Nextar N8-101 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with Remote Control (Black)

by Nextar

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 1.4 x 14.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000Z2H3MQ
• Item model number: N8-101
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2007

Product Description

Product Description

Features interchangeable frame of black or silver. 8-Inch analog panel in 4:3 format. Supports JPEG images and MP3 Music. Includes Picture rotation and review and is compatible with SD, MMC, MS Card and Jump Drives. Supports Slide Show function with background music. On screen display instructions are in multi languages. Remote Control included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works Great - Many hidden options!, December 1, 2008

By	Andy Foote "Newdrum" (TN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Nextar N8-101 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with Remote Control (Black) (Electronics)

This little guy is so much more than a simple photo frame. It also has AV out and IN! You can use it as a compact video monitor for a camcorder or edit set up, Amazing for the price! Decent video quality. Also plays video formats that most other frames(costing much more) do not handle. So from the memory card (not included) you can play your video content. Also from the built in USB port from a standard flash drive. Truly a bargain for the features. Also includes a sleek black face plate to swap from the silver, if you want.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NEXTAR N8-101 8 in. Digital Photo Frame Review, January 24, 2009

By	Lawrence P. Demers - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Nextar N8-101 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with Remote Control (Black) (Electronics)

This product is rather plain in appearance, comes with a white and a black plastic frame for the unit, but otherwise appears like a typical picture frame, albeit a bit too thick to pull the image off for long. It will mount on a wall and it has a variable pitch support on the back that will allow the frame to be setup on a table, and then tilted from just off of vertical to about 70 deg from vertical (it is used this way for overhead viewing).

Controls for the unit are located on a rather complex remote control, as well as on the right back side. Both work well, with the remote working reliably from 10 ft. Not terribly long range for an IR control, but it does work. The units left side has the USB port, AV in/out, power supply input, and a port for the required, but not providedd SD,MMC or MS format memory sticks.

Upon powerup, my unit fired right up. I first messed around with the controls, to get familiar to the logic that the design uses. Next, I powered down, installed an SD 2 gig memory stick in the photo frame memory port, and powered back up. Reading the installation instructions, and operating instructions, it became clear that the instructions do not discuss USB operation at all. My need was for the unit to have USB connectivity with my lap top, for photo transfers and album transfers to the frames memory stick.

I called the Help Center for Nextar, and found the technical help to be horrible. Other than reading from an instruction sheet, they do not offer any help with such technical issues as USB use. All that the girl that I talked with could say was that some units' USB works, others don't, after denying that they actually had USB. Clearly, the unit knows when the USB cable is connected, as it signifies this status. However, my computer would not detect the USB cable being plugged in, either USB 1.0 or 2.0, thus not mounting the Digitsl PhotoFrame as an external memory to be downloaded to.

I did discover that the Frames USB port did detect the presence of my SanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB memory stick, and did access the 100's of photos that I loaded it with previously. These were then able to be displayed on the Digital PhotoFrame in Slideshow mode, for further inspection of the video quality of this display.

I like this PhotoFrames picture. It can be made much brighter, sharper, contrasty-er, and the colors, saturation etc. can all be adjusted as well.

While the unit does not meet my needs because of the inability to transfer files directly between laptop and PhotoFrame via USB, the workaround using a memory stick as the file transfer method works OK for now. It is simply one more step in the transfer process. Load the pix from computer to memory stick OR the SD memory if you have a port for this on your computer. Plug the memory stick into the PhotoFrame and then operate from there. Not having the USB link also prevents video transfers from laptop to photoFrame, for remote displaying purposes, via USB. But you can still use a coaxial cable with mini-plug to display your laptops video feed on the PhotoFrame -in theory. I have not tried this yet.

Ok everyone, class over..wake UP! heh


Larry D.
NW Wisc.

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible - Do Not Buy, June 7, 2009

By	Robert H. Reck "Open Minded" (Sarasota, FL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Nextar N8-101 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame with Remote Control (Black) (Electronics)

Rip off. Don't buy. Would not come close to working as advertised. I'm stuck with two of them and they'll both end up in the trash.