Customers Reviews
2009-01-19
Low resolution, bad aspect ratio...
I received this digital picture frame as a prize/gift from my employer. As a gift it is great! But if I were looking for a digital picture frame, I would steer clear of this one.
Aspect Ratio:
My biggest gripe with the frame is the aspect ratio of 16:9. With a resolution of 480x234, this doesn't work out right... 480 by 234 is an aspect of 2.05 where as 16 by 9 is an aspect of 1.78, so if you try loading pictures at 480x234 as I did you realize that much of the left and right sides of the picture that you are viewing is chopped off. When looking closer at the screen itself, you can see that the pixels are non-square so in short as long as you crop your photos to a resolution with an aspect ratio of 16:9 like 480x270 (what I'm using), this solves your problem. The problem with this is unless you take all of your pictures in widesceen (16:9), you will have to crop all of your pictures to be displayed on this frame.
Screen Quality:
Since the screen is such a low resolution at 480x234, I mean come on my phone has two 320x240 screens, the pictures are not that crisp at all. Also the color reproduction is not that great. The screen is actually decently bright and vibrant but there is too much color saturation and the only adjustable options are brightness in the setup and contrast with an exterior dial.
That Little Dot:
When my co-workers saw the black dot in the frame they theorized that it was a camera. Given the relative quality of the frame I was skeptical. It is in fact the infrared sensor for the remote.
Loading Pictures:
USB sticks and SD cards are easy to plugin and view, although this frame only displays jpegs (.jpg, .jpeg). There is unfortunately no way to directly plug this frame into your computer.
Overall:
Not too bad but pretty flawed. The biggest thing that I have learned from working with this frame is to buy a high resolution frame (1024x768) with a good quality screen with most importantly an aspect ratio of 4:3 so that you do not have to crop all of your photos just so that they can be displayed properly and fully on the screen. Beware of 16:9 frames unless you take all of your pictures in a widescreen format or enjoy spending all of your time cropping and resizing photos.
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2008-02-08
Although it's not what I want, however, they are responsible to refund me full, thanks.
Although it's not what I want, however, they are responsible to refund me full, thanks.
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2008-01-21
Not so easy
Got this digital picture frame for the ability to download pictures directly from camera with USB cable. Frame says "Loading", but after ten minutes, says "No Media". Ended up sending back to Audiovox, they sent it back with someone's personal pictures so I assumed it was working. Again plugged my camera in, same problem as I first had. Response from both Audiovox and Electronics Expo were "it should work".
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2008-01-01
excellent
great digital picture frame -- easy to set up and use for those of us who are technically-challenged.
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2007-11-23
CRAPPY AMAZON
Amazon grouped all 3 of Audiovox's digital picture frames together despite MASSIVE differences. Please DON'T count on the resolution till you read chart below taken from data on Manufacturer's site.
DPF1000 (10.4")
# 4:3 Aspect Ratio
# 640 x 480 Pixels
DPF800 (8")
# 4:3 Aspect Ratio
# 800 x 600 Pixels
DPF700 (7")
# 16:9 Aspect Ratio
# 480 x 234 Pixels
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