Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (White)

by Philips

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6 x 8 inches ; 3.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HWS0NU
• Item model number: 7FF1CMI/37
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 18, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Philips 7FF1CMI/37 7-inch Digital Picture Frame (milk color) lets you view your digital photos directly from memory cards, at professional looking levels. This attractive digital picture frame allows you to display single photos, display thumbnails, or create slideshows to view from your stored photos, all without needing to fire up your PC.

The Philips 7FF1CMI/37 displays your digital photos with professional print quality, including the full spectrum of colors of professionally printed photos, with the added feature of adjustable brightness to match ambient light conditions. This unit can store more than 50 photos for display as single full-screen pictures, groups of thumbnails, or in a slideshow format, and can download photos from your camera, camera cards, or directly from your PC. This digital picture frame features a simple, intuitive operation that doesn't require any programming, an automatic on/off timer that will turn it off and on during preset times so you don't waste any power. It also offers the option of choosing between landscape or portrait displays.

This Philips picture frame is an attractive milky color that matches any decor, and has a 7-inch effective viewing area, with a full 170-degrees of viewing angle on its bright TFT LCD display. The card reader in this frame is built-in, and is compatible with Secure Digital, Multimedia Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, and Compact Flash type I cards. The 7FF1CMI/37 connects via USB directly to your camera or PC, and supports up to 12-megapixel photos in the JPEG format at a resolution of 720 x 480 pixels. This sleek digital picture frame runs on AC power via the included adapter, or lasts up to eight hours on its included rechargeable battery. The unit has an LED that indicates whether the battery is charging or not, as well as six buttons and controls that let you easily control its various settings and options. The 7FF1CMI/37 weighs approximately 1.5 pounds, and measures 8.3 x 4.1 x 6.5 inches (W x H x D).

What's in the Box
Philips 7FF1CMI/37 digital picture frame, AC adapter, USB cable, quick start guide, stand, and user guide on CD-ROM.

Product Description

6.5" Digital Picture Frame, white colored frame, high resolution 720x480, 170 degree viewin angle, USB connect to PC for easy picture downloads, holds up to 60 digital photos with internal memory, create slide shows, up to 8 hour display time on rechargeable battery, or use direct AC power connection.

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Customer Reviews

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but with irritating flaws, November 26, 2007

By 

J. Peake "an open-minded skeptic" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (White) (Electronics)

Summary: This is basically a good product, albeit with some flaws that will drive you crazy and make you waste hours of your time if you are not aware of them beforehand.

First of all, note that this review is for the Philips Photo Frame with the 7FF1CMI/37 model number. I say this up front because if you go to the Philips web site, and then click on "Contact & Support", and then search on "photo frame", you'll find that there are gobs of models whose ID numbers are all the same, except for some small variation. My guess is that every time Philips releases another model, someone tells them about some idiotic flaw, which they (hopefully) fix, and then they release the same product under a slightly new model number.

Also, I'd like to mention that I discovered too late (before I mailed this unit off to my Dad for his birthday) that the support page on Philips' website offers a firmware update, dated 02/07/2007. Maybe that update addresses some of the problems that I talk about below; I wish I knew.

Anyway, this digital frame is essentially a good product. When it displays pictures, they are automatically resized to fit properly within the 720x540 pixel display, and the colors are brighter and more vibrant than what appears on my PC's monitor. You can configure the pictures to switch from once every 5 seconds to once a day, and most everything in between. It's easy to transfer pictures from your PC to the frame's internal memory, and the unit can accept a few different types of memory cards. I have a 1 GB SD card containing two folders of picture file: one folder of pictures in landscape (horizontal) format, and one folder of pictures in portrait (vertical) format.

Now, then, are the irritations. First of all, you'd expect any decent unit of this type to be able to display pictures in any of the typical, common file formats in use today: .JPG, .BMP, .GIF, and .PNG at the very least. Uh-ah. This unit only recognizes files with the .JPG extension -- and it can't even display all files of that type. On my SD memory card, I had a number of picture files where I used the photo-enhancing software that came with my HP scanner. The Philips frame was unable to display any of those files, even though they were perfectly good .JPG files that any other application on my PC could open. I was only able to get around this problem by opening each of those files in my generic image viewer/editor (IrfanView) and re-saving them.

The next most irritating phenomenon I experienced was in the mode that displays images as thumbnails. A number of my portrait-oriented pics showed up as being rotated 180 degrees off; i.e. upside-down. I went through the trouble of re-opening and re-saving all of these in IrfanView, then re-writing all of them to the memory card -- but they still appeared 180 degrees off when viewed in the Photo Frame's thumbnail mode. However, I ultimately discovered that they appeared in the correct orientation when viewed in Browse or Slideshow mode.

One last quirk that I must mention. As mentioned above, the dimension of the photo frame's screen is 720 pixels by 540 pixels, which equates to a 4:3 aspect ratio. My phone cam takes pictures that are of a different aspect ratio, maybe 3:2. When these pictures are displayed on the Philips 7FF1CMI/37, black areas appear on the top & bottom, or left & right, depending on whether the pic is in portrait or landscape orientation. It's like when you watch a widescreen movie on your standard screen TV, or vice versa, and it's to be expected. However, after I cropped all of those pictures so that they resulted in a 4:3 aspect ratio, some of them displayed properly on the Photo Frame as expected -- and some did not (i.e., they still had black "letterbox" bars on either side, although I could re-verify those pics as being in a 4:3 aspect ratio.)

I'd recommend the Philips Photo Frame to you, as long as you are cognizant of the above shortcomings -- which might or might not be fixed by downloading and installing the firmware update that I mentioned above. I apologize that I was not able to do that before shipping out the unit as a birthday present.

P.S. --
By the way, in contrast to the experience that some other folks have reported here, I can insert my SD card with the unit turned on or turned off, and it will read the card and react appropriately. But note that if you have inserted a memory card, the unit will then ignore any pictures you may have stored in its internal memory.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Every Penny, December 1, 2006

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J. Cook (MT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (White) (Electronics)

I don't normally do the review thing, but in this case I decided to take a few minutes. For Christmas this year I decided to give a few of these digital picture frames. I purchased two of the philips frames for my mother and mother in-law. While shopping I decided I'd like one to. In an effort to save a few dollars I decided I didn't need one as nice as the parents so I opted for the TAO 5.6" Mahogany Modern Digital Picture Frame. While waiting for them to be delivered I created a folder of photos to put on the frames. The two philips frames showed up on the same day as the TAO! We immediately opened the two different frames and started loading pictures on them. The TAO was SO HORRIBLE next to the philips, that I had to send it back and purchase a philips for myself. My husband and I both tried to think of someone else we could give the TAO to for christmas but with the philips sitting right there displaying such beautiful crystal clear pictures we couldn't think of anyone we would want to give the TAO to.

Picture quality is MUCH better on the philips and it feels like a better quality product when you hold it. The TAO felt and looked like junk. When we loaded up the same exact picture (quality and size)and stood the two side by side the picture on the philips was sharp and brite on the TAO it looked like the photo was out of focus. The photos were loaded on the TAO first, and at first I thought there was something wrong with my photos until we loaded them on the philips and saw just how great they looked. I tried every possible picture size and quality on the TAO trying to get it to look good, none did. On the philips every picture looked good on our first attempt!!

At first the philips interface was a little more confusing then the TAO but after using them both for a few minutes the philips was actually easier to navigate around.

The philips has a ton more options then the TAO as well.

We were able to load about 60 high quality 720 x 540 photos onto the philips and still have room for more. While 60 photos seems to be plenty we decided to pick up a 1 gig memory card so we could test out the video feature as well. Got them for the two gifts as well.

While the TAO has more internal memory and a remote control (remote doesn't come with the philips) those are the only two things it has over the philips. What good is a remote control and more memory if the quality of the pictures are so bad. In some cases it was hard to make out what the picture was. The philips comes packaged with everything you need to get started. The TAO does not even come with a USB cord or software, both came with the philips. The philips was packaged much nicer then the TAO as well.

All my pictures transfered quickly and easily onto the philips. On the TAO in some cases we had to transfer the same pic two or three times as it wasn't there on the first and second attempts.

I really put some thought into whether or not the TAO just seemed like a terrible product because the philips was so much nicer in every way and sitting right next to it. In the end I decided that even if I had never seen the philips I would have returned the TAO anyway.

The battery is also a nice feature on the philips that the TAO is missing.

I can go on and on about how wonderful the philips is and how horrible the TAO was but I think you get the picture (no pun intended!)

Spend the extra $30 dollars... You wont be disapointed!

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality Product that Doesn't Disappoint, October 16, 2006

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Robert Salita "Software Developer" (CHI PAR PHX SYD PDX CLD NKC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (White) (Electronics)

The Philips Digital Picture Frame deserves its fine reviews. In fact, it's the first picture frame that lives up to the potential of the product category. I've found other picture frames to be disappointing. Not so with this frame. It works well on many levels; it's attractive, delivers a bright and detailed image, has a satisfying user interface with intelligent options, even the packaging is unusually clever. Nice job Philips.

If you value a quality product, this frame will not disappoint.