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 Great frame, comes with a pricetag. September 15, 2008
I'm new to the whole digital picture frame thing. But yesterday i went back and forth from the store and tried 3 models, and i'm happy sticking with this one.
It has the most basic features of all of the 3 i've tried, but the biggest pricetag. But luckily its nearly perfect at what it does, so kudos to sony for that. There's no mp3/video player, no way to have separate photo albums unless you have separate memory cards for each. These are features that the other, cheaper frames had, but trying to use them was so frustrating, lag time in the controls, access time was slow, and they had an overall cheaper look and feel. The Sony is so seamless and easy to use, it's like day and night. The biggest difference with the Sony though is the quality of the LCD. The others you almost had to look dead or else the photos were so dark you couldn't see them, Sony's is nice and bright, even off angle.
Don't get confused by the other reviewer's cons, the clock mode works the way they meant it to, it displays the time and date the photo was taken, of course this isn't too useful, from what i've seen, there is no way to have the clock and picture display show the current time. Also in the user manual it lists the JPEG formats it's compatible with, i've had no problem with mine straight out of the camera or photoshop. I also converted all of my photos with pic2pic to get them to it's native resolution (800x480) to keep the file size small with no problems either.
All in all, a great little display, very stylish (i have my sony logo turned off), and the best i've seen if you don't need it to play videos or music, just a little expensive.
 Not a consumer product (needs a system admin) September 10, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Our unit worked for the day when we loaded it with pictures, and then a second day displaying them. When we switched it on the 3rd time, it was dead. I chatted with Sony Service for 30 minutes to reset the unit, but that didn't work. Very bad experience. We spent 3 hours preparing pictures, uploading pictures, then trying to fix this thing. A very short-lived birthday present.
It has the best look regardless when it's on or off August 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got it because of its unbeatable look. It has the best look either on or off. Other features are reasonable.
 Way to many BUGS - Sony how could you? August 25, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
My first impression of the Sony DPF-V900 is that the looks are great, and the funtionality is promissing. I was surprised that it doesn't read the latest SDHC memory cards - which everyone will soon be using.
The directions are not even correct, it will NOT use the menu button out of the box with the remote. You must firt either transfer your own pictures or have it read a device.
It also will NOT read all JPG images. I have many jpg images that I converted to black and white using irfanview (probably one of the most common photo tool applications) and the device will NOT SHOW THE PICTURES. It just puts a question mark in it's place. Just to make sure it wasn't a defective jpg, I opened the image in Internet Explorer, MS Paint, and Firefox - it's definately a sony problem since I also emailed the black and white photos to many friends and family and nobody had a problem.
Also, I noticed another bug in the date and time if you try and used the Year/Month/Day setting. It's off by about 24 hours or so, what good is a clock and calendar that is always wrong. This is an issue for me, since my wife is from Europe and using the US or European style time and clock is confusing to her or me.
So, you would think with all these bugs in the first 5 minutes of using this product that sony would have caught wind of the problems in their quality testing and released a new firmware update - but on the sony style site, they only try to give you brochures, an instruction manual and a bunch of "accessories" that you can purchase.
Give me a break, if I want to purchase a $39 dollar HDMI cable, I'll let you know; but how about a product that actually does what you advertise, like show pictures, and have a working clock and calendar? Shame on you Sony, you should be pushing firmware updates to fix all the bugs, rather then trying to sell me accessories.
I give you 2 stars for image quality and style - nice try but this is a dud, please fix the product - for over $200 I expected much more. I feel like returning for a much cheaper competitor that can actually show ALL MY PHOTOS.
 Impressive Performance August 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I own three digital frames and the Sony DPF-V900 9-inch is by far the best one I have. I hesitated before purchasing it because of certain less than average reviews published on this website. One related to the HDMI output, which I found to be flawless. I hooked the frame up to a 60-inch Philips HDTV, and the quality of the pictures was excellent. Another complaint related to the frame's presentation settings. Well, there are two modes in the Sony software. One allows editing of the pictures (red eye, crop, zoom, orientation, etc.) and should not be used for a slide show because the options (shuffle, time between each picture) just won't work. As part of the slide show mode, the Sony's features are like no other (one alows to view on the right side of the screen the time and date the picture being presented was taken). Overall, although a bit pricy, I am very happy with my purchase and would recommend it.
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