Customer Reviews

Philips 6.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame with 4 Interchangeable Frames

5 star:		(31)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Philips is definitely the way to go if you want a digital picture frame. It displays your pictures with amazing clarity and with life like colors. It does what it's supposed to do exceedingly well but no more. It won't play video and the controls/navigation is pretty basic. But it can take all kinds of cards. Before buying this Philips frame I checked out many digital frames including Pandigital, Coby, Axion, Westinghouse etc. in the stores. I almost bought the Pandigital at Costco but I wasn't too excited about the colors and resolution of the screen. Some other frames had added features like mp3 players and could also play back video so I was tempted by those. But finally, I wanted a frame that displayed my pictures with true colors and great clarity and Philips was the clear winner. I am not too crazy about the vertical buttons at the back of the frame, but they allow you to navigate and set up a slideshow. You can choose between some transition effects and the time interval between pics. You can also increase/decrease the brightness and the alignment in portrait or landscape mode. Or you can just display one picture and then manually change it to the next one when you want with the buttons. You don't really need to sync it with your computer. In fact, I'd advise you against that as the software is more cumbersome. Just upload some pictures in a SD card and insert it in the frame slot (with the frame turned off) and switch it on. The pics from your SD card start displaying automatically.

A lot of people like this frame, and I liked it too, at first. But after about a week it went blank and I could not restart or reset it. I was displaying about 3000 JPEGs using a 1 gig memory card. Before it quit for good it exhibited some flaky behavior -- I had to cycle through the different display modes before it would run the slide show. Maybe it doesn't like that many pictures...?

Update: I am more convinced this frame chokes on too many pictures. I bought one for my mom, and set it up with fewer pictures. It worked fine, but as I added more pictures and reached around 900 total it locked up like mine had. I divided the pictures between two memory cards and everything was fine again.

Based on my experience with other frames (see my review of Digital Foci IMT-081 Image Moments Digital Photo Frame), I think this frame is as good as the technology gets, so I would give it another star (but Amazon won't let me). If you have few pictures I think it is a good choice. But it's disappointing that someone can't step up and get this product right.

This item is more expensive than its analogs but it is worth bying. You'll never have any problems with photo format (this Frame has 4:3 whereas most of others have 16:9) and no other problems. I rate it best in digital photo frames.

I can't recommend this digital frame from Philip. After only seven months of displaying the unit on a shelf, the interchangeable frame and the metal bars behind the frame were falling off. The reason was that the Plexiglas frame had bowed.

However, Philips gladly sent me a new one. It cost me to ship it back to them. Since no other reviewer mentioned this same problem, I hope I will not have the same problem in seven months with this new digital frame.

I found it very easy to load pictures on from my computer.

This is a great product. I found it after reading other reviews on [...]. I put pictures right from the camera to a spare sd media card, and put it in the frame. It loaded and formatted all the pictures automatically. I like how it can randomly display the photos. I got this product up and running on an automatic slide show without even looking at the manual. It is very simple and easy to use. We love it, and with the changeable frames it even looks good. We get alot of comments from visitors.

I bought this picture frame as a gift for my mom. I was excited when it came in but there was no documentation for support on the Mac. Their support pages say that it is supported by just mounting it and copying images over. I did that but at a certain number of images, less than 20 compressed images, the frame filled up and it would freeze during startup. I discovered on the Philips forums that this is a problem many others have experienced.

I contacted Philips support and after some back and forth they offered to replace it, saying that it was in stock and would only take a few days to arrive. I just got the replacement tonight and was surprised to see that they sent me a refurbished unit. It wasn't in the original packaging, it didn't include the same 4 interchangeable frames, and worst of all it was all greasy and dirty! Plus it has a big sticker on the back that says "RENEWED" to rub it in and make me feel bad to give it as a gift.

Update: I sent back the dirty refurb to Philips and went through Amazon to return my frame, this time the experience was great. I got a brand new replacement in just a few days. I decided not to mess with the memory on the frame so I bought a memory card reader/writer and used an old CF card. I copied images to the folder created by my camera on the CF card and everything works great. I found that I could only copy images of the original size to the card and they had to be named IMG_XXXX.jpg where XXXX was an increasing number. Other things may work but this works well for me.

Really nice and high resolution photo frame. Don't buy a bigger one. It has same screen resolution but bigger screen, so picture looks noticeably worse. Viewing angles and brightness could be better.

Well, the first was an iPod, but if you compare the price then it could be a tie.

I bought this for my friend on her birthday. Two weeks before the birthday I did contact the people I knew were close to her: relatives, closest friends, friends from previous jobs, friends from college, beloved people from around the world, people she had long time didn't see and I loaded the frame with all those pictures and also short congratulations messages. Using a Windows program I edited the pictures and added some details like flowers.

After all that I let the frame get some charge. The day of her birthday I invited her to lunch and gave her the gift. It was perfect. First she was delighted with the frame and when I asked her to turn it on and began the slideshow, she was amazed. You had to see her face. She loved it and so did I.

The frame is heavy, wich is good for it to be on any desk. The resolution of the screen is excellent. Easy to handle and configurate. Easy to load the pictures. It's worth the price.

I like this photo frame for the following reasons: Picture quality is excellent. It lets you set an on/off time, it has built-in memory (not much) and allows you to plug in an external memory card. It can automatically crop/rotate images for display. I keep it plugged in at my office, but I can remove power and use the built-in battery to show pictures to others. If sunlight is an issue at different times of day, it can vary the contrast for you. It also has several different frames to match your decor.

After searching online reviews, I bought two Philips DPF. Over the last few days, I've been testing the different features and functions so I can preconfigure them before giving them as gifts. Actually, I found the setup and operation to be very simple. At first, I was concerned over the lack of a remote control. However, after playing with the intuitive menu and on-board buttons for awhile, I'm now thinking a remote control would be an unnecessary complication.

I enjoy sharing my photos with family and friends. I use professional 8 and 10 megapixel cameras to take my photos, and I'm always concerned about image quality (sharpness, color saturation, color balance, contrast, etc.) when they are viewed. All I can say is the Philips DPF really does my photos justice. They appear crisp and bright, with all the color and depth of the original photos. The proof is in the image.

BTW, I loaded 220 jpg photos on a cheap 1GB SD card and the Philips is displaying them in slideshow mode perfectly