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Coby DP-758 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame | 
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| Brand: Coby
Category: Photography
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $44.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  439 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Display Size: 7
Removable Memory: Memory Stick
Size: 7-Inch
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 2.2 x 10.3
MPN: DP-758
Model: DP-758
UPC: 716829917589
EAN: 0716829917589
Availability: Usually ships in 5 to 7 weeks
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| Features:
| • | 7-inch widescreen TFT LCD color display | | • | Displays JPEG image files | | • | SD, MMC, and MS card slots | | • | Wall-mountable design | | • | Detachable stand |
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Product Description
PRODUCT FEATURES:7" widescreen TFT LCD color displayHandsome black wooden frameDisplays JPEG image filesPhoto slideshow modeSD, MMC, and MS card slotsWall-mountable design with detachable stand
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| Customer Reviews: Read 434 more reviews...
 Works as billed February 21, 2007
366 out of 377 found this review helpful
I've had one of these for a day, and it seems to do what the manufacturer says.
When properly formatted (see below), the pictures are bright and accurate -- just what you'd imagine a digital picture frame would look like.
Here are the two main lessons I've learned so far:
1. Formatting: Resize your pictures to fit within the frame's resolution of 480 pixels by 234 pixels. It will display bigger pictures (say, 2000x3000 pixels from a six-megapixel camera) but its algorithm for downsampling must be really stupid, as the results are awful -- the pictures look twinkly, oversharpened, overprocessed, and just plain ugly. Downsize them yourself, and all that goes away. If you have a lot of pix, this process can be somewhat tedious, but there is a very good freeware image manager called XnView that will do it on batches of pictures at once with a minimum of muss and fuss.
2. It won't display grayscale pictures (i.e., black-and-whites where the color count is reported as 256). To make these display, you have to convert them to RGB mode. They're still B&W in appearance, but internally they're full RGB, 16 million colors, and that makes little Coby very happy. Go figure.
When you downsize to 480x234, you get a very small file -- less than 30KB, oftentimes. That means you can store hundreds of pictures on even a small memory card of 256MB. Put it in the slot, set Coby to either go through them in order, or shuffle them, and sit back and watch your life pass before your eyes in dazzling color (or dazzling black and white, if you must).
My Coby was a little over $100, including shipping to Alaska. The image screen is only 7" diagonally, meaning you can't really display it on a wall, but it does make an excellent display for your desk. If they can get a wall-size version (say, 11x14) down under $500, I'll probably give that a try next.
In case it's not clear from the product writeup on Amazon, you have to plug this thing into a power socket to use it. There's no battery. And, even if there was, it wouldn't be too feasible -- you'd have to either take the thing apart every few hours to stick in new batteries, or keep it plugged into a charger part of the time. Mo' bettah just to give up and accept that it's an AC device, not a battery device.
Stan Jones
Anchorage, Alaska
 A few probs August 24, 2007
177 out of 179 found this review helpful
This product has served the purpose my wife wanted it to. One thing I wish I knew before I bought this item is it will not play mp3s and show pics at the same time. It does have one glitch that is not a serious problem. When the unit gets warm from use, it will put lines through a picture every now and then. The only other thing I would make sure of is that you have some sort of extra external memory card. This unit does not have internal memory of any sort. Jump drives are cheap and easy to use though!
 You get what you pay for... May 4, 2007
158 out of 165 found this review helpful
We received a Philips digital photo frame as a gift, and had issues with it - lots of freezing/locking up. Looking to purchase a gift for 2 other people, we went with the Coby since it was half the price of the Philips. As the title says, you get what you pay for. I'd probably give it 2.5 stars if that was an option, but it's not a 3.
Pros:
* mp3 - very nice to be able to include music to go along with the photos
* remote - it's tiny, but does everything you need. Great idea
* setup/playback is relatively simple, in theory (see cons below)
Cons:
* picture quality pales in comparison to the Philips. From a distance, it's not bad, but up close the pictures definitely look digitized. We've put the same resolution photos on both, and you can clearly see a difference side by side
* loading photos is hit or miss. Click and drag interface is great, but it didn't always work. Some photos would copy immediately, others just wouldn't copy unless you tried to move them 8 or 9 times. Bulk copying was therefore impossible. Same issue with several memory cards, so I'm inclined to blame the frame. The current card is only 25% full, but the Coby won't let any more photos be copied over. [Using a card reader, all of the above works fine. But if you don't have one, you may run into issues. At the very least, buy the same type of card as your camera so you can copy via the camera instead of the frame]
* widescreen is good, and bad. Make sure that it's actually what you want. If all of your photos are from a widescreen still or video camera, you'll be fine. But standard digital photos are 4:3, not 16:9. Mixing and matching photos looks kind of cheesy in a slideshow.
Depending on what you're doing with it, it's not a bad purchase. To the less discerning photo enthusiast, it's fine. Other than the photo quality, all of the cons can be overcome. But if you really want a fine photo quality, I'd look elsewhere.
Info noone has but Colby November 23, 2007
113 out of 146 found this review helpful
Checked reviews everywhere but noone seems to mention some VITAL details. Here is the details from Colby Electronics Corporation on this DP-769
* 7" Widescreen TFT LCD @ 480 x 234 <-- Resolution NOONE has
* File Format Support: Photo - JPG, Audio - MP3/WMA, Video - MPG/AVI/XviD
* AV Output for use with Home Theater Systems
* Removable Memory Support: SD, MMC, MS, xD, CF, Full-Size USB (Host)
* Integrated Stereo Speakers
* Wall Mountable Design with Detachable Stand
* Unit Dimensions: 10.25" x 8.75" x 2.24" (WHD)
SPECIFICATIONS:
* Display Type: 7" Widescreen TFT LCD @ 480 x 234
* Contrast Ratio: 300:1
* Brightness: 250 cd/m2
* AV Output: Composite Video, 3.5mm Headphone / RCA Stereo Audio, Integrated Stereo Speakers
* Power: 100-240V UL AC Adapter
ACCESSORIES INCLUDED:
100-240V AC Adapter & Detachable Stand & Remote Control & Two Interchangeable Acrylic Frames
Great Picture, Good Value, Poor Plastic, Program Quirks April 26, 2007
97 out of 98 found this review helpful
Easy to get up and running, the unit goes into slideshow mode after power on automatically. Picture quality was excellent. Easy to put pictures on a memory card and have them show up. Recommend re-cropping your pictures to 16x9 aspect ratio so you get a full picture. Unit can accomodate std. 4x6 format as well, but will not fill the screen. Small Quirks are:
- When in slideshow mode, you can't hit the pause button to ZOOM in.
- Very poorly designed stand that WILL collapse after a couple of weeks.
- Documentation is lacking (typical COBY style)
- No support for QuickTime video popular in some digital cameras
- Unit has a faint lingering glow on screen after power down which doesn't go away unless you unplug the unit.
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