Customer Reviews

Sony DPF-D82 8-Inch LCD WVGA 15:9 Diagonal Digital Photo Frame (Black)

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This is a review for the 8" Sony DPF-D82 digital photo frame. The frame looks good, is well designed, very easy to use. The photos look great. I loaded the pictures on a Kigston SD6/4GB SDHC memory card, plugged it in the unit, and the frame operated flawlessly. You can display the photos a number of different ways, controlled by a remote. A bit more expensive than some of the competition, but worth it.

I crop, remove red-eye, sharpen, etc. almost all of my photos in iphoto on my Mac--what Sony doesn't tell you until you read the fine print in the troubleshooting section of the manual is that the digital frame does not support photos edited on the computer! So when I transferred the photos from the internal memory, some came through (strangely they were also edited), but most did not. After an hour on live chat with Sony, all they could say was that Sony does not support any photos edited on the computer.

Maybe if I used a memory card or stick? Do people not edit their photos on the computer? If there is anyone out there who can advise me on this issue, I'd be grateful--I'm frustrated and about to return the frame.

The digital photo frame is easy to operate right out of the box. It has good flexibility as to types of input storage cards that it can use. The photo frame has nice options for how the display is shown. It has been running for quite some time without problems.

The picture display is excellent, which I believe is the most important attribute when selecting a digital frame. It is the reason I selected this product, and I am fully satisfied. That said, the image is wide screen, which is the direction the newer digital cameras are going. I am displaying the 50 to 90 year old family photos that are in an album on a shelf. Slective croping was needed to match the pictures to the display. I would recommend this product to anyone in the market for a digital frame, but you should understand the charastics of this product and the pictures you expect to display.

Looks great and you can turn off the overbearing Sony light so the whole frame is just black.

Impressed as it resizes large photos for you and gives you the choice to fill the frame (which is 16:9) or leave the photos as is. Photos look great.

However, I found the manual to be hard to understand in regard to importing to the internal menu...you get there in the end...but it's so Sony in that special Japanese way.

We initially purchased this frame from Amazon for our daughter and her family as a gift. They did not care for the format of the frame and so we replaced it with a Kodak frame that was more square in shape and a more pleasing format for them. We kept the Sony frame for ourselves and like the picture quality very much. Great picture clarity.

Nice Frame, good picture quality. It seems like Sony is discontinuing the 4:3 format and going widescreen. This is a shame since pictures are taken in the 4X6 format which fits better in the 4:3 screens.

Noticed a major bug for Mac users. I copied over 177 pictures to a compact flash drive and popped it in the frame. The Frame is showing 354 images with half of them un-viewable ( Broken Picture icon ). Long story short I find out that the mac has included small little hidden preview files on the compact flash drive with all the files beginning with "."

The Sony frame is attempting to show those files but failing. The frame should be ignoring these files but isn't. I bought a different Sony frame 6 mos. ago and didn't have this problem. So It looks like a software bug.

I had a PC available so I was able to delete these files. I didn't try to figure out how to do it on the mac.

I received the Sony S-Frame DPF-D82 for Christmas. I would have rated it as a 2 or a 3 if I just based it on the ease of moving pictures from my computer to the frame and the poor documentation. Every question that I could not get answered, in the manual or on Sony's terrible website, I was able to get answered reading user reviews here on Amazon. After I got my issues worked out I was pleased with the appearance and image quality of the frame. That is why I ended up rating it a 4.

When you first turn the frame on the setup for general use is pretty easy to understand. The only thing I still need to figure out is how to set the time so that it shifts from slideshow to clock at night and back in the morning. I will read the manual since it was not obvious from the menu.

I copy all of my photos to my hard drive. I also improve photos in Photoshop.

After set up I put a couple of images on a USB drive to see what would happen when I connected it to the frame. I got the following error message, "No more USB hubs can be connected." This message was on the screen and none of the controls would work at this point. The documentation did not really describe what the problem really was or how to fix it. This may be because I was using a USB 1.0 drive. I did not have any newer ones around to try, so I can only guess.

Next I hooked up to my Windows XP PC via a USB cable. My computer recognized the frame. The frame did not offer me any options to use the frame to select images or transfer them. There was just a little icon on the S-Frame screen of a computer and an arrow. I could not find this image in the manual. So I decided I should just move the images from my computer to the frame using my computer. I could open the frame's drive like any other drive. There was a folder visible. Inside that folder I believe there were two other folders. One inside the next. I decided to drop the images into the last folder called "something"100 (Can't remember the name, but it ended in 100). I looked in the manual and online to try to determine if this was the right place to put the files, but I could not confirm it. I just had to guess. I noticed when I was researching online that the images need to be saved as JPEGs with a dimension of 800 x 480 pixels at 72 dpi. I was using the frame in the horizontal position. When saving as a JPEG in Photoshop deselect "progressive" this produces a baseline format. I also deselected "optimized." I tested a couple of images moved to the frame and all looked good. After that I prepared a batch of images to put on the frame and it worked as expected.

You don't have to prepare your images to a particular size or format. The frame is supposed to take images off of your camera or the camera media. Reviews I read from people doing this seemed to run in to few problems.

This is my first digital picture frame but will not be my last.

After searching and reviewing multiple digital frames on the market, it came down to the two camps.

It was the Kodak EasyShare Series vs the Sony DPF Products that made my final cut list.

Both had received high marks on ease of use, shuffle options, resolution quality, picture size, digital media compatibility and internal storage. NOTE: I find that wireless interconnect and internal memory storage had little to no bearing on my selection due to the fact that most of my photo transfers would to be handled by a variety SD and CF data cards.

In the end, I went with RESOLUTION QUALITY as the tie breaker.

I had to actually hit a retail store and do a side by side comparison.

It was there that SONY won hands down.

Price drove my final product selection.

I am very pleased with this purchase and would repeat it again.

My wife loves the frame and it's ease of use. She now has multiple media disks already loaded with her pictures. (PS: She also thinks that I AM THE BEST HUSBAND THERE IS)

I would recommend this product to anyone who asks.

What horrible piece of machinery. I spent 2 hours transferring years worth of photos to a memory stick only to find out that they won't display. It's just showing a squiggly line. Apparently, from other reviews, since I have a MAC and I edit most of my photos, that's a double whammy for disaster!!! Grrr I wish I read the reviews before I purchased this as on a whim for a mother's day present!

DO NOT BUY IF YOU HAVE A MAC AND/OR EDIT YOUR PHOTOS.