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HP DreamScreen 130 13-Inch Wireless Connected Screen
List Price: $299.99
Price: $253.39
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| Enjoy music, photos and videos with easy to use buttons & screens |
| Control your digital entertainment in the palm of your hand with a simple, intuitive remote. |
| Enjoy music, photos and videos easily with the HP MediaSmart experience. |
| Built-in Wi-Fi connects seamlessly to your existing wireless home network, so you can access content on your home PCs and through the Internet. |
| The HP DreamScreen is a gateway to the Internet using your wireless network to access weather info, Snapfish and your favorite web destinations |
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Customers Reviews
2010-03-10
It does'n get subtitles
Hi, it was very disapointing when i firt got it ti know that the device does'n get subtitles since i watch movies from another countries and languages.very disapointing
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2010-03-02
Major WiFi Connection problems
I bought this screen and overall, despite the many shortcomings the other reviewers described (most of which I agree with), I really like it. But one major problem renders it more trouble than it is worth for me - the WiFi connection is entirely unreliable. If I run the Weather app it will *always* connect to my WiFi network and update. Status always shows it connected. Yet if I leave the weather app on it updates sometimes and other times it just stops refreshing entirely and won't reconnect until I exit and re-enter the Weather app. I of course have the latest software installed. The interesting thing is, a friend of mine bought the same screen at the same time and is having the same problem - makes you wonder huh? So I called HP and spoke to a friend person name "Sam" somewhere overseas. Nothing against Sam but obviously he had a sheet he was working from and the sheet told him to tell me to Reset the Screen to Default Settings. I did that. It doesn't help. I tried to tell Sam this but feedback of this nature isn't part of the script and I have no doubt it didn't make it back to an engineering group somewhere. I suspect resetting to default software doesn't help because there is a bug in the screen software/firmware where when it can't get a connection it simply doesn't retry - but that's just my guess. Bottom line, the connectivity issues really makes the screen more trouble than it's worth. I want the Weather to always just refresh every 10 minutes like it's supposed to but 3-4 times a day I have to go manually refresh it (and when I do manually it connects 100% of the time).
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2010-02-11
I Expected MUCH Better from HP
Sadly, the digital photo frame market is mostly flooded with no-name products that are seriously lacking in several areas. One would expect a "world class" company like HP could offer a much better product, but so far as several others have reported in their reviews, HP has largely failed. This product looks great on paper but is disappointing in reality.
Consider this: You can buy (from HP no less) a very nice complete netbook computer with a better higher resolution screen, a much faster processor, WiFi, a full keyboard, expensive Li-Ion battery, hard drive, etc. for the SAME PRICE as this photo frame which has none of those things. So why does HP use a substandard 800 pixel display that makes your photos fuzzy? Why do they use a little toy processor that makes everything so slow as to be painful? Why isn't there a motion detector to turn the frame off when nobody has been in the room for a while to save energy?
Why also, isn't this device UPnP-AV or DLNA compliant so it can automatically pull pictures off your PC, NAS or home server? Other less expensive devices offer this functionality. The "internet" features of this device are severely limited. You can buy devices at a third of the price that do much more (but granted have a smaller screen). And you can buy devices at a third of the price with a better, higher resolution screen, than the DreamScreen.
I would suggest waiting until more companies figure out the "high end" digital frame market. There are new wireless offerings from Buffalo, D-Link and others that conform to home media standards (UPnP and/or DLNA) that put the DreamScreen to shame and can do much more. Hopefully such competition will force HP, and others, to get their act together.
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2010-02-10
Dream? Screen.
I am not your typical consumer who casually utlizes a purchased product. I generally try to utilze all the given benefits. In this case the impotus for purchasing this overpriced digital photo viewer was the fact that there was remote wireless conectivity to your media PC and that you could listen to the audio files and or view the video or jpg files that were placed into a shared files software that is included with the Dream?Screen. This was a gift for my beloved for Christmas and she is a technophobe in the true sense and I assured her upon receipt of this gift it would be a breeze based upon the desriptions from HP in their sales literature. I had seen some balking about the connectivity in a review and assumed that it was someone who does not understand this technology. Well I am living proof that this is NOT a simple piece of peripheral equipment to use. I have yet to achieve connectivity to the master media PC using my wireless network 802.11N I have installed the appropriate included software and to my dismay it claims that there is no Dream?Screen on my wireless network. I have yet to remedy this challenge. My windows Media Player can find it however I cannot share this audio Media.
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2010-01-30
Pretty good but no cigar!
The design factor is great - this thing just looks superb - it is very 'apple- like' and fits right in. The touch frame function is cool and the remote is very effective and stores away in a slot on the back of the frame.
Everything is set up very easily including the wi-fi, which took about 30seconds to find our network. We had already set up our Snapfish and Pandora accounts and they both work really well.
You can e mail straight into your account and see the new pictures very quickly. There is also Snapfish iPhone app. which allows you to send multi pictures at one time - great. This would be useful for anyone who wants to send pictures home while they are away. There are a number of ways to show the calendar or use the alarm too and all very easy to use. We also love the weather feature for it's ease of operation.
The sound is adequate but we decided to have a line out to our Onkyo i-pod music doc nearby and the sound is amazing.
We have a new iMac computer - so the streaming deal does not work but we knew that kind of, before we bought it. We hoped that HP would offer an update and we e-mailed and spoke to HP but as of now they have NO plans to update the software to make the Dreamscreen Mac - compatible. This is short sighted of HP because there's almost nothing out there which is able to stream from a Mac.
Some reviewers have complained that they can't access framechannel or picassa or other stuff but then maybe they need a 'tablet' machine and not a digital photo frame. Stop moaning!...This thing looks good and it works really well. We think that it is well featured and a great size (forget all those 7" screens)but it should be able to stream from a Mac.
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Product Details
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Color: Black
EAN: 0884420871583
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