Customer Reviews

Haier PF710 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame (Black)

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I bought this as a Christmas gift for someone else, and was happy that I was able to get such a thing for such a good price! Or so I thought. As another reviewer wrote, you get what you pay for - or in this case, you'd have thought someone had paid ME to take this piece of junk off their hands, because that's all it really is.

First off, it takes a loooooooooooong time to load, anything. It took forever to load up just the start-up screen, which I forgave at first because it was the first time firing it up. But then I soon realized it took several minutes (anywhere from 5-20 - literally) to load ANYthing. After the main screen, I'd have to press yet another button just to get to a main menu, and that would take another extreme amount of time. Even if I were a patient person this would drive me nuts.

Then when I finally got to the main menu, some of the options wouldn't even work! I'd press what I wanted to do, and it would just ignore it as if I hadn't pressed anything. I had already loaded a memory card so I could play pictures on it, and absolutely nothing would happen. At this point I restarted it to see if that would help, and then it wouldn't even turn on again. At all.

After unplugging it and plugging it back in numerous times, it finally started again, and I went and did the dishes, took a shower, and started to take a nap while I waited yet another lifetime for it to load back to the main menu. When it finally came back, I pressed the buttons that were still ignoring me in some weird combination until I finally somehow received the option to load the pictures. I was like OMG HOORAY, and then it loaded one picture for about 2 seconds, then went to this strange pink and green screen.

Okay, so perhaps mine was just defective and that isn't how all of them are. But I won't be taking my chances with this brand again, for sure.

I paid only about $30 for this (admittedly, not here at Amazon). The plus is that it has a remote... many other low-end digital frames have only the clunky button interface on the back side (super frustrating to scroll through). The main reason I bought this frame is that it has speakers and supposedly plays video files. I could not load a MPEG video file and make it work. ALSO, the wide-screen format is deceiving. The image of the frame used by Amazon above has been faked...I know this because the two people shown are of normal size. In order for an image to fill the frame to the edges, you have to enable the wide-screen format which STRETCHES the image. This distorts people to look like they're sumo wrestlers. You can display images without this wide-screen option, but then they just float in the middle with a 1-inch unused section down each side. I say, don't bother with this product.

This product came with very poor instructions on exactly how to use it. Also, they need to specify exactly what the total amount of MB is supported. We loaded up a SD card with 130MB and it played a few of the pictures, but once I compressed it down to 32MB it showed all the pictures and worked perfectly. It does have a good picture, but wouldn't recommend it for someone who is looking for an easy to use digital picture frame.

everything is pretty good except the user manual,when you take the price into consideration. cannot show large photos.

I have a couple "budget" priced digital frame and this one is the worst of the bunch. Display quality is decent for the resolution and the overall look of the frame is pretty nice.

The menu system is unresponsive and can take a few seconds for it to respond.

I had a hard time getting the photos to fill the 640x234 resolution. When sized to the native resolution, they didnt even come close to filling out the screen. Had to over double the dimensions of the photo and then the frame for some reason kept screwing with the aspect ratio... similar to what a widescreen TV would do to a full screen DVD or TV show. Switching it to 4:3 only centered the image with bars all around the image.

Poor Poor Poor... I purchased for under 30 bucks... not even worth that... If you can deal without remote, video and sound, i would recommend the Samsung SPF-71e.

The pictures play fine but there is not many options in the menu. The directions are not very clear either. It does display good pictures, though which is the main thing.

So here's the problem, if you put the frame in 16:9 mode so it uses the entire LCD area pictures are distorted. Solution: Pre-distort the pictures before you put them on the frame!

In Photoshop:

Create a new picture with dimensions 1600x900 pixes (file, new, 1600, 900, ok). Paste a photo (file, place), add text, or even another little photo (file, place). When you're happy go to the image menu, choose image size. Make sure "constrain proportions" is NOT checked. Change the image size to 640 x 480 and click OK. Your picture will now look a little too narrow. Save it to your SD card for your frame. Put your frame in 16:9 mode and install the SD card and PRESTO! You've got full sized images that look okay.... just okay.... remember, it's a cheap frame.

I would like to prevent frustration in the world so I'm begging everyone - If you are thinking of purchasing this item, slowly walk away from this POS.

My digital frame locked up within the warranty period, I emailed to Haier support about three months ago and am still waiting for a reply. I suppose that you can warranty anything forever if you don't pay up. A very interesting business model - sell something desirable for moderate money and when it breaks, wait for a lawsuit. But who's gonna hire a lawyer for a $50 item?

Junk, junk, junk, junk, junk.

Did I mention this is JUNK?

As on reviewer stated you get what you pay for. What a piece of garbage! They warranty this for 90 days because they know after the 91st day it will be worthless. This must how they build all there products.

it worked right until the warranty expired, as always. The manual was not handy. The pictures were ok when it decided to work. I purchase this item mainly because of the video capabilities - which it never worked with me.