Aluratek 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 256MB (Black) - ADMPF107

Nice Digital Photo Frame

2/3/2010

Nice Digital Photo Frame. The only thing I sow, you have to resize the picture to fit the screen.

OK Frame, for the price, nice & simple

5/3/2009

Frame is pretty good, I purchased for grandparents as a gift, therefore looking for something simple - not many bells and whistles to confuse them.
Just wanted to point out something I misunderstood when reading the product description: the photos will only display in the order in which they are loaded (usually by file name or date). The 'Random' setting refers to the transition type the frame uses to change between photos (slide in from top, bottom, fade, left to right, etc.). You CANNOT change the order the photos are displayed on the frame.

7" is ONLY 480x234 resolution

2/20/2009

I got the impression from the reviews that this frame was 800x600 resolution. I should have known it was too good to be true, but I thought it was just on clearance. They actually make it VERY hard to find the resolution online for this model.

Part of the idea of a digital picture frame is to look sharp, new, fresh, and high tech. 480x234 resolution DOES NOT look high tech, it just looks outdated. I am going to return mine and look for something better. I guess that is one of the downfalls of shopping online: you don't get to see it before you buy it. I read the reviews, but the reviews for the 7" were mixed with reviews for other Aluratek frames that were other sizes... and that was not clear either.

The true meaning of customer service...LOL

1/29/2009

Boy was I excited to find an affordable DPF. I was even more excited by it's features.....until I discovered the one feature it was missing....customer service.

I gave the gift to my elderly mother for christmas, loaded with her wedding pics I had scanned in and the pics from their 50th anniversary party. Brought my mother to tears...they began as tears of joy, then slowly turned into tears from eye stress as the slideshow began picking up speed 1/2 through.

I contacted their customer support explaining how I had tried to reset the slideshow speed and didn't have any luck fixing the speed. Their first response, 1 full week after the 24 hr. guaranteed response time, was to ask me to try resetting the slideshow speed. My first reaction was to respond and ask if they had bothered to read my initial e-mail. Two weeks after, I again e-mailed to see what the hold up was in their response. Again no response. The following week, I e-mailed again to ask if they could help me fix the frame sometime before my elderly mother passed away. Their response was, and I quote...."If you're in that big of a hurry, just return it to whom you purchased it from for replacement". Oh, by the way, Mom isn't "that" old, I was being facetious.

When I contacted Amazon regarding a replacement, they were their normal cheerful and efficient self. I received the replacement within days. Hopefully this frame will function better than the first one.

However, be warned, I won't put up with this vendor again. If I have problems again, I will most likely do something different. Any company with this type of customer service doesn't deserve my business. As a matter of fact, they don't deserve anyones business. Wonder if their boss knows how they treat the customers? Or maybe that was the boss?

Pass on this one

12/26/2008

Most of the reviews I read for this Digital Photo Frame were good or better but I found it to be very difficult/impossible to set up and use. The instructions are a joke and the menu and function buttons are incredibly frustrating. I bought it as a gift but I'm going to return it... worse than useless!