Pandigital PANTV1512 15.6-Inch Kitchen Technology Center Digital Picture Frame

by Pandigital

Product Details

User Manual [PDF]

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Quick Start Guide [PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 21 x 6 x 18 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001K4DQZG
• Item model number: PANTV1512
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 5, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Pandigital Kitchen Technology Center brings convenience and style to the heart of your home, the kitchen. The PANTV1512 KTC 4 in 1 Media Device works as hard as you do, combining these devices into one attractive flat-screen: a digital cookbook with pre-loaded recipes from Bon Appetit,a digital photo frame, an HDTV, and a wireless internet device. Is your kitchen a clutter of cookbooks, wires, laptop computers, and photos taped to the fridge? Take a deep breath, inhale, and then picture all that mess going away. It’s not a maid service, but it is the sleek, shiny, 15.6 inch high definition LCD monitor/digital picture frame/internet device with 3 different mounting options and 3 interchangeable faceplates (black, white, and metallic) to match your décor. The KTC mounts under a cabinet, on a wall, or sits on its own stand on your countertop with the included hardware. Pandigital’s Kitchen Technology Center offers the versatility and simplicity that your kitchen is longing for. It only makes sense that the Kitchen Technology Center is brought to you by Pandigital. Founded in 1998, they recognize the need to bridge new and traditional technologies like a digital camera and an elegant picture frame. Photography captures the special moments in our lives, moments that cannot be properly displayed or appreciated on the back of a digital camera. Pandigital has shipped more that 4 million digital picture frames and is one of the top 50 fastest growing companies in the US. Their digital picture frames are of substantial quality, elegant and intuitive designs, they are versatile and affordable.

View your favorite photos on a movie quality flat screen
Pandigital's digital photo frames have stunning picture quality and this one is no exception. Your photos and videos will be viewed on a 1200 x 720p resolution (hi-def movie quality) screen, 400:1 image contrast ratio, and 16:9 aspect ratio. The frame stores up to 3000 jpeg images with 1 GB of internal memory.

PanTouch splash-protected touch sensor technology allows you to use the touch screen user interface to select photos from thumbnails and then to scroll through photos effortlessly. Built-in speakers can play downloaded audio while displaying a slide show to entertain guests, your children, or even yourself. The 5 in 1 card reader supports SD, MS, MS Pro, MMC and xD cards. Also supported are micro drives and thumb drives via the high speed USB 2.0 port.

Be entertained and connected
The HD-ready monitor allows you to watch all your favorite movies, re-runs, cartoons, news, talk shows, or even cooking shows. It has adjustable color and contrast, headphone jack, and remote control, as any good tv should. HDTV connections allow you to connect the KTC to your satellite, pc, cable, or DVD player.

As an internet device, the Kitchen Technology Center’s wi-fi dongle connects your kitchen to the world-at-large via your existing wireless network and RSS feed. You can access news, weather, traffic, and photo-sharing websites.

As the frosting on the cake, the pepperoni on the pizza, or the cheese sauce on the omlet, the Kitchen Technology Center comes preloaded with more than 80 versatile and yummy seasonal recipes from Bon Appetit. You will find tempting appetizer, side dish, main course, and dessert recipes (additional Bon Apetit cookbooks on SD cards are available for purchase separately). Want to know what’s so great about these recipes and this format, as opposed to a traditional cookbook? Beautiful color photographs, tips, and video demonstrations to guide you along, that’s what.

4-in-1 Kitchen Technology Center

• Digital photo frame with PanTouch technology
• 15.6-inch high definition television
• Wireless internet device
• Digital cookbook featuring Bon Appetit digital recipe collection

What’s in the Box

15.6-inch Kitchen Technology Center, remote control, AC adapter, USB cable, user manual, quick start guide, warranty card, mounting hardware, black, white, and metallic faceplates, wireless USB adapter

Product Description

Pandigital 15.6" Kitchen Technology Center - Digital Picture Frame, High Definition TV, Digital Cookbook, and Wireless Internet device. Utilizes PanTouch Technology and includes 1GB Internal Memory for up to 3000 pictures, Pre-Loaded Recipes, 1024 x 768 HD Screen Resolution. 3 interchangeable faceplates, Counter Top and Under Counter Mounting Hardware, HDMI and YPbPr Inputs, and Remote control included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

63 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars cool once you configure it, July 12, 2009

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Justin Nelson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandigital PANTV1512 15.6-Inch Kitchen Technology Center Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

My in laws got one and had NO idea how to use it. They used as a TV only until I came over. lol

Adding recipes isnt very tech friendly. You must type your recipes in mspaint or another photo editing program and save them as jpgs. you can then add them to the bon-apetite folder on the actual unit by hooking up usb cable to laptop\desktop. your computer will see a bunch of removable drives. You then find the recipe folders. transfer the jpgs to the bonapetite folder, then you can move them to their correct folder as favorites (soups, entrees, etc). You have to name them in the correct way too. they start from 001 to 100. When you add the jpg you must name it in the right # sequence. This is the only way i could get it to work. You can also do screenshots of [...]or other cooking websites, save as jpeg and then transfer them.

You will also need external speakers because the sound sucks.

The wireless is just to stream picasa pictures.. thats it. You have to install a yahoo widget to access the ubnit to transfer pics directly to it. Better off to do everything via usb.

The manual was garbage. I am a very experienced techie and it took me a couple hours to setup all the features.

very cool idea, but i dont think they got it right the first time. Ill probably still buy one... but the average computer user wont be able to use all the features without help imo

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97 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy, February 22, 2009

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Albert J. Ferrara (Greenlawn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandigital PANTV1512 15.6-Inch Kitchen Technology Center Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

Do not buy this product. It does not do what it advertises. I purchased it for my wife for Christmas.

The recipe feature only has a few recipes from Bon Appetit, not the entire collection as I was led to believe.

It is a touch Frame, not a Touchscreen. The touch frame worked for about 2 weeks.

The remote control barely worked when new, now it is non working.

The mount is poorly made. It seems sturdy, but it's adjustments to create friction to hold the screen in place simply don't work, no matter how hard you tighten them. The mounting screws are total junk, the heads strip right off of them. I have to lean my set against my backsplash, or it pivots forward on the mount.

The picture quality is terrible, and the set does not have enough volume to hear it if anything else is going on in the room, even at max level.

Worst of all, I emailed the company to complain, and they don't even return the emails.

A definite mistake to buy. I can't believe they're actually advertising this product as being so great. IT IS JUNK!

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pandigital Kitchen Center, March 28, 2009

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Donna Hardwick (Greenbrier, Ar) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandigital PANTV1512 15.6-Inch Kitchen Technology Center Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

I have watched for this item to become available for a long time, and was terribly disappointed. Very poor picture quality, poor volume control, one cannot enter recipes, only upload a link...