Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

Very very poor picture quality. Looks worse then the orgional 1 mega pixle cameras. Also advertisment offered free Memory card with purchase, but nothing showed up.
Very disapointed.

It's okay. Let me just start with that. I consider myself fairly good at doing pretty extensive research, reading all the reviews and all that, but I had a hard time picking a digital frame. The most important thing to me was price. I had a very limited budget ($100 or so). I found that unless you spend a LOT (like $200+) all the frames are pretty much mediocre at best. I was buying this for my grandparents and wanted to get them something that they could see. 6.5" frames are TINY, imagine trying to see people's faces in them when you're 90 years old. This one was decent sized (not big, but 5x7ish). The picture isn't great, but it's okay. Again, in this price range, it seems to be pretty average. It's definitely not like looking at pictures on your brand new LCD computer monitor, but it will do. I guess my point is, this will do the job but it's not perfect. The color and resolution are so-so, but at the same time, my grandparents will love it.

Bottom line, depending on who it's for, I would recommend it.

this photo frame with mp3 player is awesome! placed in living room on bookshelf. photos in slide show mode along with background music is a joy to watch and listen to! and the price was and still is unbeatable! i would highly recommend this product! thanks!!!

For an 8.5-inch screen I would've preffered a photo frame that had more pixels per square inch.

It cannot play downlodable xvid or divx movies properly as I am guessing it doesnt have the computational grunt to process them.

I must have been doing something wrong, because when I loaded my pictures into this thing, they came out very pixelated and rough. At the same time, I bought a Philips AJL308 LCD Alarm clock for $50. Sadly, when I loaded the same pictures onto the alarm clock, they looked better. The screen was smaller, but an _alarm clock_ beat the display quality of a _digital picture frame_. This was the last straw for me. I packaged it up and sent it back for a refund ...

When I placed this order is stated that it came with a free memory card...IT DIDN'T! I had to go out and spend the additional $20.00 to get a memory card. One of the reasons I ordered was that if it included the memory card for the price it would have been a good deal. The way it turned out I don't think it was that great of a deal, plus I gave it as a gift and then since it did not have the free memory card I felt bad as I had told them it came with one. Then I went and purchased the card for them as to not be lying to them!!!

Coby DP-812 8.5 inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player. Picture and appearance of frame are neat when ordered, but appearance is cheaper than expected. Image is not as good as I wanted but you get what you pay for, and the price was good for what I got. Did not receive, nor have we received the Photo Shop software copuon promised to be emailed after order was complete and we are being told we do not know what it was, or is; so buyer beware.