Keychain Digital Picture Viewer

This is a good product. It is not amazing; but for this price point it is nice. This is just a Christmas present for my Mother in Law who loves pictures of my son, so this is perfect for that type of thing. If you are looking for a high resolution frame that will make your pictures look awesome, you are in the wrong place.The picture quality is OK. The larger the objects in the shot are the better it comes through. Since it is low resolution, smaller items in the pictures look a little pixelated. So you might want to crop junk out of the pictures before you put it on the memory stick.The frame itself is just a black plastic frame, so it will "go" with pretty much any decor.It is really easy to use. I just pulled it out of the box, threw my memory card in it, plugged it in and the slide show started. There are a few features to adjust the slideshow to make it do what you want and there is a clock option on it.So basically,If you are looking for an affordable digital frame for a grandma (or an aunt, friend, etc.) that is user friendly and looks halfway decent; this is a nice option to consider.But if you are looking for a beautiful, crisp picture display to show off your photography skills after your Italian countryside honeymoon, this is not the product for you. Check out the $130 Kodak one with the interchangeable faceplates if that's what you want.

Firstly, I would buy another one.This frame is not the best frame out there, but I am not seeing another 7" frame with these features for this price on the net. So far, the ONLY problem I have with the frame is that it stretches parts of the picture when displaying in cinema mode and truncates (deletes) part of the top and bottom of the picture when in widescreen mode. That is, for cinema, the picture is divided into 3 parts, the middle remains fine but the outer parts are stretched. It doesn't look bad, sometimes even unnoticeable. The good thing is that you can choose not to view using cinema or widescreen. The "Normal" (no stretching) mode gives a dark area to the left and right of the picture, like the dark area above and below a widescreen movie when watched on a regular TV. Personally I prefer the widescreen mode which is perfect for panoramic widescreen shots!The frame comes with a simple intuitive menu. It allows you to select language, set brightness, colour and contrast. It has about 14 transition modes including normal and random. It can even traverse folders on your memory.The frame is made of hard plastic. Not the type that seem to crack easily and discolour over time. It has photo rotation, Thumbnail preview, uses only AC power (5V), response time 15 seconds, uses MS, MS Pro, MMC, xD and SD cards. interval times available 3, 5 & 10 Seconds, power switch, 4 feet power cord/adapter.Note however, the display is not as sharp as a laptop screen. You may have to pay about $200 for that kind of quality. the quality is about that of a decent cell-phone. You will only see each pixel if you go as close as about 12 or near inches. It looks very sharp from about 36 inches, which is about the same distance you sit from your monitor.I tried a 2gig SD card and it worked, even an old 16meg memory stick.

After trying several different memory cards, formatted every way possible, using the cameras, a windows computer and a Mac, still could NOT get it to recognize there was a card. Kept getting a message "insert memory card for use." Only online tech support is available. This was a big disappointment, because it was a Christmas gift for my wife. Purchased a Coby Digital Picture frame for three dollars more and it works great. Had to spend $10.81 out of pocket to return the Matsunichi and have not heard from them since. So as it now stands, twenty days after Christmas, they have my screen and I am out $111.00. Not a happy customer

If there is one drawback about this particular product it the user interface. It is absolutely horrid. The manual that comes in the box is basically a shortened version of the one that's available online. Why I have no clue, you would figure they would want you to know how to use their product. In addition, in the manual it states that you can connect the frame to your PC... this is NOT the case, even thought they provide the cables for you to do so. The only way to get pictures from your PC to the internal memory is to copy them to a jump drive first, and then load the frame. In addition, there is no way of knowing how many images the internal memory holds. It's basically trial and error.Now, to the good. The 800x600 resolution shows great pictures. The viewing angle is pretty good, as long as the picture frame is not too high above your eye sight. Height is adjustable. The frame around the display is very nice. Also good that you can pretty much connect any memory card or jump drive and view pictures directly from that source. The remote is great too. You can pause with a push of a button. Can't comment on it playing music, as I haven't tried and don't really intend to do so.Here's my final recommendation, if you're looking to give this as a gift, I would probably go with something that's more user friendly. If you're relatively comfortable with your computer and want something for yourself, then consider this product.PS. Make sure to download and run firmware update of the Matsunichi website before you use the product. Like I said, computer literacy is a must with this one.