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  Very Satisfied January 7, 2009
I purchased this frame as a gift to my grandmother. Everyone is always giving her pictures in individual frames and she loves them, but she has ran out of room for them. She loved the frame and suprisingly enough knew exactly what it was when she opened it. This frame is extremely user friendly...you simply load your images onto the memory card, place the card in the reader, plug it in and turn it on. Upon receiving the frame, I loaded 5 or 6 pictures onto the card just to try it out and wasn't so sure about it because it would sit on each picture for about a minute. But after loading the maximum about on the card (about 165 on a 1G card) it picked up the pace and changed pictures about every 6-10 seconds, which is perfect! The frame automatically changes captions. There is no way to change or control that setting. The picture is very good for the price...meaning it's not crystal clear, but it is clear and very acceptable. I will keep this frame in mind and use as a gift option in the future. I am also ordering myself one. For the price it can't be beat.
 Poor picture, cute idea. January 6, 2009
This is a cute idea for a busy mom who wants to carry all her kids photos. The screen is just too small to display any photos with more than one person in them. Pictures with two or more people come out very pixelated and hard to see. But, what do you expect for under $20?
Terrific Product! January 5, 2009
Couldn't ask for this product to do any more than it does. I was very pleased with the quality, clarity, and ease of use. For the money, it does a great job.
 crap January 2, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This thing said it will work with vista but it doesnt. Matsunichi should STOP production and recall all of these worthless things and destroy them.
 great product (review of 8in pf800m 4:3 aspect ratio) December 29, 2008
I am someone who wants to put this on my desk at work and update photos monthly. It is perfect for that. In fact, I like it so much in terms of the display quality and appearance of the frame itself that I wish I'd ordered another one for display on the entry table for my fairly formal den. However, I knocked a star off for the poor user manual and online support, as well as the apparently slightly defective construction described below.
PRODUCT NOTES
The default settings (all at 9) for brightness, etc., looked great on my pictures, but I'm not the type of person who worries about small differences in quality. I used pictures mostly posted to or copied from facebook, with dimensions of 604 x 403, about 44-70 KB each. I had some higher resolution photos, 1280x960 and 2048x1536 (200-900KB). Honestly, I couldn't tell the differences between these and the lower resolution photos on this screen. (These are all pictures of me and friends, taken within about 20 feet of the camera, with me standing about 2 feet from the frame. There are some interesting, detailed backgrounds, that I thought showed up equally well in both sizes).
I thought the "cherry wood" frame had about the same finish as, say, Saunders "wood" products, which, if you're putting it in your office, is probably what the desk it sits on is made of anyway.
Laterally, there's a pretty wide window where the pictures are recognizable. When I'm about 120-degrees or more to the frame's left, I can see a white bar of light, which I guess indicates it's not perfectly put together inside. Vertically, the window of viewability is narrower.
USAGE NOTES
I initially plugged the power cord into the "AV Out" hole, instead of the "DC In" (I just looked for the right shaped hole, didn't read), which of course made me think the unit was DOA. So, if you're playing with the frame, and think it might be dead, check that you've got the power source in the appropriate insert, as it fits in both.
The user manual is not so user-friendly. If you're just looking to add pictures to internal memory and have this thing run slideshow, here's what worked for me as I tried to sort it out:
1.) plug unit in properly (see above). It should light up with a display; I think it started with a menu, then defaulted to its logo.
2.) attach to computer via USB cable. Using Windows Explorer, copy any pictures you want to display to the first of the five new external drive folders. If you get mixed up, it's okay, as the other four external drive folders are probably empty unless you've got a card/device in the frame, so you won't be able to copy a photo to them anyway.
3.) detach frame from computer. Save the cable somewhere you can find it again. Using the remote, go to "Photo," then "Internal." Select a picture. The frame should display this picture. Then, with the remote, hit the upper right hand button (looks a little like the create new slide icon in PowerPoint). This begins the slideshow. Don't worry that there's a little gray bar with menu functions to start out with. This goes away after about 10 seconds.
It probably took me about an hour to figure this out and select the 30 or so pictures I wanted to put on it. I probably could have done it in under 30 minutes if I'd had a quickstart guide.
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