Digital Photo Frames > Technika Digital Photo Frames

Remember those old family side shows?

Advantages: Cheap unit that's no worse than many of its expensive competitors
Disadvantages: Fiddly to use and limited viewing angle - do you really need one?

...and Tesco's in-house brand of Technika caught my eye. The frames on offer were a fraction of the price of the branded products from the likes of Sony and Kodak but seemed to have very similar functionality. So, did my budget purchase make the grade? Kind of (but, to be honest the real answer should be "yes" as the more expensive models suffer from many of the same issues). Style The first frame I acquired was a simple 7" frame. Aesthetically ...
...Perspex surround but it's simply styled and should fit with most modern decors. The frame will stand in a portrait or landscape fashion and is angled slightly from the perpendicular to give the perfect viewing angle. It cannot be wall-mounted. Operation In terms of operation it's easier to have the frame aligned to landscape format but, personally, I prefer the look in portrait. Much too will depend on how you tend to take your photos as you ...

CareBear 17.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Technika 7" Advanced Digital Photo Frame

Technika 8" digital photo frame good value for money

Advantages: 1GB internal memory built-in, easy of use
Disadvantages: May not be recognized by certain computer e.g. XP Home with AMD chip?

...the final two - Tesco's Technika SR08 or the Linx 8" from Amazon. While I was browsing and investigating at my leisure, Amazon suddenly raised the price from £52.43 to £78.28! This makes the Linx too expensive. So I have just bought the Technika SR08 from Tesco Direct for £58.48 instead. The set up was easy - plug and play (well not quite that straight forward, see below). For the picture display the screen resolution is 800 x 600 pixels, better ...
...mentio the screen Brightness or the Screen Contrast ratio i.e. unknown. The default brightness setting 0 is a bit dim in a bright surrounding. I have to turn it up to +1 or +2. The maximum is +3. This photo frame has a card reader function for SD/MMC/MS/CF card and a USB port for pen drives or PC. Also, it has a generous 1GB internal memory built-in that means you don't need to buy any extra memory card unless you want to display lots of photos in ...

volcano 30.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Technika SR08

Digital view - mini slideshow on the go

Advantages: Small enough to be a keyring, Great stocking filler
Disadvantages: chain is not very strong

This product is the ideal stocking filler for grannies, granddads, aunts and uncles to show off your little treasures. The keyring comes in a little box with an instruction booklet - very basic and straightforward so easy even for those who are not very computer literate. It also comes with rechargable batteries and a USB connector. The connector also works as the charger. Once you install the software it is really easy to transfer photographs ...
...You have a couple of different options you can have it on a static picture or on a slideshow where it cylces through the pictures you have uploaded. The pace of the slideshow is good staying on each picture long enough to see it. It also has the option to put a clock on however with this on and the size of the screen you can't see the picture to well as the screen size is only about an inch. The product itself comes in a variety of colours - I have ...

Salson 11.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Digitalview Keyring K11

Gift and memories-Sony style

Advantages: Read the review
Disadvantages: Price and price

...comfortable and immensely enjoyable. Sony DPF D80 is a high quality digital photo viewer albeit incapable of playing video or audio files which hardly becomes a loud disqualification. The best part is its ease of use and audacious image quality. It looks absolutely breathtaking in its glossy plastic giving it hi-tech look. The intelligent part of the gadget its design. Sony DPF D80’s display area seems wider than most because the bazel is smaller ...
...possible because even though the Sony DPF D80 has does make its total built in memory available for pictures. This is a possibility but my only contention is that a difference of 6MB in built in memory availability should hardly make any such difference, may some technological impadiments are there, applying same analogy to computers makes quite a difference in the performance in computers as far as the system disk is concerened. To be more conversent ...

roktimdutta 21.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony DPF-D80

Show off your collection of family photographs in one small space

Advantages: Nice looking, easy to figure out and a great price
Disadvantages: none for the price

...** What does this typhoon photo frame feature then..? Sadly, no delicious tasting tea… but it does have… * 7 inch visible display * Size of entire frame is 231 x 167 x 29 * 0.392 kg in weight * 480 x 234 pixel resolution * Supports JPEG format * Various time intervals, including 5/15/30 seconds, 1/5/15/30/45 minutes and 1 hour. * Reads SD/MMC memory cards * 3 Screen size mode, including 16:9, 4:3 and 4:3 full screen * 5.0 M/pixel ...
...those precious pictures. The Typhoon comes with a free 64MB SD card, which holds a few dozen good quality images, but with a larger storage card you can add as many images as you want. Personally, I have a 2GB card inserted into mine which holds more images than I can count so there is always something different to see every time I look at the frame. If you want to get those perfect snaps to appear on this frame then I do advise playing about with ...

blissman70 20.10.2009 · Read full review
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