Pandigital 8.0-Inch Digital Photo Frame w/ 2 Interchangeable Frames & 128MB Built-in Memory - DPF80-2

Does not work with my Compact Flash or SD cards

12/29/2009

I got this as a Christmas present after reading good reviews about it. Well, I hate to say it, but the product is going back.

The documentation is limited, but it appears to get the job done.

Right out of the box, I had problems. I tried to insert a standard Compact Flash card and it will not fit into the slot.

Then I tried an SD card and that fit fine. The unit even saw the photos and displayed them as thumbnails. But when I try to play a slideshow, nothing happens. When I try to zoom in on one of the photos, nothing happens.

I then copied one of the files from my SD card to internal memory. It copied over fine and displays fine as a thumbnail, but when you play a slideshow from internal memory using their sample images, my image does not appear as part of the show.

The web site for Pan Digital suggested that jpegs out of Photoshop had to have special attributes. I checked this, and my jpeg files meet the required specification.

So I have a useless block of wood. It plays sample images fine, but it won't play any of my images. What is the point of keeping it?

0 Stars, Junk Pandigital 8" doesn't last, cannot repair, bad company

8/14/2008

Don't buy!!! Beware!!! JUNK JUNK JUNK 8" Pandigital Photo Frame is JUNK! Would have rated it a 0 if I could. I have had this for 10 months and rarely use it - mainly just when I have company over. I use it about once every 2 weeks and even then only for a couple of hours. After 10 months it won't even turn on and Pandigital won't do anything for me. They do not have a repair facility so once it goes out, it is a $150 piece of trash. When it did work, the picture was great and the different ports were nice but this thing cost me $5 per hour to run before it went completely dead. The attourney general and better business bureau have a letter on the way... Completely dissatisfied with the company and the product.

Works intermittently

8/4/2008

I bought this product from a large warehouse store. All connections worked fine, but after a while it started to lose images in the onboard memory. I didn't notice until some started displaying with corrupt data (weird lines through images). I plugged the USB in again to download the images again and I received an unformatted drive warning. I had to reformat the onboard (FAT32) and re-downlaod all the images. I turned it off for several weeks while I was on vacation. When I got back, it had lost all the data in the onboard memory and I had to reformat and redownload again. I'm going to take the product back where I bought it. There's definitely a problem with the firmware on this product or just poor QA at the factory.

Poor quality, poor warranty.

6/10/2008

I received this as a birthday gift last year. I had no problems setting it up, and it worked fine for about eight months, then quit. I called the customer service, and after being on hold for 15 minutes, a polite gentleman said the LCD screen was dead, and that it was well beyond the 90 day warranty. Basically, my only option was to purchase a new one, and the customer service rep. wasn't even willing to recommend this option. While he was polite, I got the feeling he was tired of having to respond to so many complaints, so needless to say, I will not be buying another.

Not recommended for anyone who isn't electronic savvy

6/4/2008

The poor design causes your flash card to fall into the frame. USB was no good, had to go get another one. Had to format the frame because it had a glitch which meant downloading the photos to the frame again. And for the majority of the people buying these, who aren't electronic savvy, they will have a hard time following the vague directions. Having to copy photos one at a time to the frame could be made simpler with a batch download. It would definitely save time. truly, more thought should be put into this product. Either by Pandigital in making it user friendly or the consumer in their purchase of it.