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Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 9:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
Anyone own a digital picture frame? They have them at Sam's Club for about 99.00, but, just saw one advertised at Kohl's for 69.99.....anyone have any insight into this product.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 10:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I just use my screen saver on my computer as a digital picture frame.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 10:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
Sherbabe, my sister has one on her bar that I just love and it's always on when I'm down there. I've meant to ask her if she ever turns it off. If you saw one that cheap, you better grab it because the cheapest I've seen them is $100.

That's the extent of my knowledge.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 11:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
They are cool to have! A gal pal of mine just got one for her birthday. The pictures change with multiple transition effects each time, for instance: one will 'roll up', another will slide from one side out the other. The Kohl's price sounds real good to me.

eta: hers had the internet connection

Wink
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10-06-2000

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wink a private message Print Post    
Sherbabe we have two. I received one for Christmas and the cost was about $169.00 Canadian. We also purchased a second one recently for $79 Canadian (different brand). They both work equally well. Different sizes are different prices as well.

Yoda
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08-11-2005

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yoda a private message Print Post    
I was thinking about getting one for my parents; glad to hear they are worth it.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 10:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
They are pretty nice. You'll probably want to find one that accepts a variety of memory cards. Bigger is nicer for long-range viewing. They also have remote controls and can play movies (video camera movies I mean).

While they will automatically reduce large images, it is better (though certainly not essential) to reduce and sharpen the images yourself using a software program. That way the images take up less space and look better.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 5:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Anyone have a brand they recommend? I'm looking at a Kodak 8" LCD with remote for my mom for Christmas.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 7:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I am interested in these also...wonder if they are simple enough for a grandparent to use that doesnt have a puter

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
From what I've seen, Pamy, if you load up the media card with pictures for them (like an SD card), they should be able to handle it. Can they use a VCR/DVR?

The Kodak one is on sale at Circuit City for $149 with free shipping. After looking at some more reviews, I think I'm going to go with that. It seems to be easy to use and yet has a decent picture. Looks like I'll be spending next week scanning in all the slides that are up in my attic!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 7:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
All I know is I don't think they are very user friendly yet. I am waiting until they are. We kept trying to buy one for my mom (and she has a computer) but it is not very easy to upload the photos. I can't remember the specifics, but we tried at least three and they all went back.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I don't mean to be disagreeable Julie (LOL – but I'm going to disagree with you).

IMO, they are pretty easy to use and trivially easy to use if you are computer savvy. Knowing your computer skills I find it astonishing that you would have any trouble at all.

Basically, you just transfer the pictures to a memory card (using a card reader or straight from a camera) and pop the card in the picture frame.

As I mentioned earlier, if you know how, it's better to resize and sharpen the images to the appropriate resolution for the frame (as well as a bunch of other things that you can do to make your images look significantly better) but it is not essential.

ETA: I wonder if part of the problem was that you are using a Mac? Sadly, a lot of this stuff is Windows based.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Yes, the mac part is the culprit (I think!) The world is so non-mac friendly!! (My mom has a mac too)

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
I bought DH one last year for Christmas. I can't remember the brand but it has a clock in it. He had to take the battery out of the clock and just leave it off because the clock was supposed to reset its time off a satellite every day at noon to keep it accurate and it couldn't hit the satellite from here. The satellite updates from somewhere in Colorado, if I remember right. Other than that he loves it. I just load the pics onto a memory card for him and he puts it in the slot.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, December 14, 2007 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Thx ya all! Yes she is able to use vcr so sounds like this might be ok for her

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I just started playing with the Kodak EasyShare SV811, and it's easy as pie. I popped the SD card out of my camera and popped it into the frame, played with the menu options, and everything worked fine. The resolution is different than a standard picture, 800x480 instead of 600x480, but it had a Fit Picture option as well as a Fill Frame option.

I also bought a Canon 4400F scanner specifically to scan slides -- when I bought my house, my mom gave me all the slides we took on family trips to store in my attic...there's thousands of them. It works great too, particularly since it has an option to set the crop size as you scan the image in. I can set that to 800x480 and crop the pictures to fit the frame as I scan them in.

I've been though about 1200 slides just pulling out the ones of family, and ended up with less than 100, but that will be a good start. There are a lot of scenic shots in there...

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
That is so cool, Prisonerno6. I wish I had a bunch of old slides to load on mine. The only problem we had with the one I got DH was the atomic clock keeps trying to update and it can't so we had to take the battery out of the clock part. Otherwise, he loves it.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 5:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
This one doesn't have a clock in it. I could always send you some of my slides...it might be worth the shipping to the great white north to avoid scanning all of these. I only have about 80 done.

The scanner has this cool fading correction feature. Here are two scans -- one faded and one fixed.

faded

fixed

That's my Mom 50 years ago.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
Well, can't seem to get the picture upload working.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Maybe your image is too big, Prisonern06? It has to be 60k or less.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
No, they're both smaller. Firefox keeps hosing up when I get to the file upload page. I'll try again...

faded

fixed

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
That's a nice picture to have. The fading correction feature has quite an affect.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 9:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Prisonerno6 a private message Print Post    
I was really surprised at how well it worked. Granted, a professional would do a better job, but for a one-touch amateur fix, it's pretty good.

Christiii
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07-07-2005

Monday, February 18, 2008 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christiii a private message Print Post    
wow, that is beautiful!!