| Smartparts SPDPF84 - Digital photo frame - 8.4" | 
| Brand: SmartParts
Category: CE
List Price: $301.78
Buy New: $183.33
You Save: $118.45 (39%)
Rating:  5 reviews
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Display Size: 8.4
Removable Memory: Sim Card
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
MPN: SPDPF84
Model: SPDPF84
UPC: 092566900030
EAN: 0092566900030
ASIN: B000G686VS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | UPC - 092566900030 | | • | DISPLAY- DIGITAL FRAME |
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Product Description
The SP-DPF84 Digital Picture Frame lets you view your digital pictures and listen to your MP 3 music from memory cards. You can enjoy or edit your photos any time and anywhere. The frame is an ideal way to display your digital photographs. The Slide Show mode is a convenient method to display all your pictures in a continuous mode - it offers you many pre-programmed transitions from slide to slide. Most functions of your digital picture frame can be controlled from the enclosed Remote Control. The Digital Picture Frame doesn't require a direct connection to a computer - the build-in card reader can read memory cards. It supports most popular types of memory cards and file formats. The digital picture frame is a digital photo album - that lets you display hundreds of pictures - anywhere in your home or office. It can be connected to a computer and pictures can be up-loaded (from computer to memory card) or downloaded (from memory card to computer). Music in the MP3 format can be played on the Digital Picture Frame.
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| Customer Reviews:
 holds so many pics. Wonderful value! August 4, 2007
Annmarie Jones
Gave this as a gift to my Mother-in-law. It was perfect. I put in so many pics.
Pretty good December 16, 2006
Denise Hosier (West Deptford, NJ USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just purchased this frame for my 90-year-old mother, and I found it to be worth the $150 on-sale price. It has a decent-sized display, and the 800x600 resolution and 8.4" 4:3 display is better than almost all the other frames out there. (I tried a so-called 7" widescreen frame, and because the pics from my camera are in 4:3 ratio, it leaves black bars on each side, giving you an effective 5" display, too small for poor mom's old eyes.)
The frame requires a memory card (got a 1-gig card on sale for $20) and the pictures need to be in the right format. Anything manipulated in photoshop or with other photo editors needs to be converted back to the basic jpg using windows photo editor, but this is not difficult. It has no problems with jpgs straight from a digital camera.
If you turn the frame on using the remote and just wait, the slide show will start after a minute or two. No need to put mom through selecting the card, etc. Love the remote--small and functional.
All in all, this was the best value I found after extensive looking.
Better than others but not perfect December 14, 2006
azpez (Chandler, AZ USA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I purchased this product for my mother, as a way to easily keep her up-to-date with photos of my son. She has zero ability to cope with new devices. As such, this product does not have the ability to just power on and display pictures. You must select which memory card to use even if there is only one, and you need the remote if you want to select the slide show option (which may be a problem because the remote seems very cheaply made). It also does not have a clock to turn itself on and off (i.e. daytime only display).
There are a lot of words in the manual but not much information. It could be condensed to one or two pages. Also the recommendation to use MS picture editing and only 4 digit numbers for names is ridiculous. (It does work with longer names using letters, numbers and underscores.)
The button layout hidden behind the frame starting from the top is: Up, Down, Enter, Left, Right, Exit. Exit is easy to find but Enter could be better placed. A 4 way rocker would have been a better solution for the direction control. The card slots fit the major formats except for CF Type II. That is a shame since I'm sure there are a lot of those old cards floating around (like the one I have) wait for a job to do.
The On-Screen-Display is rudimentary at best. It powers up to the card selection menu with only the plugged in cards selectable. The next menu contains options for Photo, Music, or File. Selecting photos displays thumbnails of the photos on the card. I do not have directories, but the manual states "The pictures have to be stored in the correct folder." Whatever that means, they don't tell you. Selecting "File" shows the file names of the pictures. The up/down/left/right buttons are used to navigate to picture or files. Hitting Enter while viewing a picture performs the zoom function. This does not appear to work in slide show mode. Also, zooming does degrade the picture quality but a high quality images still looks good zoomed. (Low quality looks bad.)
Ok, that is all the bad.
The good is that pictures look pretty good. No they don't look as good as ones displayed on a color corrected $700 True HD LCD driven by a $300 Graphics card in a $500 computer. But they look like pictures I'd expect to see from a unit costing 120 to 150 with an 8.4" 800x600 display...Good Enough. Previously, I tried a 10.4" 640x480 frame that has massive artifacts, color banding, and color correctness issues.
This unit does not have many issues with picture display quality. However, if you feed it highly compressed images and/or images of its native resolution, you can get artifacts, color banding, and color correctness issues. I don't know why that is, but I tested it with images of the following resolution: 800x600, 2000x1500, and 3072x2048. I also tried different compression sizes from 100KB to 3.5MB. While all the test images display fine on my computer/LCD, the lowest resolution and most compressed images look really bad. Take that same image in high resolution and low compression and it looks really good.
Of all the issues this unit has, I think it is one of the better ones I've tested. I really think the biggest draw back to this unit is not powering up to slide show mode.
 It sucks December 8, 2006
X. Wei
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought it this sunday for my father. And the remote control started out of work yesterday. The display color is so poor, it is definitely not true color. When using zoom in, the picture is really blur. Keep away from this product!
Great Digital Photo Frame December 5, 2006
A. Weeks
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased a Digital Spectrum and the quality was so poor I quickly returned it. I went to Consumer Reports and noticed this was at the top of their recommendations. The quality is very good. The pictures are clear and large. The only improvement I would suggest is giving it an internal memory.
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