12-04-2009, 09:57 PM
I first purchased a Digital Spectrum 8.4" frame from Amazon for $70 and loved it, but on Black Friday I found a 12" model at Staples for the same $70.
At that price, I had to buy one and try it out at home. I loved the 12" size compared to the smaller 8" frame, but the picture quality and function of this model was nowhere as good as the Digital Spectrum frame, so I returned it.
I totally recommend getting a 12" frame!
I went back to Amazon and found the 12" version of the 8" frame that I had liked so much and ordered two of them. They arrived today (free std shipping only took a week) and I had one set up in 5 minutes. I immediately knew that this was the one! The pictures were beautiful on this frame.
I'm using an 8gb sdhc card with no problem and I'd bet that you could even go bigger. That's thousands of pictures!
I checked with customer support and found that you can store the pix in folders on the card and select each separately. I plan to put old family pictures scanned from photographs in my Mom's old album in a separate folder plus current pictures in another. This will be my Christmas/Hanukkah gift for my son and his family.
The 12" frame comes with several frame options and (this is great!) you can use it in portrait mode as well as landscape. The way this works is that you can go through your pictures and select a portrait oriented photo pause it and rotate it in the frame and then rotate the frame itself to keep that picture showing for as long as you want as opposed to just letting it do a slide show.
There's an included remote which is very handy. The buttons are a little hard to use, but you get used to it and it does make it easy to access all of the frames functions. There's actually a lot more functions and features that make these frames tops IMHO.
I am totally satisfied with these frames and I do feel that $100 for the 12" size is a bargain. I really did a lot of searching and found that all the other frames of this size and quality are a lot more expensive.
Bottom line, picture quality and size were the deciding factors for me and these frames were clearly better for the money than any other options that I found.
12" model: http://tinyurl.com/ycuno62 8" model: http://tinyurl.com/yzzgq9a
At that price, I had to buy one and try it out at home. I loved the 12" size compared to the smaller 8" frame, but the picture quality and function of this model was nowhere as good as the Digital Spectrum frame, so I returned it.
I totally recommend getting a 12" frame!
I went back to Amazon and found the 12" version of the 8" frame that I had liked so much and ordered two of them. They arrived today (free std shipping only took a week) and I had one set up in 5 minutes. I immediately knew that this was the one! The pictures were beautiful on this frame.
I'm using an 8gb sdhc card with no problem and I'd bet that you could even go bigger. That's thousands of pictures!
I checked with customer support and found that you can store the pix in folders on the card and select each separately. I plan to put old family pictures scanned from photographs in my Mom's old album in a separate folder plus current pictures in another. This will be my Christmas/Hanukkah gift for my son and his family.
The 12" frame comes with several frame options and (this is great!) you can use it in portrait mode as well as landscape. The way this works is that you can go through your pictures and select a portrait oriented photo pause it and rotate it in the frame and then rotate the frame itself to keep that picture showing for as long as you want as opposed to just letting it do a slide show.
There's an included remote which is very handy. The buttons are a little hard to use, but you get used to it and it does make it easy to access all of the frames functions. There's actually a lot more functions and features that make these frames tops IMHO.
I am totally satisfied with these frames and I do feel that $100 for the 12" size is a bargain. I really did a lot of searching and found that all the other frames of this size and quality are a lot more expensive.
Bottom line, picture quality and size were the deciding factors for me and these frames were clearly better for the money than any other options that I found.
12" model: http://tinyurl.com/ycuno62 8" model: http://tinyurl.com/yzzgq9a