http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/ Engadget Comments for Philips 7FF1AW Digital Photo Display review http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
If they did that, it might also be neat if it could receive and display text messages.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
A little expensive, but something i would certainly stuck in a living room.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
I think that's only in the promotional pix. There's no sign of it in the other pictures, or even on the box photo above.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/A picture frame that runs XP, is remote controllable and has 40gb of storage. And probably the only geek hack my mum likes/wants.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Search for "digital picture frame" on their site.
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The Philips logo does not appear on the actual product. Indeed, it is only on the promotional photo.

We purposely did not post a photo of the display showing a full size photo since we could not do this with sufficient quality.

Yes, there is an option to set the slideshow to display photos in random order.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
Incidentally, I happen to have one of those Nokia's for sale. Feel free to contact :)]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
As for the do-it-yourself project, there was a project written about in detail in Popular Science's How 2.0, ~August 2004. I'd rather do this myself as described above for the sheer joy of building it yourself. And with a 15" screen, that's something worth hanging up or building into a sheetrock wall.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
It truly is fantastic. The review generally is right on point. A few extra notes. Mine has a hole in back I think (it is at the office now so I'll have to double check) and certainly NO Philips logo on front. I think that is just in their promo photo (and pretty dumb on their part at that).

You can do random picture selection from a memory card to answer the question above. I have a 256 SD card with 84 pictures and it is handling that fine. I found the transition effects to be just right in speed and I have mine set to random and to change pictures every 30 seconds.

At first I was ticked that I could not get my memory card to read unless the pictures came straight from the camera. I later figured out that the frame expects the pictures to come from INSIDE the DCM directory so if you copy files to there on a card you first format in a camera you should be ok, at least I was. I also found and successfully did a firmware upgrade that is supposed to fix this. (Good luck finding the support page on Philips.com. I did with a lot of searching based on the model number as I recall).

(Strangest firmware upgrade process I've seen -- it uses a memory card to do it -- but it worked fine).

(I should also note that the frame would not read a few pictures from my SD card. I am fairly sure that is because my card reader is not copying well from my computer and corrupted a few pictures. All the pics straight from the camera worked just fine. I just got a new card reader to see if that is the problem. I am pretty impressed, by the way, that my full size .jpgs were no problem. The screen scales them on the fly I would guess).

Last night after I left my office the frame 'hung' ie stuck on one picture I think when it was supposed to auto-shut off. It would not even respond to the they physical power off button (!!!) this am. I just unplugged and let the battery run out. I then replugged and turned it on and it is fine again. Curious if it will be hung again tomorrow.

I highly recommend this product. Mine is plenty bright to see in an office in direct sun and with overhead lighting. The LCD quality is high -- it looks almost like a printed picture -- and the overall look is great. Reminds me of my iMac volleyball model screen more than an iPod. And it works great. Even faily low tech people could deal with this (but for the DCM issue and firmware upgrade). I have it next to some other 3x5 pictures and this stands up very well.

(Only downside I saw is that this sort of plastic attracts fingerprints and scratches. Mine wiped clean pretty easily with a nice lens cloth, but you'll not want to overhandle it. I'm sure plenty of scratch removers will help too on the plastic issue. I also noted two horizontal lines on either side of the frame in the clear plastic. Must be mold lines. Not too bad but noticeable)]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Can you plug it in?
What's the point of having picture frame if it will run out in hour?
To "pass around to show photos" I am using my P900 and PSP.
This device looks like picture frame and have stand to put it on the table or something. But what's the point if it lives only an hour?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
I do have an old IBM laptop I am currently not using, after upgrading to new laptop last month. I will reinvestigate this possiblitly. How many more years will I get out of the screen before it will need to be replaced and can it be replaced with something of much better quality and at what cost? Something I have never looked into. Could I sell the old laptop and get enough money to buy the frame?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
I do have an old IBM laptop I am currently not using, after upgrading to new laptop last month. I will reinvestigate this possiblitly. How many more years will I get out of the screen before it will need to be replaced and can it be replaced with something of much better quality and at what cost? Something I have never looked into. Could I sell the old laptop and get enough money to buy the frame?]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review// Rick]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Seems like an extension of the original Pictronic Frames (www.pictronic.co.uk) - they look very alike too!]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
In slideshow mode, there is a random fade option with loads of fade types, but if you want to stick to a certain fade type, there are only four to choose from.

You also have to watch out with images that are not 1:1.5 ratio. If you let the display scale these images, they get cropped, sometimes unevenly intead of centrally. If you want to see the whole of a non 1:1.5 image, scale it on your PC to 720 pixels wide and/or 480 high first.

And if you don't like ipod-style white-and-acrylic, it should be possible to stick a nice wooden frame on it.]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/
canīt find any information about that, anybody knows???

cheers
mat]]>Dec 19th 2005 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/20/philips-7ff1aw-digital-photo-display-review/from a memory card.
Cool Picture frame (I have got one !!) with high
quality display.
But the plastic styling is disappointing.
A frame made of glass should be possible for this price!

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Anybody got any bright ideas. Thanks]]>Jan 5th 2006 9:34AM