Pandigital 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 Interchangeable Frames

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FNPW96
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

Manufacturer Description The Pandigital photo frame is one of the first digital photo frames based on Personal Media Player chipset, and not a DVD chipset which is designed for portable DVD players. This translates into faster loading of images, ability to playback music during slideshow, faster copying to internal memory, and a menu interface that is easy to use.

Full memory card and USB compatibility make it simple to display pictures

Pandigital frames function as a digital photo album, MP3 music player, and video player all in one, and offer an industry first 64MB of internal memory which allows storage of 50 - 100 images.

With Pandigital photo frames, customers can download photos directly into the frames' internal memory from their digital devices the way that is most convenient for them. Pandigital photo frames include a 6-in-1 media reader (SD, XD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, CF, MMC) so customers can insert flash media into the frame, quickly and easily copy photos, video and music and then return the card to the electronic device. In addition, customers can download photos onto the frames by directly connecting via mini USB to a digital camera or by standard USB to a computer.

Pandigital offers accessible menu buttons and memory card slots for every memory card, and the eye-catching frames elegantly showcase photos in high resolutions on Active Matrix TFT displays, giving the photos a bright and clear appearance in both dedicated and slideshow modes. A stylish addition to any home or office, Pandigital photo frames boast an upscale design that conveys the highest quality. All of the new digital photo frame products from Pandigital come with two interchangeable frames -- wood and acrylic -- to fit into a range of traditional and contemporary decors alike.

Pandigital photo frames deliver enhanced multimedia and networking capabilities. They can play back MPEG 1, MPEG 4, and AVI video, while MP3 audio files can be stored on the on-board memory and then enjoyed via the built-in speakers.

An easy-to-use menu system gives full control of the slide show and player functions. The unit also supports MPEG4 movie formats for playback of digital-camera movies or movies created on the PC. USB connectivity through two USB ports makes it easy to transfer files to and from a PC.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

105 of 111 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Subpar Quality, July 11, 2006

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Casual Photographer (SoCal, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pandigital 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 Interchangeable Frames (Electronics)

This is the first digital frame I bought. I know the resolution won't be anywhere close to a computer LCD monitor, but I was still very disappointed when I turned on the frame. The LCD screen is strangely long and narrow (resolution 1440x234), so a normal photo only occupies a small part of the screen, making this product effectively a 4" frame with a lot of black space on both sides. The resolution of the photos is very bad, and photos look a little distorted as well.

Pros:
1) Plug and Play, easy to set up.
2) Exchangeable frames included.

Cons:
1) Very poor resolution.
2) Strange LCD shape. Advertised as a 7", but effectively a 4-5" frame with a lot of unused LCD pixels.

I returned this product and bought a Westinghouse DPF0561 5.6" Frame instead. I like the Westinghouse a lot more. It is even easier to set up, photos look good and actually larger than on the Pandigital 7" frame, and viewing angle is great.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Digital Frame for the Money -- 3-1/2 stars, May 2, 2007

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J. Blilie "Naturalist-Skeptic" (Twin Cities, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandigital 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 Interchangeable Frames (Electronics)

The good: great price! nice and bright, very easy to use (I barely had to look at the manual.) Pretty much plug and play. (I have a 2-year old Dell PC, Windows XP Professional.) Overall, very satisfactory product. I had no issue about resolution: my photos look fine, just like my flat screen LCD monitor. No issues with direction of view, you can see the photos fine from almost any angle. No trouble with the remote (though it IS tiny.) Loading the photos was a breeze -- just like using a USB memory stick.

The Caveats: really only: the screen aspect ratio is very wide and short -- about the same as a wide-screen movie format (the picture shown on Amazon is a bit deceptive because of the white space around the figures -- it's very wide and short.) Most vertically oriented photos won't work very well. (My guess is they saved money by re-using an existing screen part that was designed for small DVD players.) I did end up re-cropping all the photos before I put them into the frame (after a brief trial run with the original formats.) After re-cropping, I pretty well got what I expected. The frame does not automatically size the photo to fit the frame, like Internet Explorer does and you are likely used to seeing on your computer. I recommend resizing the photos down to where the long (horizontal) dimension number of pixels is about 900, and cropping the vertical axis to make the shape match the frame. Sounds complicated; but I did this with 110 photos in less than an hour.

The Bottom Line: I bought this for my wife and she is thrilled and is enjoying "showing it off" to her co-workers with about 110 family photos on it. It is running at 5-second rate and it takes around 10 minutes to cycle through. We are satisfied with it -- for the price.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK, but there must be better, January 10, 2007

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Superfly (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pandigital 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 Interchangeable Frames (Electronics)

Having recently built a digital picture frame from scratch, I was excited when someone gave us this frame for xmas, to see what a commercial frame would be like. After using it for a few weeks, I have to say that if it wasn't a present I would return it and get one that was built by people who had some sense of innovation.

The Good:
* Screen is bright, images look great
* Resolution is only 640x480 but it will play images up to 10 megapixel and they look pretty good to me. Doesn't seem like you need much higher resolution than that on such a small screen.
* Computer connection worked great - I plugged it into my xp box, all drivers installed automatically without the need for a cd and then 4 new removable drives showed up. It would be nice if only the drives with a card in them showed up but this is a minor issue.

The bad:
My main complaint about this picture frame is that the people who made it obviously had no interest in making the sort of product that you enjoy using because it is clear that the inventor appreciated why such a product would be fun to have or what makes it an improvement over what was there before. If I bought this frame in 1999 or if it cost $50, I could have forgiven it for the poor design, but in 2007, for $180, it is completely unacceptable. We live in the future here people, get with the program!

I have not used other frames on the market, but given that you can buy an old tablet pc with a 12" screen on ebay for $70, strap it into a cheap frame and make your own, pc-based screen that works 100 times better than this frame, just by running a screen saver for under $150, I'd say this frame is not worth the money at all. This screen just doesn't deliver the goods for the price.

Some details:
* Menu system is insanely poorly designed - for instance, you have to be in a specific menu to adjust the system settings - pushing the "setup" button at any other time does nothing despite the fact the the setting are global
* Remote control only works when you are standing about a foot from the computer and pointing it directly at the tiny IR hole in the front of the screen.
* Screen only works as a horizontal frame - there is no way set it up as a vertical frame (i.e. as a 480x640 frame) because the frame automatically rotates vertical images and there is no way to turn this "feature" off.
* The slowest slideshow speed setting is 1 minute between images. Your only other option is to have it just be on 1 image that doesn't change.
* No way to connect remotely to the computer or to easily
get images onto the frame without having to take the frame to where your computer is or go through a tedious process with a memory card an the crappy menu system.
* Good viewings angles are limited but this is a general problem with lcd screens