Customer Reviews

Mustek PF-A1020BC 9.5-Inch Digital Photo Frame

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This 10 inch Mustek digital frame is almost perfect for what I wanted. The only problem is it stops every now and then (I have 2 and they both do it). I am thinking maybe it is my electrical system and I need a surge protector. It is very random. Otherwise, I load the pics (about 1500 of them) and music onto a USB drive from my computer, then plug it in to the frame, turn it on, press "right" button twice to get to "photo and music" on the menu, and press the select button and away it goes, cycling over and over through the pics and music. The picture quality is perfect. I did have to lessen the size of my professional jpg's from a photographer (9-10 meg each down to 1 meg) or else I couldn't do the 5 second slide show because the pics took longer to load than that (it warns of this in the directions). The 15 second slide show still worked good. If I use any photos I took with my 5 Megapixel Sony camera or my cybershot it works fine with 5 second slide show. The pics that are 1 Meg down to 600 KB look great. The pictures seem to be displayed in the order they were copied to the USB drive (this was tricky to figure out - I wanted them displayed in a certain order), or in random order if you choose that option. I really like this frame.

The review stating there is a random picture loading feature is incorrect. There is only random picture-to-picture transition type.

I played with the thing for quite a while, read the sparse instructions carefully, and then called Mustek to verify that there is no random picture loading mode. Pictures load in a particular order... not sure if this is alphabetical or in the order in which the file was copied, but regardless there's no way to switch to random.

For a digital frame that supports memory cards in the multiple GB range which adds up to thousands of pictures, having random picture loading is an essential feature. I would not recommend this product based on this feature being missing.