Technology
The technical data read first advantageous: A 10 "-Bilderrahmen with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels, USB including data slots as the image source, makes various settings for taking good pictures To this end, zoom, and rotate journeymen and the possibility in addition to pictures and even MP3s and. To play videos. On top of the frame can be used as an alarm clock or calendar and for a price of less than 100 euros. What can possibly go wrong there? Quite a lot, reads the summary.
The crux of the software
Weiss already optically hardly to convince the software, there are functionally significant weaknesses. So is completely open, as the parameters, the images are sorted, an alphanumeric, it is not in every case. Files and folders are cheerfully cluttered, most likely sort by creation date, but even this theory is not universally durable. Adequately represent series of pictures in a slide show, is virtually impossible.
If the images are larger or smaller than the standard size (1024x768), the software can scale the images accordingly. But that takes a disproportionately long firstly, secondly, it then comes to one of two random effects: In the simplest case, the software builds the image line by line on, in annoying the slideshow is switched to the pause mode and the picture is built up in the background. Whoever leaves the pause or continue on an image, thus skips the current image. This is even more annoying than that this kind quite often happens in the context of a photo directory.
In addition there are some half-heartedly implemented functions. So the video function is available only for some selected formats in 640x480. Although the alarm knows 4 alarm times, but has only 4 alarm melodies very poor quality on offer. These are repeated with an extremely high frequency, resulting in addition to increased infarct risk and hearing damage to an obsolete snooze. Unhappy is also the brightness of radiation of the frame in respect of which one or the other of the frame will turn away from him. Positive, however, that a time-controlled switching on and off of a hand set for the frame and the behavior at startup can be modified to the extent that an MP3 is played.
Conclusion
As a means of image reproduction, the frame is despite all the criticism quite suitable, as long as you picture series on places no value and all images scaled in advance to 1024x768. The music playback knows how to please and fit for their main purpose as background music. All other functions can however forgettable.
If that is too little, which can of course still a fifty drauflegen for a better picture frames. Or, of course, a fifty for a netbook of the same screen size. What at least mindful of this product would be called the real dilemma: The question namely where the journey of a digital photo frame to go.
