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Brand: Philips EAN: 8712581309671 Item Dimensions: Label: Philips Manufacturer: Philips Model: 9FF2M4/05 MPN: 9FF2M4/05 Publisher: Philips Release Date: October 23, 2006 Studio: Philips Accessories:
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 Rating: - Great item, good finish, a little clunky menu, questionable batteryI bought this item after researching extensively and reading through all reviews for this frame. I must say i am very impressed by this item. Its true thats ome of the pictures need to be resized to fit perfectly, but that is a minor issue, if you dont mind some pictures having a black/white/grey bar on both sides (depending onw hich background colour you choose). Resolution is good and the display is very well lit, you can see pictures with sunlight directly falling on the frame. What i did find questionable is the built in battery. May be i havent used it for long enough, or not charged it enough, but I let the frame get charged over night and then set it up in the morning. It actually turned itself off after 2 hours of playing pictures. Very disappointing. I assume that the battery needs to learn to run long, so i charged it over night again and i hope that it will run a little longer now. Otherwise, this frame seem to have anything you can ask for. The control buttons on the frame itself are unfortunately a little clunky and combined with the not so simple to navigate menu, a pain. But it will play out of the box if you want it to, just stick a SD card in it. Beware, NO Sony Memorysticks will work on this. Neither, Duo nor pro nor mini. I have several of those as i have a PS3 and a PSP, but this takes only flash or SD cards. So make sure you have one of those when you order the frame. Otherwise you won't be able to use it straight away. I give it a 4 star rating with 1 star deducted for the restriction on memorysticks and the battery. Rating:  - Problems with lack of documentationThe appearance of the frame is elegant and the image quality is also good . My complaint is with the documentation . For example having loaded images using the supplied software the memory is full . I am left wondering whether I can create additional slide shows that do not rely on the internal memory . There is nothing in the instructions to tell me if this is possible or how to do it . My camera is a Sony Cybershot and the Memorystick ProDuo is not supported by the Photoframe . This seems a huge disadvantage given the Sony is one of the most popular cameras . Rating: - Image sizing for best resultsThanks to Ben for his post on sizing the photo's for proper display. I have been somewhat frustrated with getting the best image size for that frame that allows the most photo's to be loaded into internal memory. I am using a mac so the bundled software was of no use. After reading information on the net I decided to convert the images to 680 X 480 @ 105 pixels per inch. I also saved the jpeg files at 12 the highest possible quality setting in Photoshop elements. This resulted in a file that was 672 X 480 and 360 KB in size after being loaded into the frame memory. When I viewed the photos converted this way they had a 1/8" white border on each side. After reading Ben's post I converted an image to 688 X 448 @72 pixels per inch. This resulted in a file that was 688 X 448 and 388 KB in size in internal memory. But the displayed image now had a very narrow white band at the top and bottom of the frame. I tried a third time and converted a image to 688 X 460 @72 pixels per inch and increased compression (or lowered the quality ) by moving from 12 to the 10 setting. This resulted in a full bleed image that was 232 KB in size. This third image looked very good, even at the higher image compression/lower image quality setting. why can't Philips include the recommended exact size with compression settings and pixels per inch (or mm) to help those of us who have to manually convert our images? In every web review that I have seen they say that the internal memory can hold 110-150 images. At what size, quality setting and pixel per inch or mm? What is the recommended level of compression that you can use and still have acceptable images? ****Follow up to this post. I found out the size of the internal memory, 32 MB with 14 MB (reserved), so I think that means that 18 MB are available for photo loading. Now I have been able to load 32 images into the frame but when I try to copy more images in the frame says no more memory left even though it shows 10 MB remaining. I am dragging and dropping into the root directory using the Mac's finder (= to windows explorer). Any ideas or suggestions? Regards, Michael Rating: - Great frame, shame about the plug!This is a great frame - it looks good, the quality of the photos are superb and it is very easy to use. So what is the problem? I purchased this frame on behalf of my parents, who were delighted with it, until the battery went flat and we got out the AC power adapter to recharge it and found it was a 2 pin plug not compatible for use in the U.K. Assuming that this particular box had been sent in error I emailed Pixmania to find out if this was the case but have heard nothing from them in over a week. Having now returned the frame to them at a cost of £19.95 I have still heard nothing and am therefore very disappointed. The price is very competitive and because of that it was my intention to order 2 more frames but I now wonder if this is the reason for the great price?! Has anyone else who ordered this frame encountered this problem? I now plan to purchase the frames at John Lewis for £189 but at least I know I will receive the correct AC adaptor. Rating: - Don't hesitate. I'm glad I bought itBuilt in software on the frame is easy to use using the 3 navigation buttons. Useful insight from Ben in other review on resizing to 688x488. I used photoshop elements to resize, haven't tried SW that comes on CD. I re-size to 344x488 for portait, then turn on the collage function so that portraits are shown with a few additional small croped prints that fills the frame (almost looks like one of those sets from a school photograph) and just adds an interesting variation. Download from PC is simply drag and drop, a great range of transitions. Being able to setup mutilpe albums is really handy. Good bright crips picture, with adjustable backlight/brightness, has been admired by many visitors. Most important; wife likes it, and it's been great to get to see some of those older pictures hidden away on the hard drive. Only 4 stars due to actual viewable picture diagonal being 8 inches and not 9; I noticed Amazon.com sells it as 8-inch. Although the philips site says 9.  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