Recommend me a digital photo frame

[DarrenSV650S]

Has anyone bought one for around the £50 mark that has good clear images?
I bought one for a pressie a few years ago for about £40 but the picture wasn't that clear when you looked at it close up.
It also needs to take SD cards. Any recommendations ?

[arenalife]

There's gazillions about and I couldn't say, I got a £17 one at christmas time and it's ok for it's small size. The thing I don't get is that it was only this cheapy bottom of the range one that had a 4:3 screen, the same as every photo I've ever took or will take, who's got a widescreen digital camera??? Every other frame had widescreen screens so you're either going to have fat face pics or pics with missing top and bottom? Complete crap, certainly due to only widescreen screens being produced nowadays.

Just to complete my widescreen rant, I hate it totally. The Greeks and Romans knew 4:3 was the most pleasing ratio to the human eye, when's the last time you saw a widescreen temple???

[Lissa]

Pete bought this one for his daughter, Mum and Dad. They all seem very happy with them. Pete's Dad also likes the fact it has a nice big digital clock when not in use.:D

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5701342/c_1/1|category_root|Photography|12109590/c_2/2|cat_12109590|Digital+photo+frames|12109603.htm

[Viney]

I have a kodak one, but it cost more than your budget. It takes 90% of cards, well probably all cards if you use adapters. Its only a 7" but back then, 10" screen and such like were not available. Its brillant.

[DarrenSV650S]

This one (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cibox-LCD-Digital-Photo-Frame/dp/B000L8Z4ES) looks quite good

[Spokey]

Anything under 800 dpi I found was poor quality, picture wise - I bought one for my wife for Christmas and I looked at loads of different ones going round the shops with a SD card pre loaded with pictures to try - the best one was a Hitachi one - 800 dpi 7" picture - was as good as looking at a picture on a PC monitor. It was about £80 though - it was from Currys.

Spokey

[Spokey]

This one (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cibox-LCD-Digital-Photo-Frame/dp/B000L8Z4ES) looks quite good

not according to the reviews it doesn't ! :mrgreen:

[embee]

Just to throw a spanner in the works, I treated myself to an Avtex W102D (http://www.johnlewis.com/230508392/Product.aspx)portable TV/DVD for when I'm on hols, it takes USB and some memory cards, and will do slideshows or play mpg/wmv etc clips. It's pricey but pretty reasonable quality. (does SECAM for when in France)

There are loads of similar but cheaper portable 12V TV devices around now. I haven't looked into it recently but I bet some will do slideshows from some sort of memory device, and will give you a lot more besides, for not a whole lot more than a simple picture frame.
Here (http://www.3wisemonkeys.co.uk/products.jsp?cat=42)are some examples, not necessarily recommending the site, just examples.

FWIW my parents were given a (very cheap I suspect, unknown brand with un-intelligible instructions) picture frame, which simply upped and died last weekend as we were viewing some pics.

[DarrenSV650S]

not according to the reviews it doesn't ! :mrgreen:
Oh yeh hadn't noticed that:(
Just to throw a spanner in the works, I treated myself to an Avtex W102D (http://www.johnlewis.com/230508392/Product.aspx)portable TV/DVD for when I'm on hols, it takes USB and some memory cards, and will do slideshows or play mpg/wmv etc clips. It's pricey but pretty reasonable quality. (does SECAM for when in France)

There are loads of similar but cheaper portable 12V TV devices around now. I haven't looked into it recently but I bet some will do slideshows from some sort of memory device, and will give you a lot more besides, for not a whole lot more than a simple picture frame.
Here (http://www.3wisemonkeys.co.uk/products.jsp?cat=42)are some examples, not necessarily recommending the site, just examples.

FWIW my parents were given a (very cheap I suspect, unknown brand with un-intelligible instructions) picture frame, which simply upped and died last weekend as we were viewing some pics.
Looks good but too expensive.





I saw this (http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/448516/PHILIPS-7inch-Digital-Photoframe/tab/specification)one in comet today which the pictures looked clear on and it seemed pretty good. But they didn't have any in stock!

[mike_avfc]

i got a cheap one and you can tell it is cheap - i then bought a sony one from amazon for about £150 just before xmas - it is top notch quality. i would reccomend spending the extras as the quality is amazing.

at the end of the day you have a camera that can do 12mp, get something that can display the quality.

it's like buying blu-ray and playing it on a CRT.

[DarrenSV650S]

I know. If I wanted one for myself then I'd spend a bit and get a decent one. But it's just for a pressie. £50 is pushing it as it is:p

[Spokey]

Ebay .... :-D

[maviczap]

I bought one of these for my wife, on my mother in laws behalf for christmas.

Got it from Ebuyer, not Ebay. Read all the reviews first before choosing this one.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141572

The best thing about is that it has wireless capability, so all the pictures are streamed from my computer to it. So i have about 600 pictures of my kids that run in a slide show function of this frame. You can stop it on a favourite too.

Picture brightness is fuggin excellent as well. My in laws got a Tesco's one for their Christmas and its completly carp, really bad.

Its only just over you budget, but the postage is free.

If not check out the others on Ebuyer, but read the reviews first. Normally they're a good guide to the item.

But this one is blindingly good for the money. I've seen nothing else with wireless capability.

Just a bit small, that's my only gripe.

[DarrenSV650S]

I bought one of these for my wife, on my mother in laws behalf for christmas.

Got it from Ebuyer, not Ebay. Read all the reviews first before choosing this one.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141572

The best thing about is that it has wireless capability, so all the pictures are streamed from my computer to it. So i have about 600 pictures of my kids that run in a slide show function of this frame. You can stop it on a favourite too.

Picture brightness is fuggin excellent as well. My in laws got a Tesco's one for their Christmas and its completly carp, really bad.

Its only just over you budget, but the postage is free.

If not check out the others on Ebuyer, but read the reviews first. Normally they're a good guide to the item.

But this one is blindingly good for the money. I've seen nothing else with wireless capability.

Just a bit small, that's my only gripe.
Wow that has twice as good resolution! And it's wireless!
One question - does it have a random mode for flicking through the photos?

[maviczap]

Not quite radom, but scrolls through each photo in the folder on your PC that you've selected to share with the photo frame. I use the shared photos in XP, but any folder can be selected.

Set up from the manual was dead easy.

As I described it, a slide show. Keeps changing every 15sec or so, timing can be changed via the remote control that comes with it.
I think it can also link to a site on the internet, where you can upload photos to. It can only link to one thing at a time, so reads a card or usb stick, or wireless with the computer or the internet

[DarrenSV650S]

If you don't use the wireless and just put a card in, can it do random from that?

[maviczap]

If you don't use the wireless and just put a card in, can it do random from that?

Yep, but I'll double check

[maviczap]

Checked that it will play cards in a slide show and the answer is YES!

It didn't like a card with a movive file on, which confused it. But another card with just picture files, no problem.

In the frames menu, you can choose either pictures displayed radomly or sequentially. Transition times go from 1sec, 5sec,10sec,30sec,1min,5min & 1hour.

Has conections for USB & mini usb, plus a card slot. Although I can't find the manual to see what cards it reads. I know it doesn't read xd cards but I'm pretty sure it does SD & MMC. But you can plug a card reader via a usb cable into the USB slot and read the cards like that.

Hope that helps.

Price has gone up since I bought ours at £54, but only £3 more for a great frame.

[DarrenSV650S]

Checked that it will play cards in a slide show and the answer is YES!

It didn't like a card with a movive file on, which confused it. But another card with just picture files, no problem.

In the frames menu, you can choose either pictures displayed radomly or sequentially. Transition times go from 1sec, 5sec,10sec,30sec,1min,5min & 1hour.

Has conections for USB & mini usb, plus a card slot. Although I can't find the manual to see what cards it reads. I know it doesn't read xd cards but I'm pretty sure it does SD & MMC. But you can plug a card reader via a usb cable into the USB slot and read the cards like that.

Hope that helps.

Price has gone up since I bought ours at £54, but only £3 more for a great frame.Thank you. And thanks everyone else for your help. I think I'll go for that one

[maviczap]

My pleasure