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I opened this up, inserted the SD card with photos and realized that everything looked purple. Finally she told me that the unit was apparently defective and must be returned to the store. Very frustrating to receive a defective product. Not subtle either - it was a total mess. The menus are not terribly user friendly but are adequate. I tried changing the hue, brightness, contrast, etc. All of the photos had distortion and a bright purple overtone and splotches. Amazon has been great about it and is sending me a new unit, but it's still cutting it close just before Christmas (this is a gift).
settings but nothing worked. I called Royal's customer service and spoke with someone who basically ignored everything I said and asked me questions that I had just answered for her five seconds earlier. Apart from this, the frame seems to be of average quality. It accepts many different types of cards, which is a plus.
Easy to set up. I read a review somewhere that complained that the frame did not save the settings when turned off. The clarity of the pictures is fine for 800 x 600 - after all, I wasn't looking for, nor needed perfection. I have no complaints over this product. If it has any down side - that is that it does not have a random play of photo files mode, it just plays in the order on my memory card. The remote works fine.
I will be able to get hundred's of my photos up to view.
Personally, I don't care about the no sound as I wanted it for pictures, not movies.
My frame has kept the my custom picture contrast, etc.
The viewing range around the room is great.
I'm not sure what was meant by this.
The 4:3 screen ratio is just what I wanted as many of my photos are old, squarish and are being scanned and would either be "stretched" on the "widescreen" models or would appear too small when it is "auto fitted" into the widecreen mode.
Plenty of memory.
settings and slide show timing settings each time I turn it off and put in a new card.
But, for the price and quality, I am very happy with it.
i got the frst one like 2 yrs ago and still look like new thats why I purchased another one. this is my second frame. i loved it so much. now they are placed on both sides of my table. and my family would stare at them just like watching a movie.
I guess you get what you pay for, though a hundred bucks for a product that doesn't work right after a few months doesn't seem cheap. Then we had to start hitting the 'reset' button to correct a distorted screen (a wavy screen, not just aspect distortion). I bought this as a Christmas gift last November (2007). It worked OK for a couple of months, though the picture quality was never that great. Eventually the distortion led to half the screen missing, and the other half distorted, and the reset button no longer fixes the problem. It's over 90 days since purchase, so the store won't take it back, so I'm left with a piece of junk.
Extensive memory card options. No USB connection to PC. CONs: No internal memory other than the inserted memory card. Remote works but buttons are very close together and forces one to press using fingertips or nails. Bad documentation.
Otherwise one hits the wrong keys by mistake. While the documentation says that it will display mpeg files, it does not work with regular mpeg (mpeg1 and mpeg2) files. The only mepg format I could make it display was MP4. During slide show if one presses the INFO button, it will display image stats and details on the screen for each pic.
Very nice TFT adjustment capability: (Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Sharpness). Random Image viewing. I tried 8 different codecs to encode the files and neither was recognized. Scales large images to 800x600 very good. No sound capability. During a video play, the INFO button alternates between time left to play, time played, and no time display options.
I could get it to play a 45 minute video of 203MB size without a problem. Does not retain settings after poweroff and does not save them to preferences folder even though it displays the folder itself. PROs: Excellent image quality for both pictures and videos. COMMENTS: While the image displays worked without any effort and slide shows were very easy to setup, the video displays were very cumbersome. I could not find a format that made the AVI files work.
I submitted a tech support question to Royal asking for the proper encoding for the AVI files.
Slide show delay ranges from 1-10 secs only.
Overall it does what it is supposed to do - display images in high quality.
Quick and effortless slide show.
All the quirks are workable.
The USB connection on the unit is for attaching flash drives only.
Video display very cumbersome unless in the right format and size to begin with.
In MP4 format it displayed 320x240, 480x272, and 480x320.
I would recommend the product highly.
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