Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Aluratek 8" LCD Digital Picture Frame, 4GB Built-In Memory, USB/SD/SDHC Supported, Stylish Slim Modern Black Frame, Built-In Clock & Calendar

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024

Size: 10" (w/ Built-in Memory)Verified Purchase

We were looking for a digital frame that is simple with just enough functions that we need.
The AluraAtek 10" photo frame fits exactly what we are looking for.
It is very easy to setup and within minutes we are up and running.
The picture quality is excellent. The price is very reasonable.

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Vanessa

Not showing pics

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2023

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

I bought this product last September. Since 1 or 2 photos wouldn’t appear completely. I have deleted this pictures and added others and even some that were perfectly fine are now not wanting to show up. I have tried resetting, deleting and adding pictures and now it’s doing it to just about every one of them. It’s too late to return but I wasn’t as lucky as some on here that rave about it.

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Amazon Customer

Nice product

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

Works well. Easy to put together. Very pleased

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H. Fard

Good Resolution, Basic Features, Some Limitations

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2008

Size: 7 InchVerified Purchase

This frame has a very good screen resolution (800x480) for its price range. Also has very simple controls and operations. If you are looking for a feature-rich frame with sophisticated on screen menu, this frame is not for you, but if you are looking for high resolution frame with basic features at a reasonable price, this frame fits the bill.

While the majority of digital cameras shoot with the aspect ratio of 4:3, this frame as well as almost all other frames are wide-screen, with the aspect ratio of 5:3. I don't understand why there should be some conflicting standards for two items that go hand in hand, it reminds me of the packaging buns and hot dogs. In any case, this frame shows the pictures in landscape only. If you want your landscape pictures to be shown in full with no white space around them, you have to manually crop them to give them a 5:3 aspect ratio before you put them on the memory card. Otherwise, you have to use the frame's Mode button to use either of its three display modes (Full, Auto-fit, Pan-scan). The Full mode will stretch the picture to fit the width of the screen, thus to some degree distorts the image. Auto-fit shows the whole picture, therefore showing a 4:3 picture on a 5:3 screen will leave white space (actually black space) on both sides. Pan-scan, which is the default mode, matches the width of the image with the width of the frame, thus to show a 4:3 picture, the fame crops from the top and bottom of the image to bring it to 5:3 aspect ratio, so the crop is done automatically, but not at your discretion.

It has auto slide-show with nice random transitions to show pictures at three preset speeds. The default is fast (6 seconds on each picture). By pressing the Time button on the back of the frame, you can switch to medium (15 seconds), or slow (30 seconds). For the slide-show, if you want the pictures to be shown in a specific order, there is no control for that. To achieve that, you have to copy the pictures to the memory card one by one in the order you want them to be shown, because the frame shows the pictures based on the copy date/time stamp.

The frame can only show pictures in JPEG format, but for many that shouldn't be a problem, as this is the most popular format. However, you need to know something that I learned the hard way. I had many JPEG pictures that this frame could not show. These are normal JPEG images that can be shown by all browsers and graphic program in the computer, yet the frame could not show them. I played with their resolution and other properties, to no avail. Finally, it turns out that if an image has been saved by a photo editing software (I use PhotoImpact), although it is saved in JPEG, the frame cannot show it. The frame can only show the images that come directly from a digital camera, or saved by Microsoft Paint program. So when I called the images the frame could not show into Windows Paint program and saved them with Paint, they could be shown in the frame. I contacted Aluratek's technical support, but they responded that they do not have any solution for this problem yet.

Another thing that I learned by experience is the that Off button (holding the Play/Pause button for 3 seconds) turns off the screen, but does not reset the circuits. In few cases the frame showed a distorted image. I turned the frame off using this button, to no avail. When I unplugged the frame and plugged it back in, everything turned out OK.

Another behavior about this frame which I do not like is that when you turn it off (unplug it) it looses all its setups and when you turn it back on, everything goes back to the default. For example, if you change the transition speed to medium (15 seconds) or slow (30 seconds), when you turn it off and on, it is back to fast (6 seconds).

Overall, in my view if you can live with a few small flaws, it is a good frame with very good resolution at a reasonable price.

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Joe from Colorado

Solid budget digital photo frame

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2023

Size: 8" (w/ Built-in Memory)Verified Purchase

Pretty much just as described in the ad and by all the prior reviewers. It does the basics fine, and was just as plug-and-play as promised--a rarity. Loaded a bunch of family pictures for my sister as a Christmas present and I'm confident she'll be pleased.

As others have noted, and therefore what I expected, it's a bit basic and rough in design. The power plug is awkwardly placed, the stand isn't well set up for portrait display, and it's a bit annoying that the display order can't be randomized. 1 point off for those considerations. And another point off for the note included by the seller that they'd send a free gift (supposedly valued at $19.95) if I posted a positive review. That's beyond unprofessional and I sure wish Amazon would crack down on this.

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TriCruiser2000

Crisp and bright pictures.

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

I bought one for my wife and she was so happy with it she bought one for my sister. We are fans.

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Curtis

Cheap Junk

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2022

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

I think that in general LCD picture displays are a poor value for the money. Just buy a Kindle Fire and set up a slide slow on it, way better image quality and capabilities. This is what I will do next.

I bought this one because it looked cheap and easy, but it has a number of issues. The picture quality is poor. It is very fickle about image file names. If a file name is not of a format that it likes then it will just lock up and not function with no error message displayed. I just figured this out by trial and error. It seems to especially not like long file names and/or file names with special characters. Short and simple works best.

Random crashes. Occasionally it just reboots with no error message displayed.

Partial image display. After some fiddling I got it up and running reasonably well, but after a few days it started only displaying partial images frequently (and rebooting more frequently). It finally got bad enough that I just disconnected it and added it to the electronic junk bin...its not worth wasting time to fix.

No auto dim. This is not an advertised feature of this product, but something to be aware of. The display is bright and there is no way to set a time based dim/screen blank so at night the light can be quite bright and distracting.

UPDATE 20220604:

Instead of this piece of junk I got a refurbished Kindle Fire HD and set it up to run a slideshow. Radically better results! The Kindle HD has a much better quality display. I loaded the "Fotoo" app on it, which gets mediocre reviews, but I find to be excellent for my purposes. Features I particularly like: photos can be sourced from multiple cloud storage services (I use DropBox) and local SD storage. It has a configurable schedule for checking for new photos, so you can just drop new ones into a cloud folder - no need to fiddle with loading onto and SD card. It also has a start/stop scheduler so that you can let the screen blank/dim off hours (no glare from the screen while you are trying to sleep).

Blows the doors off this piece of junk!

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Julia Dake

Bright and Clear

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

Easy to set up. Bright clear screen. Great gift.

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J&M

Great value for good quality photo frame!

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2020

Size: 7 InchVerified Purchase

Picked this up because it was on sale and also the size ( I was looking to get a small 7" frame to fit on my shelves.) got to say I am not disappointed with my purchase!

Out of the box it is easy to setup, though I was the kick stand could be adjustable, it still does sit at a good angle that the pictures can be visibly seen. Looking upon the photo frame at certain angle does affect the appearance and quality of the photo's so for the most part you do need to be looking at a somewhat straight forward view for optimal viewing and at a certain distance as well (I'd say within 2 ft for optimal viewing.) Again, for the cost of the product still worth it.

Setting up the unit was really simple. I choose to use a 8GB USB 2.0 Dongle. Did not have to reformat the Dongle, left as is. Did not need to create any folders, just copied and placed the files on the Root Directory. Did not need to change the file format for the files (left them as JPEG.).

As far for picture orientation goes I took a lot of my picture's in a Vertical shot (mostly selfies) so all I had to do was re-edit the photo to set them to Landscape. Depending on the device that you used to take the photo's you may loose quality in the editing process. Their maybe programs that you can use to recover the lost quality of the photo from the conversion to landscape setting but you'll need to research that yourself.

Again, great value for a good quality photo frame!

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JR

Hard for senior to maneuver

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

My mom loves this little frame and turns it on all the time. She's 88 years old so it's small and light enough for her to hold in her lap. We don't like the fat that it starts from the very beginning every time you turn it on. I don't live with my mom so we have like 200 pictures on it but she really only sees the same 50 pictures over and over again. She can choose to go to the menu, use down arrow button to scroll through pages of pictures and then start on a section of pictures she hasn't seen yet, but maneuvering the buttons in the back at the same time as looking at the screen to see where she wants the pictures to start, is extremely difficult. Those buttons should be somewhere on the top of the frame. And then when she does start in a different location, once she turns it off, the next time she uses it, it's back again to picture number 1. So frustrating. You should have an option to randomly mix the pictures every time you use it!!

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