Digital Spectrum U-30343 NuVue 7" Plus Digital Picture Frame

The NV-700 Plus Digital Picture Frame is the newest in a line of photo players from Digital Spectrum. The NV-700 sports a high resolution, bright 7" TFT screen that displays digital photos in vivid color. Set up as a slide show and play directly from a memory card. The number of images is only limited by the capacity of the memory card being used.

Terrible (dck, 2007-10-07)

There is almost nothing worthwhile about this frame.

Its user interface is difficult. The frame requires a firmware update to resize pictures to the correct aspect ratio.

Its screen is painfully low-resolution (360x480), so pictures look bad when viewed from closer than a few feet. But the screen is small enough that you can't view pictures from farther away.

Even if you resize your pictures to that small size, its internal memory won't accept more than 238 files. The memory isn't full; for some reason it just won't take more files, leaving more than 200MB of internal memory unusable.

Look for something else (John Kingdon, Toronto, Ontario, 2007-04-03)

I bought this as a gift and will be returning it, for the reasons stated by the other reviewers. The basic problem here is that whatever the native resolution of this thing is, it's a 4:3 aspect ratio. The screen, however, is physically at a 16:9 aspect ratio. It is therefore physically impossible for it to properly display an undistorted picture. The workarounds suggested by other reviewers will work, but should not be necessary.

In addition, the picture quality is quite poor even apart from the aspect ratio problem, and there are no brightness or contrast controls. Also, the stand only provides for landscape display.

I should add that I downloaded the firmware update from the company's website. This allows it to display pictures with a correct aspect ratio ... by compressing them horizontally, leaving grey bars on either side. This is not an acceptable fix.

aspect ration fix available (testycal, Wa USA, 2007-03-23)

I am researching a unit to buy so I cannot personally atest to good or bad. Howerver, to share with other potential customers the company lists a firware fix to allow the unit to give 4:3 aspect ratio. whether it works is another issue.

Great Product (S. Way, CA, 2007-02-28)

I had purchased 3 of these before buying this one, this by far has the best picture quality. Also has wonderful options that the other brands did not, and was priced considerably less. Definetly recommend this product over the other brands.

Not happy (Tee Dub, 2007-02-05)

Was surprised by the distorted photos. A.C. adapter failed. Took it back. Bought a Coby the same size. The Coby works great.