Coby DP-812 8.5-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player

by Coby

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 2.2 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000R9DD7Q
• Item model number: DP-812
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 24, 2007

Product Description

The new Coby DP-812 8.5-inch digital picture frame blends traditional functionality with today’s technology and design. Enjoy pictures, music and movies and capture your most precious moments with family and friends in a new vivid and engaging way. The contemporary acrylic design offers a crisp 16:9 aspect ratio for your viewing pleasure, and includes interchangeable faceplates and a detachable stand. A remote control is also included, allowing you to navigate the frame from your couch or office chair. Plus, you can now free up your hard drive: the Coby DP-812 supports a variety of media formats, including JPEG, MP3, WMA, AVI, MPG and XviD. Additionally, it's compatible with USB, SD, xD, CF, MS and MS Duo memory formats. With the widespread use of digital cameras, camcorders, and camera phones, the Coby DP-812 is the perfect product to store and share all of your special moments captured in digital media format. Includes AC power adapter, USB cable, detachable stand, two interchangeable faceplates (black and white), and remote control.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Printed out return label within 10 minutes of opening, December 11, 2007

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B. Adams (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DP-812 8.5-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Electronics)

I ordered this frame as a gift for my mom for the Christmas. I planned on buying multiple memory cards and send her an updated card of pictures every month or so.

I opened it and plugged it in...

Immediate Problem 1) The screen is WIDE (16:9) which is the new thing for HDTVs, but not for photos... Unless you have a widescreen camera (who has that) or format each picture to fit the width, you have useless black bars on the side - and it looked awful.

Immediate Problem 2) The speakers were emitting a buzzing noise that did not change based upon the volume setting on the remote or the mechanical dial. It could be because it was left outside by UPS and its cold in Albuquerque, but still unacceptable.

Immediate Problem 3) The plastic frames were cheesy and wouldn't match anything in my moms house.

Immediate Problem 4) The quality of the pictures were awful. Who needs a brand new 8MP camera if you are going ot view them on here.

I bought this on a whim because of the price. But within 10 minutes of opening I printed out a return label and wrote this review. The only reason it got 2 star (instead of one) is you get what you pay for.

Do your research before you buy. Thankfully Amazon has free shipping for returns. I will be buying a different (4:3) digital frame.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great frame, nice price, works well, December 20, 2007

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R. Hatcher (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DP-812 8.5-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Electronics)

I bought one of these and liked it so much, I ordered two more as gifts.

Elsewhere on Amazon is an 8-inch version with lots of reviewers commenting on the aspect ratio, pixel size, etc. I tested my unit with photos I resampled, cropped or left untouched. They all displayed fine. Coby has either improved its algorithm, the other reviewers did not read the manual carefully, or Coby has corrected or improved the product since the reviews were posted. The reviews are worth reading, though, since there are so few here.

Just to get more photos on an SD card, I used some free photo editing software to batch resize the photos to a max width of 800. They display just as nicely as the full-sized photos. I tested various various sizes, and below 800 the quality falls off.

BTW, the unit can be switched from 9x16 to 3x4 ratio.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product, January 13, 2008

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Joseph A. Goskowsky Sr. - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DP-812 8.5-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Electronics)

We purchased this product for my inlaws, when we received it we found that the 1 gig SD SecureDigital Flash Card that we were suppose to get by adding the product code was not in the box.
We did go and buy a card for the frame, you will want to get one. We filled it with pictures of our children and our grand kids so the my inlaws would have the pictures to brag with.
After getting the product and filling the card and sending it to the grandparents my wife and I went and got another one for us. The one we got for us had a card with it.
It is a very nice product.