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Basically we had to rename the picture files, then move them around in the internal drive and then we just told the frame to show them in order. From there, we started working to organize the pictures for a more random slide show when it was turned on (it has an on/off switch). What you don't see is the power cord you'll have to hide though. This take regular AC power from the wall outlet, no batteries.
Once I narrowed down the internal drive for the frame, I delete the generic pictures and started putting on the ones I wanted, that was the easily part of the entire job. My siblings and I got this for our mom's birthday. Mostly these are minor quibbles for me. I grabbed the manual and started trying to follow the instructions for adding new pictures to it. It didn't. Oh well.
So with some work, the slots and power cord can be hidden from view. We decided to be sneaky and preload it with pictures of the family before giving it to her, because really who gives a picture frame with the generic pictures in to their mom on her birthday. It comes with 128mb in the frame, so if you don't want to drop the money for an extra card, you'll be fine. When hooked to a PC, you'll find a multitude of new 'drives' on your computer from the frame. Thankfully, since it's a USB drive you can bypass the frame's directions and just drag and drop like you would any other USB drive. It was stuck with a generic info screen that you couldn't navigate away from as directed. It was frustrating to figure out how it read the pictures for the show and how it 'randomized' them. The pictures looked just fine, the price range was affordable, the screen isn't too small and even my parents have figured out how to add new pictures.
No one I know who doesn't want to hear about it until judgment day. That's where my problems started. After putting all the pictures I wanted, I renamed the internal drive to make it easier to find later for my parents too. The frame itself looks just like the picture. These are the different card slots for extra memory. The screen was supposed to have some instructions to follow once the USB was plugged into the laptop. All of the connections, memory slots and USB connections are behind the larger frame. The instructions didn't seem to follow what the frame and my laptop were telling me.
The only drawback was having to get the pictures the right dimensions, but that may be the case for all digital frames. The images looked great on it as well. The style of the frame is what drew me to this product. Most digital frames just have the plain flat front, but this one was nicer.
BUT "DID NOT" COME WITH THE BLACK LEATHER POUCH, shown in the pictures and descriptions, where ever you see this DP-350 advertised, including Amazon. What the heck Coby.
Coby advertises both music & photo, but not one mentions that you can not view pictures with background music at the same time, even in any of their manuals, they completely duck this issue. Also I can not play music & view photos at the same time, a feature I would expect to be understood.
I received this Coby DP-350 photo player item 6/25/2009. This handsome leather pouch is one of the reasons I purchased this item.
Again, What the heck Coby. It was neatly packaged and as described.
Clearly false advertising.
the price can't be beat. other than a digital picture frame, it can also play mp3 and video file.
We are taking the frame back to exchange and hopefully, it will work. It wouldn't read the card at all. We reloaded the old card in and it no longer read it either. I purchased the dp702 frame for father's day. It looks like it's all about total number of pictures or memory inserted. But, we wanted to add more pictures and recopied the pics onto an PNY optima 2gb SD card with good success now totalling 500 pics. We fully loaded a Kodak 1gb SD card with about 450 pictures (with 75% capacity), it worked just fine and dandy. That way, they could load more of their own pics on too, but when we plugged it in, we had no success.
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