Don't buy widescreen Digital Frame

I bought this frame as a present for my 83 year old father. The major problem with this frame is that it is wide screen and all of my photos are 4x3 which is what most cameras shoot in. I would buy a non-widescreen frame next time. You either have to have black bars on the sides of each image or cut off the top and bottom of each photo. Portrait photos (as opposed to landscape) are really shrunk down to be very blurry. I also wasn't impressed with the colors - they tend to be pretty washed out. The only adjustments for the screen are brightness and contrast - no color adjustments.

The screen size specs are WRONG. I downloaded a dozen different size images to try to figure out the actual resolution and as near as I can figure it's actually 480x272. The specs claim its 480x234 but when I downloaded images at this resolution they had black bars across the top and bottom.

When digital frames have to resize the image, they don't do a very good job and the image is blurry. Ideally you should resize the images to the native size of the screen. I used PaintShop Pro with the simple script below and the file->batch utility.

def Do(Environment):
    ImageInfo = App.Do( Environment, 'Return ImageInfo' )
    Width = ImageInfo['Width']
    Height = ImageInfo['Height']
    NewWidth = 480
    NewHeight = Height * float(NewWidth) / float(Width)
            
    # Resize
    App.Do( Environment, 'Resize', {
            'Current DimensionUnits': App.Constants.UnitsOf Measure.Pixels,
            'CurrentResolution Units': App.Constants.Resolution Units.PixelsPerIn,
            'Height': NewHeight,
            'MaintainAspect Ratio': App.Constants.Boolean.true,
            'Resample': App.Constants.Boolean.true,
            'ResampleType': App.Constants.ResampleType.SmartSize,
            'ResizeAll Layers': App.Constants.Boolean.true,
            'Resolution': 72,
            'Width': NewWidth,
            'General Settings': {
            'Execution Mode': App.Constants.Execution Mode.Default,
            'AutoAction Mode': App.Constants.AutoAction Mode.Match
            }
            })
               # Resize Canvas
    App.Do( Environment, 'Resize Canvas', {
            'FillColor': (255,255,255),
            'HoriPlace': App.Constants.Horizontal Type.Custom,
            'Maintain Aspect': App.Constants.Boolean.false,
            'NewDimUnits': App.Constants.UnitsOf Measure.Pixels,
            'NewHeight': 272,
            'NewWidth': 480,
            'PlaceBottom': -(NewHeight - 272) / 2,
            'PlaceLeft': 0,
            'PlaceRight': 0,
            'PlaceTop': -(NewHeight - 272) / 2,
            'VertPlace': App.Constants.Vertical Type.Custom,
            'General Settings': {
                'Execution Mode': App.Constants.Execution Mode.Default,
                'AutoAction Mode': App.Constants.AutoAction Mode.Match
                }
            })

Another advantage of reducing the image size is that the files are a lot smaller. I was able to put ~5000 images on a 512M SD card. At 15 seconds per image this is over 20 hours of photos. My father loves this as it basically never has the same image twice.

The frame does take both USB and a couple of flavors of SD cards. It powers up and automatically begins a slide show of the images. It has buttons across the top for menu selection and for moving forward/backward in the slideshow.