Product Description

If you like to show off your photos but don't want the clutter of lots of photo frames around the house this product is ideal. The Linx Photoframe is the next generation in photo frames with an 8"" Full Colour TFT screen and stereo speakers. Just pop in your digital camera's memory card and the Linx will do the rest. It can either display your pictures as a slideshow or play MPEG videos in either portrait or landscape modes. You can even connect it to your PC and display all the pictures from your hard disk.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2889 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Linx
• Model: LDVPHOTO8I
• Released on: 2006-10-29

Features

• MP3, WMA, WAV & MPEG Playback
• SD, MMC, MS/ PRO Cards Supported
• USB 1.1 port & AV out
• Screen Size: 8"
• Multi-card slot accepts: SD, MMC, MS/ PRO

Manufacturer's Description
Stuck with what to buy this Christmas for the perfect present? Simple, the brand new Linx digital photo frame, the PHOTO8W combines the latest high resolution 8" screen ensuring your digital photos are always crystal clear and in vibrant colour. The PHOTO8W is also able to play MPEG 1,2 and 4 and with built in speakers the digital experience just go a whole lot better!!

Box Contents

• 8" Photoframe
• AC Adapter
• UK Power Lead
• Instruction Manual
• Remote Control inc. Battery
• Audio Lead
• RCA Connection Cables
• Frame Stand

Customer Reviews

Very useful for photographers too
I travel around a lot taking pictures on my DSLR on a semi-pro basis, and on a couple of occasions have returned home to find that all my images have sensor dust marks, which makes for many hours of retouching. So rather than follow the recommended route of taking along a laptop I decided to buy the Linx instead.

Where it really scores in my opinion is that it has a built-in rechargeable battery, which means that I can do a photo-shoot and have the Linx connected up to my camera (Nikon D80) which acts as a USB "memory stick". The mini-USB end goes into the camera and the fat end into the Linx. Admittedly it's not a huge screen but if you've ever had to battle with Nikon's tiny monitor screen you'll appreciate the difference.

I calculate (TBC) that I'd get around 45 minutes on a full charge which would allow me to examine quite a few pictures. This is really important if I'm changing lenses as that's when problems usually occur.

It can also be used in the studio as well as the 8" screen is big enough to show enough detail without being as delicate as a laptop: it's real bad luck if you knock your expensive laptop off the stand, but at the price of the Linx it's not going to break your heart, or the bank. It's also going to be handy taken on as aircraft hand luggage: it's not a laptop and you can demo the device to security if need be.

The colour rendition is actually very good, and right now I'm watching it scroll through a shoot with some particularly vivid colours, so full marks there. It takes around 1.5 seconds to load a 1024x768 image (300dpi), just under 1Mb and for a 3872x2592 image (300dpi) of 5Mb, about 4 seconds. If you think that's slow, it is, but balance that against the time taken to retouch 400 dust-spotted images!

The remote is actually very handy and I'm using this in preference to the back-panel buttons: I've found that if you point it at the perspex surround on the infra-red sensor it'll control the frame well. Range seems to be about 1 metre when "shooting" from the front.

One thing I personally like is the clear transition between pictures: I know some people love the "Ken Burns effect" - if you're trying to spot small irregularities between images, that panning and fading can be a nightmare. It's all personal choice though.

All in all a very nice piece of kit. The manual's certainly not the worst I've seen, but if you can work a video/DVD player you should be able to figure it out. I'll use it for a bit and then do another longer-term test review.

not a standard product
It worked perfectly fine for around 6 months but now have developed large pactches on the LCD screen so we can't put this in our living room as the patches are visible on each photo . so even thouugh the product is good .. it is certainly can be branded as cheap and non standard product.

Screen size
I was surprised to see that the size of the screen was nowhere like 8 inches wide (or diagonally) as described by sellers and by the manufacturers.

The width was only six and a quarter inches and the diagonal size (as measured for TV and computer screens) was only seven and a quarter inches. Thus the screen was about the the same size as a standard 6x4 inch photoprint, which was disappointing.

Are we all being deceived? Should the Trades Description Act be invoked?