Pandigital 8.0" Digital Photo Frame

Awesome Digital Picture Frame! A+!

By ToddR  Dec 5, 2006 | 15 out of 16 found this Pandigital 8.0" Digital Photo Frame review helpful

Pros: 8" Screen, High Resolution, Incredible Brightness and Contrast, Vibrant Color, Holds 150 Pics in onboard memory @640x480, Great viewing angle

Cons: Made primarily of cheap plastic, Somewhat high price, Onboard memory has maximum number of pics, Don't lose the remote!

I am thrilled with this digital picture frame. I bought it from a brick & mortar CompUSA for $180. I had done a lot of homework and research online on these things prior to finally seeing this one on display in the store. I was amazed at the high res...olution and brightness. This screen has 640x480 resolution which is high for an 8" screen. It's roughly the equivelant of my 19" monitor at 1280x1024 (dpi is about the same). I'm using the 64MB of onboard memory for my pictures. To get pics on the frame, I first created a new folder on my PC specifically for my favorite pics. Then I went through all of my pictures and copied my favorite ones to the folder. Then I resized them all to the native screen res of 640x480. Resizing them to the screen's native resolution will make them look their best and help you save room on your memory card. I used a program called Fuji FinePixViewer which came free with a Fuji digital camera (you might be able to download it for free). The program allowed me to "batch resize" the pics so I could resize them all at once which made it easy. Then I plugged the frame in, hooked it up to my PC w/ the included USB cable and copied all of my pics from the folder that I had created over to the frame. (For me, the frame came up as "Removable Disk (L:)". The last drive letter in the list is the onboard memory. The only downside of the onboard memory is that I think it has a maximum number pics that it can hold regardless of whether it has room for more or not. I was able to copy exactly 150 pics over to the onboard memory before it could no longer write a directory for more. I haven't tried playing video or music on it yet. A couple things to be aware of is that when you take it out of the box and first turn it on, make sure that the brightness dial on the back is turned up. Mine was turned all the way down leading me to think that I had a dead product. Also, the stand on the rear of the frame is adjustable. It can be pulled out and made longer to raise the frame higher. Also, it looks like the little remote would slide into the frame somehow but I couldn't get it to fit anywhere and if you loose it, you'll be screwed. You absolutley NEED the remote to properly use the frame. I might buy some velcro sticker things to attach the remote to the back of the frame. Read more Less