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| Brand: Sony
Category: Photography
Buy New: Too low to display
New (8)
Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: 7-Inch
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 1.5 x 5.4
MPN: DPF-D70
Model: DPF-D70
UPC: 027242735033
EAN: 0027242735033
Availability: Pre-Order (0-0 Business Days)
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beautiful Pics November 10, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
After doing a ton of research, I settled on this frame mostly by process of elimination (and the fact that while there are not a ton of reviews on Sony frames, they are mostly all good). I eliminated many others because (1) most other frames are not in the 4:3 aspect ratio (meaning black bars on your pics); (2) most other frames have mediocre reviews (for example, no Kodak frame (the market leader) does better then 3.5 stars on Amazon over tons of reviews; and (3) many frames by lesser known brands appear to have serious and scary quality control issues that are ignored/not caught by professional reviews, but show up in user reviews.
This frame definitely costs more for the size and features, but the pics look awesome, and I'm confident that if there is a problem, I have a reliable company to go to. It was super easy to get set up, I put 350 pics in a folder, ran a batch resizer on them to get them to 800x600 (not really necessary given the amount of on-board memory on the unit, but the I figured my PC plus a good free resizer program would probably do better then the unit itself at resizing), connected the frame by USB cable to the PC and copied that folder to the unit and that was pretty much that. For the price, a bigger picture frame would be nice, but really the 8 inch screen size is great for your desk at work.
 ouch October 27, 2008
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Works great if you load it with pictures right out of the camera. But images edited in Adobe photoshop and resaved as jpegs would just leave a "?" on the screen. Spent and hour with Sony online support but they had no answer other than the manuel says it might not work with files created on the computer. Oh Well !! back to the store it goes
 Not worth the price August 11, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I purchased one of the first photo frames to hit the market (by Kodak)...over five years ago, and I was hoping the technology would have improved a bunch since then. It hasn't. Let me also mention that I am a perfectionist who is willing to spend what it takes to get best gadgets, as long as they follow through with my high expectations. In this case the DPF-V900 did not meet my tough standards. This device is a mix of some nice features mixed with too many negatives. Here are my issues:
1. They built a really nice looking frame but then hobbled it with a 15:9 aspect ratio - HUH? Why waste such a beautiful display? Now you get to decide if you want to crop all your pictures...or have black bars on display all the time.
2. I like it's classy looking calendar mode and calendar font selection. So many of the cheap Chinese brands had UGLY Linux-looking calendars (sorry Linux you are ugly), but then they broke (IMHO) the "Clock" view by making the clock show not the current time, but the time the picture was taken. I'd would have prefered the current time.
3. No video playback. Not sure if I'd use it too much, but it would be nice as an option.
4. They added face recognition (cool), but then didn't use it in their "fit to screen" mode for portrait shots. So portrait shots cannot fill the screen.
5. They offered a classy sensor to sense when you re-oriented the screen to portrait mode...but then didn't do the work to make their menu's work in portrait mode.
6. They added a stylish looking Sony logo into the frame that can completely disapear, buy they didn't add a 2nd "Sony" logo along the left hand side, so you could have a logo in portrait mode (but at least they turn off the one logo when the orientation sensor since that you are in portrait mode.
7. HDMI output? Not very useful (IMHO), especially since they don't do video.
8. No way to wall mount it. Not only is their no mounts on the unit itself, but the power cable is black and thick and it has a power brick (you're stuck with). God, I'd love to find a nice looking unit that can be wall mounted (with the power brick built-in)!
I'm going to return this unit and get either one of the Kodak or Philips units.
 Not Enough Pictures July 16, 2008
10 out of 23 found this review helpful
Overall, this looked like a nice product...until I tried to load it up. It maxed at 170 pictures, regardless of size, type, etc. Yet, the box advertises "500 Pictures". I was using internal memory, and there was over 200MB free, yet I still got "destination drive out of space". I believe this is a limit per folder - I could create subfolders and add more pictures, but no way to display pictures in another folder that I could see. I'm returning it - what sealed the deal was the utterly clueless tech at Sony. After repeating myself 6 times, I logged off.
So, if you will only use limited number of pictures - I wanted a large, per year slideshow of kids - this is Ok. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
HDMI Output? July 3, 2008
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I was very impressed with this frame's style, picture quality and features. The selling point, however, was the fact that it comes equipped with an HDMI output that can connect to an HDTV for high definition viewing of digital photos. After making the necessary connections from the frame to the TV, the picture appeared jittery on my Sony Wega HDTV. What's that line again? Sony HDNA? Surely, this must be a manufacturing defect, so I returned the frame in exchange for another, only to experience the same problem with the replacement. Having contacted Sony support, tested the connection with TWO HDMI cables, and hooking up my MacBook Pro to the HDMI input on my Sony Wega, I know the problem is not with the cable or the TV. Be advised, you may not get what you're hoping to get by connecting this frame to your HDTV. If you're only going to use it as a photo frame, it's a wonderful product. Also, it's fairly disconcerting to know that NO site reviews out there made any mention of this defect or having tested the HDMI connection on an HDTV.
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