8 inch Hi-Res Digital Photo Frame with 16 GB Memory

If you are looking for a tabletop frame to display digital photos, I highly recommend this one.I found this frame while searching for a gift frame that would replicate the look and size of a 5x7-in. photo and frame. A lot of the frames I looked at were a little more fancy in terms of capability (e.g. this one doesn't have wifi, for example, and it is not wireless), but they were expensive, larger, looked like a little TV, or some combination of these three. After loading up the photos and playing around with it, I really want one of my own. The images look amazing and what a great way to be able to see all those digital images that wind up being hidden away on some hard drive.PROS:* Vibrant color and if the resolution is correct, the photos fill the frame beautifully.* If the resolution of your photos varies (I added some vertical photos, for example), you can set the frame so that there is no distortion and instead have the images scale (black space fills the remainder).* You can set a turn-on and turn-off time.* Really inexpensive for this type of frame* 4G built-in memory. It's a little cumbersome to copy the photos to this memory with the remote, but nice that it's there.* A cable is included (USB) to connect to your laptop/PC for easier file management* Can use SD or USB directly (although, I haven't found any way to have the slide show use more than one source at a time)* Can set the speed of the slideshow* Can play videos* Can play a music background, though I didn't try itCONS* As I mentioned above, you can't mix photo sources (you can have a USB and SD plugged in simultaneously, but the slideshow can only show one set of photos at a time, as far as I can tell)* As mentioned above, it's not wireless and cannot use wifi.* It is most definitely a desk frame-- it could not be mounted on a wall.* The navigation (with remote) is fairly cumbersome, but workable. Copying images to the hard drive took a while in this manner. BUT, as mentioned above, you can communicate (with cable that is included) directly with a PC, where the data management is much easier.Overall, this is a great little frame. I'm really pleased with it.

The image quality is good, if you view it straight on, which is no problem here. I would think that the 1024 by 768 resolution display would be the minimum acceptable, as incorporated in this unit; however most of the low priced and higher end brand names like Sony and Samsung are typically selling 600 by 800 displays at much higher prices, as if Digital Picture Frames were a dead-end technology.Since the processor chip is slow, I selected what I thought would be the least objectionable Louvered transitions and set the display time to 5 seconds in Random order and have no further reason to ever attempt to change any other controls; which significantly is a very perplexing process for many reasons, which I will not bother explaining. All the other options are so primitively designed that they are a complete waste of time to consider as functional, after spending a few hours of making futile attempts.The manual gives very little useful information, with no button-press by button-press instructions, which are absolutely essential for the convoluted logic that was used in the exceptionally primitive firmware, which makes putting JPG images into the 4GB of internal memory impossible here.I expected that when I plugged the USB cable into my notebook computer that the Picture Frame would just be like any USB Memory Stick, so I could drop the JPG images, video or audio files directly into its internal memory, which would be the easiest way to design the Picture Frame. However, when that solution didn’t work, naturally I would never let such primitive software connect to any operating system, nor is there any reason to do so.The solution is to just put your JPEG image files on any small SDHC chip. Then if you examine the connector at the back of the Picture Frame with a magnifier, you will notice that is upside-down, so insert it a very short distance, since it’s a shallow connector. (I didn’t test the USB Memory stick option, but would expect that it would do the same thing as the SD chip connector.)Your SD chip should be recognized and begin displaying your images and you will never have to deal with such an exceptionally time wasting device ever again, until the electronics fail, you then pull-out your SDHC chip and toss the rest in a recycling box somewhere.At least, you didn’t pay two or three times as much for something perhaps not even any better, according to people who discovered numerous problems with their higher priced units. Perhaps, engineering and manufacturing will return to the United States, where it could be fully automated, preferably without the investments of the billionaires who moved their factories out.Comments here are after one day of use. I’m leaving it on for a while to see if any components fail abruptly.

Doesn't work.

I bought two of these for gifts for my parents and my husbands parents this Christmas. They are thin and lightweight. It has a slot for an sd card for additional storage, but the ones I purchased came with a 16GB usb memory stick as well. There is a port for headphones. The audio quality is ok, but not great. I did notice that the music will sometimes stutter through the slideshow. I do not care for the slide transition selection, they are not smooth. I prefer to have none to the options provided. The remote is not quite as responsive as I felt it should be. I had to get fairly close and use purposeful pressure to get the buttons to respond. With the 16GB, the storage is more than I could fill even after I loaded all the family pictures and videos. I also put recipe videos on for the moms, yoga videos and tons of music. It is very important to make sure everything you load is formatted correctly 1024x768 and the right extension (jpg, mp4, mp3, etc) for things to work correctly. I feel the product almost measured up for the price. I wish it had touch screen interactivity and that the remote was much more responsive. I think my parents and in-laws will enjoy the gift. I think it would need to be a little more "techie" for someone younger though.