... I bought this digital frame for my girlfriend for this Christmas. I resized a copy of all our pictures to 800x600 with a batch resizer and copied them to a 1GB SD card. I had about 5500 pictures on the card in different folders. When I started the unit it seemed to see only 2000 pictures instead of the 5500 I had put in.
I started the slideshow and it immediately hung. No button would respond to any command. I rebooted the unit but the slideshow would never start.
I deleted some pictures. Even with the number of pictures down to 2000 the slideshow would hang the unit.
I was finally able to make the slideshow work by deleting more, it seems to hang whenever you put above 1600 pictures in the memory. This is a big deception because I expected my picture frame to be able hold much more. With a tool I changed all folders and file names to a small number of characters because I though the long file names were causing the error, but it didn't help. This limitation was nowhere mentionned on the box, the manual or the website.
I emailed ViewSonic about this issue but got no answer at the time of writing this review.
I tried to send pictures in the internal memory, but the OS showed it would take me two hours to copy 150 megs so I immediately cancelled. This is so slow I would consider the internal memory unusable.
Unless Viewsonic tells me there is a new firmware available now (or very soon) that fixes the maximum number of pictures problems I will return the unit to the shop.
The other problem is the unit wont start the slideshow by itself. I would have liked to put it on a timer to it starts automatically every day when we sit at the dining table. There is no option to automatically start the slideshow when the unit boots.
The good thing about this unit is the nice design with glossy finish and futuristic look. Also the image quality is very good, but keep in mind this is 800x600 so it is nowhere near today's laptop screens resolutions so there are much less details.
Bottom line, avoid this product unless a new firmware comes out with fixes and new options.
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