Coby DP-557 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Frame with MP3 Player (Silver Metal)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7 x 2.2 x 8 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000R980TM
• Item model number: DP-557
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (433 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 7, 2003

Product Description

Product Description

The new Coby DP-557 5.6-inch digital picture frame blends traditional functionality with today’s technology and design. Enjoy pictures, music, and movies and capture your most precious moments with family and friends in a new vivid and engaging way. The contemporary brushed metal frame offers a crisp 4:3 aspect ratio for your viewing pleasure and features interchangeable faceplates and a detachable stand. A remote control is also included, allowing you to navigate the frame from your couch or office chair. Plus, you can now free up your hard drive: the Coby DP-557 supports a variety of media formats including JPEG, MP3, WMA, AVI, MPG and XviD. Additionally, it's compatible with SD, xD, CF, MS and MS Duo memory formats. With the widespread use of digital cameras, camcorders, and camera phones, the Coby DP-557 is the perfect product to store and share all of your special moments captured in digital media format. Includes AC power adapter, USB cable, detachable stand, 2 interchangeable brushed metal faceplates (silver and brass), and remote control.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

147 of 149 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Picture, Good Value, Poor Plastic, Program Quirks, April 26, 2007

By	J. Holdahl "GreenShoes" (South Dakota) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Easy to get up and running, the unit goes into slideshow mode after power on automatically. Picture quality was excellent. Easy to put pictures on a memory card and have them show up. Recommend re-cropping your pictures to 16x9 aspect ratio so you get a full picture. Unit can accomodate std. 4x6 format as well, but will not fill the screen. Small Quirks are:
- When in slideshow mode, you can't hit the pause button to ZOOM in.
- Very poorly designed stand that WILL collapse after a couple of weeks.
- Documentation is lacking (typical COBY style)
- No support for QuickTime video popular in some digital cameras
- Unit has a faint lingering glow on screen after power down which doesn't go away unless you unplug the unit.

251 of 259 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A few probs, August 24, 2007

By	Damon Edwards (Johnson City, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This product has served the purpose my wife wanted it to. One thing I wish I knew before I bought this item is it will not play mp3s and show pics at the same time. It does have one glitch that is not a serious problem. When the unit gets warm from use, it will put lines through a picture every now and then. The only other thing I would make sure of is that you have some sort of extra external memory card. This unit does not have internal memory of any sort. Jump drives are cheap and easy to use though!

134 of 136 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great frame for the price, December 29, 2007

By	J. May "tobscholarly" (Northern Illinois) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read lots of reviews on products before I purchase them. Don't we all? So as I am looking for a digital photo frame for my mom's gift for Christmas, I begin to get swept away by the MANY reviews regarding these frames. "The ratio is incorrect" "The qualiy is subpar" "I cannot program the [insert technical phrase] wih this product". Now I am thinking that my $60 gift is going to turn into a $200 gift, just so I can insure I am not giving my mom a blurry, difficult to work piece of junk!

Well, I take a breather, step back from the computer and reassess. Neither my mom nor myself do photography as a hobby. I have a nice 7MP camera whose setting is mostly on "General Use". I have NEVER used the Manual Focus feature. I consider the picure a success if I can either A)Print it out as a 3 1/2 x 4 to show to others or B) I can view it on my computer without squinting my eyes in an effort to figure out what I am looking at.

To make a long review endless: This frame is perfect. It supports most memory cards so you can load as many pictures as you would like. There are less than 8 buttons, all of which are clearly labelled, which makes my mom happy. She got it working in less than 5 minutes. The pictures looked just like they did on my computer monitor - my kids' cuteness projected well.:)

If you are a camera geek (a fond term, nothing mean intended here), you may want more than this frame can offer. But for those of us who are casual picture takers and simply want to pass on the memories, this item was just right.