HP 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame w/2 Interchangeable Mats

by HP

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001DQKH3U
• Item model number: DF1000A3
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 24, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

HP df1000 series Digital Picture Frame with 512MB internal memory gives you an easy way to enjoy and share your favorite pictures with family and friends, all without a computer!

It’s so easy to use. Just take your pictures, remove the memory card from the digital camera, insert it into the picture frame, and enjoy the picture slideshow. It’s that simple!

HP df1000 offers 800x600 high-resolution picture display and supports most commonly used memory cards. Its built-in USB port also supports USB thumb drives adding more storage for picture sharing.

The df1000 comes with two sets of interchangeable double mats. The mix and match double mats add an elegant touch to the mahogany solid wood frame to match a range of décor.

Creative and Fun

• Intuitive user interface makes viewing easy
• Watch a video or slideshow of your pictures while playing your favorite music
• Interchangeable double mats to enhance your digital pictures and match your home
• Generous built-in memory (512MB) stores up to thousand pictures
• Enjoy slideshow of a single picture or multiple pictures with clock and calendar options in quadrant view
• Digitally pre-designed mats accentuate your pictures
• PictBridge for easy printing of your favorite pictures directly to a PictBridge enabled printer

What’s in the Box:

• 10.4-inch Digital Picture Frame
• 1 extra double mat included
• Remote control
• Power Adapter
• User Manual
• Quick Start Guide
• Warranty Document

Product Description

Lite-On LITE-ON HP DF1000A3 Digital Photo Frame DF1000A3 Digital Picture Frames

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good frame but has some 'known' quirks, July 22, 2009

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D. Byers - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame w/2 Interchangeable Mats (Electronics)

Paid $129 at a local warehouse club... It is worth that much to me, but not worth what Amazon is asking today ($198).

Pros:
*Good picture quality.
*Easy to use the core features.
*Nicer looking than most e-frames. It actually looks like a picture frame instead of a gadget.

Cons:
*Made in China. (but try finding one that isn't)
*In spite of its ease of basic use, configuration settings are not very intuitive.
*When copying photos to internal memory, it often errors out. Requires some patience.
*Shuffle mode is weak, not random. Always starts with the same photo and although I have hundreds of photos loaded I see the same 20 or so repeatedly.
*There are known problems/bugs that HP knows about and are working on a firmware upgrade for--but according to what I've read in other product forums HP has been promising the bug fix for a long time:
*On mine, the built-in clock/calendar function has been flakey, causing the auto-on/off and the calendar view functionality to be useless. I have mine at the office and set it to turn on at 8 and turn off at 5... Worked great for the first few days. Then one day I noticed it was on in the morning before the scheduled time so I checked the time. The clock setting was way off. I think it was agravated by the fact that I unplug it and lock it up every weekend. Over the last 2 weeks it worsened until the clock didn't even move anymore. I read on a blog somewhere that there is a CR2032 battery inside that is the culprit. Opened mine up and replaced the battery this morning. So far, the clock appears to be moving again. I also saw mention of other clock problems and HP promised firmware upgrades.

Overall I like the frame and would recommend it.

If my problems were an anomaly due to a weak backup battery then I'll be fully satisfied with the purchase. HP would be well advised to make that battery externally accessable and incorporate a battery insulator tab to prevent battery drain during shipping like my 2-year old son's toys always arrive with.

Update: The battery thing seems to have worked. I also got a reply from HP (in broken English) advising to do a full reset & if that doesn't fix it then the frame is 'faulty' and I'd need to contact the retailer for help. Sure hope I don't have to go there...

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very pleased with purchase, December 21, 2008

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Barbara Listwon "BJ" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame w/2 Interchangeable Mats (Electronics)

I was extremely skeptical as to whether I would be able to navigate this digital frame after hearing stories from friends who had problems with frames other than HP. To say it handles very easily is an understatement. I bought it as a Christmas gift, put about 500 pics on a card and couldn't be more happy with the clarity of the pictures and ease of operation. Have already recommended the HP 10" frame to others.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Going back today!, January 2, 2009

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dclaar "dclaar" - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame w/2 Interchangeable Mats (Electronics)

Lots of problems!

The show-stopper was the inability to copy files to the frame via USB. It would get midway through my ~400 files, (170 Mb total, so I was't running out of room) and start throwing errors. Windows found hundreds of bad file fragments, which it copied to .CHK files.

Had that worked, the UI is horrible! The buttons on the frame are unusable: You keep mysteriously ending up at the menu to choose which memory to read from. You can only view one settings menu item at a time: You have to go all the way back to the home screen and then menu, then the next item. Oops, We're back at memory selection. Third base!

The remote is a bit better, but you are still stuck with choosing photos one at a time to copy them into internal memory (which is what lead me to trying to do the USB copy). Ever try to browse 500+ photos (that's probably a low estimate of what most camera cards hold these days) a dozen at a time? Not fun.

The USB copy does not resize the pictures (the one-at-a-time memory card method does), so you can't get very many images onto the frame this way, unless you resize them yourself. Since I was going to pre-load the frame, I was willing to live with that, but c'mon, anything that requires "OK, mom, we're going to fire up photoshop..." utterly fails the "grandma" test, even though my particular mom is reasonably computer literate.

Now all I have to do is find a *good* frame...