Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1320 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 7FF2FPAS/05
• Released on: 2007-12-06
• Dimensions: .75 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Share your memories How many digital pictures are hidden on your PC? See, share, organise and relive your memories with Philips PhotoFrame™, the easiest way to share your memories by displaying your digital photos in stunning quality - without a PC.

What is it? The very best high density screen shows off your treasured photos with the same 'real life' rich detail and vibrant colours as high quality prints. High pixel density for sharp and detailed photo display. Why do I need it? You want to show off your high quality photos in all their rich detail and vibrant colors of real life on the best, high pixel definition photo display product available today. How does it work? The best high pixel density active matrix photo display quality brings your great photos to life with rich detail and vibrant colors. Resolution The resolution express the amount of pixels vertically and horizontally. Note: The resolution has to be considered with the size of the panel (with the same resolution you could find a 7 inch and a 17 inch panel !)Therefore the PPI (pixels per inch) is important too!

Why do I need it? You want to slide any popular memory card or DSC into your PhotoFrame without bother or hassle. Philips PhotoFrame automatically recognizes and reads most popular memory cards. How does it work? Just slide any secure digital (SD) and SDHC, multimedia card (MMC), memory stick (MS), MS Pro, MS Duo, MS Pro Duo (via adapter), Micro SD card (via adapter), Mini SD card (via adapter), compact flash (CF) or xD memory card into the PhotoFrame card reader slot to display stored photos directly - all without a PC. What is it? A compatibility-tested, worry-free memory card reader with a two memory card slots: One slot reads Compact Flash I (CF) cards (except 6FF3FPW) and a second reads Memory Stick (MS), MS Pro, MS Duo, MS Pro Duo, secure digital (SD) Card, Micro SD (via adapter), Mini SD (via adapter), SDHC/ Multi Media (MMC) and xD cards in one hassle-free step -- all without a PC.

Why do I need it? You want to view and share your photos stored on USB flash drives easily and quickly. What is it? A USB connector for easy viewing and sharing of photos stored on USB flash drives. How does it work? Insert a USB flash drive into the USB slot to access stored photo files.

	Why do I need it? You want safe, enviromentally friendly display products. With Philips, you can be condident that your display device is designed to safeguard our environment. What is it? Philips displays are designed and produced to comply with the stringent RoHS standards, which mandate restrictions on hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equiment with the goal of dliminating toxic substances like lead that can harm the environment. How does it work? Throughout the continuum from design to production, Philips requires a leadfree manufacturning process with lead-free componments. Philips guarantees that its products comply with stringent RoHS restrictions on hazardous substances including lead. Lead-free display products are designed and produced in compliance with strict European Community Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) standards that restrict lead and other toxic substa! nces that can harm the environment.

SmartPower A timer turns PhotoFrame on and off at the hours you select, reducing energy consumption for the sake of our environment saving up to one third of your PhotoFrame energy costs.

Box Contains

• 7 inch digital photo frame
• USB cable
• Stand
• AC-DC power adaptor
• Quick start guide

Customer Reviews

"Excellent, if a little small"
I wanted a digital photoframe for my parents, but never having owned one was unsure what to look for.

Eventually I decided, mainly based on Amazon reviews, that I wanted one with a good resolution, random play option and a good range of times between transitions.

Some frames have low (c400 x 200) resolutions, others have no random feature and some with a random feature have a very short maximum transition time (only a few minutes).

This little Philips frame fits the bill. It has a viewable area of 720 x 480 resolution, with random play and transition times from 5 seconds to 12 hours.

There are two card slots for a variety of memory cards and you can also connect via a USB cable to a PC or pen drive.

There's 16MB of internal memory, but that's too small to be of much use.

You can set the time and date and also set the unit to switch itself on and off. Useful for ensuring that the unit displays pictures during the day without having to switch it on and off.

There's no internal battery so if you unplug the system you lose the time and date, and also the auto on and off settings. The transition type (sequential or random), transition interval and type (fade, etc) seem to be stored on the memory cards and are not lost on power off.

The unit can be set up for landscape and portrait, but it does crop (rather than stretch or compress) images that do not fit the format. Thus portrait close-ups are cropped top and bottom when displayed on the frame set as landscape.

There's the usual functions to view pictures as thumbnails and to rotate and delete (all or selected) pictures. The thumbnail view shows the date the picture was taken and the native resolution but you cannot view the filename of the picture.

Finally you can adjust brightness and other options such as sound (beep) and background colour (black, white, grey) for when a picture does not quite fill the screen.

So, overall an excellent little device with only a few drawbacks. The screen is a little small with a 6.5" diagonal (and 3:2 aspect ratio) - I wish I'd bought a bigger one. The lack of battery back up is annoying, as is the fact that the manual was written by someone whose first language wasn't human. The manual is also quite partial, not covering all the unit's features. However if you play around with the menus you'll soon get the hang of it.

I could not get all the information I needed (especially random transition times) from the web so I e-mailed Philips. Their customer service is excellent (not a phrase you often hear) and they answered my query fully and within 24 hours. If you need more information, drop them a line.

EDIT
I originally used this with a Fuji 1GB SD card, factory formated as FAT. Everything was fine until I tried to copy more than 250 files, at which an error occurred. Per the web this is a common fault with FAT. I reformatted with NTFS and everything was fine - can put 1000's of images on the card. But the frame will not read NTFS formatted cards.

The only thing that will work for more than 250 images is FAT32. For some reason this is very very slow for file transfer on my (new) Vista laptop. In addition if I remove the card from the laptop and re-insert it, the laptop will not recognise it - need to reboot to see it again.

So a real pain to get more than 250 images onto the card, but happily this is not something I need to do very often.

Philips' customer services were as good as ever and they confirm that the frame will only read FAT32 formatted cards, and only up to 2GB.

The Very Best Frame You Can Get
A couple of year's ago I invested in a Philips 7FF1 digital photo frame and it is still going strong. At the time it was the best one in a Gadget Show test.

Now I fancied buying another one, with Philips being the favourite. I looked around at several frames from cheap brands like Matsui to Philips, Samsung and Kodak ones. I just wanted a plain frame ie no music/video but one with excellent pictures.

What you have to watch is the screen's resolution size, too low and the picture becomes pixelated. I, therefore, knew I wanted one with a resolution of 800 x 600 or similar. A lot of the cheaper 7 inch frames have a lot lower resolution which means a not as sharp picture, more of a slightly fuzzy one.

The next thing to check is what memory cards it takes, as this is far the easiest way to view photos on it. This one had a good selection, which meant I could use my old compact flash cards with it as well as my new sd cards. I usually load an old card up with photos via the computer using a card reader, simple copy and paste operation - as well as using it with my recent photos on a sd card.

The other thing to look out for is whether the frame is capable of displaying the photos correctly without further manipulation. I read one review that said a Kodak one would not display the photos properly till you had played around with them on the computer. This is not what I wanted, I just wanted to plug a card in the frame and view the photos. This is exactly what the Philips frame does, it adjusts the photo to fit in the frame size, correctly ie no stretching of the photo and distorting people. The only problem I have found with the Philips with this frame is for vertical photos of old photos I have scanned in, it can cut the heads off people depending on the photo. Normal digital vertical photos are fine. However, for landscape photos it doesn't have a problem and fits the photo to the screen. Some other screens leave black gaps at the sides because the photo isn't shot in widescreen which is technically the size of the frame or stretch the photo to fit the frame (which may not be very flattering).

As I had already had a Philips frame it took me all of 10 seconds or so to get the frame displaying photos from a card. There is nothing to fault with the picture quality, it looks excellent. You can set the slideshow up with various options, eg length of viewing of a photo, transitions (effects as the photo changes eg rolling up of previous photo and revealing new one underneath.) and various other settings.

You do have the option to display the time and date in the bottom right hand corner if you want. I personally didn't like this because I felt it could block off people's faces, so I have turned this feature off.

It does have to be connected to a power source, my previous one didn't but to be quite honest the battery only lasted for an hour so it was best plugged in.

So I can definitely recommend it to you if you are looking at a 7 inch frame. I know it is more expensive than some other frames out there but basically you are getting what you pay for and this quite simply has a better screen which is able to display more pixels than some cheaper models.

Nice item - Shame about the instructions
Many years ago I had an early digital watch. It had lots of functions but it was nearly impossible to use because it required you to press tiny buttons and knobs on the front in a complex and inadequately explained way. This reminds me of that - the instructions in the leaflet are incomplete and confusing and written in some kind of Chinglish - the buttons you have to press on the frame don't really correspond to the images in the leaflet and the accompanying CD is just a .pdf of the inadequate leaflet. This is a shame because the actual pictures are good quality. I suggest Philips gets the leaflet rewritten.