CEIVA 8-inch Digital Photo Frame with Card Reader

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.3 x 10 x 8.5 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000JD7G5K
• Item model number: 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 8, 2006

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

Bring your digital photos to life in a full-color slideshow without a computer with the newly released CEIVA 8-inch digital photo frame. Just insert a memory card and see your photos brilliantly displayed with print-like quality on CEIVA's high resolution, active-matrix digital LCD screen viewable from virtually any angle. Perfect anywhere in your home or office, mix and match to fit your décor with two interchangeable frame faceplates in classic black and a rich wood finish.

Frame Highlights

• Display full-color, instant digital photo slideshows without a PC
• High-resolution 8-inch, active-matrix digital LCD screen, in 640 x 480, viewable from any angle
• Built-in card reader, compatible with most common digital memory formats
• Easy-to-use, on-screen menus control display modes, photo rotation and deletion, slideshow transitions and timing, on and off times, brightness, and more
• Wi-Fi and Broadband ready
• Comes with two interchangeable frame faceplates in classic black and wood grain

Automatic daily photo updates from around the world, three months of PicturePlan, free Only CEIVA offers PicturePlan, an optional service enabling you to receive and display new photos, every day, automatically. Invite friends and family to share for free. Three free months of optional PicturePlan service already included (plans start at $6.95/month). Here's how it works:

• Send photos directly from your camera phone or from anywhere on-line.
• Edit and send photos directly to any CEIVA frame from Adobe software.
• Upload photos automatically from a card reader over Wi-Fi and Broadband connections.
• Safely store unlimited photos on the CEIVA network for free.
• Access free channels for daily updates of weather, sports, news and more.
• The CEIVA frame connects to your existing phone line and dials a local number each night to check for new photos. There’s no interruption to your existing phone service, and no charge to your line. Each morning, new photos appear automatically.
• The CEIVA 8-inch digital photo frame will always display memory card images, with or without a PicturePlan.

Wi-Fi and Broadband options Add a CEIVA Broadband or CEIVA wireless adapter to connect to a home network and your CEIVA frame will automatically send a copy of your memory card images to your personal albums on the CEIVA network. Every picture you take is ready to share!

Product Description

The Ceiva 8-inch Digital Photo Frame brings your photos to life without a computer. Just insert a memory card and see your photos brilliantly displayed with print-like quality on Ceiva's high resolution, active-matrix digital LCD screen, viewable from virtually any angle.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for grandparents, December 28, 2006

By	John - See all my reviews

We bought this for our grandparents, and although they don't usually care for technology stuff, they keep telling us how great this is. We set it up to use the phone connection to dial up every night to the PicturePlan service.

It was relatively simple to set up, and it's very easy to upload pictures. Other family members can upload their pictures as well.

PRO:
* Great display resolution, color, contrast, brightness, etc
* Works well for the grandparents and us (the picture senders)
* Daily weather and news reports are cool

CON:
* It keeps undeleting the canned Ceiva pictures of people we don't know
* Price
* Can't turn the device off with a button (on/off timer set in the menu or online)
* Menu system difficult for the GP's to grasp (though they don't ever have to touch the device if they don't want to)
* Not clear how many pics the device holds, how many pics we can send per night, etc

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good picture & easy to use, January 13, 2007

By	J. E. Mendelssohn - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I noticed that some of the other reviews gave this product a low rating because of frustrations caused by ordering the unit during the holiday rush. If you ignore those complaints, the product seems to work very well.

The picture is sharp and the colors are good. The image is viewable at a fairly wide angle.

The manual is not that helpful, but the screen menus are logical and simple to use.

I operated the unit from an SD memory card and had no trouble downloading the pictures into the card or getting the card to run on the unit. I did not use any of the on-line options so I have no opinion about them.

Minor complaints include:
1. Lack of on/off button
2. The scolling buttons to operate the screen menus are not in the most logical or convenient location.
3. The 8 inch description refers to the diagonal length of the screen and thus it is smaller than a normal 8x10 picture that you might think you are getting. (This way of measuring is standard will all the DPF manufacturers so everyone will be decieving you the same way.)
4. The unit displays the pictures in the same order that they are stored on the memory card. There is no way to display them in random order. What I did was to sort the pictures in size order before downloading them to the memory card. This was not truly random, but it resulted in at least an unpredictable arrangement.

Overall I would give this unit very high marks on what I consider the most important factors: quality of picture and ease of use.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product for the grandparents, August 3, 2007

By	John & Heather (Upstate NY) - See all my reviews

I bought the latest Ceiva for my mother to replace her old model 2 whose screen was starting to dim (on 24/7 for several years). Yes, there were shipping delays before the holidays but shame on these people for slamming the PRODUCT over delivery issues.

The Ceiva itself works as described. It is an excellent gift for those who are not tech savvy. We regularly send my mom pictures of the grandkids and she loves getting them. People who visit her house always look to see the latest photos. The subscription is pricey, but it is worth it for us.

The picture itself is MUCH better with the latest version. Very bright and easy to see from any angle. A huge improvement over the older versions. We have only used the dialup connection, as we have done without hassle for 5 years now. Haven't tried any of the new features.

What we like best is the ease of getting the photos to my mom. We rarely get prints and send digital photos to all our friends. Uploading using the website or their software is easy. We've also started using Photoshop Elements 5 which has send to Ceiva built right in. Love it!