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Smartparts SP1200 12.1-Inch Digital Picture Wood Frame

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Product Description Show your pictures and share your memories with the Smartparts SP1200 12.1-inch digital picture frame. The frame features sharp and vibrant pictures with the 800x600 pixel LCD screen. The SP1200 makes it easy to enjoy your favorite photos and videos with three easy steps used to upload pictures. Simply remove the memory card from your camera, insert the card into the frame and view your photos. No need to edit and print your pictures on a computer. The slideshow automatically begins once the frame is turned on and will scroll through each picture on your memory card. You can control the speed of the slideshow with the included remote control or choose to display one picture at a time. The frame features built-in music player and speakers which allows you to enjoy your favorite music in the background of the slideshow. Optimize your pictures by downloading OptiPix software on your computer for free. OptiPix helps you change the orientation of you photos and sharpen images. Use OptiPix to find pictures, create copies, and transfer hundreds of your favorite photos from your computer to your frames 128MB of internal memory. The frame has real wood framing and custom designed matting which can compliment any room or office. Reviews I used this frame for the slideshow at my mother's surprise birthday party. It was easy to load pictures, the pictures looked great, and the frame itself looks nice. This frame is fabulous. The picture is clear and bright and 12" so you can see it across the room. Black Frame with tan matting, comes with a remote. Uploading pictures is very easy, especially if you use the built in software that you can download the first time you link up to your computer. It compresses your pictures so I could put nearly 1700 pix on this frame! A very good purchase. Only negative is in the ease of use for use of settings. I purchased two units which work OK. However, I subsequently learned Smart Parts went out of business during April 2009. Their 2 phone numbers are disconnected while still listed in their website. FYI Tiger Direct provided a third party number; 1-800-999-9648, ext. 2148. This number is solely to be used for Warranty support only. I too did extensive research before I bought the Smartparts SP1200 digital picture frame, but there is only so much you can find out until you buy it. The picture is very good, colors are great, and pretty much makes the cost worth it, but it is a very limited product otherwise. For instance, it doesn't recognize directories on the memory cards you plug in. I got an 8GB Kingston USB thumb drive and had to dump all the pictures onto it (several thousand) without being able to split them up into seasons, or vacations, or years or whatever. Tech tip: make sure to copy the USB drive back to your hard drive so you have a copy of what you put on it, and so if something goes awry you don't have to re-do everything. It also does not play back the pictures sequentially but jumps around a bit. I checked the web site (www.smartpartsproducts.com) and they just had a lame suggestion that pictures would play in the order copied. Not true. I had several multi-picture sequences, and though they were made and copied in groups they still did not play sequentially. On the plus side I simply plugged in the thumb drive while it was turned off and after powering up it automatically started the slide show. It also plays the 30-second movies from my little point-and-shoot digital camera (.mov files) but will only play .wma files for music, and who uses files in that format? The remote helps, because you can pause the slide show and go back and forth if you want to look longer. Speaking of that, the slowest speed for frame changes was about 11 seconds, and the fastest is about 5 seconds. It only has slow, medium and fast, so again not much flexibility there. The transitions are cool, and you can pick a random order or select one of your favorites to use all the time. I got this so I could give it to my very tech-impaired mom (70 years old) so she could see more of her grandkids and great-grandkids. After a while I want to be able to send her another thumb drive so she can just swap them out and look at pictures to her heart's content. She told us she didn't want a bunch of printed pictures because they just get boxed and stored, but she should really enjoy this. We got the larger 12.1 inch screen because she has vision problems. I think this will do the job very well, considering. I was given this frame as a Christmas gift and loved it the first day. Then after spending hours loading my photos it would not turn on any more. I called customer service and after a 35 minute wait I was told it was the power cord. They sent out a new cord a week later and guess what?! The frame will still not turn on. Now I have a dead frame with all my photos on it. I tried customer service again and after a 30 minute wait I gave up. Sure the frame looks nice but it does not show photos so whats the point?