| Reviews : Smartparts SP1000 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame |
Technical Details
- Remote control for easy operation
- Automatic variable spped slide show
- Plays most major video formats
- USB connection for easy file transfer
- Compatible with all popular memory cards
Product Description
The slim, genuine, cherry-stained wood frame and custom designed matting of the SP1000 offers a classic style that can complement any room or office. The removable and adjustable stand makes showcasing your memories easy. The frame can easily mount to the wall or be place on a table or shelf.The ten-inch screen shows-off your pictures with the same crisp quality that you receive from high-quality prints. The full color display offers vibrant, bright colors that provide optimum contrast, allowing you to view your pictures in their natural state. Your memories will be displayed exactly as they were when your pictures were taken.Displaying pictures on the digital frame takes three easy steps. Simply remove the memory card from your camera, insert the card into the frame and view your photos. There is no need to upload and edit your pictures on a computer.Once the memory card is inserted into the frame, pictures are automatically displayed as a slideshow. The speed of the slide show can be adjusted to various speeds and you can add different transition effects. If you have a favorite picture you want to show-off, you can set the digital frame to display one picture continuously.Similar Products
Customer Reviews
By Disappointed
I bought this as a gift for fathers day. The company handled the order well, and the product arrived in good condition. The product worked well at first, but died after a couple days use.
By Albert Youssef (Westfield, NJ)
I bought this frame about a month ago and was reminded that I wanted to post a positive review on it when guests to my house were oohing and aahing about it yesterday.
I bought the frame for display in my family room after doing a fair bit of research. First of all, some of the specs on this appealed to me. The 800x600 resolution with the 4x3 aspect ratio were what I was looking for. The compatibility with different media - particularly USB flash drives, is convenient, and I liked the fact that I could upload pictures into the frame's internal memory. There is ample memory (maybe more than the 256MB advertised) - I have 120 pictures uploaded into the frame and there is room for much more.
Visually, the cherry frame is very appealing and makes this look like a real wooden picture frame fitting in with our other furniture. The size worked out very well; an 8 inch frame was smaller than what I was looking for (I have that size on my desk at work), and the ones that were 12-13 inches (and up) seemed too big - 10 inches is a good size as its easily visible across the room (picture is about a 6" x 8"). The contrast and color is excellent.
From a usability perspective, one thing that could be better is the intuitiveness of the remote control (for example you have to hit the Exit button a couple of times to be able to navigate to the setup menu) but the UI is reasonably responsive. Uploading photos onto the frame isn't terribly quick, but it's manageable unless you're going to constantly be doing it (in which case I'd just recommend you used a memory card that you modified by plugging it into a desktop or laptop).
Overall, I'm very happy with this purchase.
By Chefski (Colorado Springs, CO United States)
Researched Consumer Reports to see which digital photo frames they rated highly and SmartParts frames did well. After reading several reviews, I decided I definitely wanted one with at least 800x600 resolution (higher the better). Drew the picture size on a piece of paper for 7 inch, 8 inch, 9 inch, 10 inch and 15 inch frames and decided that the 10 inch frame was the right size - the 7 and 8 inch ones are not much better than a 3x5 and 4x6 inch prints, respectively so they aren't that big. This was a gift for an 85 year old so we needed something big but not huge. The 15 inch frames were just too big and finding a spot to place them would be difficult.
The frame functions very well - picture quality is excellent and loading it was very easy; however, I recommend you not bother using the software that was bundled with it - that does not work well at all. I simply hooked it up to my PC using the enclosed USB cable and copied photos from my PC directly to the memory in the frame (drag and drop). I have Windows XP and had previously downloaded from MicroSoft, a program that resizes photos into one of four selectable sizes. I used this ImageResizer to resize all the photos I was moving to the frame to save space on the memory card. One piece of advice, do not resize all the way down to 800x600. I found that using 1028x768 made the pictures look better. If you install an additional memory card in the frame then you really do not need to resize the photos.
I have not yet tried to use all the additional features like adding music to go with the slideshow or viewing video clips. For viewing photos, this product works great - you can replace all your photo albums with it.
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