Customer Reviews

Samsung SPF-87H 8-Inch Touch of Color Digital Photo Frame

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

I tried to do a lot of research before buying my first digital picture frame and it all pointed to this Samsung model. Friends told me I could get a similar frame for half the price but the facts didin't bear it out.
The lines of this frame are crisp and stylish, great for any decor. I have a traditional house heavy on the antiques and it fits in as well as it would in a modernist minimalist setting.
The picture quality and the apect ratio are awesome, much better than on most of the frames I looked at. It's easy to set up and use; though I do have to tell you it comes with only a quick guide; if you want the in depth instructions you have to download the guide from Samsung.
It's great in that it has a built in memory as well as accepting a card and a memory stick. It has lots of display options and a shuffle capability that make every time you turn it on a different experience. Very pleased, in fact am going to buy another and most of my friends who have seen it are now going to 'upgrade' from their other frames!

I was looking for good looking frame to match with my table (Black), then I had got this one. It really got nice look and good features. Pros are 1GB internal Memory, Good Looks, Almost all type of Media support, can be used as another monitor.

Cons are No Remote control, Control buttons are quite hard and its quite delicate.

I was very disappointed to learn that this does not work with Mac Operating Systems. Some note of that should be made in the product description.

After purchasing a LCD T.V. and cell phone through Samsung, I began to notice that they put quality into their products. So once I began looking for a digital picture frame, I went straight for Samsung. The first things I noticed when I took the Frame out of the box was how thin it was and how lightweight it was. It also has a very glossy "glass" looking plastic around the screen which looks great. And once you turn it on things only get better. The screen looks great and has a very easy to use menu on the side that corresponds to the buttons on the back, so you don't have to turn it around when controlling it. Currently my main use for it is to extend my computer screen onto it, which seems to work very well, even though sometimes it can get a little slow and the mouse kind of "jumps" around the screen, but other than that, I find it very useful, and an added feature that I love is that you can power the frame right off your computer through a USB. A feature that I haven't yet used is the auto on-off times, which can be great if you don't want to have to always be there to turn it on and off. The slideshows also have some very neat touches where it scatters pictures around the screen instead of just showing one at a time. My one and only gripe about it is its' stand, it folds out which is nice, but it does not angle the screen enough for viewing from above, it just tilts the frame back enough on level surfaces so it doesn't tip over. All in all, get this or the bigger 10-inch model, you'll like it.

*Forgot to add in that the picture shows that it has a big "Samsung" label slapped on it, mine doesn't and I think it is there just for advertising purposes.

I bought this Samsung digital frame to use on my desk at the office. I am very pleased. I connected the USB cable and downloaded a few hundred pics to the internal memory. The frame contains an "auto on" feature to automatically start or stop each day, but I prefer to turn it on manually. There is no remote but it's so easy to reach over and push the power button on the rear panel while my PC is booting up. I am displaying my pics in full view, so the frame will automatically cut off the top & bottom to utilize the full width. Some pics in "portrait" configuration get cut off, but landscape pics are all great. (I'm not sure why the frame makers are not keeping standard camera aspect ratios, but this seems common.) If you have a lot of pics in portrait config, them you may be disappointed displaying them on this frame. I've received a lot of positive comments from co-workers. The resolution has surpassed my expectations.

Product works well as a digital photo frame. It has a good clear picture, and ports for USB flash drives and SD cards. Bought it as a gift for my wife and she loves it.

A warning to any who are thinking about buying this to use as a secondary monitor. Currently Samsung does not have frame manager software available for 64bit operating systems. So, if you have XP, Vista, ar Win 7 64bit this will not work as a mini monitor. I have not tried the product on a 32bit system so I cannot say whether the product works on these. To clarify a few other reviews, the software can be found and downloaded from Samsung's site.

So as a picture frame it works perfectly so far, but I am disappointed that the ability to use it as a mini-monitor is not supported on my computer. Especially since there is no information I have seen outside of C-net's forums that mentions that it will not work on a 64bit system.

I decided to buy a digital frame as a gift and I ended up buying this one. Overall I am happy with it, but there are a few aspects that irritaed me. First, when I received it there were scratches on the glass of the frame. Second, the fingerprints are a killer to get off. Third, if you are not computer savvy (like me) the initial downloading of pictures from your MAC to the frame, is a headache. There were no complete instructions with the box so I had to look it up on Samsung's website to figure it out.

However, now that I figured it out and I have gotten over the scratches (somewhat),I am very happy. I can ship this to my dad where he can simply plug it in to the wall, hit the power button and voila! The slide show starts up automatically, exactly how I had it set.

The picture quality is good, and it has a sleek design. It seems to be kind of fragile and I am not sure how the control buttons are going to hold up over the years.

Hi. I was really hoping to have a great experience with this since I am a loyal Samsung HDTV consumer and the price was great on this product. I bought it so that I could load it with pictures of my baby and send it to her grandparents (happy it had the 1G internal drive as well as the external memory slots so that I can send updated images over time). I soon found that downloading images from my Mac was not possible and that it was very unclear in the sales materials that this is such an issue. It eventually became clearer when I downloaded an online user guide that was MUCH MORE comprehensive than the three page summary that was included in the box. Since I got it as a gift in advance of the holidays, it became unreturnable outside the 30 day policy. Very dissapointed--many people have use Apple products especially for photos, and the format of the pics does not seem compatible with the Samsung frame. Perhaps I am missing something, and if I do learn of it, I will change my review, but right now I am looking at a blank frame that I may just paste a picture on :(

Bought this frame for spouse for Xmas. First thing you have to do is download firmware and frame never acted right and could not get the download to work. The manual is printed in about 50 languages so you get about 1 1/2 pages in English, the rest is all other languages. Not very much information to get started. I was online waiting for level 2 tech support with Samsung to correct problem and got disconnected after waiting on hold for 20 minutes. That sealed the deal to return product. Instead, bought Pandigital 10.1" frame and loved it. Very good instruction manual came with it and simple to use. Download your pictures to a chip or mini usb port and you are off and running. Very pleased with new Pandigital frame. Recommend highly. Samsung ought to quit selling this frame. I have 2 Samsung TV's that I love but they didn't get it right with this digital frame. I picked up the Pandigital for $66 at Radio Shack which was $20 cheaper than the 8" Samsung frame that was a nightmare. Please learn from my mistake and Do Not Buy this product.

Might be a statistical aberration, but mine arrived with a bad memory. Many menu processes that tried to use the memory failed too, but that makes sense if you think about it. It'll be a hassle to ship it back (it was a gift), and Samsung's website and manual are too brief (formatting the internal memory wasn't in the manual, but buried deep in the troubleshooting online only - which didn't work anyway). If this is the best one then these digital picture frames are a troubled lot.