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★★★★☆
Good image, decent features, 8-inch screen
I just received this in the mail. I think the feature set is decent, and it was able to connect to my PC without much ado. Transfer of images isn't too hard. You can load images from memory cards or directly from your PC (or Mac, apparently) via a USB cable. And it has good control options (frequency of image changes from 5 seconds to 1 day, effects for changes, auto on/off for weekends and 3 on/off settings for weekdays). I also like that it has different "fill" options for shots that are portrait when the display is oriented for landscape (and vice versa). It will take the full-size portrait and surround it with smaller portrait images to fill in the display, thus avoiding any cropping of the main large image. This is a particularly nice feature. You can also create separate albums to segregate the images that are shown...
HOWEVER, do be warned that the display measures 8-inches diagnoally, not the advertised 9. This isn't unusual for old TV sets, but it's a bit unusual to have an LCD screen overstated by this much.
Also, the leg on the back of the frame is a bit odd. It has two "pre-set" options that force the face of the frame to be too steep in my opinion. You can swivel it outside these "preset" ranges, but doing so too much causes the fame to tilt off-center. The user manual even recognizes this problem by stating you should only use the pre-sets. There is a mounting backet included, which is handy.
The frame plugs into an outlet and charges the battery. I'm not sure how long the battery will last, though. The cord is white, and the plug is a larger, cell-phone size rectangular cube (about 1 inch x 2 inches x 1.5 inches).
The colors in the display are good, but dark colors lose their saturation, so a dark blue looks almost black. But other colors have good tone and don't appear too bluish, an issue with many LCD displays.
I like the wood grain w/ silver frame, which is magnetic and snaps onto the front. I'm not sure if you can purchase other frames that snap on, but it seems likely.[...]
