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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great frame with few cons, September 18, 2008
D-link is known for their terrible QA department, and this frame is not an exception. Had to RMA the first one I got (not from Amazon), it kept rebooting.
The second one works great. Frame is thin enough to be hung on the wall, very light, the screen is large and bright. Best part of course is the built-in wireless.
Antenna is very strong and I was able to pick up SSIDs from really far away. It took me a little while to get my wireless key to work, but once it works it is rock solid. Framechannel (online streaming of photos) is a good idea, though you are limited to 99 pictures per stream. I don't know why. I am streaming pics from Facebook and Picasa. Picasa is weak, b/c only one album at a time can be selected. Facebook on the other hand works well.
It can also grab pics from NAS. I have not had a chance to try it out yet.
Now on to cons. Frame shuts off after 15 minutes if it does not detect motion with built-in motion detector. Which is cool, but the only other way to shut it off is to physically switch it off on the back. Annoying. Would be awesome if I could shut it off via remote.
Remote is WEAK. It is tiny and signal is not strong enough. No power button on the remote. Basically, remote sucks.
Picture from internal frame or memory cards play only in order. Random play option would've been awesome.
Overall, I still give it 4 stars, as you can live with cons. I hope new firmware version would resolve some of the issues.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not ready for primetime, January 6, 2009
While the DSM-210 has a lot of potential to be a great multimedia frame, it's implementation is disappointing.
I found the software and interface to be very flaky. In particular, many of the features that would allow it to sync from online picture sites (e.g. FlickR) only refreshed the pictures randomely or not at all.
My goal was to point it to a FlickR site and update pictures on the frame as they are posted on the site, with a reasonable delay (e.g. 1 hour). The pictures were never updated however.
Many other features, such as rotation, didn't work as expected (resulted in duplicate images) and customer support dropped my call.
In the end I returned the device in the hopes that a future version from D-Link or a competitor will support near real-time refreshing and provide a more robust software.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice frame, December 16, 2008
It is a nice frame overall.
I bought it for my mother, so she can watch pictures that I can control via Internet. Although there are things that could be improved with few functions, this from can definitely do this.
I played with it for few weeks before I passed it to my mother. I recommend similar approach to everyone. There is little documentation in some areas, so few things you just need to try by yourself. It is not complex, but it is easier to do it yourself, rather than guide your parents over the phone trying differnt things with setup.
My improvements wish list: (I hope DLink is reading!)
- would be nice if frame remembered various settings when it's switched off on again it goes back to the same state. (e.g. transition effects, delay, which framchannel channel it was connected to etc.)
- some settings missing. e.g. would be nice to control time before frame goes to standby, or adjust contrast/brightness
- framechannel is generally ok, but more control would be nice. E.g. for flickr, would be nice to be able to select specific pictures set's to view. Selecting one by one from your whole photo stream can be time consuming.
Also you can attach to only 1 flickr account at this stage. Of course you can create multiple framechannel accounts and set them up on the frame, but practially pictures from only 1 channel are displayed at given time, and you do not expect your e.g. parents to be so skillful to grab the remote and reconfigure the frame :).
I also had probelms with having some of feeds to run, especially RSS. I'm sure it works, though I gave up having no time. Documentation would be nice about how to setup each of photo internet services, and what are teh pros/cons of using them. I did not comfirm that but had a feeling that with few services you need to make your pictures "public" so frame channel can pick it up.
- would be nice if frame was running http server and remote configuration was possible.
Even though I'm looking forward to improvements in the firmware, I still give it overall high score - good frame.
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