Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41913 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Philips
• Model: 9FF2M4/05
• Released on: 2006-10-23
• Dimensions: 2.20 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
High pixel density for sharp and detailed photo display

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.

Display all the crisp colours of professional printed photos

Full colour display brings out the best in your photos with vibrant, real life colours by displaying the same full range of colours found in professionally printed photos.

Exquisite materials and finishing add value to your photos

High quality design and exquisite materials include a solid stylish stand, designer frame and detailed finishing that convey an impression of value and refined taste, adding lustre to the photos displayed on PhotoFrame.

Four swappable frames to fit your decor and personal taste

A selection of interchangeable frames that snap onto your PhotoFrame fits your personal taste and compliments your home or office decor.

Play slideshows, single photo, thumbnails or show clock

Flexible display modes give you the freedom to display your photos one image at a time, in thumbnail mode for quick, easy searches, or to create a slideshow of your most treasured photos.

Display and manage photos on memory cards or internal memory

Memory-Card Manager is a set of two built-in memory card readers and featured software for displaying, editing, storing and organising your memory card photos directly in one, hassle-free step - all without a PC. It accepts two memory card slots: The 1st slot accepts:Compact Flash 1 (CF), while the 2nd slot accepts:Secure Digital Card(SD), SDHC Card, Multimedia Card (MMC), xD card, Memory Stick (MS), MS pro, MS Duo and MS Pro Duo (via adapter), Micro SD card and Mini SD Card (via adapter). They all work as extended memory space - just like PhotoFrame's internal memory.

Create albums, slideshows and manage your photos

Smart Album allows you to create and manage albums, as well as to set up and adjust transition effects to your photo slideshows.

Rotate, zoom, crop, mask and add effects to your photos

The PhotoEffect Wizard is an easy-to-use feature that allows you to rotate, zoom in, crop and even adjust photo colour tones to black & white or sepia right within PhotoFrame.

USB connector for easy photo downloading from your PC

A USB connector is built into the device for easy and quick downloading photos from a PC.

Operate on AC power or cordlessly with rechargeable battery

AC or onboard battery power give you the choices of operating your PhotoFrame on standard AC power or cordlessly with the onboard rechargeable battery.

Automatically turn display on and off at preset times

A timer that turns your PhotoFrame on and off at the times you choose. You can select different timeslots to fit your personal schedule and to save energy.

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Customer Reviews

Delivers on everything it promises
I agonised for ages about buying a digital frame. They were pretty expensive, the screens looked small, the quality was questionable, there were pretty well no reviews to be found and the big question was "Do I really need one?".

Well, I eventually bought the Philips 9FF2M4/00 and, to cut a long story short, it's just perfect with a few tiny caveats.

The "Getting it Out Of The Box" experience was great, it was well-packaged, felt sturdy and well-made and exuded quality. So, I chucked a few sample pics on an SD card (it takes SD and CF cards) and plugged it in and encountered the first issue - the socket for the SD card felt a little flimsy - there was no "click" when inserting it, just a kind of mushy feel - not very satisfying but no big deal, it holds the card securely enough.

After a 30 second fiddle with the menu's I got a great slideshow of my pics - the pics are played straight off the sd card, there are a ton of transitions to pick from, you can alter display time, etc etc - pretty well everything you'd expect.

The pics looked pretty good but weren't perfect. I have to admit here that I'm a bit of a geek and want things to be perfect, especially when the frame was a present from me to me and my wife and would take pride of place in our sitting room.

So, the quest began to make it perfect. Firstly, pictures that were a little dark didn't look particularly good - nothing major, just "not perfect". So, I lightened up all the darkish pictures - looking good so far. In addition, slight imperfections in the pics showed up more in the frame so I tidied up the worst of them - looking better.

Then, it became apparent that the aspect ratio of the screen was not "picture size", it was slightly flatter and wider. Unsure as to the exact resolution I checked the Philips web site which states..

"Resolution : 800 x 480 pixels (viewing area 680 x 480)"

So, what's the difference between Resolution and Viewing area? No idea. I emailed Philips who said..

"When a photo with resolution 800x480 ( standard photo resolution ) is presented to the model, the Photoframe will convert the photo to its viewing area 680x480 by software."

Ok fair enough. However, I noticed that the frame came with a bunch of Philips sample pics, the resolution of which were 688 by 448 (***EDIT - This originally said 688 by 488, this was a typo - my apologies ***). So, that's the resolution I picked. I went through all the photos I'd chosen for the frame and cropped them (I couldn't just resize them as the aspect ratio was wrong) to that size, resulting in better image quality.

So, finally, it was working perfectly and looking great and I would definitely recommend buying it. Ignoring the geekery for now, standard photos still looked pretty good and there's no need to go overboard like I did, I'm in no way implying that the photos will only look good if you spend ages with an image editor.

Finally, do you need a digital photo frame? Well, if like you have a ton of lovely photos that you rarely look at then I definitely recommend it. It was so nice to see lots of photos that we hadn't seen for ages so personally I think digital frames are a great idea and I'm very pleased to have bought the Philips and especially the 9" frame - a little bit bigger looks a heck of a lot better.

Memories are made of this!
I was bought this as a (generous) Christmas present. It is a product of outstanding quality - the construction of the frame is perfect, and, critically, the LCD display is probably the best I have ever seen. The ergonomics are very sound and make the device very user friendly indeed - you can easily programme it to come on and off at peak times with different settings for weekends. Uploading pictures is dead easy too. Overall, a real top drawer product from Philips which is hard to fault and looks great. In summary, usability and sheer quality in one - all other versions of this sort of product that I have seen seem second best in comparison.

Philips 9" Digital Photo Frame
We bought this digital photo frame as a gift for our daughter-in-law and were very impressed with the quality of the product. So much so that we were very pleased when they bought my wife one in return for her birthday.

The build quality is execellent and the display resolution much better than some other frames that I have seen on sale in the UK. There is ample built in storage for holding plenty of your images but I prefer to use an old 16 Mbyte CF card from an old camera to dump my cropped images to. Depending on the compression you give them this will hold approx 200 pics.

My only complaint is the abysmal quality of the Philips Photo Manager software - which is the reason I only give a 4 star rating. Unless you are conversant with file management on a PC you may have trouble locating your images as 'My Pictures' needs to be navigated to from c:/Documents and Settings/user/My Documents/.......etc. Also the drag and drop can be a bit iffy at times. I have also found when adding additional images to an album they sometimes show as an empty place holder with an X in the middle or I end up with duplicate images!!! I now don't use the Photo Manager software but prefer to drag and drop resized images with windows explorer straight to my CF card.

Having said all that I am very happy with the hardware and would recommend this frame as it produces a great slide show and is very versatile in its timing, transition effects and auto turn on/off feature.