Editorial Review:Product Description:The Memorex Floral digital photo frame marries style with technology. Featuring an elegant blue silkscreen floral design on a sleek brown frame, the Floral frame features a seven-inch widescreen LCD display for viewing JPEG photos in 480x234 screen resolution. Other product features include a mini USB port and cable, AC adapter, and a 4-in-1 memory card slot that supports most of today's popular memory card formats.
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Customer Reviews
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A nice frame, but I would rather have higher resolution.
I bought this digital picture frame as a gift for my wife because I knew she would like the brown and blue design on it. And the aesthetic design is by far the best feature of this item. The rest of the frame is fairly mediocre. Due to the low resolution, pictures look quite pixelated if viewed from any closer than a few feet away. Also, when I formated several pictures to the advertized resolution of 480x234, I noticed that there were black spaces on the top and bottom. Using the 16:9 aspect ratio, I later tried formating pictures to 480x270, which removed the problem. A final note on resolution: most cameras take photos with an aspect ratio of 4:3, which means that pictures must be heavily cropped or stretched to fit properly on this display. Many of the pictures I had weren't suitable because the target image would be too cropped to look correct on the widescreen frame. And pictures that were taken in a portrait (tall) mode would appear very small on the frame with large black bars on the sides. (Although with some effort you can compose two portrait pictures side-by-side with resolutions of 240x270 each.)
Other issues that I have noted with this item:
- The frame works fine with a USB drive or with an SD card, but doesn't have the capabilty of being directly connected to a PC via USB, so a card reader is required when using an SD card. Most USB drives will stick out beyond the edge of the frame and probably aren't a great solution.
- There is no brightness control. I would prefer to have a little less backlight, but no adjustment is available.
- The frame does not do any kind of randomization when cycling through pictures, it always goes through the same order. This could be desirable, such as to show a timeline, but I would rather have the option to randomly go through the pictures.
- There are many different transitions to chose from (including random). Most of them are very nice effects.
In summary, this product is just fine if you are primarily choosing it for the appearance of the outer frame. If you would like a high-quality way to display your pictures, there are better choices out there, especially if you would rather not have a widescreen display.
