» Royal PF560 5.6-Inch Digital Picture Frame

Royal PF560 5.6-Inch Digital Picture Frame Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: perfect gift for mom
Comment: my mom loved this digital picture frame she said it was the best mothers day gift ever

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Big disappointment
Comment: I received one of these as a fathers day gift. In looking at the box I thought 'how neat'. I could hardly wait to try it out. I grabbed the memory card out of my 5 mega-pixel camera that had the latest pictures of my twin babies and slapped it into the frame. The disappointment started immediately after fliping the switch to 'on'. The screen flickered and fluttered as it displayed the firmware version. I could hardly read the combination of numbers and letters. After that its start-up menu showed and I had to check to see if I was wearing my glasses. Yep, I was. I started looking around for a focus button or knob. Nope, no such thing. I thought to myself 'what could be wrong'. I fumbled through the directories on my memory card and found a picture. It took a few seconds adn then the picture showed on the screen. It looked horible. I knew that it was not a problem with the picture. It was a picture that I had just printed a day or two earlier. My hard copy looks great! The display on the Royal PF56 was blury and out of focus. I tried a few more pictures and then gave up. The box shows a picture of the frame displaying a great looking picture. A picture nowhere near what it would really look like on the frame. I'd call it false advertising. Big disappointment.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: What a piece.
Comment: I'd give it a zero, but technically, it turns on and displays stuff. Don't get me wrong, it isn't bad on paper. It's reasonably inexpensive, easy to use, comes with (slightly cheap-looking) extra frames, and has a decent sized screen.

However, it completely sucks at what it's supposed to do: display photos. I saw it coming when I turned it on; even the splash screen looked bad. The screen is very low resolution. When I first tested it the pictures were so blurry that I figured maybe it just had a really bad photo resizing algorithm. So, I took some of the sharpest pictures that my Nikon could produce and reformatted them to the screen's native resolution, then put them back on the card and plugged it in, all to no avail. It's like looking at Polaroids through glasses smeared with Vaseline.

So, yeah. If you want a rectangular viewer for slideshows of blurry, pixilated images, by all means, this is your ticket. However, if you want a digital frame that displays anything resembling a series of photographs, look elsewhere.

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