Westinghouse 10.2-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame

Manufacturer: Westinghouse Digital Electronics, LLC Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours List Price:$299.99 Our Price:$186.83 Features: Built-in 128MB Flash Memory Input Format: Secure DigitalTM, Multi Media CardTM, Compact FlashTM, Micro DriveTM, xD-Picture CardTM, Memory StickTM, Memory Stick PROTM, Memory Stick DuoTM, Memory Stick PRO DuoTM and USB Flash Drives File Format Capabilities: JPEG, AVI Motion JPEG, MPEG1, MPEG4 Slide Show Features: MosaicViewTM Slide Show, Individual Picture View and Slide Show, Range of Transitional Styles for Slide Show, Variable Speed for Slide Show, Random Picture Shuffle Additional Features: Copy and Save Functions, Color Adjustment Functions, Wall Mountable - 75 X 75 mm hole pattern Description:

Reviews:

Westinghouse Digital frame
I had trouble with frame freezing up on certain pictures. Once I called service dept. and found out it couold only read Jpeg photos it has worked great ever since. I would recomend this product.


Freezing--My Solution
I also tested the problem of congelation announced by several of others. Initially I shortened all the names of file less than 10 characters, but that did not help. Then I gave to the coast all the photographs to 10"x to 8" or with smaller with the maximum resolution of 640 X of 480... but, that did not help one or the other. In conclusion, I showed the nails of the inch of photograph and took a step by the whole file of the nails of the inch (I made charge 148 photographs on the instantaneous order interns). I found a nail of the inch which showed the "supported" format not... though the fundamental photograph was saved in the format of JPEG. I removed this nail of the inch. Then I noted that several of the nails of the inch did not indicate the size (for example, 640 X 480) when... right accentuated JPG. All the other shown photographs showed JPG and the size. I removed the photographs which did not include the size. The problem of freezing was not now fixed... the gel of reinforcement more. I believe that you can easily identify photographs of problem if you enter the manual mode and show each photograph one... when the reinforcement of photograph freezes, it is because the next photograph in the file is corrupted in an unspecified way (and cannot thus be the posting of loaded)... just nails of the inch, selected that the photograph and remove it by instructions. Once that you can manually show all the photographs, they will show in mode of mosaic without congelation.


Excellent value!
I bought this for my wife for Christmas, and it is easily its present of favourite. I added a piece of memory 1GB, and with 220 photographs on top, there remains something like 800MB on the left. The device of Mosaicview makes very beautiful, it is really added to the value of entertainment while observing. I make it pass by the photographs in the order, and changed some of the file names to obtain certain photographs to leave beside other in Mosaicview. It reads of all the kinds of the types of memory, and the visiting parents can jump thier have the memory inside to show with each one their own photographs. The software in the reinforcement lets to you change the orientation of the photograph without having to again go with the PC to do it, which is a device eonomisor of time. The only ones disappeared from thing are Mosaicview slective: some really good photographs that I would like to show only like full page, while other photographs can divide the screen. Mosaicview at the present time does not hold account of this, the its all mosaic or all full page. I built a shirt for only the photographs full page, so much sometimes I put that on posting, other times that I make the larger shirt with Mosaicview. The glare is good but not excel. The angle of viewing could be broader, the size of the reinforcement against your advantageous position has an impact defined on in which good point it looks at. We found the top of the marks of piano it to seem good anywhere in room, meeting or position. Your kilomètrage can change; -) In a general way, I am extremely happy with this product, and I am happy I did not shell out twice of the money, this one works perfectly for my needs. - CHUCK


Westinghouse Photo Frame
Impressive product. Bought him for my mom thus it could see large images of all its grandkids and grandkids which lives far far.


Westinghouse 10.2 LCD Digital Photo Frame
I am astonished that this article is so defective for the price. I tested in various ways to operate, but him them right gel and will not do anything. I gave to the top, and AM paying for a refunding today. My council, by another product, do not take a chance on this one. Of reading the reviews on this site, to resemble them Westinghouse must recall this article. Too many dissatisfied customers.


Works well, filenaming size issue
In a general way this product functions well. I noted that other reviews complained about the order about the images being shown. I cut the option of beating and mine showed images based on the order of file name. I prefer the option of beating however. Stripped I had the problem of power of others spoken. A thing which frustrated very was him would freeze with certain images. I finally determined that the file name of image of the image of success was too long. Obviously the file names of image must be 10 characters or less. Once that I changed the lengths of file name that functioned flawlessly. I employ only charts of compactflash as is it of what I have of the additional expenses. I have thousands of images on my computer thus of various shirts installed by I of images and copy these shirts with a chart of compactflash to have the various images of numerical exposure of reinforcement when I obtain tedious with the current unit.


pretty good large display price - not too user friendly
I did not have the problems that many others who' ve reviewed this product had. Basically, I have need right for an electronic display of big size for my numerical photographs. Because it is, I found it to be a decent option for the price. I find the size wise, it is very nice. I had a reinforcement of 7"qui was too small to be seen correctly of through the room. To 10", this one is completely obvious. And, high narrow, the image is luminous and the resolution is good. I find the fact that the camera shows images in an odd order which obstructs. The buttons could be certainly better designed. But, for Juste to put some images on a chart of memory of a certain type and to turn them above and forget him, it is not bad. When you read the other reviews, think of how much order you want. Do you seek an evaluated and large electronic posting decent of photograph, or need you a device display sophisticated and easy to use media?


I like it so far
Our son took this for my wife. I threw approximately 170 images in their original resolution (2-6.5 mb each one) on a compact instantaneous chart of 2 gigaoctets SanDisk and lit them. That takes a GOOD moment to activate but it started upwards in mode of slide show of "mosaïc" immediately. After having disturbed in the menu during one moment it plays the photographs in a "beating" one by one and seems good doing it. I did not test any staples visual or reduced (to 800 X with 600) still. I did not hear any noise after approximately three hours of continuation. There is no heat of the reinforcement itself but the adaptor with A.C. is hot. The cord of sector could be a longer couple of the feet and there is a small adaptor with turnover. "of wart of wall" to consider. The screen shows pretty the glare and color uniforms. It CAN be just lighter at the bottom of posting or it could be lighting in the room which it is inside. We do not need healthy possibilities or a remote control thus the lack from both is not any concern with us. The menu is not very intuitive but if you play around with him, or ever directed newer finely of TV, you can obtain it to do what you want. These things were around for years but they are to become just decent now. I am certain that they will become better with better processors and greater instantaneous possibilities of memory but for now this is very well. Some of the others criticize ask some functions that a device as this just cannot deliver. A cheap portable computer with a programme of posting of photograph could be a better choice. We will leave it above during a few days to see that this there are all the problems but goes back some now to me am impressed enough to still take to give my mom deteriorated by sight. I will save the cost of good paper of photograph in approximately year with this and a couple of the charts of memory.


Great for a great-grandmother
Imagine a mother, grandmother and greatgrandmother, with grandsons and great grandsons leaving abroad... Many others working all the day ...
She was delighted by the present... She began to operate it and transfer photos and more photos from the cameras and computers.
It was really great to see her enthusiasm.
It is very easy to operate and very decorative.
Westinghouse 10.2-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame


Design flaws make it hard to recommend.
To start, to turn it on, the instruction manual says to push the power button "for a few seconds". I've never had it come on in fewer than 15 seconds, and it often takes 30 or more. That's 30 seconds of sitting there like an idiot holding your finger on the button, wondering if the thing is actually defective. Have you ever even HEARD of an electronic device taking that long? Would it kill them to install a simple on-off switch instead?

The 5 operating buttons on the back are identically shaped (except for the round power button). This makes it difficult to use since you have to look at the front of the screen and feel for the buttons, usually hitting the wrong one. You end up having to turn the frame over and back many times to go through the menu and make your selections. It's understandable that they'd put the buttons on the back, given it's intended use as a wall hanging, it just would have been more user friendly if they varied the size and shape of the buttons, or their location, so you could distinguish one from another without having to visually confirm it.

The manual says that you can download files directly from your PC to the photo frame using a (not supplied) USB cord and a somewhat fussy procedure. I tried this and it didn't work. I ended up downloading my picture files using the same compact flashcard reader I use to download the files from my camera to my PC, and then inserting the card into the photo frame. If you load directly from your camera to your PC you might have a problem.

So far, I haven't had the problem identified in one review of having the compact flash card fall through the opening to loosely rattle inside the device, but after reading that and checking the unit, the writer is right. It would be easy to do, and a major pain. You do have to be careful.

The menu gives you the options of randomly choosing picture files to display and whether or not to repeat them. It doesn't give you the option of viewing them in chronological or filename order. Because most cameras name photo files with a numbering system, you assume that the computer chip would default to showing them in that order. That's not how this device works. It may be a result of how the computer saves the files to the memory card, but it doesn't display the files in the order they appeared on your PC when you downloaded them. That may not be a problem in some cases, but will be in others.

Potential buyers should give some consideration to the orientation of the photo's they may display (portrait vs. landscape). By default, portrait oriented photo's are displayed in landscape format, greatly reducing their size and adding some distortion. The software allows portrait formatted photos to be changed to display in full screen, but it's an 8 step process requiring the aggravating back and forth motion described above and it often doesn't work. It's much easier to do it on your PC (a fact the manual points out). Mixing the two formats is not advised if you intend to hang the frame or display it on a table.

A related enhancement would be to give you the option of displaying all portrait oriented photo's and then the landscape oriented ones, although this would only be useful for hand held viewing. If you regularly mix the orientation of your photos, this might be an issue for you.

The MosaicView is hardly the " exciting new technology" lauded in the manual, but rather a minor obstacle most users will choose to ignore. After all, why pay a premium price to buy a photo frame with a larger screen, only to display images at a quarter of that size? MosaicView makes the orientation problem even worse because it packs 4 photos on the screen, which just squeezes and distorts the portrait files even more.

The stand that attaches to the frame is easy and convenient for landscape view, but a pain to convert to portrait. Instead of integrating that option into the design, you have to remove 4 teeny tiny screws, turn part of the stand platform, and then replace the screws. Unless you routinely carry a jewelers screwdriver, plan on at least a 10-minute job.

The power cord is 6 feet long, making it just long enough to reach from your average wall socket straight up the wall for an average height viewer. A few more feet would cost next to nothing and at least give you the option of trying to hide the cord behind a curtain or the woodwork as it works its way up your wall, or alternatively, to pass the frame from person to person while sitting in your living room.

After using this thing for a couple weeks, my biggest gripe is that I think the designers really missed the boat on what could be the best use of this product, which is as a hand held picture viewer. IMHO, what this country needs is an easy way to share digital pictures when you're not sitting at a computer. I'd hoped that I could use this as a replacement to prints in informal settings. I thought that at work, in a restaurant, or when I have friends over and want to pass around my latest vacation photo's, I'd be able to pass it from person to person, letting them advance each frame by pushing a button. While you can do that with practice, the power cord and button location makes this pretty inconvenient. If this thing was battery operated and had more user-friendly operating buttons, I think the market would recognize it as the final link in the digital loop, a convenient way to carry and show your digital photos.

For those that feel my criticism is misplaced because it focuses on a use not intended by the manufacturer, you're right. If all you want to do is hang this device on the wall and forget about it, these concerns probably won't be much of a drawback. To be fair, the screen delivers very acceptable sharpness at a resolution of 800 x 400 and the small size of the files required at that resolution mean you can pack a lot of pictures onto a pretty inexpensive memory card (one caveat noted below). That capacity is poorly matched to the software's navigation system however, which requires you to move through each picture one at a time if you want to save a picture to the internal memory (on the other hand, the manual gives no reason why you'd want to do that, so most people won't bother). In the final analysis, I think most users will want greater flexibility to use this device as a portable photo album. If that's important to you, you should think about waiting for the next generation.

One final note: For users of compact flash cards, a word of advice. The quality of the card makes a difference! I first tried an old Kodak 16MB card because it was large enough to handle the 200 pictures I wanted to view after I saved them to an 800 x 400 resolution, but I noticed distinct digital artifacts making squared lines in circle or wave patterns through what should've been a smooth transition of color in many pictures. At first I thought it was a reflection of the 800 x 400 screen resolution, but after switching to a 1GB Sandisk card, the problem went away. This probably goes for other types of memory cards as well.



DO NOT BUY FROM WESTINGHOUSE!!
DO NOT BUY THIS DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME. I PURCHASED THIS ITEM AS A GIFT AND IT WAS BROKEN AND DENTED RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX. TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT. WESTINGHOUSE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, PLENTY OF OTHER MANUFACTURERS MAKE THESE.


Great when it works
We bought 4 of these frames for family members. Two of the four had problems with mosiac view freezing up after about 5 minutes. This occurred with both the internal memory and compact flash memory card. When the frame works it's great. We decided to return all 4 frames due to these problems.


Loved it when it worked
I liked this reinforcement but had problems with the slide show freezing after approximately 5 minutes. I bought this one because I liked the sight of Mosiac. The support of technology was not much of assistance. They indicated that to me though all my files where the jpg which if I had made the edition or the culture of them which it would pose this problem. The major problem is me did not have any manner of knowing which image of the 200 hundreds or more caused with the problem. Since I publish several of my images and do not know what I have and what I did not publish, I gave upwards on finding the solution to fix it and returned the reinforcement. When that functioned, I liked it.


Westinghouse LCD Digital Photo Frame
The four features that one should consider in buying a digital photo frame are: (1) size of display, (2) internal memory (exclusive of expansion cards), (3) USB interface which allows you to easily select which photos you wish to transfer the frame (which camera expansion cards do not do nearly as well or not at all), and (4) screen resolution (the higher-the-better, of course). In the 10 inch size, the best digital photo frame on the market as of June 2, 2007 is the Westinghouse unit.


Decent item, decent picture, good for this size frame, but
I searched around before I bought a digital photo frame. Westinghouse is a brand I like, and my family has bought 3 westinghouse monitors for different computers over the past 2 years because I have had good luck with monitor. The value is tough to beat. So, I figure I can't go wrong with their frame. This is a large 10.2 inch screen, resolution 840x480. I must say, the 8 inch frame actualy has better resolution at 800x600, but this has larger pictures, so when in mosaic slide show the pictures are larger therefore easier to see. All in all, I strongly recommend westinghouse, all the standards (multi-media card mp3/mpeg capable) and the great mosaic value on a good quality screen. check it out.



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