Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame (White)

by Philips

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.9 x 5.4 inches ; 3.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VEPC4O
• Item model number: 5FF2CMI
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 1, 2007

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

Every picture tells your story. Display your digital photos with the same quality and rich color of professional prints! The easiest way to display digital photos without a PC, the Philips 5FF2CMI PhotoFrame complements your home decor with its sleek and stylish design.

High pixel density for sharp and detailed photo display
The very best high density screen in the industry displays 88 percent more pixels per square inch than even a high-end 17-inch LCD monitor--showing off your treasured photos with the same 'real life' rich detail and vibrant colors as high quality prints.

Perfect digital colors for rich and stunning photo display
Full color display brings out the best in your photos with vibrant, real life colors by displaying the same full range of colors found in professionally printed photos.

4:3 aspect ratio for optimal distortion-free display
Philips digital PhotoFrame ensures your photo to be displayed in 4:3 ratio for the best viewing experience.

Auto photo orientation to fit portrait or landscape modes
Automatic landscape/portrait recognition employs a sensor that recognizes PhotoFrame orientation and displays each photo in its proper mode.

Play slideshows, single photo, thumbnails, or show clock
Flexible display modes give you the freedom to display your photos one image at a time, in thumbnail mode for quick, easy searches, or to create a slideshow of your most treasured photos.

Create albums, slideshows, and manage your photos
Smart Album allows you to create and manage albums, as well as to set up and adjust transition effects to your photo slideshows.

Rotate, zoom, crop, mask, and add effects to your photos
The PhotoEffect Wizard is an easy-to-use feature that allows you to rotate, zoom in, crop, and even adjust photo color tones to black and white or sepia right within PhotoFrame.

Collage effect for random multiple-photo display in one view
It's a slideshow effect to show photos in collage form that automatically and randomly compiles different photos together to avoid unattractive borders that may result from photos which are smaller than screen size.

Copy photos among memory cards for extra storage
Philips PhotoFrame can read two memory cards at the same time via its internal memory card readers, and SmartCopy software helps you to copy your digital pictures from one memory card to the other one. The software automatically resizes and compresses the copied photos to maximize the amount of photos you can store internally or externally.

Fast and easy photo transfers from your PC via USB 2.0
The USB 2.0 connector is built into the device for quick and easy transfer of photos from PC to PhotoFrame.

Display and manage photos on memory cards or internal memory
Memory-Card Manager is a set of two built-in memory card readers and featured software for displaying, editing, storing, and organizing your memory card photos directly in one, hassle-free step--all without a PC. It accepts two memory card slots: The first slot accepts Compact Flash 1 (CF), while the second slot accepts Secure Digital Card (SD), SDHC Card, Multimedia Card (MMC), xD card, Memory Stick (MS), MS pro, MS Duo, and MS Pro Duo (via adapter), Micro SD card and Mini SD Card (via adapter). They all work as extended memory space--just like PhotoFrame's internal memory.

What's in the Box:
Philips 5-Inch Digital Photo Frame, AC-DC adapter, quick start guide, stand, USB cable, PC/Mac software CD, user manual.

Product Description

The 5FFCMI photo frame with 5.6" high resolution digital image. Display your digital photos with the same rich color and quality of professional prints. The high pixel density give you sharp detailed photo display in a 4:3 aspect ration for optimal icture viewing. The Auto Fit feature will automatically size your digtal photo to fill the display screen. The photo manager will allow you play slide shows, display single photos or show thumbnails of a group fo pictures. Easily create photo albums, cut and size your photos, rotate or mask to customize the image. Fast and easy photo transfers from you PC via USB 2.0 connection. Memory card slots will allow you to transer, copy or use as additional memory for the photo frame. Has a built in memory of 32 MB and displays images up to 640 x 480 resolution for sharp clear pictures. AC power cord.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Philips 5.6 inch LCD Photo Frame - Great Starter Frame at a Decent Price, May 6, 2008

By	Mark "Technology, Music and Movies" (East Coast) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)    (2008 HOLIDAY TEAM)

This review is from: Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame (White) (Electronics)

The Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame (White) is a great value in a relative sense when it comes to the expensive digital frame market. The features are somewhat limited, but the relatively lower price is bound to entice a lot of buyers. I actually prefer the Philips 7-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black) because of the black frame, slightly larger screen, and USB flash drive compatibility. But if you need a basic starter frame at a low price, this is it.

Pros
+ Great advanced menu functions allow you to control your slideshow
+ Very nice variety of slide-show transitions and collage options
+ Nice memory card slot allows you to connect up a variety of memory cards
+ Memory card slots for Compact Flash I (CF), SD Card, Multi Media Cards (MMC), MiniSD, Memory Stick (MS), and XD Picture Card
+ Convenient timer option turns PhotoFrame on and off at the hours you select
+ USB connection to your computer (to manage the internal memory),
+ Play slideshows, single photo, thumbnails or show clock
+ Nice looking frame design
+ Adequate 32 MB internal memory
+ 640X480 display for nice sharpness
+ Price is right for an entry frame ($50 range)

Cons
- Pictures must be JPEG and work best when in native picture format
- Photos edited in certain software WILL NOT work, even when saved as JPEGs
- JPEG support limited to 16 megapixel and 10MBs files
- The white frame isn't as attractive as the black one on the 7 inch model
- No video playback
- Lacks MP3 music playback for slideshows
- No USB port for flash drives
- Competing alternatives from Sony natively support other image formats (RAW, TIFF, BMP)
- Phillips quality control has been declining; definitely test this within your return period
- Many newer alternatives coming to market which use less power than LCD

The frame comes with a quick reference manual and Windows and Mac software on the included CD. The CD also contains Windows compatible picture manager software. For a full PDF manual you will have to go to the website. There's some kind of menu driven help manual on the CD as well.

But the truth is you don't need a manual really. The built-in menu is really well designed. Not all the settings are on the first screen, but with some searching you can set up almost everything you need.
The frame is listed at a display ratio of 4:3. This means it's compatible with most standard camera formats, including my Nikon and almost all handheld Canon models. Those with wide-format digital cameras will want to look for one of the many widescreen frames to save the step of reformatting.

The optional clock display is another nice extra that makes this frame versatile. This somewhat makes up for the lack of MP3 playback.

The frame also has automatic orientation detection as an option, which rotates pictures from portrait to landscape. There are also collage and thumbnail view options.

This guy doesn't have the native image format support of some of the newer (and much more expensive) frames from Sony. And I'm very nervous about Phillips spotty quality record of late. So far so good. But definitely put this through the paces before your return period expires.

Overall this is a good product at the right price. Hopefully prices will come down over time.

This unit is worth a look.

Enjoy!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First impressions: Good quality, very satisfied, April 9, 2008

By	Sudarshan Karkada (Missouri City, TX USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame (White) (Electronics)

I bought this item when it was offered in gold box lightning deals for fifty. It arrived yesterday and have only spent very little time with it so far. Here are my first impressions and if anything significant comes up in the next few days, I will update this review.

The frame is not widescreen - which is a good thing. You see, most cameras capture pictures in 4:3 ratio and it makes no sense to display them in a widescreen format. Secondly, for the same size (diagonal measure), a 4:3 screen has more surface area than a widescreen format. Finally, you don't need to process your pictures.

I had a 16 MB SD card (that came with a Canon camera) which is really useless for me. So, I thought I try loading some pictures onto it and try the frame. I copied some pictures from my computer without any editing. I copied some pictures after cropping them to a random size, but 4:3 ratio. I copied some pictures by reducing the images to 100 PPI resolution. They all looked fine on the picture frame. The picture frame passed the biggest test I was really concerned with.

Below are the technical specs:

Display size: 112.9 mm x 84.67 mm (4.44 x 3.33 inch)
Total pixels: 640 x 480
Density: 140 pixels per inch

Power consumption: 4.3W


Power adapter (2-prong) is small and can support 100 - 220 V and hence can be used in many countries. To me, that is a plus.

Frame comes with a quick reference manual, but the full manual is on the supplied CD. CD also contains Windows compatible picture manager software. Unfortunately, the frame manual is in Flash Paper format and a Macro Media Flash application menu displays one page a time. You can print individual pages, but you can't print all the pages at once. I wish they also supplied a PDF manual. They supplied a PDF manual for picture manager software, though.

Every time I turned the frame on, it went straight to the menu. I wish it went to a slideshow by default. There may be a way to accomplish that, but I couldn't figure out in the few minutes I got to work with it. I also have yet to figure out how to make my slideshow default, not the one Philips has supplied.

You can display a small digital clock during the slideshow. I like that feature.

The frame can detect pictures with portrait orientation (vertical). In that case, you can show other pictures in the black vertical bars on the sides of the main picture in a collage form. Very nice.

Pictures must be JPEG.
No videos.
No music.
There is USB port for connecting to computer (to manage the 32MB internal memory), but there is no USB port for flash drives.
Too much packing material.

A USB cable is supplied.

An elaborate menu system is available. So, it looks like you can adjust every little aspect of your frame and your slideshow. But, obviously, you don't necessarily have to deal with it as I was able to display my slideshow without much hassle. In short, user friendly, but has vast functionaly for configuration.

Random transition between the slideshow pictures showed a variety of interesting transitions.

Overall quality exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend the product.

Update:
I found the frame manual on the Internet. Look at the first comment for the URL.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resolution and price, April 9, 2008

By	Nate "bigetan" (MD) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Philips 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame (White) (Electronics)

This is a great frame for the price. Perfect size for your desk. I easily uploaded about 30 pictures to its internal memory in about 10 minutes from my computer. It automatically copied and downsized my high res photos to 640x480 when i uploaded them to the frame. My original pictures were not altered or downsized. Very nice!

I also have the philips 6.5" frame which costs about 3x as much. This frame is just as good for a lot less...even has more features than the 6.5" does. ( clock, effects, collage displays)

Pros:

great resolution @ 640x480
more picture transition effects than my philips 6.5inch frame
clock display feature
multiple pics can be arranged in collages(cool)
puts thumbnails of other pictures in black bars during vertical display
menu is intuitive and easy to load pictures onto.

Cons:

a tad small (actual picture is 3.5 x 4.5)
frame only comes in white

Definitely best bang for your buck.