame | 
| Brand: Ceiva
This item is no longer available
Rating:  25 reviews
Color: Silver and black
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 10 x 9.5
MPN: 81726-00045
Model: 81726-00045
UPC: 681726000453
EAN: 0681726000453
ASIN: B0002ZQB7O
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| Features:
| • | Vivid 5 by 7-inch LCD screen display | | • | Includes two interchangeable 8x10-inch frames in silver and black | | • | Receives up to 30 new pictures daily in a digital picture slide show | | • | Simple set-up: plug in the power and phone cords, push a single button | | • | With permission, anyone can send photos for free from virtually anywhere |
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Product Description
5x7 inch digital picture frame MODEL: LF-2003 VENDOR: CEIVA LOGIC FEATURES: Digital Photo Receiver It looks like an ordinary picture frame, but can receive and display a slide show of digital photos sent to you by family and friends from anywhere in the world. CEIVA has created the worlds first and only Digital Photo Receiver. Invite the people you care about most to send to your Receiver, and every morning you can wake to moments from the lives of the people you love. Your Receiver receives and displays photos without a computer. Your friends and family send to it for free. Share memories. Share lives. Stay connected with CEIVA. The CEIVA Digital Photo Receiver receives photos without a computer because it plugs into an ordinary phone line and dials a local number each night to pick up new photos sent to your Receiver. There is no additional phone line needed, no interruption to your phone service, and no charge to your line. A PicturePlan subscription is needed to receive photos. It enables your Receiver to dial in and retrieve pictures. Each morning, you simply wake up to a new personal photomontage of your friends and family. Share holidays, birthday parties, family vacations, weddings, reunions, monumental first days of school! Whether they live next door, or thousands of miles away, CEIVA helps you keep connected and stay close to family and friends. Only digital frame that connects family and friends miles apart. Receives and displays digital photos without a computer. Displays up to 30 new pictures daily in a digital picture slide show. CEIVAMobile feature - receive photos sent directly from camera phones. Now every Receiver comes with an additional interchangeable frame in Silverstone Grey. High resolution 5"x7" LCD screen for easy viewing. Silently and securely dials into a local phone number, without interruption or charge to existing service, to receive new photos everyday. With owners permission, anyone can send photos
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
Subscription costs June 7, 2005
D. LaVan (New Haven, CT)
114 out of 117 found this review helpful
You ought to check out the cost of subscription to the service - it is higher now than the other reviews show. This is taken from www.ceiva.com:
Local PicturePlan Service Options:
* Month-to-Month: $9.95/mo.
* 1 Year Plan: $99.95
* 3 Year Plan: $249.95
If local service is not available in your region, CEIVA also offers Toll-Free plans.
Toll-Free PicturePlan Service Options:
* Month-to-Month: $15.95/mo.
* 1 Year Plan: $159.95
* 3 Year Plan: $399.95
 Was Happy -- I am no Longer February 16, 2005
Ken (California)
92 out of 101 found this review helpful
I have been a Ceiva subscriber for several years. For some reason, Ceiva decided this year that one month before my annual renewal date they would delete one of my photos and replace it with an advertisement indicating that my subscription is up for renewal. The message indicates that I can remove it by either manually deleting it or renewing. Though I delete this message every day, it comes back the next. It seems as though Ceiva has taken the position that it is acceptable to co-opt some of the limited space on your frame in order to force you into renewing early. If you don't mind this intrusion, Ceiva is for you. I, however, will be looking for a frame that does not require a subscription service.
 Expensive and imperfect, but a fabulous gift for the right person August 27, 2005
P.F.C. (Madison, WI)
28 out of 28 found this review helpful
Pros:
* the single most important "pro": there's something truly magical about an ever-changing, never-ending picture frame, especially if the recipient isn't technologically saavy (and even if they are) -- it's a wonderful "big" gift and will be almost certainly be appreciated, rather than cast aside or forgotten
* both the black and silver included frames are attractive, and don't look out of place, weird, or "techy"
* virtually every setting of the device can be controlled from the website, so the recipient doesn't need to touch anything, and you can control everything from afar -- very nice design
Cons:
* it's expensive -- and with the required subscription, the cost is like the picture rotation itself: never-ending
* the image quality is decent, but not fabulous -- good enough not be a distraction, but not so good that you say, "wow!"
* the manual brightness control works well, but can require different settings at different times of day to look its best, which is impractical, so you end up leaving it somewhere in the middle, where it looks okay most of the time, but not as good as it could
* the viewing angle is limited -- approx. 45 degrees to either side at most, with some visible washout as soon as you move beyond a "dead on" angle
* the website is a pain to use, in my opinion -- rather than a single, easy drop-box for photos, you must first places photos into albums, and *then* "send" them to the frame; it's not the end of the world, but I find it annoying
Happy no more December 15, 2005
TJS (SF Bay Area)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
We've bought a total of seven Ceiva units for relatives and ourselves since they were first introduced. Before buying a Ceiva III you might want to consider some of the things we've learned.
1. These things do break, so you'd be well advised to buy extended warranty coverage - add $20.
2. The subscriptions are relatively expensive ($100/year) and have tended to get more expensive over time - in an era during which everything network-related has gotten cheaper.
3. Ceiva insists on downloading renewal notices to receivers nearing the expiration date of a subscription. As other reviewers have noted, that's very annoying both to the people using these things and to those of us who pay for the products and services. I don't see where Ceiva mentions this practice either on their web site or in the Terms and Conditions, but there's nothing you can do other than complain (I have many times, to no avail).
4. Ceiva's sales reps will tell you that existing, unexpired subscription plans can be transferred to new units (I verified this on three separate occasions), but in fact Ceiva will make you buy new subscriptions first.
5. Ceiva has never offered upgrade plans for older units. As an existing customer you'll actually pay more to upgrade an older receiver in mid-subscription than will a new customer.
The bottom line is that it's difficult to recommend this product to new customers on either a value basis or for customer care. Good idea, bad execution. Pity.
 Consumer beware... December 26, 2005
P. Smith (L.A., CA)
27 out of 31 found this review helpful
I gave a Cevia picture frame for the holidays and was appalled to find that the ONLY way to make it work was to pay Cevia an additional $60 EVERY year for the online privilege of transferring "MY" pictures to "MY" picture frame. I was very embarrassed to have given a Christmas present with such a duplicitous sales/service policy, and needless to say, it is already on its way back to Amazon.com accompanied with my scathing review. (The additional $60 Cevia tried to extort from this consumer has been reinvested into another bigger and better picture frame).
I cannot express enough my disappointment with companies like Cevia's method of doing business, and I can only take some comfort in the knowledge that such greedy organizations will soon be put out of business by conscientious manufacturers that actually care about their customer's satisfaction.
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