Pandigital Panimage PI8004W01B 8-Inch LED Digital Photo Frame (Black)

by PanDigital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 3.9 x 11.4 inches ; 3.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00368CDH6
• Item model number: PI8004W01B
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #21 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Photo Studio > Storage & Presentation Materials > Digital Picture Frames
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 15, 2010

Product Description

The Panimage PI8004W01B 8 inch LED Digital Photo Frame is plug and play for fast, easy transfer and display of your digital photos. No software is needed, just use a USB cable (not included) to connect the frame to your pc and start dropping and dragging directly to the frame's internal memory. Alternatively, you can transfer photos and video from your memory card or digital camera. Store up to 2000 compressed images on the 256MB of internal memory. The built in 5 in 1 card reader recognizes xD/MMC/SD/MSPro/MS formats. To begin a slideshow, simply insert your memory card, and enjoy. The viewing aspect ratio is a generous 4:3, and the 800x600 resolution LCD panel within a black wooden frame blends with any decor.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Happy with purchase, November 26, 2010

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Mrs. Miller "oneinamillion" (A little place called Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pandigital Panimage PI8004W01B 8-Inch LED Digital Photo Frame (Black) (Electronics)

Like many others, I purchased this frame to upload photos as a Christmas gift (for my 84 year old mother-in-law). I've just uploaded about 200 photos and it is working so well. (I plan to add lots more pics, just wanted to see if and how it worked). This is the 2nd digital frame I purchased. The first was a Philips 8" frame from Walmart which froze on me while I uploaded pics (aurgh!!!!). Returned that and found this one on sale for $50 at KMart. I find the 8" screen a nice size, not too big or small. One big "must" for me was it had to be something that my MIL could easily work to get the slideshow started. This one seems like it will. I found the remote and the menu much easier to understand and work than the Philips frame.

I used a mini USB cable from my Canon camera to upload pictures from my computer to this frame. I found out you don't use the remote for that process, but it was easy enough. I just opened the H port file on my computer, had Facebook photos stored in my Picasa pictures, and exported them to the H port file. (a copy of each pic still stays in the Picasa folder). It went so quickly, which made me happy.

I like the random viewing option on the slideshow, and it has nice random transitions from photo to photo. I'm not too picky about picture quality, hey, these look fine to me. They will be perfect for my MIL who will love this gift. (Score one for me, finally! lol) I'm a little skittish about messing too much with this since I had a problem with the other frame I purchased. I just want your basic frame with slideshow with the above named options. Happy with the purchase.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Way to Go, May 9, 2011

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Castaway Reviewer (Tyler, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pandigital Panimage PI8004W01B 8-Inch LED Digital Photo Frame (Black) (Electronics)

I've had my Pandigital Panimage PI8004W01B 8-Inch LED Digital Photo Frame (Black) for a week now and so far I am very pleased. (I purchased it from OfficeMax for $49.99) Setup took me all of 5 minutes, if that long, to do. I found the remote easy to work with once I figured out how to use the keys. I can understand some of the frustration the other reviewers have had. I've owned other Digital Photo Frames and I may be old fashion when it comes to digital images, but the viewing aspect ratio 4:3, and the 800x600 resolution LCD panel is the way to go. Pictures are beautifully clear without them being "shrunk-to-fit" as with my last digital frame did (GiiNii 7" photo frame which cratered on me in less than a year which is the reason for this purchase)

The features I like most are:
* On-screen time display
* On-screen photo time stamp display
* Sleep function. I keep this frame at work so I set the sleep feature for 8 hours and about the time I get ready to leave from work it shuts down. Next morning, I press any key on the remote and it wakes back up.

As far as down loading pictures, I don't bother. SDHC Flash Memory Cards are so cheap these days, I keep all my pictures stored on them. I simply copy the ones I want from my computer's hard-drive on to the card, then slip it into the slot on the side of the frame and "Let the slideshow begin". That simple (However, I did have to set it to random). So if (or should I say when) your frame craters, you just pop it out and stick it in a new one.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works fine transferring from a Mac, December 8, 2010

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wanderer (Fairbanks, AK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pandigital Panimage PI8004W01B 8-Inch LED Digital Photo Frame (Black) (Electronics)

I bought this frame to fill it with pictures for my mother-in-law of her first international trip to Japan. My digital picture frame model PI8004W01B has 512 of internal memory. After reading the descriptions here and for the PI8004W01 model I was a little nervous. You cannot organize the pictures on the device itself, but I think few, if any, frames let you do that. I have an old PowerBook G4 Mac with old iPhoto 6.06 software and I had combined photos from two different cameras, an iPhone, and some scanned pictures in an iPhoto album. Within the iPhoto software, I dragged photos around in the album to coordinate the different cameras so that it was all chronological. I cropped and rotated and adjusted brightness etc. I hooked up the powered-up PI8004201B to my Mac with a USB cable I have, the icon for the Pandigital appeared, I opened its photo folder, and in my iPhoto software I just hit "select all" and dragged the photos over to the pandigital photo folder, and they all saved within minutes. It maintained the same order and settings in the digital frame that I had on my Mac. I didn't have to rename the files. They all displayed, in the same order, with the same changes, no matter which of the four sources they had come from.

Works fine by me!

Only thing I wished was that the internal memory was bigger. I had to do a lot of deleting to shrink the collection down to 512 and couldn't include any video at all.

Next techie dream: I wish my iPhoto software had a way of creating a caption for each picture and that Pandigital had a "display caption" button on the remote and the housing so that a forgetful viewer could cue up the text for that photo and be reminded of date, place, event, names of people in the photo, etc.