Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We received a Philips digital photo frame as a gift, and had issues with it - lots of freezing/locking up. Looking to purchase a gift for 2 other people, we went with the Coby since it was half the price of the Philips. As the title says, you get what you pay for. I'd probably give it 2.5 stars if that was an option, but it's not a 3. Pros: * mp3 - very nice to be able to include music to go along with the photos * remote - it's tiny, but does everything you need. Great idea * setup/playback is relatively simple, in theory (see cons below) Cons: * picture quality pales in comparison to the Philips. From a distance, it's not bad, but up close the pictures definitely look digitized. We've put the same resolution photos on both, and you can clearly see a difference side by side * loading photos is hit or miss. Click and drag interface is great, but it didn't always work. Some photos would copy immediately, others just wouldn't copy unless you tried to move them 8 or 9 times. Bulk copying was therefore impossible. Same issue with several memory cards, so I'm inclined to blame the frame. The current card is only 25% full, but the Coby won't let any more photos be copied over. [Using a card reader, all of the above works fine. But if you don't have one, you may run into issues. At the very least, buy the same type of card as your camera so you can copy via the camera instead of the frame] * widescreen is good, and bad. Make sure that it's actually what you want. If all of your photos are from a widescreen still or video camera, you'll be fine. But standard digital photos are 4:3, not 16:9. Mixing and matching photos looks kind of cheesy in a slideshow. Depending on what you're doing with it, it's not a bad purchase. To the less discerning photo enthusiast, it's fine. Other than the photo quality, all of the cons can be overcome. But if you really want a fine photo quality, I'd look elsewhere.