Pandigital 8.0" Digital Photo Frame

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 8, 2008

Images go outside of the viewing area

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 20, 2008

Pros: Nice looking, VERY clear screen, great resolution

Cons: The pictures are not contained within the viewing area. No mention of how to correct this.

I am a wedding photographer, and we started offering these fully loaded with the wedding pics to our clients. The concept is great - the reality was terrible. People appeared decapitated and key details were lost outside of the viewing area. It only worked with pictures where LOTS of space was all around the subject. Tightly cropped shots were lopped off in every direction. The first two clients to take these returned them - and we no longer offer this option. Unless your pictures are landscapes or the subject is dead center with space all around, forget it.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 25, 2007

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007

Excellent quality & correct aspect ratio

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this Pandigital 8.0" Digital Photo Frame review helpful

Pros: Very clear picture & bright quality, great at displaying 800x600 photos, very bright and good view angles

Cons: Picture transition lags a bit, makes a whine noise if the brightness is turned down too low, short frame stand so the picture is at a bad viewing angle

I have 2 of these at home and just bought one for my mom to use and put pictures of her trips and grand kids on it. The main thing that caught my attention was the 800x600 picture size and aspect ratio for viewing. Just about all of the other 7"-9" frames I looked at were not a standard 800x600 (or 640x480) aspect ratio, but rather a very long and wide screen look. That means that your pictures would either be scrunched up or cut off on the top & bottom. With this frame, on most cameras that shoot in a regular format, you don't need to resize anything except for the image/file size itself for your memory stick. For the most part, I use a newer Canon Powershot for my pictures and no image cropping is needed. But at least your entire picture fills the frame and the brightness is very good and makes a dark room light up.




A couple of things that I didn't like was the lag time when pictures would transition (shuffle) to the next picture. I wasn't as smooth as some of the others I've seen but it's not bad either. That really doesn't make or break it for me and the picture quality makes me ignore that fault. Also the other main thing I didn't like is the stand on the back is very short. Therefore when you have the frame standing up, it's at such an angle that you need to look down on it to see the image in a straight view. I had to put a 3" block behind the frame to prop the stand up higher. It's hidden behind the frame and you don't see it, and the frame sits now at a perfect viewing angle on my shelf, but it was a disappointment that the stand wasn't originally longer.




A couple of times, I might notice a high pitch noise coming from the frame. The dial on the back that allows you to quickly manually adjust the brightness of the picture would correct the problem. If I had the picture a little too dark (had the dial turned down too far), I'd hear a high pitch whine from the frame... very faint but noticable if an absolute quiet room. I'd have to turn the dial up to get rid of the whine, but when just go into the menu and turn down the brightness electronically and you're all set. Like somebody else said, don't lose the remote because you can't get into the setup without it.





One thing I noticed is that you need to save your JPG images as Standard images, and not in CYMK or Progressive format. The frame will not understand this format and will not read the pictures. It took me awhile to figure this out when I copied images directly to it and onto a SD card and even an Compact flash card. Once I figured that out, I loaded up lots of pictures to my SD card and enjoy them as they rotate to my album. I just wish you could fine-tune, or at least have more options for the picture-rotation timer where as 10 seconds is too fast but 30 seconds is sometimes too slow for me.




As for the price, I don't think this was too expensive (after a 15% coupon, it was $120 from Circuit City), but compared to other 8" frames it costs more. But the difference in quality is very noticable. With digital picture frames, the saying "you get what you pay for" applies here as I've cheaped out before getting the PanDigital frame and the picture quality, colors, and resolution was very distorted and bad looking.




I haven't used the MP3 audio or the MPG video option yet on the picture frames. I really don't intend to as I really wanted a good digital still picture frame that made my pictures look good.




Overall, I'm very satisfied with this particular frame. If the 10" version every drops down in price drastically, I'll look into that.

Pandigital 8" digital picture frame.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this Pandigital 8.0" Digital Photo Frame review helpful

Pros: Amazing pictures, doesn't distort pictures at all

Cons: The back support leg thing could be a bit longer so the frame stands up a little straighter, but I think that's just my personal preference.

I absolutely love this frame. I have been looking for a good digital frame for months and months, and this one is perfect!

The wood frame is very nice and the resolution is outstanding. I have yet to find a digital picture fram that I like better than this.

Great Value

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007

Pros: Ease of downloading

Cons: Small remote

Bought a 1 gb card along with the frame and after dragging and dropping from hard drive onto the card I plugged it in and it took off, only taking a mattre of minutes. Great resolution, two frames to chose from but the 'remote' might be a little to small for grandma. They all looked that small however on the other models

Highly Impressed

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007

Pros: Very Bright, Crisp Display

Cons: Haven't Found Any!

Last year (Dec 2006) I started looking at digital picture frames. I couldn't find anything that came close to the color accuracy and crispness of a true photograph. Times have changed -- at least for Pandigital! I saw this on display at Staples next to many different competitve displays. The Pandigital blew the others away. It accepts many different digital memory types -- and you can copy from the memory card to the picture frame's internal memory without a PC (nice feature). You can add movies & audio files, too.

Overall, I am very glad I purchased this item. It can be found at your local COSTCO for $129 (as of early December).

Great gift for grandparents

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007

Pros: Easy to load from variety of media, great picture, onboard memory

Cons: none so far

I purchased this for my father's 80th birthday - when the family gathered everyone was able to load pictures from a variety of camera and the pictures taken that day. Slide show is great. Purchase price at a Younkers was $79.99 with a $10 rebate, very reasonable from others I have seen. Remote control was easy to use. Would definitely buy another one for ourselves.

Great gift !

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 20, 2007

Pros: Easy as an external hard drive to use, simple to explain to the folks

Cons: none

Got this at Bed Bath & Beyond, they have it for 159.99, used one of the 20% coupons they always send out, making it 127.99, + there is an additional $20 Mail In Rebate bringing the final price to 107.99 before tax.

It is well worth the price! Plugged it into the computer with the included USB cable (it also supports memory cards), xferred files with no problems.

You can store pics, movies, + audio.

customer service

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 31, 2007

Pros: none

Cons: absolute refusal to repair and return product

we sent our frame back because our photo card got stuck inside the frame due to poor design on there part. After 2 months they have not returned the photo frame and card and refuse to give an answer as to why,. I have spoken to them 5 times I call them every day and they acnolege they have the frame and have not sent it but theywill tomorrow but the next day they have not sent it, I would not ever purchase some thing from this company

Don't buy the 8" Pandigital photo frame

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 29, 2006

Pros: None

Cons: None of the features fully work.

I bought ten to give as christmas presents to some employees. I kept one for myself to put our family pictures on. The frames look great but...

The first one I tried the pictures looked great. I put a 512MB SD card in with 200 pictures, some very short video (2minutes) of our summer vacation and five mp3 songs.

We have a good digital camera that takes 8 megapixal pictures but I resized them for the photo frame to 640x480.

The pictures started as advertised and look great. The music played in the backgroung great also. My family was really happy. We all sat around watching the slideshow. Then I started to realize the problems.

The slideshow stopped playing after approx 65 pictures. It just froze and wouldn’t play. I restarted it and this time it stopped playing after approx 55 pictures. I took the video off the card and the same thing happened. I took the music off the card and the same thing happened. I moved the pictures to another sd card and the same thing happened.

I gave up on the photos for now and tried the video. By the way, the frame will not play a combination of video and photos. One must physically switch from one to the other. It would be nice if the frame would play both together without user interaction. Getting past this limitation I tried to play some short videos. Video just doesn't work despite trying several formats and resolutions, .avi, mpg, mpg2, mpg4. Video just doesn’t work, period. Some formats will play in very slow motion. Most just don’t play.

Then I tested the frames ability to plug into the computer with a USB cable. My computer is running Windows XP home with USB 2 ports. One can transfer photos from the computer to the sd card on the frame but not onto the 64MB built into the computer. The only way to transfer photos to the built in memory is through a laborious process using the handheld remote one picture at a time. After coping five pictures I was worn out.

OK. I figured that I just got a bad frame and opened up one of my other ten. This one had a bad screen with horizontal lines blanked out.

OK. I opened another and the same problems that I had with the first one I had with this one.

I tried one more and the same problems.

I went to their website www.pandigital.net and tried calling. The first three days that I called the line was busy. I dialed hundreds of times (automatic speed dial). Busy.

On the fourth day I got through to a voice mail system and the only mail box was full. I emailed them. No response after two weeks.


I took all ten Pandigital photo frames back. CompUSA was fine with the return. I got the employees gift cards instead. My recommendation. Don’t buy the 8” Pandigital photo frame.

Awesome Digital Picture Frame! A+!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  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 resolution 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.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 5, 2006

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 24, 2006

Great Gift for Grandma

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 8, 2006 | 3 out of 5 found this Pandigital 8.0" Digital Photo Frame review helpful

Pros: Great way to see your pictures

Cons: Expensive

An expensive alternative to a normal picture frame. This was a great gift for my grandmother. I loaded all of my pictures into the frame and she was good to go.

Great Frame

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 8, 2006 | 2 out of 3 found this Pandigital 8.0" Digital Photo Frame review helpful

Pros: slideshow, picture quality, compatibility

Cons: Hard to operate

The frame can be tricky to get it to do what you want it to. However, the fact that the pictures are so clear and vibrant far outweighs the time it takes to operate it. The slideshow also eliminates the need for one hundred different frames. Great product.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 7, 2006