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Pandigital PAN7000DW 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Black)
 
Manufacturer: Lamorinda Distributing
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List Price: $99.99
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Product Description
The world's first 7" frame displays in 4:3 aspect ratio for no stretching, cropping or distortion. Digital screen displays up to 6400 images on 1GB of internal memory. Transfer images, audio and video from a memory card via 5-in-1 card reader or from PC with included USB cable. Customize the look of your frame with the interchangeable white and charcoal mats. WiFi/Bluetooth compatible.

Product Details
  • 7.0" viewable LCD display - holds up to 6400 images, 4:3 Aspect Ratio
  • Stylish flat black frame to fit any decor
  • 5 in 1 Card Reader - SD/MS/MS-PRO/MMC/XD, 2 Paper Mats - White / Charcoal
  • Alarm, Clock, Calendar and Programmable ON/Off timer, Audio, Video, Bluetooth, Wireless
  • 1GB Internal Memory

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Good frame, good value, works as expected
 
Review Date: November 8, 2009
Reviewer: Timothy Oey, Sunnyvale, CA USA
The Pandigital PAN7000DW 7" digital photo frame is the best digital photo frame I've found yet. I've purchased 4 other models in different sizes from Axion, Phillps, Smartparts, and Opteka. All of these others had various issues (16x9 when I wanted 4x3, didn't always start picture show automatically, buggy software).

The PAN7000DW is reasonably priced (about $65 from Amazon as of 11/9/2009) as compared to the Sony models which are all much more expensive.

The PAN7000DW display is excellent -- showing 800x600 pictures crisply and vividly. The software is very good with a reasonable user interface and useful options. I like displaying my photos using their original dimensions (the optimized view attempts to maximize the amount of display used but will chop off edges to accomplish this) - you can pick the view mode you want.

The frame accurately shows the EXIF photo date/time if you want to display it. It will also optionally show the current time. It has a nice calendar w/ picture view as well as the normal full frame photo view. And it seems to show ALL your photos eventually (I had a strange problem with an Opteka frame not showing all the photos, only a subset). The remote is small and is held on the back of the frame by a magnet. The remote works well (some remotes I've used have buttons that are hard to press or control). The menu structure (frame software) is logical and well arranged.

The clock functionality and auto turn on/off functionality is useful if you have power available to your frame at all times. However, I've hooked my frame up to a motion sensing power strip in my office and the time/date gets whacked when the sensor shuts off for the weekend (the time/date seem to survive for a few minutes or hours without power but not over a weekend). So if you use your frame with a motion sensing powerstrip, forget using the clock/calendar feature.

As I've discovered with many photo frames, if you want to display pictures in a particular order, they must exist in flash memory written down in that order - this is not a visible ordering - it does not depend on file name or file creation time. If you start with a totally empty flash card (or internal frame memory) then it will be the order in which the files are copied to the memory device. Macintosh and Windows file copy routines are the fastest way to copy files but the order in which copying takes place is not under your control if you move a large number of files all at the same time - the operating system parallelizes the copying for speed but this places the pictures in different physical memory order. It is too bad that most photo frames do not allow you to display in creation date order or EXIF date order or even file name order.

The best way to lay down the photos in sequence is to start with an empty flash device. Then copy the files either one by one by hand or using an automated method that copies files only one at a time. A cmd file on Windows that can do this is like:
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dir /b /od>c:\junk.txt
for /f "delims=*" %%i in (c:\junk.txt) do copy "%%i" f:\
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[...] (you need to change this script to fit your exact situation)

Alternatively you can use Photoshop Elements or some other photo management tool to export photos in sequence directly to a memory card or your picture frame.

Hopefully future photo frames will become a bit more intelligent and allow you to pick your display order.

Overall I've found the PAN7000DW to be a good value and to work as you would expect.
great deal!
 
Review Date: November 29, 2009
Reviewer: Carl O. Villanueva, North Pownal, VT
Hello-

I bought this frame after reading tons of reviews. I bought it intending to give it as a gift to someone who has a digital camera but who is not a "computer" person and doesn't even own a computer! I figured this would be a great way for him to enjoy his photos without having to always make prints or have to buy a computer.

Purchasing through Amazon was wonderfully simple (THANK YOU!). Delivery was fast and the price was a real bargain at $65.00. I opened the box, plugged the frame into the wall outlet and began playing with the menus (I did not read the instructions). It took me awhile to remember the menu routes (had to write the progressions down), but finally figured it out well enough to delete the calendar and time...displaying just the images...and no cheesy slideshow transitions. The frame has a very high quality style and appearance, and in my opinion it looks classier when the slideshow transitions are kept plain and simple. I played around with this prior to presenting the gift so as to become familiar with it and see if I wanted to buy a couple more...including one for myself. I also needed to know the operation of the frame because I would probably become the "technical support" person if needed. It took awhile to get familiar with the menus.

The images look great, BUT you MUST look at them from straight on or else the photos look washed out if viewed from above and the side, or too dark if viewed from below. This really bothered me, but I guess there are simply limitations to these devices. I ended up doing a batch conversion (using irfanview) to darken the images so they looked better (darker) in the frame when viewed from slightly above. I went 0.80 gamma (vs 1.00) and it helped a lot. A change in brightness and contrast was also needed for some photos to look good. You can run a slideshow directly from your SD media card or from the internal memory of the frame (1GB) but you won't be able to get vertical shots from your SD card to appear vertically in the slideshow unless you download the photos into the internal memory first, then they can be "rotated" when imported into the internal memory. You can select whether you want the slideshow to run from the SD card or the internal memory. A previous reviewer said he was unable to watch a video on the frame. I had no such problem...the video ran ok. There is a headphone jack, but no built in speaker (at least I wasn't getting any sound).

Anyhow, I was impressed enough with the quality and price of this frame to give this as a gift to someone who has no other means of enjoying his photos than either making prints or showing them on the screen of his digital camera. If you give this to someone, make sure they are not intimidated by menus within menus and not easily frustrated by technology (if I gave this to my Mom it would give her an anxiety attack trying to figure it out!).

I like this product a lot and may get one for myself. I do not regret this purchase and feel it is well worth the money for anyone looking to buy a high quality digital picture frame. Thank you. Carl
Great Picture Frame but not 7 inches
 
Review Date: November 29, 2009
Reviewer: hrisgirl6162, Kansas City, MO
The frame is easy to use, easy to set up and the picture quality is great. It is everything I expected except one thing...the screen is 7 inches but the actual picture view is only 5 3/4 inches. If I had known that up front, I would have purchased a bigger frame.
Pandigital 7" Digital Picture Frame Plays Video !!!!!!!
 
Review Date: December 10, 2009
Reviewer: Michael C. Bachman, Winter Haven, FL United States
The Pandigital picture frame has all of the important functions to me such 800x600 pixels LCD (4:3), sound (which was a little skimpy), programmable schedule for on and off, wireless access (WiFi and Bluetooth), USB interface, 5 in 1 card reader and it plays video. I was a little disappointed to see that it was not a full 7" diagonal screen, more like 6", the image quality was good however.

Although I was extremely happy with the photo slideshow, I wanted to get a few video files to play on the Pandigital. I was interested in using my Flip Video MPEG-4 files in iMovie and exporting mv4 files that could be displayed on the Pandigital frame. Previous reviewers warned about needing a special type of avi file in the Pandigital. From the product guide I found that video files must be Motion JPEG (M-JPEG or JPEG-AVI). A previous reviewer recommended a free program called Streamclip for the conversion. I could not get Pandigital to recognize the avi files coming out of Streamclip. After several other shareware nightmares, I downloaded AVS Video Converter 6 (Windows version...I have a Mac and a PC). Using the "IBM Motion JPEG" Codec feature I converted my iMovie files to Motion JPEG (AVI extension). I was able to get small video files to work perfectly, but my 5 min video (500 MB out of AVS Video Converter) repeatedly would not play. I trimmed my video back to 3 minutes (300 MB out of AVS Video Converter) and it worked perfectly!!

The USB interface makes moving files into the internal memory (1GB) as well as the flash card (SDHC) very smooth. Drag and drop to delete and add in both the inserted flash card and internal memory. The Pandigital has menu options to move images from the flash card to internal memory, but a computer makes it much easier.

Overall I would recommend this digital picture frame. Especially at the Factory Depot price of [...] even though Macy's this week had the Pandigital 7" for $59 with an additional [...] mail in rebate from Pandigital. In the $100 - $150 category I like the Nix 8". That frame has an internal battery so you could pass the frame around or put it on your coffee table. It also plays MPEG-4 video!
Awesome Digital Photoframe
 
Review Date: November 7, 2009
Reviewer: Ameya A. Ambardekar, Missouri, USA
I bought this frame and I am completely happy with it. It has an amazing picture quality. Good music and also very easy to use. Only thing that is bit difficult to use is its remote. If you press a key it takes couple of seconds for the frame to respond. In all, very good product. Must buy!

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