Pandigital 8.0-Inch Digital Photo Frame w/2 Interchangeable Frames & 128MB Built-in Memory | 
| Brand: Pandigital
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $139.99
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Rating:  75 reviews
Color: Black & Silver
Media: Electronics
Display Size: 8
Removable Memory: Memory Stick
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 2 x 7
MPN: DPF80-2
Model: DPF80-2
UPC: 892235000807
EAN: 0892235000807
ASIN: B000FNLPAQ
Release Date: July 30, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Clear and bright 8.0" LCD display | | • | Easy To Use. No PC Required! - Transfer photos directly from your digital camera via memory card. | | • | Two Interchangeable Frames Included! - Comes with two interchangeable frames to suit any decor. | | • | Play Images, Video & Music! - Display images, video or listen to MP3s. | | • | nterchangeable Black Wood & Clear Acrylic Frames149 Images on 128MB Internal MemoryJPEG, MP3, AVI Formats Supported6-in-1 Memory Card Reader |
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Product Description
Transfer images directly from your digital camera, USB drive or memory card directly into the 64MB of on-board memory included in the frame.Display images, video or listen to MP3s. Connects easily to your PC.Comes with a stand for display on a tabletop or any flat surface. Mounts on a wall as easily as a standard picture frame!Control your unit easily with the convenient remote control. Control slide shows, speed, videos and inputs.Also connects easily to a personal computer for easy file transfer of images, movies, music and more. more.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 70 more reviews...
 Great product at a great price! Bad reviewers must have gotten different product! May 21, 2007
Melvin Fields (Baltimore, MD USA)
64 out of 66 found this review helpful
I see all these bad reviews listed and I think to myself, "Did they get the same product I got?" I picked mine up from a major Big Box retailer, one you have to be a member of, and no, this one doesn't own Wal-Mart as well, it is the other big one! Better price than listed here also.
To the heart of the matter, I plugged in the included USB cable, my computer popped up a notice about new hardware being found, shortly after this, I opened My Computer and saw a new hard drive listed as Pandigital. This of course was the onboard memory of the Pandigital PhotoFrame. I moved all the shipping images off to a folder on my hard drive, then started copying photos from my PC to the Pandigital drive. While I was at it, I also copied over a few instrumental mp3 files. When file copy was done, I removed the cable, pointed remote at the PhotoFrame and clicked on Start Slideshow, to my amazement, the photos started cycling and the MP3 files played softly in the background. Using the volume control on the remote, I was able to set the volume just where I wanted it. The pictures are all very well lit, colors look true to life, just as if they were real photos. My 83 year old mom remarked, "How do you get the photos in there, from the back? She thought they were actual printed photos.
I think this is a very well thought out frame , better features than the highly touted Philips frames, and for a lot less money! The included decorative frames, dark Ebony wood or clear acrylic should go with almost any decor and the neatly designed remote fits right in the CompactFlash slot when not in use.
I used Photoshop to size all my photos to 800 x 600 (or 600 by whatever for portrait shots), using pre-recorded actions and automation features I as able to resize them all and compress them for best file size (used "Save for Web" feature to optimize all my photos). They all look great, and at these sizes, I could get several hundred photos on the included onboard memory of 128mb.
If you bought one of these before and were unhappy, try picking one up again, I don't think you will be dissapointed!
An onboard battery would be nice, but for most it will reside in one place on a table top, for these places, the enclosed A/C adapter will do fine (there is no battery power for this unit, A/C only!)
The included speakers were not too loud, but reproduced the music accurately and were loud enough to provide a soothing soundtrack to the slideshow. I watched for over an hour straight, amazed at how well all the photos looked.
If you have a digital camera, you owe it to yourself to buy a digital photo frame, finally your images are unlocked from inside your computer or those tiny flash memory devices. Most women I talk to say they hate digital cameras because they want real photos they can hold and see, well now they can.
I love my Pandigital frame!
 No easy way to transfer files to internal memory December 10, 2006
Bruce C. (Fremont, CA United States)
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
I though I would be able to copy jpeg files from my PC to the internal memory using the included mini USB cable. The five drives(internal memory & 4 card slots) show up under My Computer but you can't access them. You can't copy to them. You can't open them. I put a CF card in the frame and can display the images using their slide show function, but the PC does not see the images via the USB connection. The only way to move images into internal memory is to manually copy each one using the remote. Very tedious.I wanted to preload the internal memory for Christmas and then just use a memory card for photo updates for my mother. So what good is the USB connection? The manual made it sound real easy.
12/11/06 Update - Finally talked to Tech Support. They said this frame does not work with a Dell computer. Both computers( Desktop and laptop) I tried the transfer on were Dells. I just connected the picture frame up to a Sony laptop and I can perform transfers. Pandigital supposedly is working on drivers for the Dell, but they don't know when the drivers will be available.
 Well Worth the Price! November 24, 2006
Teff
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is a great quality frame. The pictures are extremely clear, and you can adjust the brightness. It is compatible with most digital cameras, and it can connect to a USB (a plus that several other digital frames do not have). I give it four stars rather than five only because it run by AC adapter only. For a sleeker look, I would prefer battery-operated so as not to see the cord.
Phillips may be a better choice March 10, 2007
N. Graham (kansas city, MO)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
Recently purchased this digital frame after buying several others for relatives. The size of the frame is nice but overall picture quality is lower than the phillips frame. Set-up is fairly easy, and you don't have to install proprietary picture software, which is nice. I will say I had a heck of a time getting my memmory stick recognized. It has a combo slot and it is not intuitive where to put the card in or even which way it should go. The directions say is will only go one way, but that wasn't the case. Overall this is a good frame for the size and price.
This is a good DPF - I'll buy it again December 8, 2007
Anwar Ali Mohamed (Penang, Malaysia)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I purchased the Kodak SV1011 and Pandigital DPF80-2 photo frames recently during my business trip to USA. Paid 169.99 for SV1011 and 139.99 for PAN80-2 (in store price excl tax, not mail order). Both models have universal voltage AC adapters so it works outside USA.
The SV1011 is not actually a 16:9 display. If you check the specification from Kodak website, the display area is 8.9 5.3 in. (225 135 mm) - that's 15:9. 800 x 480 also means it's a 15:9 display, unless the pixels are not square.
I am not a professional photographer but my main camera is Canon EOS 5D with a few L lenses. I capture in RAW and convert & scale the images to JPEG using Canon DPP s/w. For the SV1011, I tried scaling it to 15:9 800 x 480 and 15:9 1600 x 960.
The SV1011 has a serious problem with its scaling engine. When fed with images at its native resolution of 800 x 480, the picture looks very soft. I can also easily see jagged lines. When fed with 1600 x 960 images, the picture looks very sharp. If the image is not scaled to multiple of 800 x 480 (e.g. whatever native resolution that comes out from the camera), sometimes the image does not look good (again, scaling engine problem).
I don't have such problem with PAN80-2 - the scaling engine is perfect. I get the sharpest image at its native resolution of 800 x 600 (4:3). Testing with the images created for SV1011, the 800 x 480 images look sharp on PAN80-2. But when displaying pictures with blue sky (e.g. the PanDigital demo picture with the boy holding a kite with blue background), it reveals that the LCD panel of PanDigital does not have enough bits. I guess it's a 6-bit panel, but it does not have enough steps to display the blue sky smoothly. The same picture when displayed on SV1011 shows very smooth blue sky but the edges on the boy's shirt look very jaggy.
The PAN80-2 has better color/hue and contrast/brightness control compared to SV1011. Skin tones look pale with the original setting but can be adjusted. The skin tones on SV1011 looks too saturated and cannot be adjusted further except for brightness.
The SV1011 has faster USB speed (PAN80-2 USB is really slow) and better GUI for managing folders. The PAN80-2 does not show folders in memory card but just display all images from different folders.
The PAN80-2 has separate slots for different types of memory cards - I can load 4 types of memory cards simultaneously compared to 2 for SV1011. If the slide show is running on the SV1011 and another card is inserted, SV1011 automatically recognizes that and starts slide show from the newly inserted card.
After showing both DPF to my family, they all like PanDigital 80-2 better. If I want to buy another DPF, very likely I'll go for PanDigital.
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