Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame (Clear & Black) | 
| Brand: Philips
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $99.00
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Rating:  223 reviews
Sales Rank: 186
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
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 6.5-inch viewable display; 720 x 480 resolution | | • | Photo Manager plays slide show or individual photos; cut, size or matte to customize photos | | • | Multiple memory card slots; compatible with SD, xD, MMC, Compact Flash and Memory Stick media | | • | 16 MB built-in memory; hold and display up to 30 digital photos | | • | Smart Album feature for easy picture management |
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Product Description
The Philips 7" LCD PhotoFrame has a high quality design and exquisite materials. A solid stylish stand, designer frame, and detailed finishing convey an impression of value and refined taste, adding luster to the photos displayed. A selection of interchangeable frames that snap onto your PhotoFrame fits your personal taste and compliments your home or office decor. A USB connector is built into the device for easy and quick downloading photos from a PC. A timer that turns your PhotoFrame on and off at the times you choose. You can select different timeslots to fit your personal schedule and to save energy. Full color display brings out the best in your photos with vibrant, real life colors by displaying the same full range of colors found in professionally printed photos. Flexible display modes give you the freedom to display your photos one image at a time, in thumbnail mode for quick, easy searches, or to create a slideshow of your most treasured photos. The very best high-density screen shows off your treasured photos with the same real life rich detail and vibrant colors as high quality prints. Play slideshows, single photo, thumbnails, or show clock Display and manage photos on memory cards or internal memory Automatically turn display on and off at preset times Effective viewing area - 137.16 x 91.44 mm Resolution viewing area resolution - 720 x 480 Viewing angle at C/R more than 10 - Horizontal 120 degrees / Vertical 110 degrees Brightness - 200 cd/m2 Memory Card Types - Compact Flash type I, Secure Digital, Secure Digital SDHC, Multimedia Card, xD card, Memory Stick, and Memory Stick Pro Built-in memory capacity - 16MB Flash Languages - Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, and Traditional Chinese Regulatory Approvals - BSMI, C-Tick, CCC, CE, FCC, GOST, PSB, and UL Plug & Play Compatibility - Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Mac OS
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| Customer Reviews: Read 218 more reviews...
 Highly recommeded product November 9, 2006
F. Landiza (West Des Moines, Iowa, USA)
296 out of 307 found this review helpful
UPDATE: 1/30/2008
This item has been priced at nearly $200 lately. I think that price is too high. Even at $150, this should be overpriced. I would wait for the price to come down or get the same item from another source!
Below are my original comments in Nov. 2006:
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I have this product for several days now and I am very happy with it. My co-workers liked it too.
Pros:
- beautiful, crisp images even at close range
- controllable brightness level
- programmable display - can be turned on and off automatically at certain times
- has option for battery or AC
- support for multiple memory cards
- easily loads and displays file from an SD card without having to worry about filenames.
- automatically rotates images
- has internal memory for extra images. I've read that it's only 14MB though.
- resizes the pictures without cropping them.
Cons;
- Battery is not replaceable.
- No battery level indicator.
- Battery life is only 50 minutes in slideshow mode (based on published specs.)
- edges in some images have become rugged even though I have my pictures in the same ratio as 720x480.
- no touch screen input (or is that too much?)
- the controls at the back needs a little of getting used to, otherwise they are well placed
- In my first few minutes of use, I have observed that it was not displaying one image properly during a slide show. I just pressed a button to change it to Browse mode then back to Slideshow mode and it did not happen again.
- If an SD card is inserted and the digital frame is turned on, it automatically copies the files from the card to its internal memory. This process is slow. I am not sure why it's doing it. So I make it a habit to turn it on first then insert the SD card.
Not tested for:
- Software that came with the product
Some things that I did:
- I resized my huge images (I kept the original of course) and it saved me a lot of space without affecting the display quality much. I have my pictures sizes between 32KB to 250KB. If your images don't have the same ratio as 720x480, they will have dark border on the sides or on top and bottom.
- I used 2GB of SD card. All I did was insert it at the back and I started to enjoy the pictures.
Conclusion:
- This is a highly recommended product despite it's minor problems. The price is fair compared to similar products - which I've read are not as good as this. I am just wondering Why is it that their 9-inch version has a lower resolution? That is the reason why I opted for this.
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME October 6, 2006
Seldomseen (Indiana)
215 out of 246 found this review helpful
You cannot go wrong with this item!! I am an investigative person and was looking for the perfect digital picture frame to give my fiance as a gift. I read many reviews and it wasn't until I read one that stated "Don't waste your money on this (name of frame omitted), just buy the Phillips." that I even considered the Phillips frames. Mainly this was because all the info I found on it did not mention that it had a card reader and most did not have any customer reviews. I did however find the same product but with out the additional colored frames, that had plenty of reviews to read. I included the link below if you would like to read those as well.
Long story short, that one piece of advice I read about "just buying the Phillips!" could not have been more right. This frame is absolutely amazing and the information/product details listed for this product on most sites doesn't come close to informing the customer about all the functions and wonderful options this frame has! I could not be more happy. I literally pulled the frame out of the box, turned it on and sat it on my desk. Without even adding any pics of my own pics, the factory loaded advertising pics stopped every single person that walked past my desk and forced them to smile in awe and ask about the frame. I firmly believe several of them are planning on buying one now. To put into perspective, these people were Design Engineers, Marketing Managers, Productive Development Engineers and other upper level management personnel. The only thing I am not happy with is the fact that I waited so long to purchase and that the advertising does not do this product justice!!! ENJOY!!!
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 Wonderful, but badly flawed. December 11, 2006
Richard Rubinstein
146 out of 152 found this review helpful
The praise for this digital picture in other reviews is well deserved. I produces clear, bright pictures. I bought one for my mother, to cycle through hundreds of family and travel photos, as reminders of these good times. In the end, I'm not sure I will give it to her. It could be more trouble to her than it's worth.
I've had quite a trial getting to this point. The first unit I received had a mechanical defect: the SD card slot would not latch the card without much fiddling. Amazon replaced the unit without question. My plan was to resize my 500-600 pictures to the resolution of the display so that they would fit nicely on an SD card. I put them on my freshly-formatted 1 GB card, and none of them appeared. After much fiddling--there is no information in the manual or on line--I discovered that the folder structure and file names have to match a supported camera. I aped my Canon file structure, down to file names like IMG_0001.jpg. Yes, the funny file names seem to be required.
Past this first hurdle, I put my 568 photos on the card and let 'er go. I found that after an hour or two, the screen just went blank. This was with a photo-change-rate of 2 per minute. I tried various experiments, with no luck. Sometimes, instead of a blank screen, the unit stopped the slide show in thumbnail mode and had to be restarted. I exchanged email with Philips customer service (after finding nothing at all useful on the web site other than the user manuals). They said I should phone.
I did, and spent 30 minutes with a pleasant but inexperienced rep who went through the manual and a little bit of additional guidance Philips gave her. She could tell me nothing, though she acknowledged the problem. She said I should return the unit. I persisted, and even though Philips has no escalation procedure for this product, we agreed I should talk to her supervisor. He was more technical, and very sympathetic. He confirmed the obvious technical things--how I'd downsized the files, that I was using .jpg format, etc. He said I was doing it all right. He too acknowledged my problem. He said to be sure I was not using a card larger than 1 GB, but 1 GB was OK. Don't use the CF card slot (I wasn't, though I tried it and had the same problem). He suggested I reduce the number of photos on the card, but had no other suggestion other than to return the unit.
I took about 80 photos off the card, so that the total was under 500, and it's been behaving OK for several days, switching photos at two per hour (change every 30 minutes). I don't trust the unit not to give my mom problems.
Bottom line: This is a great picture frame in terms of size and picture quality. It's easy enough to use (but not as easy as they claim). It works just fine with 55 or so pictures stored on its internal memory. But the problems I had relate to the basic function of the unit. It's a software problem that is so basic I can only wonder whether the engineers at Philips did any meaningful testing of the product before shipping it. If showing 50 or 60 photos meets your needs, I recommend the frame. If you want to show hundreds of pictures from a camera card, seek elsewhere.
Very pleased December 6, 2007
K. Zanotti
117 out of 119 found this review helpful
I am very pleased with this item (although I will agree that Amazon needs to check some of its technical information for accuracy). I purchased this item as a Christmas gift for my grandparents, so it needs to be easy to use. I opened it to put on some family photos prior to sending it to them, and it was literally plug and play. You plug the ac adaptor into the wall. You plug the UBS cable into the computer. Wait for it to be recognized, and then delete the demo photos and drag and drop your own photos into the frames photo folder. Unplug the UBS cord and hit play. Beautiful. Plus the resolution on this item is much much better than a lot of alternatives out there. The pictures show up clear and beautiful. The frame itself is also very nice looking. It took me a few minutes how to figure out how to not have the clock displayed during the photo slideshow, but even that wasn't too hard. I'm considering buying another one as a gift for someone else, and perhaps even one for myself.
 Nice product, bad info from Amazon December 4, 2007
X-ray821 (Denver, CO USA)
74 out of 79 found this review helpful
This product is nice, but be careful. In the "See more technical details" section, Amazon says that it has a rechargeable battery. It does not! You even have to reset the clock and some other settings when you unplug the unit.
Also, on some of the other Phillips frames (that do have a battery), Amazon is advertising 8 hours on the battery. Totally untrue; if you check the Phillips Web site, it's 0.8 hours.
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