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Coby DP842-128 8.4 digital photo frame with MP3 player, TFT LCD color display, displays JPEG image files, plays MP3 and WMA audio files, plays MPEG -1, -2, -4 (AVI, XviD) video files, photo slideshow mode with music, SD,MMC,MS,xD and CF card slots, full-size USB port, AV output for use with home theater systems, integrated stereo speakers, wall-mountable design with detachable stand, acrylic frame, white more info
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Biggest peice of junk ever
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I got this because it has all these good reviews just to find out that it is junk. the picture quality is not excellent like everyone says. matter of fact the picture quality is very poor and the whites are washy and the blacks too. it puts lines through the pictures occasionally and lastly..it slowly moves my photos to the side. after it runs for about 2 days i have to turn it off to “reset”. every picture moves to the left just a tiny little bit and after the pics scroll through eventually you notice them shifting off the screen. DONT BUY THIS EVER. not even for a cheapy.
Good frame for the price
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Was looking around for a decent quality photo frame to gift to a friend. This frame was well within budget and had good features.
It displays decent resolution photos, also plays MP3s along with the slideshow, and has 128mb inbuilt memory, which is sufficient for 100-200 photos @ 800×600 resolution.
The only disadvantage I found was that writing to its internal memory was pretty slow.
Elder Viewer
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I don’t think you can turn this item on or off with the remote. There is no internal memory.
Digital Picture Frame
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Still have not figured out how to get the song to play at the same time the pictures do…should be way easier than this! I like the remote and the swappable covers, but the ease of use is just not there and this is a gift for my parents, who don’t like technical things…so was trying to get it all set up for them. Not overly happy.
Overall pleased w/ purchase
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I just bought this product through [...] and it arrived in short order. As others have pointed out, the manual instructions are not the greatest, but after a little while I was able to figure it out. I managed to upload several pics from my camera by inserting the memory card and copying over the pics to the internal memory (yes, it did have internal memory), then added more pics from my computer using the USB mini port and also copied over a few music files. Great news, the slideshow did play w/ music, you have to set the music to play on the music set up menu.
I agree that the stand is flimsy and may be problematic down the road. The picture quality is great and the music plays beautifully. Although, I noticed a few times that the music had a slight break, then continues on. Well I’ll see how it goes. This is a Christmas gift for my mom and I am really hoping all goes well. I got a really good deal for the price!
Fatal flaw
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
The Coby DP888 has, for me, a fatal flaw that I feel should have been disclosed in the advertising. It can only recognize and show 2000 pictures from an SD card (and I would guess any other memory card type), even if the card contains many more pictures. Of course, over the course of a lifetime, many of us take far more than 2000 pictures. My 2GB SD card is only 1/3 full with 3300 pictures on it, so I expected the DP888 to be able to show a huge number of photos, but sadly, it can’t. I wonder if Coby’s more recent products continue to have this limitation.
Great little pocket picture frame
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I got two of these when they ran a special price on them and hoped they would be usable by my techno-peasant wife and 82 year old Mom. I knew I would have to load the pics for them but was unsure if it would be too complicated for them to turn on and show off pics of grandkids. With a couple of caveats, it is great for my purposes. It charges quickly and holds a charge for a long time. It is easy to turn on and automatically goes to slideshow. The pics are clear and big enough to see well (I had previously purchased my wife a keychain model that was worthless). It is easy to load pics but I would suggest cropping them and resizing them to less than 500 Megabites so that they are easier for this small processor to handle. It has a nice case to keep it from being scratched in their purses too. I may just get another for my daughter to carry pics of her cute kids.
only 2,000 pictures max.
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Overall a nice frame with decent picture quality. However, it has a severe limitation in that it will only recognize the first 2,000 pictures on a USB stick. A severe limitation that Colby does not describe anywhere in its sales materials (otherwise, I would not have bought it).
With 18,000+ pics on a 4 GB memory stick, the Coby frame does disappoint. With a digital camera, one does tend to collect pictures at an astonishing rate over the years. Forget about constantly updating/changing your memory device to have other pics to show on the Colby. You will tire of this very rapidly.
Great gift
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The style of the frame is what drew me to this product. Most digital frames just have the plain flat front, but this one was nicer. The images looked great on it as well. The only drawback was having to get the pictures the right dimensions, but that may be the case for all digital frames.
3 weeks later, I still can’t use it.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
First of all, this review is for the COBY DP-758 ONLY. be forewarned, Amazon has this tendency lately to lump reviews for different products together, which makes finding accurate ones for what YOU are purchasing difficult at best! That being said, here’s my review: There’s nothing like the gift that keeps giving, and this thing is like Herpes…the pain never stops. I received it as a gift, and if you are thinking of buying it for someone, DON’T!! Just give ‘em cash, I beg of you. To begin with, it has no internal memory, so immediate purchase of an SD memory card is a must. Then you are limited to the old fasioned, slow SD card (SDHC not compatible) with a 2GB max. So if you have LOTS of pictures, as I do, you will need several, and have to interchage them at regular intervals. Ok, so you have your SD card and think you’re ready to go, right? WRONG!! They didn’t even include a connectivity cable to hook it up to your computer! The instructions (The marginally better downloaded PDF document by the way, not the crappy instructions included in the box) simply say to connect your computer using a USB 2.0 High-speed cable, which should be easy, but what you actually need is a USB male ‘A’ to male ‘A’ connector NOT an A/B extension or even A/A extension which has one female end. This cable thus far, seems to be made with unobtainium, ’cause it’s impossible to find. First, I went to Radio-Shack, Staples, Wal-Mart, Best Buy (the list goes on…) and nothing, zero, zip nada…there just isn’t any. Not even Belkin had one. Next, I tried online… but 2 tries later (even though the description sounded right) I have returned both, and had to pony up the return shipping to boot (more time and money wasted). Oh and forget about customer service, you are better off asking your pet, or maybe one of those fortune telling eight-balls. Consequently, I still have a picture frame that’s only good for a door-stop, and my limited options are; Build the cable myself and risk damaging my computer for this piece of crap, trash it altogether, or perhaps re-gift to someone I really, really don’t like.
Easy to use, Nice display
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I found the unit to be easy to setup and use. It would have been nice to include some instructions on how to achieve the best picture quality. I initially found that large picture files were slow to load and appeared grainy, but after experimenting I’m very satisfied with the results.
First, I used PaintShop Pro to open the photos right in the internal memory. Depending on the photo content I would either reduce the photo overall, or cropped the subject are to fit a 640 x 480 pixel size. Next, I reduced the number of colors to 32K, and saved the picture over the original file.
Result is a faster loading, much more clear image.
nice frame
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
It is what it is… not to fancy, not too simple. It is easy to use and has a nice display window. I bought it for my grandmother as a gift and she was able to get it to work without any problems. I also like that it has several ways that it transitions between photos (ie. fade out, roll over into next pic, graphic cube fade….). I would recommend this item to anyone that is looking for a digital frame for their photos.
Limitied capabilities
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Aside from a clearly visible grid on the screen, the products has many limitations. To do a slide show of pictures, you have to have all the pictures in the same folder. Besides, you can not have more than 500 pictures per folder, or the last ones will not be shown. So if you have lots pictures organized in folders (like most of us do), you have to copy them into a same folder, which is very troublesome; and most likely you will have to split them in different folders of 500 pictures each, and every once in a while select a different folder. I wish there was a firmware upgrade so the product could randomly display pictures in any folder in a memory device. …Oops, almost forgot, even though you have different options for memory devices, they cannot be more than 1GB in size or they wont work, another annoyance since nowdays is difficult to find devices of less than 2GB.
good value for more than a digital picture frame
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
other than a digital picture frame, it can also play mp3 and video file. the price can’t be beat.
Es una porquería
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
La imagen de este frame es pésima, se ven pixeladas las fotos, adicionalmente en 4:3 se ve la imagen muy pequeña y en 16:9 se deforma la imagen pues se ve alargada.
Realmente me siento estafado…!!!
great deal just to return
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I purchased the dp702 frame for father’s day. We fully loaded a Kodak 1gb SD card with about 450 pictures (with 75% capacity), it worked just fine and dandy. But, we wanted to add more pictures and recopied the pics onto an PNY optima 2gb SD card with good success now totalling 500 pics. That way, they could load more of their own pics on too, but when we plugged it in, we had no success. It wouldn’t read the card at all. We reloaded the old card in and it no longer read it either. We are taking the frame back to exchange and hopefully, it will work. It looks like it’s all about total number of pictures or memory inserted.
Good idea, bad execution
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this as a gift to my mother-in-law so she can load up her grandson’s photos and not have to carry bulky photo albums in her purse, as she does today. The frame is a perfect purse size with a good quality display.
Unfortunately, the device does not have a good way to navigate through hundreds of photos it can store. There is a thumbnail view showing 4 on each row. In order to get to the photo #500 from, you have to push next button 499 times if you just turned it on. It doesn’t save where you left off. There is no page up and down to speed up the browsing. So, if you loaded the frame to its max capacity and have SD card, be prepare to push next button many many times.
Another problem I had that the buttons were not very responsive. It may have been a malfunction on the device I received. When you have to push 500+ times to get to the last photo pushing on an unresponsive button it can be quite frustrating.
DP350 Good and Bad
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
It looks as if reviews for various Coby photo viewing products have been mixed together. This review is for the Coby DP-350. It covers only the picture viewing capability, because I have not used the MP3 playing capability. The only type of memory cards I have used with the DP-350 have been SD’s.
What I like most about the DP-350 is that if you have your photos divided into folders, you can move through the folders and select a specific folder for viewing. This means you don’t have to move through perhaps hundreds of photos to find the ones you want. You can create the folders in the DP-350′s internal memory (about 1 GB) or on an SD memory card. (Perhaps other memory card types as well. I used only SD’s.)
The SD-350 will not let you choose subfolders within a folder. If you do have pictures within subfolders, the pictures will all appear in the parent folder.
When you connect the DP-350 to your computer with the USB cable, Windows Explorer treats the DP-350′s internal memory as one more drive. If you have a memory card inserted in the DP-350, it is treated as yet another drive. Using Windows Explorer, you can create or delete folders, copy folders from you hard drive (or maybe a CD), transfer pictures to the folders and delete pictures from the folders. If you want slide shows to be in a certain order, you must transfer the pictures to the folder in that order.
What I most dislike about the DP-350 are it’s 5 buttons. Push them a bit too slowly or not quite hard enough, and the button push is not recognized. Also, it would be nice if the buttons were a bit wider and a bit more rounded; if you use the buttons to move through pictures instead of running a slide show, your fingers will become slightly sore.
Another problem with the DP-350 is the delay between button push and response to the button push. This is not much of a problem if you are working with photos in the internal memory but can be annoying if you are working with a memory card with many folders and pictures. As you wait for a response, you wonder if perhaps you didn’t push the button just right. (The brand of SD memory cards I use come in different speeds. Using a faster memory card reduced the waiting time, but internal memory still worked much faster.) (Note: Another 3.5″ viewer I have is much faster when working with memory cards but does not allow the selection of folders.)
There are two features I wish the DP-350 had. The first would be the ability to jump from one page of 9 thumbnails or folders to the next or previous page without having to move through the folders or thumbnails one at a time. The other would be the ability to rotate pictures so that portrait oriented photos could be viewed in a somewhat larger size.
Slightly goofy interface, but clean pictures
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
My siblings and I got this for our mom’s birthday. We decided to be sneaky and preload it with pictures of the family before giving it to her, because really who gives a picture frame with the generic pictures in to their mom on her birthday? No one I know who doesn’t want to hear about it until judgment day.
The frame itself looks just like the picture. What you don’t see is the power cord you’ll have to hide though. This take regular AC power from the wall outlet, no batteries. All of the connections, memory slots and USB connections are behind the larger frame. So with some work, the slots and power cord can be hidden from view.
I grabbed the manual and started trying to follow the instructions for adding new pictures to it. That’s where my problems started. The instructions didn’t seem to follow what the frame and my laptop were telling me. The screen was supposed to have some instructions to follow once the USB was plugged into the laptop. It didn’t. It was stuck with a generic info screen that you couldn’t navigate away from as directed.
Oh well. Thankfully, since it’s a USB drive you can bypass the frame’s directions and just drag and drop like you would any other USB drive. When hooked to a PC, you’ll find a multitude of new ‘drives’ on your computer from the frame. These are the different card slots for extra memory. It comes with 128mb in the frame, so if you don’t want to drop the money for an extra card, you’ll be fine.
Once I narrowed down the internal drive for the frame, I delete the generic pictures and started putting on the ones I wanted, that was the easily part of the entire job. After putting all the pictures I wanted, I renamed the internal drive to make it easier to find later for my parents too.
From there, we started working to organize the pictures for a more random slide show when it was turned on (it has an on/off switch). It was frustrating to figure out how it read the pictures for the show and how it ‘randomized’ them. Basically we had to rename the picture files, then move them around in the internal drive and then we just told the frame to show them in order.
Mostly these are minor quibbles for me. The pictures looked just fine, the price range was affordable, the screen isn’t too small and even my parents have figured out how to add new pictures.
False/Deceptive Advertisement…
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I received this Coby DP-350 photo player item 6/25/2009. It was neatly packaged and as described. BUT “DID NOT” COME WITH THE BLACK LEATHER POUCH, shown in the pictures and descriptions, where ever you see this DP-350 advertised, including Amazon.
Clearly false advertising. This handsome leather pouch is one of the reasons I purchased this item. What the heck Coby?? Also I can not play music & view photos at the same time, a feature I would expect to be understood. Coby advertises both music & photo, but not one mentions that you can not view pictures with background music at the same time, even in any of their manuals, they completely duck this issue. Again, What the heck Coby?
nice
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I don’t know what to say about a product like this. It works, the price was great and it is durable. Perfect for what I had a need for. Did not want to spend too much money but still wanted a decent quailty product. I had so many phots and needed several frames this what great
Good so far
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
If you are looking to buy this item and are confused if it is 4:3 or 16:9, you must realize that Amazon puts the reviews for all the different sized frames TOGETHER. Some are 16:9, and some are 4:3. You need to look at the screen resolution and figure it out yourself.
For me, the product was a gift for someone else, and they seem to love it. I’ll probably come back and comment better on it’s behavior after they have used it for a while and I’ve had a chance to check it out myself.
Coby DP350 Review
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This is a nice purse sized photo album with good quality pictures. I found setup a little awkward and the ability to select individual pics cumbersome, needing a software upgrade, I think. Still, I haven’t seen anything any better in this size at any price making it a reasonable choice to carry a bundle (up to 1000) of pictures for a proud parent or grandparent.
La función aleatoria
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
La función aleatoria no es la mejor, ya que en realidad parece que las fotos van apareciendo en orden, no exactamente consecutivo, pero tampoco aleatoriamente.
fine colour renditiob cleaR PICTURES
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
i aM VERY MUCH AN AMMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER I enjoy having my holiday snaps up on the screen. While I work they flip thru their sequence I look up from my boring desk work and recall the moment I took the picture.So I am happy with the product I have not tried to show a film or test the sound quality on the unit yet