Portable USA PU-10W 10.4-Inch Digital Picture Frame

An elegant wooden frame that can show off your digital pictures and mpeg4 movies on a bright crystal clear, large 10.4" screen by simply adding a memory card from your camera. It's the brightest way to display your digital photos. By simply adding a media card (or two) you can reduce that clutter in your house and show off more than you could dream of with this digital picture frame. By adding MP3 music files (played through built in speakers) to your cards you can add sound to create soothing or exciting slide shows - it's just so simple. Plus... Create your own perpetual slide shows! Handy remote control for pausing or rotating pictures. You can use two different media cards at once. So easy to use. Simply insert the media card from your camera and enjoy!

Portable USA PU-10W Digital Picture Frame (The CEN, RI, 2009-01-06)

Great frame for the money! Color rendition is perfect. I added a 2GB SD memory card that plugs into the frame in order to increase the capacity of the frame without having to compress or make smaller the picture size (files) that were loaded into the frame. Using the onboard memory, you can fit many 100's of pics, but if you want to zoom in on particular areas of those pics, there will be some decrease in detail. With the expanded memory capability there is no need to load picture files that have been compressed or made smaller.
It can be a little tricky to navigate the menu to get the frame to display what's in the SD card, but that's not a big drawback. You can also buy a memory card reader/writer for less than $10 that allows you to simply remove the SD card from the frame and plug it into a USB port on your computer to make file transfers easier w/o having to move the frame to the computer's location, etc.
It's also nice that customer service and tech help for this frame is located in the USA!

Portable USA digital photo frame 10.4 inch (Cynthia Bernard, Kokomo, IN, 2008-12-28)

I am extremely pleased with my purchase of this digital photo frame. I have been using it constantly for several weeks now and am really enjoying it. The main reason I purchased this photo frame is that I wanted a larger photo frame for a reasonable price, and it met those needs perfectly. The pictures are crisp, clear, and bright ~ and the colors are excellent. I have changed the pictures viewed a couple times so far and have had not problems. At my brothers recommendation, I am not using the internal memory, but am using an SD card so I can quickly and easily add and delete pictures to and from the card through my computer. (I initially tried the internal memory, but it was taking more time than I wanted. I did not fully understand how to do it. . . it did not appear to be a drag and drop method,or highlight multiple pictures and copy ~ it appeared I had to add and delete one picture at a time ~ but I could be wrong.) I also knew I wanted a black frame and black matting around the picture, to make the picture itself stand out. The black wooden frame has a very nice look to it and feels nice and sturdy.

excellent techinical help immediatly (JM, 2008-12-26)

I got this for Christmas from my daughter and have a MAC, so had a little difficulty trying to figure out how to load with my USB port (MY inexperience, mainy!) I emailed Portable and immediately got a response asking what the problem was, got an immediate reply, then a call with expert advice helping me through the problems. I love it.

A frame worth considering, but there's room for improvement (William W. Davis, Boca Raton, FL USA, 2008-12-26)

So on the strength of mostly favorable reviews, I selected this digital frame to give to my wife. On the strength of just one day using this frame, I offer this review.

The good: The frame is reasonably attractive, and it worked out-of-the-box just fine. The colors are bright (though I haven't seen it during the daytime yet) and pleasing enough. It has 128Mb onboard memory and plenty of memory slots to add still more. I thought the frame was reasonably priced for its size.

The bad: I would have liked it if it sensed when someone was in the room and then went into display mode -- that seems like a feature every digital frame ought to have (why display anything if no one is around to view it?). I would have liked it if the frame resumed displaying photos where it last left off, so if you power-off the frame, it would resume where it left off when you power on the frame later on; instead, this frame begins displaying photos from the beginning. Adjusting the photo settings is tedious through the menu system.

The ugly: The user interface is horrendous and anything but intuitive, and the user manual is pretty bad, too. I'd go so far as to say that unless you are computer savvy, don't bother trying to use the memory slots because the user interface will make it very frustrating to figure out how to see photos that are stored on the memory card -- you can do that, but it's not at all straightforward or simple.

In sum, this is a reasonably good frame for the money. Many others seem to like this frame. My gut feeling is that there are better choices out there, though, but if you can't find a better value, then this frame might be good enough to get by.

amazing deal! (Sierra Turner, 2008-12-22)

We priced this item elsewhere at twice as much! This was a great deal and the product looks great!