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I was looking for a digital frame as a present for my Dad, who finds it very easy to dislike things, especially if he finds them difficult to operate. I decided on this one as it was a known manufacturer, good price and had a remote control. I was a bit sceptical about the picture quality and ease of use, having seen a few less than impressive budget models in the shops. However, on receiving this - amazingly quickly - I was relieved. Nicely made, good picture quality for the family snaps it will be used for, intuitive operation and simple instruction manual. One of the good features not mentioned in other reviews is that to rotate, zoom etc you can either use the remote or press any of the buttons on the back which brings up icons on the screen. You then press the button next to the icon to perform the function, which means you don't keep having to turn the frame over to see what the buttons do, or navigate incomprehensible on-screen menus as in some models I'd tried. Also you can switch it off completely rather than leaving it on standby. All in all really pleased with this frame, hope my dad is too!

OK the bad news. MS probably means Marks and Sparks - cos it sure don't mean Memory stick. Since I got it for my Mum who has both a camera and a phone that use MS this is a bit of a draw back. I can't get any pictures onto the SD card I bought to do that with (my problem not the frame) so it could be a fault with the frame since it won't eject cards either. Either way it's not the greatest start....
BUT
Power it up with a USB drive in it and it's off and jogging in a few seconds. No it doesn't like full sized drives but I've a small 256mb one that's just the ticket. Yeah you can play with the pictures to make them fit better but my sixty somthing Mum ain't going to bother and the pictures acceptable without spending hours with a picture converter. You can change the surround in about a second and it's pretty idiot proof. Just don't rely on the card support.
The picky bit is that the manuals about five pages and the guarentee is twenty odd. I know it's simple but a page and a half on plugging it in?
If anyone from Agfa is reading this as a new feature why not offer an option to copy from card to card? Plenty of folks have USB drives but would get a card for the slot for this. This takes the hassle out of fighting your PC for card readers etc.
Overall - good. I know Mum will go "awww" on Christmas day as her grandchildren scan past her and know that if she wants to add to the show she can easily - thats what I wanted.

I bought one of these to give as a wedding present with pictures from the wedding day - however the picture quality is absolutely terrible! The resolution is so low that images look absolutely terrible.
I've resized my images to the correct resolution for the display to try to extract as much detail as possible - but a total waste of time.
I really wouldn't recommend this to anyone! I'll be returning mine and buying something similar with a higher resolution display!

I am sorry, but | have had 2 of these in quick succession and, thank you Amazon, both were accepted back. Perhaps a duff batch of power adaptors? - but both frames did not switch on. I changed fuses, tried different sockets, but nothing worked for the Agfaphoto.So today I am looking for a new frame, a different make. Glad I did not wait to give to my elderly parents in law before opening box and checking!

I bought this product from elsewhere. It has an awful veiwing angle which makes the product unworkable. I loaded some pictures on it and stood it on a shelf in the lounge to admire my work. The pictures look fine as long as you stand directly in front of the frame with your eyeline level with it. But the minute you move off center the image is so dark it almost vanishes.

Conclusion
The frame works nicely in the lounge, as long as you don't sit down or move!

Not Recommended.