| | |  | Electronics | Home » » Philips 8.5-Inch Digital Picture Frame (White) | | | | | | | Description: | | How many digital pictures are hidden on your PC? See, share and relive your memories with Philips PhotoFrame, the easiest way to display your digital photos in stunning quality - without a PC. | | | Features: | |
• Displays your digital photos with professional print quality and the full spectrum of colors
• 8.5-inch viewable TFT LCD display screen features of adjustable brightness to match ambient light conditions, and intuitive operation that doesn't require any programming
• Connects via USB directly to your camera or PC; supports up to 12-megapixel photos in the JPEG format
• Runs on AC power via the included adapter, or lasts up to 8 hours on its included rechargeable battery
• Weighs approximately 2.2 pounds, and measures 10.2 x 7.8 x 4.3 inches (W x H x D)
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 12.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 10.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 12.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 4.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 30 reviews |
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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 battery is about to explodeAug 10, 2008
Gave this as a gift to parents 12/2006. Has been working fine, but as my brother was going to upload more photos onto the card he found the back of the unit bulging out about half an inch. Turns out it is the battery growing larger and certainly will explode in time.
Wondering if anyone else has had this problem - I couldn't find any recall notices on the web.
UPDATE ON REVIEW. I wrote my review after my brother couldn't find a handy battery compartment for replacing said battery and had been on the phone with Phillips service and got nowhere with them regarding a battery which was expanding and pushing on the back plate of the frame.
The next time he visited the folks he came armed and ready to figure out on his own how to remove the back plate and battery, and he did. Interesting that when he previously inquired about this from Phillips service they didn't have a clue about how to get to the battery! (And it wasn't in the manual that came with the product) Wondering why they couldn't troubleshoot this easily for us.
Since the frame is plugged in all of the time, he just removed the battery completely.
The frame works wonderfully with a clear bright picture.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
This frame got me out of the digital doghouse!Dec 28, 2007
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!
3 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Not Mac friendlyDec 08, 2007
I have tried to "link" my Mac (Aperture) to the Photo Frame with NO success. There is NO support for Apple users; at the end it has been a frustrating experience to try to use this device
 Superior picture qualityDec 07, 2007
I purchased this photo frame for my wife last Christmas. We liked the picture quality so much, that we are buying another frame just like it for my parents this Christmas.
I shopped around and compared the picture quality of several (12) digital photo frames, and found the Philips frames to have the sharpest, most crisp, brightest images of any digital photo frame.
I can't rate the software that comes with the frame, because we just load our photos on an SD card, pop it in, and hit shuffle. The software that comes with one of these frames is a secondary issue to me, because I just use the SD card to transfer photos to it.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Using a CF cardDec 03, 2007
The previous reviews are accurate as to picture quality and the frame feels solid and well constructed. Based on the reviews, I tossed the CD disk and tried to load pictures directly from the computer via the USB cable. After using freeware Irfanview to resize the photos, I tried to load them into the picture frame memory. It held about 180 resized pictures. Not bad, but not enough to hold the 500 photos selected.
The trouble began after purchasing CF (compact flash) memory cards. The computer would see the card in the picture frame, but would stop loading pictures about halfway through. The same problem occurred with a USB card reader. The final solution was to reformat the CF cards to FAT32 (most older cameras are FAT16 by default). After loading the full sized photo files, the digital frame resized and played the memory card perfectly.
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