ATMT - 7 inch LCD Digital Photo Frame
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #21066 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: ATMT
- Model: 7TFTDPF
- Released on: 2006-10-24
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 11.00" l,
- Display size: 7
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description
This ATMT high quality TFT Active Matrix LCD Digital Photo Frame allows you to display digital pictures without a computer! Simply insert a compatible memory card into the digital frame to view all your photos. Setup a slide show and watch it directly from your cameras memory card.
Super slim and stylish this 7" Brushed Silver Digital Photo Frame is designed to resemble a picture frame in appearance and is the perfect way to showcase your favourite photos.This innovative product provides and intelligent solution for modern homeowners to display all their favourite images. You can display the images as single photos, thumbnails or slideshows. The amount of pictures you can view on your ATMT 7" Digital Photo Frame is only limited by the size of your memory card.
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Customer Reviews
a great birthday present
As someone who had about 4000 photos all sitting sadly neglected on the hard drive of my PC this was a brilliant gift that enables me to enjoy a fair proportion of those pics at any one time, organised very simply into folders on a decent capacity USB. Yes, the instructions are very basic and distinctly pigeon English at times, and yes I know it is early days (I've had the frame less than a month, so it could all go horribly wrong), but the concept and execution so far are great and very simple. So far I have recomended this item to two other people and bought two more for grandparents to share those magic, and usually hidden memories.
3 Faulty frames
I originally bought one of these just before Christmas for my Mum as a present however after about a week the frame failed and wouldn't display any photos on SD card or USB flash drive.
On contacting Amazon they advised I contact the manufacturer who directed me back to Amazon for a replacement which they promptly sent.
When the 2nd frame arrived this was faulty so returned this one.
The 3rd frame arrived today and that too is faulty. On every occassion I contacted ATMT and today they admitted there seemed to be a problem with them. On every occassion I could read photos from the SD card on my computer and a Philips digital photo frame I have.
So beware, however I have to say Amazon have been excellent handling the returns for the faulty items and if I could give them 5 stars seperately I would, thanks Amazon - I know it's not your fault and you're customer service is up there with high street stores!
If I could give 0 stars for the product I would as, although very cheap, I would seriously look at spending that 'little' bit more on a known brand such as Philips.
Good value for money (it seems!)
Read the various reviews before taking the plunge, but have wanted one of these for ages and the price speaks for itself.
It's taken me a while to work out how to format the pictures to look good on the screen, but I've sussed it!!
If the ratio of your photos are nominally 6 x 4.5 (normal for digital photos) then you need to scale them otherwise you will have black bands or the pictures will look flat and wide.
I found that by taking a picture, scaling it 1:1 (e.g. 1600x1600 pixels from a 1600x1200 source file) is a good start.
Then resize the picture to 480x480 pixels (why waste file size on your memory cards, the native resolution of the screen is 480x234 pixels).
Then crop the top & bottom of the picture so that the final picture size is 480x400 pixels.
It sounds odd & looks odd on the PC, but looks 'spot on' when downloaded to a memory card and displayed on the screen!!!
This makes the file size of your pictures at around 80Kbytes.
You can now make use of those old, small memory cards to store MANY photos on your picture frame (around 300 on a 32Mbyte card!!).
You can automate this process of picture scaling using Jasc Paint Shop Pro software.
OK to make the most out of it, it's not for the novice, but overall the build quality seems good and with a bit of adjustment with the settings, the pictures look natural.
I just hope that it stands the test of time (always the concern with cheap electronics).
My only gripe is that you can not adjust the time that each photo is displayed (about 5 seconds), hence the 4 stars, if someone learns how to do this, please post it in a review here!!).
I have purchased this as an xmas present for my wife, as well as putting many of our digital photos on a memory card ready to go.
I think this would make a lovely present for a relative.
My recommendation, buy it!



