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 Almost perfect May 14, 2008
Search Alot
73 out of 73 found this review helpful
I looked at several brands of digital photo frames. Every time I came back to the Sony because it stands out for picture quality, sharpness, features (lots of features), ease of operation. Even if immediately you don't think you would use all of the features, pay the money and get it anyway. You'll be surprised how all of a sudden one or more of those features is a neat thing to have. The internal memory is large, slideshow, individual view, and picture selection from any source is so simple you can start using most of the features right out of the box. Even the owners manual is extremely user friendly. Yes the price was a bit much but put the Sony next to the others on the market and there is no comparison for picture quality. One downside: you have to use a power cord. I found a couple of portable power sources but power plug on the Sony is not the typical power recepticle found on most products. Thanks Sony....how about making a portable source available? I would love to place the frame on a table for display without having to find a place to plug it in. I found only one brand of frame with a built in battery but the picture quality was no where near the Sony so I opted for the Sony hoping that I could find a portable power pack or hope I will always have a place to plug it in. Price is starting to come down so be patient if price is your obstacle. It is well worth the wait.
Beautiful Pics November 10, 2008
Art (New Jersey)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
After doing a ton of research, I settled on this frame mostly by process of elimination (and the fact that while there are not a ton of reviews on Sony frames, they are mostly all good). I eliminated many others because (1) most other frames are not in the 4:3 aspect ratio (meaning black bars on your pics); (2) most other frames have mediocre reviews (for example, no Kodak frame (the market leader) does better then 3.5 stars on Amazon over tons of reviews; and (3) many frames by lesser known brands appear to have serious and scary quality control issues that are ignored/not caught by professional reviews, but show up in user reviews.
This frame definitely costs more for the size and features, but the pics look awesome, and I'm confident that if there is a problem, I have a reliable company to go to. It was super easy to get set up, I put 350 pics in a folder, ran a batch resizer on them to get them to 800x600 (not really necessary given the amount of on-board memory on the unit, but the I figured my PC plus a good free resizer program would probably do better then the unit itself at resizing), connected the frame by USB cable to the PC and copied that folder to the unit and that was pretty much that. For the price, a bigger picture frame would be nice, but really the 8 inch screen size is great for your desk at work.
Finally, a very good Digital Photo Frame August 1, 2008
Pommes
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
A DPF has been on our wishlist for a long time but we have been put off by the reviews, mostly critical. Sony has now come up with a pricey but solid, well built, attractive and intuitively programmed unit with an LCD screen that presents supurb images. It includes lots of image display and data presentation options to tinker with. It would be nice if it had a battery, if for no other reason than to facilitate loading it from the computer, since the corded transformer is clunky and so heavy that it can drag the unit off the table. Clock functions are counter-intuitive and poorly described in the manual. Sony says that the TIFF image file format is compatable but we found that not to be the case. So instead, we Photoshop-converted our Web GIF photos to BMP, which worked fine.
In all, DPF's have finally arrived with this Sony product. We're delighted with it.
great but some things to know December 8, 2008
renbur yar (nc)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
...bought this as a gift and combed my hard drive for images the recipient would like. found 600 of them. tried to copy to a 2G SD card, because frame itself couldn't handle that much data on its own (tried a batch resizer but that somehow prevented auto-orientation so half the pics were distorted- no good). kept getting an error (0x80070052) though, would only copy about 400 of 600 pics despite plenty of room. after some googling, i learned to format the card in FAT32 first (NTS or whatever wouldn't work in this frame). this is a dropdown menu option under 'file' when you have the card open on your pc.
well, this worked: it copied all the pics and the sony frame supports that format. after that, wow, frame is wonderful. great display, easy enuf menu to navigate, nice remote.
in researching my challenge i learned that this is a common problem. hopefully this post will help someone spend less than the two hours it took me to get things up and running.
fantastic December 4, 2008
David Wilson (Northville, MI United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
There are a ton of cheaper digital picture frames from all sorts of companies I never heard of, but you can always count on Sony. Somewhat more expensive for it's size, but it works perfectly right out of the box. There are a few poor reviews here that claim pictures that have been edited don't work, but that's not my experience. I exported a couple of hundred images from Lightroom 2.0 to an SD card, plugged it into the frame, and they display perfectly. The display is bright and sharp with nice accurate color. The images I used were originally high-resolution scans of slides (from a Nikon film scanner). All have been cropped and adjusted in Lightroom, and some touched up further in Photoshop CS3. I exported 750x480 JPEGs which the frame accepts without any problem. We're giving this to my father-in-law for Christmas, and his entire slide collection (4400 slides) will comfortably fit on a 2GB SD card, extrapolating from the first couple of hundred. The manual says up to 8GB SDHC cards will work (and up to 9,999 images), which would allow me to export much larger versions of the images. (That will allow the zoom-in feature to have more to work with.)
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