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Philips 9-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Metal) | 
| Brand: Philips
This item is no longer available
Rating:  103 reviews
Color: Metal
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Display Size: 9
Removable Memory: CompactFlash Type I
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.9
Dimensions (in): 6 x 12 x 10
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 9FF2CME/37
Model: 9FF2CME/37
UPC: 609585125469
EAN: 0609585125469
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| Features:
| • | Displays your digital photos with professional print quality and the full spectrum of colors | | • | 9-inch TFT LCD display screen features of adjustable brightness to match ambient light conditions, and intuitive operation that doesn't require any programming | | • | Connects via USB directly to your camera or PC; supports up to 12-megapixel photos in the JPEG format | | • | Runs on AC power via the included adapter, or lasts up to 8 hours on its included rechargeable battery | | • | Weighs approximately 2.2 pounds |
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Product Description
Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier - and more fun! And Philips continuously explores new ways to improve products and to offer innovative products to its consumers. Philips. "Let's Make Things Better".
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 103
 Absolutely wonderful !!! December 5, 2006
Brian (Centerville, Utah)
121 out of 123 found this review helpful
My wife and I have bought two of these (one for us and one for her parents). The screen is extremely clear and bright. The size is perfect to view your digital photos. It is simple to hook-up to a computer and download pictures from a digital camera or a scanner. With a 1 GB SD flash memory card we have about one thousand pictures loaded and plenty of room for more pictures. It's great to see all your pictures easily instead on them being put away in a photo album or stored on your computer doing nothing. We love the different transitions in the slide show mode that are available. We also like being able to unplug from the AC adapter and sit down and look through them one at a time at our own pace. The rechargeable battery lasts about one hour. The built-in clock allows us to automatically turn the picture frame on and off at set times.
This digital picture frame is a winner. If you have a digital camera then you will absolutely love this. It also makes a great gift for parents and grandparents. Just load your family pictures both past and recent and enjoy the memories.
 Great product! Very happy with it. November 21, 2006
D. Frederick (Michigan)
61 out of 62 found this review helpful
Bought the 9" digital frame the other day. So far have been very happy with it. Yes, the lcd screen is only 8" not the 9" that I and some others expected. The picture resolution is very good. Even though it states the resolution on this frame is slightly lower than the 7" model, I don't think it really makes a difference. The menu control buttons on the rear could use some improvement. They are not labeled except for the power button. This has lead me to push the wrong button on occasion. The onscreen menu is very easy to navigate. I was able to set up the frame in just a few minutes with very little input from the manual.
4.5 Stars - High quality display with a few quirks January 24, 2007
IT SuperFreak (San Diego, USA)
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
As many other reviewers have indicated, the quality of this frame is extremely high in terms of the material, build, and photo quality. The menu system is good but not great; I'd call it serviceable.
I noticed a couple quirks while setting up this frame (Note: my settings: 1GB SD card, all photos are in 1024x768 with no resizing; if you wish to maximize space usage, you can use a freeware Irfanview and batch convert to 720x540. I tried it and it works well, but adds an extra step to the process).
I first created various albums using the menu system. Then I connected it to the PC via USB, copied the pictures into the SD card, and all files are present within the various albums. However, the frame simply does not see some of the photos. The frame for some reason does NOT display all my JPEGs, even though all of them were taken from the same digital camera using identical settings. I made multiple attempts with no luck, and the problem appears to be random. Tech support had little to offer. After several attempts, I had no choice but to conclude this is a bug in the internal software of the frame.
After consulting an Amazon'com friend, I decided to copy all photos to the root (base) directory of the SD card instead of using multiple albums. This worked, as all photos were recognized and displayed by the frame. The only drawback with this method is that all pics are lumped into a single folder ("PC Folder") on the frame, and you cannot display a subset of your photos at a given time (using albums) which I wanted to do. I decided I was willing to forgo this option and just let it display all photos using a random setting.
In summary, I highly recommend this frame to anyone who is looking for an elegant digital frame that looks great. I advise against installing the software, but instead, use USB to drop the files directly to the frame's internal memory, or an SD card.
 Good to look at, horrible to operate February 3, 2007
Petros Maniatis (Mountain View, CA, USA)
92 out of 100 found this review helpful
I chose this frame over its competitors mainly because of Philips brand recognition, and because it looked the best among all offerings. The frame basically works out of the box, and if you don't touch it, you can have nice, smooth slideshows that you'll enjoy. The best mode of operation I found on it was just plugging in a CF card straight from a camera. And honestly, it does look great as a frame I'd put on a coffee table somewhere, compared to its clunky competitors.
Unfortunately, the operative words are "don't touch"!
However, these frames are meant for people who are not tech savvy, and they are meant to be updated with new pictures frequently. The Philips 8' frame failed completely on both accounts, making this purchase one of the worst electronics shopping experiences of my electronics shopping career!
First of all, it doesn't like all JPEGs, it only likes some JPEGs. If you have photos that Adobe Photoshop has even looked at (with standards compliant updates of metadata, for instance) the frame goes crazy and shows giant X marks where the photo should be, taking several seconds to show even the X mark during preview. Everyone else shows the photos (web browsers, the MS picture viewer, photoshop, cameras) but the frame just refuses. For such photos, you have to slog through their own software to have them resized and metadata-sanitized, which works less than half of the time (see below).
Second of all, the user interface on the frame, though not entirely unreasonable, is completely incompatible with the notion of having LOTS of photos in it. Basically, if you're in thumbnail mode looking at photo #500 out of #1000, you have to page through all 500 photos before the one you're looking at, before you'll be allowed to exit the browsing menu. Especially if you're unlucky enough to have presented the frame with 500 of the JEPG files it doesn't like (taking several seconds to show each X thumbnail), getting out of the menu can take up your entire day. Who came up with that brilliant idea?
As others have already said, the PC software for managing photos on the frame is an absolutely unacceptable piece of trash. It doesn't work if you drag and drop photos too fast, it doesn't work with all flash cards (it doesn't like SD cards very much, especially those used with Canon cameras, whereas it's OK with CF cards as far as I can tell), it spends entire days trying to come up with the thumbnails of photos you want to move into the frame (even though MS Windows already has the thumbnails precomputed in the directories already). Furthermore, it keeps failing in interesting yet inexplicable ways, such as claiming you do not have enough space on the storage device, even when you have 80% free on the on-board storage. Forget about removing photos via the software; you'll just regret it. Certainly, don't expect to mix and match photos, manage albums, move in photos from a PC, consolidate photo stores, etc.
To top it all off, on day 3 of its use, one of the two frames I purchased just stopped working. The on/off button was on, but nothing was going on on the screen; no brigthness adjustment, no on/off switching, no resetting with the paperclip got it to relent and start showing something, anything, ever again.
The Philips support was offensive and unbelievably incompetent. After waiting for 45 minutes (I am not exaggerating folks), I got a person who basically recited the pitiful FAQ on the Philips web site for me. There was no way to speak to a technical person to escalate. Instead, I was asked to return their broken frame to them, at my own expense, and wait for 8-13 weeks for a replacement. Are these guys for real? Seriously.
I've owned many Philips devices over the years. It hasn't always been a beautiful experience, but overall I have had no reason to hate Philips before. This frame really changed my view of the entire company. Basically, I will never buy another Philips component again, unless my life depends on it (perhaps not even then...)
Beautiful hardware ruined by terrible firmware July 6, 2007
G. Hamlin (Los Angeles, CA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
It is stated clearly in the manual that this product is Mac OS X compatible. Don't believe it. I bought two of the 8" metal frames as a gift for my parents and my fiance's parents. The idea was to load them up with photos from our wedding. Unfortunately, things did not go smoothly.
Let me begin by saying that I am a computer programmer and technically capable. When the frames arrived, I did a trial run with some old family photos. I shoot in raw with a Canon 30D and use Aperture on a MacBook Pro. I exported half sized jpegs and copied them to one of the frames via USB. Once loaded, I tried to view them, but the frame crashed. When I say crashed, I mean the screen froze for several seconds, then went blank. The only way to restore it was to hit the reset button on the back.
I decided to try loading some images onto a CF card to see if the frame just didn't like the images loaded directly onto it. I erased everything I had put on, then installed the CF card. I got the same result--instant firmware crash.
I resized the pictures in Photoshop Elements to the native resolution of the frame--maybe they'd been too large? I put these edited photos back on the CF card. This time the frame didn't crash, but it only showed some of the pictures. The rest showed up as boxes with large Xs in them. Not very satisfying.
After finding a couple of reviews here that stated pretty much the same thing, I decided to return the frames. It's a shame, because physically they are beautiful. Unfortunately, the firmware just isn't good enough. The sad part is that the latest firmware update is from Nov of 2006, so although Philips knows there is a problem with the product, they have done nothing to address the issue. I'd always thought of Philips as a provider of premium products, but I now question their quality assurance. It will be a while before I purchase another Philips product.
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