Philips 8.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Clear) w/3 Additional Colored Frames

Product Description

A picture is worth a thousand words. Attached to each is a string of memories. Paper photos needed to be framed - one at a time - to share with friends, family, and loved ones. Digital Cameras don't require paper prints. Now you can store and exhibit up to 60 pictures in one frame and update them as you choose. See, share and relive your memories with Philips PhotoFrame, the easiest way to display your digital photos in stunning quality. Just download up to 60 photos from your PC to the frame through the USB port. Or you can transfer photos from any one of these memory-card formats - CompactFlash type I, Memory Stick, MemoryStick Pro, Multimedia Card, SD Secure Digital through the frame's built-in card reader. View one picture at a time or create slide shows. Frame looks great on any table. Illumination up to 20,000 hours Brightness - 200 cd/m2 Photo format supported - JPEG photo (in DCF structure), Up to 12 Megapixels Placement supported - Landscape, Portrait Buttons and controls - 6 buttons Playback mode - Full screen browse, Slideshow, Thumbnail browse Photo edit - Copy, Delete, Rotate, Show in slideshow Setup function - Brightness adjustment, Language, Slideshow, Status, Auto on/off daily OSD Languages - English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish Plug&Play Compatibility - Windows 2000/XP or later AC or onboard battery power gives you the choice of operating your Photo Frame on standard AC power or cordlessly with the onboard rechargeable battery

Customer Reviews:

Great Product.......2007-12-28

This product works great, has a very good picture and has alot of options to set up a slideshow. If you are looking for a digital picture viewer this is a great product.

This frame got me out of the digital doghouse!.......2007-12-28

Okay, my day has finally come. My wife loves this photo frame. She now has the answer to her long standing question, "Where are the pictures?" I was in the digital doghouse since I convinced her we should get a digital camera. Since then, it's been misery for the household whenever the subject of pictures comes up. She doesn't want to sit at the computer to see her photos. She doesn't want to have to take the time to print her photos. Nor does she want to spend even more money to have her photos arrive all printed in an envelope in the mail. She misses her good old photo albums that she could bring to Mother's and show off the kids.

Well, the Philips 9FF was the answer. She loves it. Now she's got her photos right where she can see them. When and where she wants them. I couldn't be happier. It was worth every penny.

I chose the Philips frame because reviews suggested it had better than average display quality and fairly intuitive software. I would say that is true. The image quality is very good; it certainly satisfies my wife. The software is sometimes confusing (if you try to copy a photo to the frame and nothing happens, the frame memory is full. There is no indication of this fact from the software.) This is why I give an overall rating of 4 stars.

I'm a software engineer by profession and I think the software is fairly intuitive. My wife struggles with it a bit - she's no geek like me - but she was starting to get the idea of how to navigate the menus to configure various options like transition effects and how to switch between Slideshow and Browse modes. It's not always intuitive which button to hit to get what you want. I found my finger would find the power button instead of the lower function button.

I figured out how to copy photos from external flash memory card to the frame memory pretty quickly. I don't think my wife would have the patience for this or editing (cropping/rotating) photos to look good on the frame. I plan to take the responsibility for that; with pleasure.

I didn't even bother with the USB cable to connect to a PC. I just bought an extra flash memory card and use that to move photos from computer to frame or directly from camera to frame. You don't have to move the photos off the flash card unless you want to edit them.

Overall, the Philips 9FF2CMI Digital Photo Frame exceeded all my expectations. I love what it's done for our household. No more digital doghouse. Yahoo!

Hesitated to Buy It - Now I want 3 more!!!.......2007-12-26

I purchased this product for a family member and they absolutely loved it. I hesitated at first because of the price but when they opened it and when we saw the quality, I have wanted 3 more since!! AMAZING JOB

Picture quality is great, software is not.......2007-12-24

Very happy with the picture resolution. Even our old, scanned photos look really good. In fact, we like it so much, we purchased the 7" version as a gift for another relative.

I do have to say the software aspect of this product is not good. It definitely is not intuitive and there are no detailed directions on how to transfer pictures from various formats. This particular model held approximately 60 pictures of varying resolutions (half were 5 megapixel, half were old scanned photos). We needed more memory so we purchased a 1GB memory card. We found we had to transfer the photos on our PC to the camera which contained the new memory card. We thought we could do this via Windows Media Player but it wouldn't recognize the camera as an external source. Therefore, we had to use the Canon camera software to do the transfer. Problem is the scanned photos had to have their resolutions changed before the software would allow uploading from the PC to the memory card in the camera. This was a very convoluted way to load a memory card.

I would highly recommend this product if you only need enough space for 50 pictures. That way, you can load them directly from your PC to the photo frame although that's not even intuitive. You have to create a new folder within the photo frame program, then copy and paste pictures instead of click and drag. Once you get this all figured out it's not bad. I would not give this product to an older person who has to figure out how to set it up. We're giving it as a gift to an older person but since we did all the setting up, it should be fine.

Wonderful hardware, terrible software.......2007-12-18

The Philips 9FF2M4 Photo Frame that is the object of this review (and I presume most of the 162 other reviews posted here) is a simply gorgeous hunk of hardware. Its sleek but hefty chrome and acrylic construction and its packaging almost make you think it was made by Apple. And once (if?) you get pictures loaded into the darn thing, it performs equally well (at least mine has... so far -- but read other reviews for more caveats).

That's the good news. Nearly all the rest is bad, or at least frustrating. Indeed, I finally found the clues I needed to get started overcoming Philips' astonishingly bad software by Googling "Philips Photo Frame" + "FRUSTRATION." Philips' poorly written documentation tells you to load photos from your computer using its Photo Manager software. Wrong. That may load a few photos, sometimes, but if your system is like mine (Windows XP with all the security and other patches installed) the process will either fail immediately or stall after loading a few. And once you discover how to work around that bug, your work has just begun.

If you accept the challenge of making it work despite all the obstacles Philips throws in your path, however, you'll find that part of the consumer experience with the Frame is actually kind of fun -- in between my curses and tantrums were any number of moments of wild exhilaration when I found that yet another work-around had overcome the lastest impasse. But if you can't spend the two days consumed by my effort to get the Frame working in time to be a Christmas gift, and you still want to buy the thing, the following notes that I made during my ordeal may be helpful.

Oh, one more caveat: from reading reviews of lots of other digital picture frames it seems clear that Philips has no monopoly on bugginess and frustration. And the most important factor in determining which one to take a chance on buying would appear to be confidence that you can return it when it doesn't work right!

How to make the Philips 9FF2M4 Photo Frame work:

1. Do NOT use it's Photo Manager software to load photos! It may load a few, or it may not. Work-arounds for this and most of Frame's various bugs:

2. Use Windows Explorer to copy the JPG files from your PC to the root directory of the Photo Frame ("Removable Disk I:" or whatever the lowest drive letter of the several ones belonging to the Frame that Windows will see plugged into the computer).

3. When loading has been completed disconnect Frame USB cable from computer. Frame will then say it is "uploading" the images you loaded into its root directory, counting as it goes along, resizing them when necessary, and automatically moving them to the default Photo Frame album.

4. Use Frame's firmware to move photos from the default album to another album on a memory card.

5. Use Frame's firmware to set up the Photo Slideshow options, rename or create new albums, etc. It works OK.

6. If a photo gives the Frame indigestion and it freezes when you hit [Photos][Photo Frame][Default album] and try to "navigate to the right to view your album thumbnail photos" here is what to do:
a. Stick a toothpick in the tiny reset hole (next to Power button). Frame will go black and then reboot itself.
b. Connect frame to computer, fire up Philips Photo Manager software (this much of it will work flawlessly), and delete the offending photo(s) from the Frame's Default album.
c. Load offending photo(s) into PhotoShop, [Save for web & devices...], uncheck the "Optimized" box, and [Save] as JPEG.
d. Now you can upload the "webbed" versions of the files that that froze the Frame into the root directory again and Frame will behave properly this time.

7. When you get through loading photos, even though you did everything right and all the photos seemed to load OK, some may show up as blanks when you view them in magnified form in the thumbnail window. They won't show up in a slideshow either. Not to worry; delete them and reload them into the root directory again. Chances are the second time will be the charm. If not, try "webbing" them (6.c above).

8. To get photos in the sequence you want them, create one or two work albums and shuffle photos from one to another using Frame's firmware "copy to" or "move to" functions.

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Philips 9FF2M4

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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(9FF2M437) Philips 9FF2M4/37 - See, share and relive your memories with Philips Photo Frame, the easiest way to display your digital photos in stunning quality- without a PC.

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