sony digital photo frame

Product Description

Experience full color, digital desk-top photos at an incredible value. This Sony Digital Photo Frame is a convenient device that lets you view and share your memories in brilliant, high-contrast color on a 7-inch LCD screen. You get 256MB of internal memory with optional image resizing to maximize internal memory, plus multiple display modes, including nine slideshow styles, to find the setting that you like most. A clock and a calendar is also included, and most memory card formats are supported.

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Customer Reviews

Elegant beautiful centerpiece with amazing picture quality.
I've been on the market for picture frame after purchasing an affordable kodak picture frame for my girlfriend. I decided our apartment was not going to be like my aunt's where there is a family picture lining every wall in the home. I wanted something that could look good even turned off. This is it. Of course Sony brings their aesthetic talents to create sophisticated beautiful looking frame. The picture frame is solid glossy black and the Sony logo glows bright white when turned on. You also have the option of turning off the logo if it cramps your style. The picture quality is crystal clear, bright and sharp even on my old scanned photos. The viewing options are plentiful and fade in and out flawlessly kind of drawing you in the show. I love the calender and clock settings which gives this frame a practical use. You can choose only the calendar, only the clock or both with pictures at the same time on a side box.

Now the bad: It not only requires a power cord but the end has a buldge wich made it very hard for me to conceal the power cord on my bookcase. I had to hide the power cord since it would not slip in through the cracks on the back of my bookcase. This also makes it a no go for coffee table. It's very noticible when it's out in the open. Luckily I hid it very well and it's not noticible in my case. The only other bad point is the price. It is quite expensive for picture fram but you can clearly see why. It's so sophisticated looking that it looks expnsive. The lcd looks like it's thick glass and the black frame is glossy. No doubt the materials used were quality materials.

If you have the money, I highly recommend it. Also, I bought this on the Sony website for 139.00. As usual amazon comes out with a deal after I buy it. So if you do buy it, buy it from amazon.
For the effort...
I will add pro's and con's at the end of this message. First I would like to say that this frame caught my eye when I was shopping for a Christmas present for my sister and her husband. This is my first photo frame but I have purchased three, Sony being the one I purchased for myself. I really like the small size of the frame and I especially like that the frame is not three dimensional (i.e. regular wood, plastic or metal frames with glass protector) but one piece with a plastic covering and the digital viewer inside. I shopped around for several: HP, Kodak, Hanspree... but found that this frame best suited my needs. Now fo the pro's and con's:

Pro's:
-Sony brand
-Small compact size, making it one piece
-All the features including the multipicture viewing, clock, calendar and random playback
-Automatic image orientation
-remote

Con's:
-Sony brand, which means Sony price...
-Lack of MP3 playback
-Lack of Video playback (My mothers Target brand frame I got her had these features and I bought it for her when digital frames were just coming out! Sony had how many years to remedy this??)
-AC Adapter placement in the back of the frame (it is practically placed right where the prop up stand is located making it sort of a headache to navigate the cord and stand)
-Random feature very often plays pictures you've just viewed. I have nearly 400 pictures in my frame and it plays the same several photos more often than the ones I have not seen)
-Lack of Shuffle feature
Best picture, not optimal pixel ratio
As others have said, this has the best image quality I've seen on a frame (better than lots of cheaper lcd tvs actually). It is night and day better than our previous frame. The border is clean, and the frame looks very smooth. My only complaint (recommendation to others considering this purchase) would be to consider the 8 inch over the 7 if you just plan to copy pictures over from your camera. I prefer the image to fill up the frame, and since the 7inch ratio is 15:9 I had to crop the images to get them to fit the frame fully without any black borders. The 8 and 10 inch frames use a 4:3 ratio, which is the same as both of ours (and I assume most) digital cameras, without the need for adjustment.

Another suggestion to those considering just using the internal memory is to batch resize the photos, so instead of taking up 3-5Mb a picture with a higher res camers (this only fits around 100 pictures on the 512Mb internal, and 1/2 that on the 256) the images will only take up around 100k. You can do this easily by searching for the XP Powertoys Image resizer for WinXP, or Prish Resizer for Vista. Then you can select all your photos at once, and resize them all to 800x600 (the resolution of the 8 and 10 inch, and the x-resolution of the 7inch). This will save you lots of space, and let you pack a lot more pictures on sony's relativly small internal memory, and you will not see a difference in the image quality, since sony has to downsize the image on display anyway to make it fit the 800x600, or 800x480 for 7inch frames.