Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 12 x 10 inches ; 4.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HWS0Q2
• Item model number: 9FF2CME/37
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 23, 2006

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

How many digital pictures are hidden on your PC? See, share and relive your memories with Philips Photo Frame, the easiest way to display your digital photos in stunning quality - without a PC.

Photo Frame Highlights

High Pixel Density Display The very best high density screen shows off your treasured photos with the same 'real life' rich detail and vibrant colors as high quality prints.

Rich, vibrant colors Full color display brings out the best in your photos with vibrant, real life colors by displaying the same full range of colors found in professionally printed photos.

Quality design and materials Top quality design and exquisite materials include a solid metal stand, stylish frame and detailed finishing that convey an impression of value and refined taste, adding luster to the photos displayed on Photo Frame.

Auto orientation Automatic landscape/portrait recognition employs a sensor that recognizes the Photo Frame's orientation and displays each photo in its proper mode.

Multiple viewing modes Flexible display modes give you the freedom to display your photos one image at one time, in thumbnail mode for quick, easy searches, or to create a slideshow of your most treasured photos.

Memory-Card Manager Memory-Card Manager is a set of two built-in memory card readers and featured software for displaying, editing, storing and organizing your memory card photos directly in one, hassle-free step - all without a PC. It accommodates two memory card slots: One slot accepts Compact Flash I (CF) cards while the second accommodates Memory Stick (MS,MSPro), secure digital (SD) Card and Multi Media Cards (MMC) and xD card. They all work as extended memory space - just like Photo Frame's internal memory.

Smart Album Smart Album allows you to create and manage albums, as well as to set up and adjust transition effects to your photo slideshows.

PhotoEffect Wizard The PhotoEffect Wizard is easy-to-use feature for you to rotate, zoom in, crop and even adjust photo color tones to black & white or sepia right in Photo Frame.

Easy USB connectivity A USB connector is built into the device for easy and quick downloading photos from a PC.

Run on built-in battery or AC AC or onboard battery power gives you the choice of operating your Photo Frame on standard AC power or cordlessly with the onboard rechargeable battery.

Advanced timer A timer turns your Photo Frame on and off at times you choose. You can select different time slots to fit your personal schedule and to save energy.

Product Description

Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier - and more fun! And Philips continuously explores new ways to improve products and to offer innovative products to its consumers. Philips. "Let's Make Things Better".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

121 of 123 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely wonderful !!!, December 5, 2006

By	Brian (Centerville, Utah) - See all my reviews

My wife and I have bought two of these (one for us and one for her parents). The screen is extremely clear and bright. The size is perfect to view your digital photos. It is simple to hook-up to a computer and download pictures from a digital camera or a scanner. With a 1 GB SD flash memory card we have about one thousand pictures loaded and plenty of room for more pictures. It's great to see all your pictures easily instead on them being put away in a photo album or stored on your computer doing nothing. We love the different transitions in the slide show mode that are available. We also like being able to unplug from the AC adapter and sit down and look through them one at a time at our own pace. The rechargeable battery lasts about one hour. The built-in clock allows us to automatically turn the picture frame on and off at set times.

This digital picture frame is a winner. If you have a digital camera then you will absolutely love this. It also makes a great gift for parents and grandparents. Just load your family pictures both past and recent and enjoy the memories.

61 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product! Very happy with it., November 21, 2006

By	D. Frederick (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Bought the 9" digital frame the other day. So far have been very happy with it. Yes, the lcd screen is only 8" not the 9" that I and some others expected. The picture resolution is very good. Even though it states the resolution on this frame is slightly lower than the 7" model, I don't think it really makes a difference. The menu control buttons on the rear could use some improvement. They are not labeled except for the power button. This has lead me to push the wrong button on occasion. The onscreen menu is very easy to navigate. I was able to set up the frame in just a few minutes with very little input from the manual.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 Stars - High quality display with a few quirks, January 23, 2007

By	IT SuperFreak (San Diego, USA) - See all my reviews

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As many other reviewers have indicated, the quality of this frame is extremely high in terms of the material, build, and photo quality. The menu system is good but not great; I'd call it serviceable.

I noticed a couple quirks while setting up this frame (Note: my settings: 1GB SD card, all photos are in 1024x768 with no resizing; if you wish to maximize space usage, you can use a freeware Irfanview and batch convert to 720x540. I tried it and it works well, but adds an extra step to the process).

I first created various albums using the menu system. Then I connected it to the PC via USB, copied the pictures into the SD card, and all files are present within the various albums. However, the frame simply does not see some of the photos. The frame for some reason does NOT display all my JPEGs, even though all of them were taken from the same digital camera using identical settings. I made multiple attempts with no luck, and the problem appears to be random. Tech support had little to offer. After several attempts, I had no choice but to conclude this is a bug in the internal software of the frame.

After consulting an Amazon'com friend, I decided to copy all photos to the root (base) directory of the SD card instead of using multiple albums. This worked, as all photos were recognized and displayed by the frame. The only drawback with this method is that all pics are lumped into a single folder ("PC Folder") on the frame, and you cannot display a subset of your photos at a given time (using albums) which I wanted to do. I decided I was willing to forgo this option and just let it display all photos using a random setting.

In summary, I highly recommend this frame to anyone who is looking for an elegant digital frame that looks great. I advise against installing the software, but instead, use USB to drop the files directly to the frame's internal memory, or an SD card.