Portable USA PU-10W 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame

by Portable USA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14 x 3 x 10 inches ; 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000KIJ0RG
• Item model number: PU10W
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (91 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

This Portable USA 10.4-inch digital picture frame features black matting alongside a black wooden frame. As one of the larger digital frames available, it creates a dramatic addition to any decor. Put together your own perpetual slide shows by simply removing the media card from your camera and inserting it into the frame's card slot to display your images -- no PC is needed. The 10.4-inch diagonal LCD screen is clear and bright, and is ideal for home or commercial use. The card slots accept the most popular media: CF/MS/SDMS//MMC/XD. You can even play MPEG video files and MP3 music. A handy remote control is included for pausing or rotating pictures. You can even use 2 media cards at once. The bright LCD screen delivers a 640 x 480 resolution and can be positioned portrait or landscape. It can also be hung on a wall. No batteries needed, and no monthly subscriptions. Simply plug into your electrical outlet, insert your media card, and enjoy.

Portable USA PU-10W 10.4 Inch Digital Picture Frame Highlights

10.4-inch viewable screen Fifty percent larger viewing area than a 7 inch display gives you even more room to enjoy and show off your favorite pictures to family and friends. The aspect ratio of the screen is 4:3 -- just like a printed photograph. You won’t see stretching, cropping or big ugly black borders like the widescreen 16:9 format of some other digital picture frames.

High-density screen with wide viewing angle The very best, 640x480 high-density screen displays your favorite photos with the same rich detail and vibrant colors as high-quality photo prints and the wide viewing angle ensures you the best image whether it’s up high or off to the side. 128MB of on board memory The PU-10W offers 128MB of on board super-fast flash memory allowing you to store and show your high-resolution pictures, with additional capacity when you use the two available memory card slots. This product also has a USB slot for easy transfer from a PC.

Memory Card Support The PU-10W has two memory card slots: One slot accepts Compact Flash I (CF) cards, the second accommodates Memory Stick (MS, MS Duo, MS Pro Duo, MS Pro), secure digital (SD) Card and Multi Media Cards (MMC) and xD card. You can store and show all your photos without the use of a PC.

The finest materials and elegant design fit for any decor Elegant design and the highest-grade materials include a discreet stand and a black wood frame with rich black matting to enhance the look of all of your photos. Multimedia capabilities The PU-10W frame also supports many formats of movie files as well as provides stereo speakers for mp3 and wav files. All are easily managed with the click of a button on the remote control.

Multiple Viewing Modes Several 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 favorite photos. Access all these options on the frame or with the included remote control. You can also display your frame in portrait or landscape mode and place it on a table, counter, or hang it on your wall.

In the box One PU-10W digital picture frame, remote control with batteries, desktop stand, AC power supply, and comprehensive owner’s manual.

About Portable USA At Portable USA our goal is to give you the best quality, features, and service offered in the industry. We use only the highest grade screens and components available ensuring you an excellent viewing experience with each and every one of our products. We back all of our products with a full one year warranty (parts AND labor) and live customer support, based here in the United States, to ensure your complete satisfaction with our products.

Product Description

This Portable USA 10.4-inch digital picture frame features black matting alongside a cherry-finish wooden frame. As one of the largest digital frames available, it creates a dramatic addition to any decor. Put together your own perpetual slide shows by simply removing the media card from your camera and inserting it into the frame's card slot to display your images -- no PC is needed. The 10.4-inch diagonal LCD screen is clear and bright, and is ideal for home or commercial use. Makes a great digital sign for business users. The card slots accept the most popular media: CF/MS/SDMS//MMC/XD. You can even play MPEG video files and MP3 music! A handy remote control is included for pausing or rotating pictures. You can even use 2 media cards at once! The bright LCD screen delivers 640 x 480 resolution and can be positioned portrait or landscape. It can also be hung on a wall. No batteries needed, and no monthly subscriptions. Simply plug into your electrical outlet, insert your media card, and enjoy.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

265 of 271 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very nice-looking frame, but poor quality, March 25, 2007

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static (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Portable USA PU-10W 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

Like other reviewers, after careful research, I decided to purchase this product. It was affordable, received good reviews, and was of bigger size than others in the similar price range. When I received it in mail, I was quite happy: it worked great out of the box and it looked even nicer than what I had expected. The screen was bright and very attractive.

The problems started about three weeks following the purchase. First, the slideshow option (the kind with music) stopped working. Whenever I pushed the slideshow button, the screen would completely freeze and I had to restart the unit in order to use any other function. I thought, no big deal, I would just exchange the frame for another one.

My second unit arrived yesterday. This one, however, started having problems right out of the box. After about 5 minutes into the slideshow, the screen started flickering, than shaking, became completely staticky and finally it re-started automatically. I played it two more times after that, each time with a similar thing happening 10 or 15 minutes into the slideshow.

It is obvious this photoframe has a lot of potential (big, bright screen); unfortunately, the software is very buggy. I checked the Portable USA website and it does not appear that they have any patches that could be downloaded as a fix. I will have to return this unit again, this time for a refund.

My assumption is that this product has received many positive reviews because people like it after they initially open the box. However, I would be curious to learn if others have had a similar experience after several weeks or months of ownership.

75 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really good frame, April 14, 2007

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Michael E. Kling (Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Portable USA PU-10W 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

My brother bought this frame for his wife about 2 months ago. He liked it so much he suggested we get one for our parents anniversary. So he had it shipped to my home because I'm the family historian and have most of the pictures my folks would want. I selected 2900+ pictures and converted them to 640x480. All 2900+ pics plus 15 Glenn Miller songs fit on a 512MB SD card with about 50MB still vacant. I liked the frame so much I just bought one for my wifes birthday. Really good looking; both the actual frame and the images. I'm a fairly serious digital photgrapher and I didn't think 640x480 resolution could look this good. Looks much better than I expected. Sounds just OK, but about what you'd expect with the size speakers that can fit in something this size.

60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid choice in the range offered today, September 13, 2007

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Thomas Merck "Reader995" (Herndon, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Portable USA PU-10W 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

First, thanks to all of the other reviewers for their comments. A few years ago I began to rely almost exclusively on personal reviews to make my product decisions. I have always been happy with the results and grateful that many mistakes were avoided due to the insightful remarks made by other customers.

I settled on this make/model as it didn't seem to have any software problems, the warranty was for a year, it had a nice design and the resolution (640x480) was sufficiently good. It does offer the capability of playing movies and sound clips, I did not test it for this as my interest was solely in using it as a slideshow viewer (besides I have enough ways of watching movies and/or listening to music without adding another). Owning a digital camera I took more photographs than with film and gradually I realized that the expense of developing and displaying them in nice albums was becoming prohibitive. Also, when pictures are "hidden" in albums they tend to be rarely looked at. My last consideration was buying something that was easy to operate having spent too much time already on other product manuals, simplicity is bliss.

I opened the box and drew the frame out. It was hefty and quite elegantly done in wood with fine matting. The design is clean and pretty well conceived with controls/inputs arranged in a logical manner. I hid the wire by putting the unit on an end table with an outlet right below it. Setting it up was extremely easy and involved connecting it to a power source and hooking up the support "leg" in the back. It comes with a remote control as well with quite a lot of functionality.

If you read forums on digital frames a point often made is that you are better off sizing your pictures to match the frame's resolution. My camera is a Nikon SLR and I shoot in raw format which the frame would not accept (few do) and the aspect ratio was different that the 640x480 resolution. Not a problem. I had to tinker a little to figure out how to crop each picture to the right aspect ratio in Photoshop, then I reduced the size to 640x480, made some cosmetic changes and finally saved it as a high resolution jpeg. 80 photographs took almost two hours but keep in mind I was trying to select the pictures from a larger set for sequential viewing. Some people may just pop the flash card directly in and do no editing whatsoever.

Now it was time for the acid test. I popped in the flash card and turned it on. After a quick introductory screen and beep it started immediately. Very nice. Scrolled through all my pictures with random transition effects,no problems whatsoever. The screen was bright (adjustable), colors vivid (also adjustable) and resolution just fine for my needs. Each horizontal picture filled the frame right to the edges, vertical ones had black space to the left and right of them. Needless to say I sat throughout the entire presentation and could not wait to go back and add more photographs. Each picture took up only 200-300K so I could fit around 2,000 on what is now a small 512mb card...perfect. It accepts pictures up to 12mb each but take into consideration that the possible gain in resolution may not be worth the extra space, also I'm not sure if transitions will be as smooth with very large files.

Why a 4 out of 5? Given the technology we have today I don't see why a 1024x768 display isn't possible (is the cost differential that high?), even though 640x480 was plenty for me. The market appears to be disjointed right now with no clear winner in the field to compete against, this may be part of the reason. The manual was a trifle short on details though the controls are quite intuitive. Small issues nonwithstanding, it works for what I intended it to do, clearly some thought went into this product.

The size is ideal for me as I believe anything larger may overwhelm, unless hung on a wall. The rear of the monitor does not stick out much and is discreetly black. An excellent value, produces instant results and looks tasteful to boot. Thumbs up.