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Delight your loved ones with ViewSonic's 8" DPG801BK digital photo frame. Insert the memory card from your digital camera and use the easy-to-use touch controls to scroll through your photos, create a slideshow or add MP3 audio to your viewing. The control buttons are hidden until you touch the frame to illuminate them, maintaining a fingerprint-free screen and smooth lines on the frame. The 800 x 600 high resolution screen displays your photos in beautiful color and vivid detail. As a gift, the DPG801BK is the picture perfect way to show your loved ones how much you care. Preserve your memories and relive them anytime with the DPG801BK digital photo frame.Similar Products
Customer Reviews
By J. Lariviere (Montreal, QC, Canada)
I bought this digital frame for my girlfriend for this Christmas. I resized a copy of all our pictures to 800x600 with a batch resizer and copied them to a 1GB SD card. I had about 5500 pictures on the card in different folders. When I started the unit it seemed to see only 2000 pictures instead of the 5500 I had put in.
I started the slideshow and it immediately hung. No button would respond to any command. I rebooted the unit but the slideshow would never start.
I deleted some pictures. Even with the number of pictures down to 2000 the slideshow would hang the unit.
I was finally able to make the slideshow work by deleting more, it seems to hang whenever you put above 1600 pictures in the memory. This is a big deception because I expected my picture frame to be able hold much more. With a tool I changed all folders and file names to a small number of characters because I though the long file names were causing the error, but it didn't help. This limitation was nowhere mentionned on the box, the manual or the website.
I emailed ViewSonic about this issue but got no answer at the time of writing this review.
I tried to send pictures in the internal memory, but the OS showed it would take me two hours to copy 150 megs so I immediately cancelled. This is so slow I would consider the internal memory unusable.
Unless Viewsonic tells me there is a new firmware available now (or very soon) that fixes the maximum number of pictures problems I will return the unit to the shop.
The other problem is the unit wont start the slideshow by itself. I would have liked to put it on a timer to it starts automatically every day when we sit at the dining table. There is no option to automatically start the slideshow when the unit boots.
The good thing about this unit is the nice design with glossy finish and futuristic look. Also the image quality is very good, but keep in mind this is 800x600 so it is nowhere near today's laptop screens resolutions so there are much less details.
Bottom line, avoid this product unless a new firmware comes out with fixes and new options.
By D. Ailes (Atlantic City,NJ)
Thought I had done my research on Digital Frames, guess not.
Great Idea in Physical Design, except for the placement of the power switch.
Take it out of the box and connect it to the computer, that's where the trouble begins.
On Christmas Eve, I tried to shortcut downloading pictures onto the internal memory without organizing them. Didn't matter anyway. Process was VERY slow. Connecting and disconnecting took minutes instead of seconds with no indication from onscreen menu of the frame as to whether I had accomplished what I had intended to do. After three attempts, I was finally able to get 5 out of the six pictures to display correctly without seeing "broken" jpegs and getting "Decode Failure" messages.
Trial and error led me to convert sound file to MP3 and after two attempts , was able to hear the music but, at a very low decibel level, like having to put your ear right next to the unit.
Even after Christmas, and having a little more time to actually read the instructions, this frame proved frustrating. Research and instructions proved fruitless in getting the frame to do what it was designed to do. The final straw, when I was able to transfer 15 pictures and only ten displayed correctly, with three showing "broken lines" and two of them being lost in the Twilight Zone of "Decode Failure"
I'm with the other reviewer, wait until they get the kinks out before buying.
By D. Stine (USA)
ViewSonic did what it does best - display pixels beautifully on a high resolution 800x600 TFT display, but that's about the only feature of this frame worth the $$. The product is brand new to the market and clearly doesn't have the final (or fully debugged) firmware yet.
I had no problem loading .jpg pictures unto an external SD memory card over the built-in USB port. However, writing to the internal 512 MB memory over that same USB port is hideously slow.
The "Easy Touch" control system features hidden blue LEDs behind switches along the bottom of the frame that map to soft buttons on the display. It looks cool, but is slow and unresponsive for navigating the menus.
The .jpg works fine. The still picture display is bright and high contrast. I didn't try the .mp3 files. But the video files do not work! (At least on my unit.)
The Very Appreviated "Quick Start Guide" tells you how much Hexavelent Chromium is in the frame, but omits almost all relevant details about the format of the supported media. After puzzling over it a bit I determined that it claims to support ONLY M-JPEG in .avi or .mov file formats. I tried them both using video editing software. The .mov files produce a "Not Supported" error message and the .avi files show light and sound, but total garbage.
There are obvious typos and quirks in the menu navigation, so it just looks like they rushed this product to market before the firmware was ready.
Wait awhile before buying this frame. Let ViewSonic get the kinks out.
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