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Great quality with a great price

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024

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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Donna Edwards

It works properly

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

I purchased a 15” digital picture frame from Alluretek because I thoroughly enjoy my 10”but this particular frame didn’t function ptoperly. After setting up ( menu and date/ time wouldn’t) it would recognize my storage device but wouldn’t open it. I will try another frame but I don’t want motion sensor.

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Mary Ma

Great quality with a great price

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024

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

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Gray

Great for the price

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

Works and looks great!

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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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DEBBIE

The digital photo frame.

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

The digital photos are very nice. They give you enough time in-between photos to actually get to see what's on the screen

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Donna Edwards

It works properly

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

Size: 15 InchVerified Purchase

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Kerri Williams

Very good digital frame

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

I purchased this for my wife for our first year anniversary
She loved it. It has a wonderful picture display and is easy to use. Highly recommended.

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KYR-JMB

DON'T BUY REFURBISHED 'USED' DIGITAL FRAMES - NO GUARRANTEE THEY WORK - MINE DIDN'T

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2021

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

Usually when a product is refurbished from Amazon, it has been tested and it works. Aluratek is a good name brand. I own another of their digital frames that has been running without a hitch for many years. I never thought twice about buying a used 'like new' product from Aluratek or Amazon. When I first received it, it looked new - had the warranty cards in it and the little piece of tape to pull out to connect batteries in the remote. I didn't jump on the job of putting pictures on it because I knew it would be time consuming to find the subject matter as it was to be a gift. AND I didn't realize that my return window was only a month. When I first tried to add pictures to the 4GB internal NAAN drive, following the instructions I found on line, nothing happened. Computer didn't see the frame as a connected device and visa versa. I thought it might be the computer. I set it aside as a project to spend more time on and I must be doing something wrong. Now many months have passed and I needed to not have the year end without figuring out how to add pictures to the internal memory. So I tried multiple things --- different cables, different ports on the computer, searched for FAQ to troubleshoot, looked online to see if I was doing something wrong, reset to factory settings just in case -- still nothing worked. Finally I logged into my account (remember I had another frame) and opened a trouble ticket. After days back and forth and trying different computers, different computers and different cables, different ports -- still nothing. Checked to see if the frame worked itself by plugging in a USB data stick that was in my other computer. It worked. I could use the remote to modify how the pictures are displayed so that worked. Tech support concluded as expected that the internal port of the frame was not functioning as it could not see the computer to be connected for the data transfer. There doesn't seem to be away to transfer from a data stick to the internal drive. It should be replaced, but odds are Aluratek will not replaced a used digital frame with a new one. It will be so cluggy to give it as a digital frame that can have pictures added to it and has to have an ugly data stick out the side. What does it say about 'thought that counts' -- "thanks for the broken frame"??
I went ahead and submitted the request for a replacement to Aluratek, so we shall see. If they do the right thing and replace the unit, then I will update this review.

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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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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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satterlee davis

Works well, not easy to use

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

Size: 8 InchVerified Purchase

Bought this as a gift for great grandmother. She loves to watch it but is having trouble working the buttons .

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