Coby DP850-1G 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Black)

by Coby

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 10.7 x 7.9 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001TKTEHK
• Item model number: DP850-1G
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 1, 2009

Product Description

Coby DP850-1G 8.4-inch digital photo frame with MP3 player, 8.4-inch TFT LCD color display, 1G internal flash memory lets you store your favorite photos directly on the frame, displays JPEG image files, calendar and clock with alarm timer, plays MP3 and WMA music files, plays MPEG4, H.264, motion JPEG video files, photo slideshow mode with music, SD,MMC,MS,xD, and CFcard slots, full-size USB port for use with flash memory drives, includes Vividshare PC software for creating custom multimedia slide-shows, attachable remote control, integrated stereo speakers, wall-mountable design with detachable stand

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars simple way to display your favorite memories, April 26, 2009

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Diogenes "tlhm" (Park Ridge, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coby DP850-1G 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Black) (Electronics)

I looked for a while for a reasonably priced digital frame that had enough internal memory to store my favorite pictures of my child growing up. The Colby has 1GB of internal memory which is more that sufficient for me. Found the product at Kmart for about $20 less than Amazon! Nice display, works nicely and will even play music or video. My only real complaint is that the manual needs work, it really doesn't explain how to move pictures from your PC to the frame...turns out it is really easy if you just use file manager in Windows and find the folder internal to the frame (which in this case is DP850). It also accepts just about any card (if you provide an adpater) so it is easy to copy from your SD or MMC cards as well.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great frame.. great cost!, November 3, 2009

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H. Smith "Lots-of-kiddies" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby DP850-1G 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Black) (Electronics)

I just recently purchased this frame for my husband. I received it on his Birthday so it didn't give me much time to figure out how to use it before I gave it to him. I placed all of the pictures I wanted on the frame in a folder on my computer's desktop for easy access. I tried several times to transfer the pictures to the frame and failed. I used a flash drive and I also used the included cord and hooked it to my computer. None of it worked.

I later realized that I had to hook up whichever media I wished to use BEFORE turning on the frame. Once I figured that out it was a breeze to use. I agree with the other poster that the manual that comes along with the frame includes lots of information but is a little hard to follow and doesn't give a great step by step instructional on how to get your pictures onto the frame. It takes a little trial and error.

I give it 4 stars mainly for the difficulty in set up, but everything else is great. The picture quality is amazing and I love all of the options you have with this frame. It seems to be a really great frame and the cost is perfect. The size is nice and it is a very attractive frame too.

I had never heard of Coby before, but I will now recommend this frame to anyone!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice hardware horrible software, January 22, 2010

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Bitter Muppet "Bitter Muppet" (OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coby DP850-1G 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Black) (Electronics)

I would like to start by thanking the other reviewers of this device because that's the ONLY reason I was able to use it.

This was given to me as a gift from my employer so I did not purchase it from Amazon.

The book that comes with the device is useless.
The employees at Coby's tech support are also useless.
When I called Coby's support and advised them I wasn't able to add my photos to the device with the (useless) Vividshare program that launched, they advised me the device was defective because "PhotoShare" should have launched.

The support is so bad that even at Coby's support website, if you do a search for "DP850-1G" there are no results found.

The only way to put photos on here would be to treat it as an external hard drive.

When the device is plugged in, you'll see a total of 4 new drives or "Devices with Removable Storage".
The first will be "VividShare" and have a drive letter assigned to it.
The next will just be "Removable Disk" with a drive letter assigned to it. This is the one you need to go into.
From the root of that drive you'll see a folder called "DP850". From there you can go into the "DP850 slideshow" folder and get rid of all the stupid model photos and get rid of the lame music in the "sample music" folder.
Now you can start taking advantage of the 1gig of space they've left you for your photos.

Having said all that.....the DEVICE itself is really nice. It has many capabilities and is not limited to ONLY being a picture frame. If you convert a DVD to MPEG4 and put that on one of the supported card formats or on a USB drive you can even watch a full movie from this with sound.

Coby really should consider upgrading from the irresponsible software developers and support staff to even mediocre developers and support staff and they would have a much better product.