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The slim, genuine, cherry-stained wood frame and custom designed matting of the SP1000 offers a classic style that can complement any room or office. The removable and adjustable stand makes showcasing your memories easy. The frame can easily mount to the wall or be place on a table or shelf.The ten-inch screen shows-off your pictures with the same crisp quality that you receive from high-quality prints. The full color display offers vibrant, bright colors that provide optimum contrast, allowing you to view your pictures in their natural state. Your memories will be displayed exactly as they were when your pictures were taken.Displaying pictures on the digital frame takes three easy steps. Simply remove the memory card from your camera, insert the card into the frame and view your photos. There is no need to upload and edit your pictures on a computer.Once the memory card is inserted into the frame, pictures are automatically displayed as a slideshow. The speed of the slide show can be adjusted to various speeds and you can add different transition effects. If you have a favorite picture you want to show-off, you can set the digital frame to display one picture continuously. more info
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Bought 7 as gifts!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Last year I bought a Pandigital 8 inch and was pleased; however, this 10.4 inch Smartparts frame costs less and is superior as far as clarity and ease of use. This frame exceeds my expectiations.
Smartparts SP1000 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Purchased the frame for my daughter’s Christmas present. Upon reading other reviews, I told her not to use the software that was included.
The Smartparts is one of the top photo frames on Consumer Reports, and the price is a lot lower than others frames.
Resolution, clarity and color is excellent. Frame can be mounted to wall or can be used as a tabletop frame.
I purchased this from Factory Depot (through Amazon). Shipping was very fast and item was packaged very well.
Same problem
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
As another reviewer experienced, the frame started flashing the start-up screen after 10 hours operation. I have contacted the seller, and will up date this review once I see how they handle the replacement.
Worked great and then died
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this as a gift for fathers day. The company handled the order well, and the product arrived in good condition. The product worked well at first, but died after a couple days use.
Great Christmas Gift Idea
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased 3 of these frames and set them up for my Mother, Mother in law and Husband for Christmas. I’m ordering 2 more today, one for my Dad and another for our home. These frames are so easy to use and the picture quality is AMAZING. The wood frame is high quality. The easel on the back is made of heavy plastic but it has a rubber cover for the foot so it doesn’t scratch furniture. Last but not least…the price cannot be beat!
My Son saw one of the ones I had finished setting up and he ordered one for himself and another for his wife as a Xmas gift.
I have not yet tried to add music or video but plan to after the holidays when I have more time. I’ll try to remember to update at that point.
I really don’t think you’ll be sorry if you choose this frame. It’s great!
Beautiful product, works well
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this frame about a month ago and was reminded that I wanted to post a positive review on it when guests to my house were oohing and aahing about it yesterday.
I bought the frame for display in my family room after doing a fair bit of research. First of all, some of the specs on this appealed to me. The 800×600 resolution with the 4×3 aspect ratio were what I was looking for. The compatibility with different media – particularly USB flash drives, is convenient, and I liked the fact that I could upload pictures into the frame’s internal memory. There is ample memory (maybe more than the 256MB advertised) – I have 120 pictures uploaded into the frame and there is room for much more.
Visually, the cherry frame is very appealing and makes this look like a real wooden picture frame fitting in with our other furniture. The size worked out very well; an 8 inch frame was smaller than what I was looking for (I have that size on my desk at work), and the ones that were 12-13 inches (and up) seemed too big – 10 inches is a good size as its easily visible across the room (picture is about a 6″ x 8″). The contrast and color is excellent.
From a usability perspective, one thing that could be better is the intuitiveness of the remote control (for example you have to hit the Exit button a couple of times to be able to navigate to the setup menu) but the UI is reasonably responsive. Uploading photos onto the frame isn’t terribly quick, but it’s manageable unless you’re going to constantly be doing it (in which case I’d just recommend you used a memory card that you modified by plugging it into a desktop or laptop).
Overall, I’m very happy with this purchase.
DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Love it! This is my 3rd 10″ screen purchased from SmartParts… kept 1, gave 2 as gifts. The gift recipients love watching their “memories” being displayed. Great conversation starter during parties, too!
Stuck Pixels Dos
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Ordered the Smartparts 10.4-inch digital frame directly from Amazon several weeks ago. Received the product a few days later and set it up. Unfortunately, there were several red stuck pixels on the display in the middle of the picture. Ug!
Called Amazon and they handled the return, though they didn’t have any in stock. So, they offered to replace this through a third party, TheFatoryDepot, even making up the difference in shipping costs. Amazon is first class.
The unit from the TheFatoryDepot arrived in a few days, and then…you guessed it, more stuck pixels. This time blue stuck pixels near the middle of the display. I’m returning this unit, but TheFactoryDepot charges return shipping of course.
I had been looking for a digital picture frame for over two years. Most of these frames have mediocre reviews, except for this one and the Sony. The Sony is way overpriced, so I chose the Smartparts 10.4-inch digital frame. Though this frame looks good, they obviously have manufacturing problems. So I’m posting this review so that other buyers don’t make the same mistake.
Replace your photo album
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Researched Consumer Reports to see which digital photo frames they rated highly and SmartParts frames did well. After reading several reviews, I decided I definitely wanted one with at least 800×600 resolution (higher the better). Drew the picture size on a piece of paper for 7 inch, 8 inch, 9 inch, 10 inch and 15 inch frames and decided that the 10 inch frame was the right size – the 7 and 8 inch ones are not much better than a 3×5 and 4×6 inch prints, respectively so they aren’t that big. This was a gift for an 85 year old so we needed something big but not huge. The 15 inch frames were just too big and finding a spot to place them would be difficult.
The frame functions very well – picture quality is excellent and loading it was very easy; however, I recommend you not bother using the software that was bundled with it – that does not work well at all. I simply hooked it up to my PC using the enclosed USB cable and copied photos from my PC directly to the memory in the frame (drag and drop). I have Windows XP and had previously downloaded from MicroSoft, a program that resizes photos into one of four selectable sizes. I used this ImageResizer to resize all the photos I was moving to the frame to save space on the memory card. One piece of advice, do not resize all the way down to 800×600. I found that using 1028×768 made the pictures look better. If you install an additional memory card in the frame then you really do not need to resize the photos.
I have not yet tried to use all the additional features like adding music to go with the slideshow or viewing video clips. For viewing photos, this product works great – you can replace all your photo albums with it.