» Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame

Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: wont read cards more than 2 gb in capacity
Comment: cons:
Bad picture quality
no remote
no usb connectivity
poor software bundled
wont read cards more than 2 gb in capacity.....it simply hangs
pros:
looks stylish in the transparent frame!
for the price it is not so bad

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wouldn't bother
Comment: Got it as a gift. Not worth the cost (free). Terrible picture. can barely make out the image.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: It doesn't suck. It's just not very good.
Comment: I bought this with the walnut frame in 7", electronically the same unit. It was cheap enough that I was willing to work around its limitations, which are:
- low dynamic range renders bright areas as white, darker areas as black rather than showing details in shadow or brightness
- low resolution: it's 480x270 as best as I can tell, which I don't call "hi-resolution".
- can't change speed that it cycles through photos
My workarounds are to manually edit and adjust the contrast and color gamut of my pictures and resize my images to 960x540, exactly 4x larger than the frame displays. Sure it's wasted pixels, but when I buy another frame with the same ratio display, I won't have to edit the pictures again and they'll have high enough resolution to look good elsewhere. Use a decent photo editor like Adobe Photoshop Elements to adjust the dynamic range and pump up the saturation. DON'T use the included software Optipix Pro that's bundled with the frame, it's amazingly bad. It takes a directory of photos and resizes them to 1024x768 which isn't the ratio of the frame's display thus all pictures then have black bars on them. Dreadful. If you're willing to edit your pictures it's a decent, no-frills frame.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wow, is this AWFUL. DO NOT BUY!
Comment: Horrific picture. Terrible quality and on top of it, there is a laundry-list of restrictions on using the item, ranging from having a 6MP camera or higher, to no Macintosh! You can't just take a jpeg and put it on a disk. This is a horribly designed product and the fact that they call it "smartparts" is irony of epic proportions.

Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

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