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Matsunichi Photoblitz 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame | List Price: $69.99
Discount Price: $38.49
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Platform: No Operating System
Brand: Matsunichi
Binding: Electronics
Features: - 7" 16:9 Digital LCD Panel with 480 x 234 resolution
- Plays your digital photos
- Supports MS/MSPro/SD/MMC/XD media cards
- Includes Black Frame
- Worry Free One Year Warranty
Nice Product for the $$$. [Posted on 2008-12-22]
I bought this for my mom for Christmas. It was easy to load the pics onto the SD drive and do a slide show on this frame. The pictures showed up pretty well, but some were a little hard to see (due to pixelation). The contrast ratio is a little low (IMO), but it gets the job done and looks pretty good.
The Long Search ended with great qualty and amazing price. [Posted on 2008-12-26]
I researched for 3+ hours. :-( The key to Matsunichi PF-8e Photoblitz 8-inch Digital Picture Frame is that it has an 800X480 resolution. almost all photo frames being advertised under $60-70 have a poor resolution of 480x234 or 640 x 480. I would stongly recommend this digital photo frame.
Excellent frame for the money [Posted on 2008-12-27]
Truly a great quality frame for the money. Very easy to use and picture is great. A+++++
Didn't work [Posted on 2008-12-28]
I purchased one of these frames and my sister purchased another, mine never would work and so I had to return it, my sisters worked but was very picky about how you put the memory card in ended up buying a amartparts SP72 frame, not only did it work better it also had a large internal memory and was better looking.
great product (review of 8in pf800m 4:3 aspect ratio) [Posted on 2008-12-29]
I am someone who wants to put this on my desk at work and update photos monthly. It is perfect for that. In fact, I like it so much in terms of the display quality and appearance of the frame itself that I wish I'd ordered another one for display on the entry table for my fairly formal den. However, I knocked a star off for the poor user manual and online support, as well as the apparently slightly defective construction described below.
PRODUCT NOTES
The default settings (all at 9) for brightness, etc., looked great on my pictures, but I'm not the type of person who worries about small differences in quality. I used pictures mostly posted to or copied from facebook, with dimensions of 604 x 403, about 44-70 KB each. I had some higher resolution photos, 1280x960 and 2048x1536 (200-900KB). Honestly, I couldn't tell the differences between these and the lower resolution photos on this screen. (These are all pictures of me and friends, taken within about 20 feet of the camera, with me standing about 2 feet from the frame. There are some interesting, detailed backgrounds, that I thought showed up equally well in both sizes).
I thought the "cherry wood" frame had about the same finish as, say, Saunders "wood" products, which, if you're putting it in your office, is probably what the desk it sits on is made of anyway.
Laterally, there's a pretty wide window where the pictures are recognizable. When I'm about 120-degrees or more to the frame's left, I can see a white bar of light, which I guess indicates it's not perfectly put together inside. Vertically, the window of viewability is narrower.
USAGE NOTES
I initially plugged the power cord into the "AV Out" hole, instead of the "DC In" (I just looked for the right shaped hole, didn't read), which of course made me think the unit was DOA. So, if you're playing with the frame, and think it might be dead, check that you've got the power source in the appropriate insert, as it fits in both.
The user manual is not so user-friendly. If you're just looking to add pictures to internal memory and have this thing run slideshow, here's what worked for me as I tried to sort it out:
1.) plug unit in properly (see above). It should light up with a display; I think it started with a menu, then defaulted to its logo.
2.) attach to computer via USB cable. Using Windows Explorer, copy any pictures you want to display to the first of the five new external drive folders. If you get mixed up, it's okay, as the other four external drive folders are probably empty unless you've got a card/device in the frame, so you won't be able to copy a photo to them anyway.
3.) detach frame from computer. Save the cable somewhere you can find it again. Using the remote, go to "Photo," then "Internal." Select a picture. The frame should display this picture. Then, with the remote, hit the upper right hand button (looks a little like the create new slide icon in PowerPoint). This begins the slideshow. Don't worry that there's a little gray bar with menu functions to start out with. This goes away after about 10 seconds.
It probably took me about an hour to figure this out and select the 30 or so pictures I wanted to put on it. I probably could have done it in under 30 minutes if I'd had a quickstart guide.
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