Customer Reviews

ViewSonic VFD920W-12 9-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 GB Internal Memory

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is the first digital picture frame I've used, so I don't have a comparison. But it seems really nice. I hooked it up to the laptop with the included cord and dumped pictures on fairly quickly. The screen is nice and bright... and very sharp.

The one odd thing about it is that its a wide screen... so unless you crop your pictures that way there is a small amount of black on the sides... but it looks ok. You can also set it to auto-fit the pictures.

I haven't gone through the manual in detail yet. There are probably more options I haven't found.

Can't speak to the durability of it... it just came yesterday. I mainly just wanted to say that the picture is nice and sharp. And the 2 GB internal memory is great.

The frame itself looks great and the pictures look great too. Adding pictures to the frame's internal memory itself is a bit difficult when using the frame's user controls on the back of the frame. Each picture had to be selected and then transferred from the SD to the internal memory, but the onscreen response lagged with every command, so loading hundreds of pictures was going to take a very long time. I stopped this process and plugged it into the computer itself and downloaded the pictures that way. That was as easy as dragging and dropping them which saved my frustration. If you want to just show them by plugging in your SD card then that works flawlessly too. Just plug it in and then they start popping up on the frame's screen.
Overall the frame works well and pictures look great, but I would stay away from the frame controls for moving pictures.

I was shopping for this digi-frame during Black Friday days and was lucky to buy it on good discount. The product works as advertised. The tiny remote control is pleasure to use, pictures are great, the clock mode is very useful. Overall, it worth your money. Last suggestion. Buy the biggest screen you can because the pictures are still small if you are looking from the distance.

The visual quality of the photographs when viewed thru this frame are really beautiful, and I expected as much given that I have a View Sonic computer monitor. However, you can only EITHER display photos in portrait view OR landscape view if you want photos to run a slideshow and not have half of them laying on their side. You can stop the slideshow and rotate a photo, but it will not be saved in the rotated view and will go back to its original view.

I purchased this frame to give to my sister with her wedding photos as they wanted to run their photos in a slideshow. About 1/3 of my shots were shot in portrait view, 2/3 in landscape view. I have pulled out about half my hair experimenting with cropping and resizing my portrait view photos so that they can be read by the frame as a landscape dimension, but the frame cannot deal with that at all, and there's no way to predict how the frame will deal with a crop or resize until it is loaded into the frame. My computer monitor can certainly deal with displaying a photo in any view, why can't this? In fact, the frame will manually rotate a photo by making an intelligent crop, but you can't save it like that. If you recrop the photo in the very same way the frame did and load it back into the frame, it treats the photo like a close up [even if you size to accommodate the lost pixels]!! It's sheer crazy making. I am now needing to decide if some of my favorite shots stay out of the frame or if I return it and try something else.

If somebody has any suggestions, I'd be appreciative

UPDATE: July 20, 2010

Regarding the problem with vertical/portrait view shots, I found that if I cropped some and rotated them 90 degrees clockwise, that the frame would load them properly but only with the 3:4 view. So this squeezed the horizontal/landscape view shots a bit, but an acceptable compromise.

However, the slideshow craziness is not acceptable. You can set a "shuffle" option to avoid the frame running from the very beginning of the photo set each time, but after sitting with 150 pictures for over 20 minutes, the frame would run some of the same shots multiple times and never get to others. If I then go thru the menu to see the photos one at a time by choosing a shot from the thumbnails and then clicking to forward thru them, sometimes the frame will just start a slideshow again, taking me far afieild from the photo I was next planning to look at....really nuts and completely annoying.

A commenter in the digital frame forum here on Amazon stated something very true, that all frames seem to have two fundatmental flaws; dealing with shots on the verticle, and lousy slideshow performance. This frame has big problems on both those points. It also tends to caste a bit too much of a warm temperature [yellow] on shots that have a certain amount of gold light in them.

I purchased this for a Valentines Day gift. After researching these for several weeks, I read the reviews on this one, and the majority of them were positive, so I took a chance. My girlfriend took the SD Card from the old one that crashed, and put it in this one, and it took off without a hiccup. She's also connected to her PC and had no problem transfering pics to the internal memory. We both agree that the picture quality is awesome, and we like the timer setting feature as well. We don't really use the remote, or the calender, but these are nice additions to the product.
I would recommend this to anyone.

I would have given this frame 5 stars except for the fact that the frame is widescreen and it stretches your picture to fill the screen. You can change this to have the appropiate size, when you do you will have black bars on each side. It still looks fabulous and I love the ease of use and the crispness of the image. However, your image is smaller than you might think you are getting. Overall, it is a fabulous looking frame with clear sharp images. I have had a viewsonic monitor for years and have always been happy with their quality. This is the first digital frame I have purchased from them and it also has outstanding quality. Very happy with this purchase.

i looked for alot of digital frames. i chose very carefully. glad i got this one. its not to huge like and its not small either. just perfect. nice frame no scratches. great pic's. worked soon as i turned it on. very easy. great buy also.

I would really have liked to give this digital photo frame a better review.

It came highly recommended by previous Amazon purchasers, and we liked the display. We bought one for ourselves, and soon afterwards bought four others for relatives. After three weeks, ours stopped working. It no longer responded to inputs (buttons or remote), froze at random intervals (until restarted), and in short made us hope that our relatives had enjoyed longer useful lives from theirs than we had had from ours.

I have no idea how typical our experience was. We got most of our money back from Amazon, and are re-evaluating our options for digital frames. If you get this one, enjoy it; watch it carefully; and be prepared to send it back to Amazon at the first sign of problems.

I was looking for better quality, medium size and in reasonable price..!!! It was present to my Best friend on wedding day..!!

Large size - easy to setup and use. The remote is a little difficult to use - sometimes you have to push the buttons more than once.