 "Westinghouse 6 mo warranty, breaks in less than a year" | 2008-10-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1ETZJFCJTN3Q8 |
I received this from my daughter at Christmas. Started to use about Feb '08. Started to give problems about Aug'08 and self destructed Oct'08.
Made in China. Can't they make something that you don't have to throw away in "special" trash that lasts more than a year or 2. This just sat on the desk, no movement,ect First to go was the Menu buttons,ect. Instructions have always been incomplete. Used a flashdrive with it the whole time.
Would not buy another. |
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 "Great Photo Frame!" | 2008-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By l_socha |
I recently purchased this frame as a birthday gift. I plugged it in to put a flash card that I had loaded with photo's and was amazed at how great the mosiac view was! I LOVE the fact that the pictures rotate in and around the frame! I watched the silly thing for almost an hour and then decided to buy myself one!
As the owner of one myself, I have replaced the previous photo frame on my desk at work and I can't begin to tell you how cool it is to look over and get to see up to 4 of my photo's at a time.
The quality of the photo's displayed is great. I have nicer photo quality on the frame then on my monitor at work. The frame is a dull black so there is no shine reflected off it so all you focus on is the photo's inside it. It does come with another frame but I've never used it. I agree that there should be a little more ability to set the speed/type of display but in the mosaic view it's not like the photo's zip off the screen, they do stay until the others rotate off and the variety more than makes up for not being able to control the speed. I love the fact that photo's are displayed 2, 3 or 4 at a time and the transition in on each photo also changes.
Now I will give you the fact that if you have photo's with lots of space around them and a tiny little person(s) in the middle, they will appear small in the 3 and 4 photo view. I found that cutting the picture down and eliminating the junk around it that I wasn't interested in made a HUGE difference in the photo's being displayed. The picture quality is great so even the smaller photo's show up nice and clear! And what a treat to see my photo's displayed in groupings instead of 1 at a time! It's like looking at a wall of photo's arranged by a professional instead of a single shot. Would happily buy this again for myself and for others!
As a side note, the birthday gift of the frame was a huge hit and they also love the mosiac view :)
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| "great frame, might not last long though" | 2008-07-27 |
| - Reviewed By casadecastro |
| I have bought 3 of these. It's a great frame but one of the LCD's died after about a year (warranty is 6 months). If that's par for the course, it would get very expensive to have to replace this frame every year! |
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| "Great Digital Frame" | 2008-07-17 |
| - Reviewed By dlcohen |
| I just returned Sony DPF-D70 - it was a bit smaller than Westinghouse, offered 256MB of internal memory, has a remote, and was sleek/black/glossy. BUT - good ol' Sony and their custom drivers. The 256MB internal memory isn't any good when they clamp down at 170 pictures - I had over 200MB free, but could not upload any more to the frame. An inane conversation with a Sony clueless zombie-tech ensued. I returned that frame and got Westinghouse DPF-804 instead. Beats the pants off the Sony model. Even tho it has 1/2 the internal memory, it handled all 370 pix I uploaded with no problem (all resized with ImageMagick script). The Mosaic feature with 4-up is very cool. This is the first (well, yeah, the second) digital frame I've owned, but still think it is great item for the price. Highly recommended. |
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| "Good value, good picture, nice feature set" | 2008-04-30 |
| - Reviewed By hughrheinsohn |
| The manual is pretty short but it's not hard to figure out how to use it. Good crisp images. Lots of memory expansion options. The unit comes with 128MB of internal memory but I had problems with that. The easiest thing for me is to use a regular USB flashdrive to store the images - the frame accepts that and plays the images smoothly right off the flashdrive. This unit has shuffle mode, which I think is a necessity. Nice size and seems to be fairly well made. We bought two of them for Mother's Day and we've had them burning in for a couple of weeks with no problems, so they appear to be reliable. Basically, a very good value. |
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 "No remote" | 2008-03-22 |
| - Reviewed By viola000 |
| Excellent resolution but would be nice to have a remote. Assumed it came with a remote for the price I paid. NOT. Should have read the specs better. Other units with remote have equal resolution. Look around before purchasing and read carefully. |
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 "Horrible experience - sent a piece of junk!! One star because you can't leave zero!" | 2008-03-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: AA0AE69AXR8OT |
| I received a broken, dirty frame from Electronics Expo. When I tried their "customer satisfaction hotline" I was told that I reached an advertising number and someone would call me back within 24hrs. Needless to say I am still waiting two days later. I do NOT recommend this product or this company. I sense it's going to be a nightmare getting the required "return authorization number" to get my money back. What a disappointment! |
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| "Faulty frame - Service bad from J&R Music World & Westinghouse" | 2008-03-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3FE20HTJTHOU8 |
Westinghouse 8-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame
Bought this as a Christmas Present for my wife. She was thrilled, until it went dead in less than 2 weeks. J&R Music and Computer World was the seller and I did not leave feedback on them in time. When I called J&R they quickly brushed me off and told me I would have to deal with Westinghouse directly. So I called Westinghouse, jumped through some hoops and finally got an RMA# to send it to them for repair or replacement. They had it for over a month, then sent me a refurbished replacement that at least lights up. But after a few seconds of being turned on, the screen fills with garbage, even without any images loaded, only viewing the Westinghouse images that are preloaded. I plan on calling Westinghouse again, but I have the feeling that I am "Out-of-luck" on this one and will end up chalking it up to a hard lessoned learned. I will stay away from Westinghouse products for now on and J&R Music and Computer World. If Westinghouse handles this well, I will try to update this review.
I did like the idea of the size & resolution of this frame and "if" it worked correctly it would be a fine addition to anyone's home. |
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| "There is NO service available." | 2008-02-05 |
| - Reviewed By dumolebob |
| Had one for 3 years and it was fine. Suddenly stopped working. Can't get service from Westinghouse. All they say is to send it to one of their repair centers, but they simply will not tell me where one is. If you buy one know you are totally on your own after the 90-day warrienty is up. CavietEmptor, etc |
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| "Poorly Written JPEG Library" | 2008-01-26 |
| - Reviewed By 2key_3des |
My picture frame started acting strange. The screen would get all pixelated with bars and other graphical artifacts. Power cycling the unit would help things out temporarily but the problems just recurred.
An email from Westinghouse technical support told me that I could only put "raw JPEGs" onto the frame because meta tags added by certain software can't be handled by their JPEG library. Most digital cameras automatically add tags. The suggestion was to open each picture in MS Paint and resave to get rid of any tags. Poorly written software. |
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