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12/15/2006 08:26:16 PM · #1 |
I bought my wife a Westinghouse Digital Photo Frame for Christmas, and I plan to pre-load it with a bunch of family photos so she can set it up in her office.
From the instructions:
"The Digital Photo Frame only supports JPEG in its raw picture format. These are pictures that come directly from a digital camera as a JPEG file. The Digital Photo Frame may not read images that have been manipulated or altered in Photoshop or downloaded from the Internet. Many of the movie formats downloaded from the Internet are not supported as well.
Obviously, as any true DPC person would want to do, I am hoping to crop and do some editing to the shots before I upload them to the frame. Just wondering if anyone has one of these and knows how to "trick" it into accepting an edited and/or cropped shot. It doesn't seem like something that could be too hard to pull off, I wouldn't think...?
I haven't had a chance to take it out of the box yet to experiment with it, but I thought I'd see if anyone has any experience with this. |
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12/15/2006 08:31:12 PM · #2 |
Hmmm... I bet that's just marketing's way of protecting the tech support staff. It'll probably handle your images just fine. But if it doesn't... they have an "out" for when you call to complain.
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12/15/2006 08:32:33 PM · #3 |
Don't use progressive and you'll be fine.
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12/15/2006 08:39:07 PM · #4 |
I'm looking forward to the challenge, I guess :)
I have done some Googling and found this person who has been trying to combat the issue: Digital Darkroom Forum
Interestingly, the last post comes from a guy who says it's reading his scanned images just fine. |
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12/15/2006 08:41:54 PM · #5 |
Hey this just happens to be a topic I have a question for..
Which brands are good and which should I avoid. We were thinking about getting one of these for my wifes parents. Ive seen a few that have nice displays and I have seen a few that were priced pretty good but haven't seen one of the cheaper models perform. Wondering if there is a reason they keep the cheaper model displays turned off in the stores? My inlaws are an older retired couple and would be happy with any of them, however I do not want to buy them one and have it stop working a month or two down the road as they live in New Zealand and it would be a pain to return or replace it. They are going to be here for a visit so we are thinking about giving them one for xmas. Edit,. actually I am thinking about it. My wife has no clue they are coming.
Message edited by author 2006-12-15 20:43:29.
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12/15/2006 09:15:30 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Don't use progressive and you'll be fine. |
It will probably also work more reliably if your final images end up in the 4:3 ratio of (most) camera sensors. I would enlarge the canvas to that ratio of the final crop ends up different. |
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12/15/2006 09:27:35 PM · #7 |
I bought myself one of these just over a week ago:
//www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=SEARCH&Ntt=pandigital&N=0&Dx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&D=pandigital&Ntk=All&product_code=342224&Pn=8_Inch_Digital_Photo_Frame
The diagonal measures about 7 5/8", the color and brightness are good, and it has a very wide viewing angle. It is 640x480, so you can see the pixels if you get right up to it, but if you're more than a foot or two away it looks very sharp. 64M of onboard memory, so if you resize your images to 640x480 you can fit a lot of them in there. Supposedly it plays videos and MP3s too but I haven't tried those.
Overall I'm happy with it and the people I showed it to at work have been impressed with the image quality. I bought a second one for a gift.
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