Matsunichi PF-800M 8-inch Digital Picture Frame with Remote Control

Excellent digital picture frame (D. Fernandez, Atlanta, GA, 2008-01-07)

If you like to read technical specs, please move on to another review. However, if you care about a product that works as promised out of the box, that's easy to operate and that provides a great experience for the gift recipient, please read on.

I ordered this frame, the PF-800M in hopes of avoiding the "challenges and issues" related to other digital frames (including some other Matsunichi models). My requirements were simple: 8" or larger screen that was easy to operate (for my elder parents). This product delivers. The picture quality is great. The product works perfectly right out of the box. Loading pictures to its main memory was very easy and using an SD card was even easier. The on-screen menus (not really needed if all you want to do is look at pictures) are easy to follow. My Dad, who's very uncomfortable with any technology, was able to operate it (incluidng loading a new SD card) in minutes. Overall, a great product.

Very Nice Product (K. Kadzielawski, 2007-12-24)

I purchased this frame for my Mom for Christmas. I looked at all the frames offered at Amazon before I chose this one. I purchased a 1 gig card, and resized my pictures to approx 550K each. As long as the picture was good in the first place, the frame delivered an excellent picture. Viewing angle is excellent. Brightness is controllable. The remote can be used to turn it off too. There is no clock/calendar function It automatically used different transition effects, a nice feature. The only problem I have is that the shortest time in between pictures is 30 Seconds. The technical specifications are extremely sparse on Amazon.com, so I looked at Matsunichi's web site. This seem to be the only piece of info left off. :(

There is no shuffel feature for the pictures, only the music.:(

Great compared to others. (T. Stensland, CO USA, 2007-12-15)

After trying and returning two other digital photo frames, finally found this one. Resolution is 800x600 and looks good. Format is 4:3 just like all my photos. Has a mini-USB connector so you can just connect it right to your computer and transfer photos.

I found that if I resized photos to 800x600, they looked blurry on the frame. 1600x1200 was still a little blurry, so I settled on 2400x1800 as the smallest size that looks great (10/100 jpg compression factor). My jpg images are about 1 MB at this size, so I can fit lots of pictures in the internal 128 MB memory.