Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame

by Smart Parts

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1 x 9 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000N4IX3O
• Item model number: SPDPF70E
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 1, 2007

Product Description

Show your pictures and share your memories with the Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-inch widescreen digital picture frame. The SPDPF70E makes it easy to enjoy your favorite photos with three easy steps used to upload pictures; Simply remove the memory card from your camera, insert the card into the frame and view your photos. The slideshow automatically begins once the frame is turned on and will scroll through each picture on your memory card. Optimize your pictures using OptiPix on your computer. OptiPix helps you change the orientation of you photos and sharpen images. Use OptiPix to find pictures, create copies, and transfer photos from your computer to your frame. Control the settings with the slide-out control panel which allows you to adjust brightness, scroll through pictures and other settings. The frame has an adjustable stand so you can place the frame vertically or horizontally on a shelf or table. The stylish SPDPF70E frame can compliment any room or office.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wow, is this AWFUL. DO NOT BUY!, June 21, 2007

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Bryan C. Marye "Popps" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

Horrific picture. Terrible quality and on top of it, there is a laundry-list of restrictions on using the item, ranging from having a 6MP camera or higher, to no Macintosh! You can't just take a jpeg and put it on a disk. This is a horribly designed product and the fact that they call it "smartparts" is irony of epic proportions.

Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It doesn't suck. It's just not very good., January 25, 2008

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Dave Sanborn "... is waiting for the other sh... (Austin TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

I bought this with the walnut frame in 7", electronically the same unit. It was cheap enough that I was willing to work around its limitations, which are:

- low dynamic range renders bright areas as white, darker areas as black rather than showing details in shadow or brightness

- low resolution: it's 480x270 as best as I can tell, which I don't call "hi-resolution".

- can't change speed that it cycles through photos

My workarounds are to manually edit and adjust the contrast and color gamut of my pictures and resize my images to 960x540, exactly 4x larger than the frame displays. Sure it's wasted pixels, but when I buy another frame with the same ratio display, I won't have to edit the pictures again and they'll have high enough resolution to look good elsewhere. Use a decent photo editor like Adobe Photoshop Elements to adjust the dynamic range and pump up the saturation. DON'T use the included software Optipix Pro that's bundled with the frame, it's amazingly bad. It takes a directory of photos and resizes them to 1024x768 which isn't the ratio of the frame's display thus all pictures then have black bars on them. Dreadful. If you're willing to edit your pictures it's a decent, no-frills frame.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wouldn't bother, February 9, 2008

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TWS "TWS" (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

Got it as a gift. Not worth the cost (free). Terrible picture. can barely make out the image.