Axion AXN-9105M 10-Inch LCD Digital Multimedia Player

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13 x 2 x 10 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000KNL05G
• Item model number: AXN9105M
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Product Description

The full featured AXN-9105M 10.4 digital multimedia player supports JPEG photo viewing, music (MP3) and video (MPEG4) playback. It comes with a card-style remote control, built-in memory that can store up to 20 pictures (depending on size), USB input jack and cable, and AC/DC Power Adapter. The super slim remote controls viewing and music options to enhance your experience without leaving the sofa. Use the USB cord to download media directly from your computer or other sources. Supporting SD, MC and Sony Memory Stick flash media types make the new Axion media frames a perfect solution for digital camera owners that do not have a computer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

109 of 113 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product - as long as your expectations are appropriate, January 2, 2007

By	Eye Guy (Lubbock, TX United States) - See all my reviews

First of all, I have had this product for 3-4 weeks, and by and large I am rather satisfied with it. It is not perfect, but I have managed to get around its flaws, and have been reasonably happy with it, despite its limitations.

Picture quality - It is about what you would expect for a 640x480 LCD flourescent backlit display. If you are satisfied with the display that you get for those portable DVD players, with about a 9 inch diagonal, then you will be satisfied with this display. A previous reviewer stated that it made his 8 megapixel images look bad. Well, being that 640x480 is about 1/3 of a megapixel, I guess I would expect his disappointment. The aspect ratio is indeed wrong, but it is not unlike looking at a standard definition broadcast picture on an HDTV. Either you get black bars on either side of the picture if you want to look at the whole picture, or if you use the frame's zoom function, you get cropping of the top and bottom. Another reviewer stated the resolution was really 800x480, and I think he is right. I do not know this for sure.

Speed - The thing loads up pictures slowly with a slow memory card. It is faster with a faster memory card. I had 2 different 512MB memory cards, and it was a LOT faster with a more recently built memory card. I think its speed is acceptable with a fast mem card.

Options - Basic. I wish it had a clock and timer function to turn it on and off at specified times of the day. Cannot be battery operated.

Documentation - Stinks. It is written on a single side of a sheet of paper.

MP3 Function - I did not test this.

Remote Control - Functions well, but the sensor is in the wrong place. It is on the top of the frame behind the front Bezel. I got it to consistently work by firing it at the ceiling, and the IR would bounce off of the ceiling and hit the sensor. Your results may vary.

How to get it to show more than 650 pictures - I was able to get it to display about 2700 pictures on a single 512Mb CF card. (yes I said CF, read on.) First of all, the unit does not have a native CF slot. I had a few old CF memory cards I was not using, and I did not feel like buying another SD card. I also had an old USB CF Card reader, so I connected the card reader to the USB port, and then I inserted the CF card, and the frame read the CF card instantly. In order to get 2700 picture on it, I resized the JPG files to 640x480, so each one took up about 50-75 Kbytes. Additionally, I formatted the card to FAT32, since regualar FAT formatting would not accept all of these files. If I dumped all of these pictures directly on the card's root directory, the unit would only read the first 6-7 hundred pictures; it would not display all of them. Therefore, I created a few subdirectories, called "01", "02", "03" and so on. I placed 500 photoes in each of the subdirectories, and the unit picked up all 2700 of my photos, and now cycles through all of them.

43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Picture quality OK, small storage, nonstandard size, December 15, 2006

By	Bob P. (Newport Coast, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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I've only had this a few days, so I can't comment on reliability. I'd probably return this if it wasn't so close to Christmas and didn't have time to get another gift.

Things I like:
- The picture quality is pretty good
- The screen is large
- You can put your camera's SD card in, and it finds subdirectories on the card and displays the picture (or at least it works that way with my Casio).

Things I don't like:
- The resolution is NOT 640x480 as described. It is 800x480. Wider than 640x480, but nonstandard. So if you upload a picture with standard 4:3 image ratio, there are dark gray (black but not true black) bars on the side. You really have to crop the pictures to have them look good.
- Only holds 20 pictures on internal memory (not dependent on size, it has a hard limit in the UI). Plan on buying an SD card.
- The directions are not very good.
- The UI is hard to work with, but eventually I got through it OK.
- The USB port is just to connect to a thumb drive or similar (not to your computer). This turns out to not be such a problem, because you're going to have to get an SD card anyway so the USB is not very useful.

Things I didn't try:
- Multimedia features

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall great product for the money and excellent quallity., December 8, 2006

By	D. Peterson (NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

At first I wasn't pleased with the screen, but then I remembered that most people won't be looking at it from 8 inches away.. and for the price, you'd be hard pressed to find better. The screen has a resolution of 480x234 and is very bright and fairly clear, but when resizing pictures to 480x234 it still won't take up the entire screen. TIP: I FOUND THAT TO GET OPTIMAL RESULTS RESIZE IMAGES TO ABOUT 480x260. Now I am much happier. The only thing this lacks is a broad amount of controls. Bought this as a gift for my mother for Christmas and already have tons of pics loaded on an SD card for her to display at Christmas dinner. Overall--I give it 4 stars. It would have gotten 5 from me if the screen had been a bit sharper and it came with a few more display options. It is also very stylish with its wood look and is very simple to operate.