1 00:00:00,719 --> 00:00:07,040 So today we've got a couple of new photo frames from Samsung. They're not just 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:12,559 photo frames. They do have LCDs inside them. We have the SPF 105P and the SPF 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,920 71E. And it occurred to me when we were 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:19,359 talking about topics for a video that it's going to be pretty hard for people 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,560 to come up with searching for these terms. And I thought, you know, I can't 6 00:00:21,119 --> 00:00:28,800 even figure out what these names mean. And then it occurred to me SPF is not 7 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:31,519 sun protection factor. It's Is that even 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:36,559 what SPF stands for? I don't actually know what SPF stands for. But either 9 00:00:34,399 --> 00:00:40,440 way, we're going to unbox these LCDs and show you some of the neat features. 10 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:57,520 Okay, so we're going to start with the 7in model. Let's open this baby up. Oh 11 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:59,440 yeah. Creating open box inventory. 12 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:04,080 And I'm having a fair amount of difficulty with the sticker. There we 13 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:08,880 go. Relive your best moments is what the marketing message right on the inside 14 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:11,200 here reads. It's got a little blue bow. 15 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:15,520 Isn't that sweet? So then we take this off. And you've got your instruction 16 00:01:13,119 --> 00:01:22,000 manual, which is in both English and French. Thank you, Kebec. And then we've 17 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:24,960 got some warranty stuff. And right 18 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:31,759 inside you will find the 7 in digital photo frame. Now, just move that aside 19 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:34,079 for now. Next, inside you've got the 20 00:01:31,759 --> 00:01:38,960 Oh, wow. This is complicated. Okay, you've got a power cable. You've got a 21 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:42,960 stand, which I will remove cuz right now all 22 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:49,360 you can really see is me rumaging in the box. You've got a little stand that 23 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:51,439 looks suspiciously like it. Um, never 24 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:57,600 mind what that is. And then the other part of the power 25 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,040 cable and a USB cable. So that is all 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:03,040 the accessories that come with the SP710A. 27 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:06,960 Is that what it's called? 71E. 28 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:12,959 Okay. So the physical properties of the 7 in LCD photo frame. First of all, 29 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:15,760 we've got besides the 120 megs of 30 00:02:12,959 --> 00:02:20,959 integrated memory in the unit itself, we've got a USB slot. So, we can use 31 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:25,200 that for a USB thumb drive or we've got an SD slot so you can put an SD card in 32 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:29,120 so you can store a lot more than 120 megs of photos and have them display on 33 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:36,000 the screen. Now, you've also got your controls on the back, a Kensington lock, 34 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,519 a power button, and here you will find a 35 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:43,200 socket for this. So, I will demonstrate the 36 00:02:40,879 --> 00:02:49,200 proper use of this instrument and this socket. First, peel back the plasticky 37 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:53,440 rubbery protective layer. Then, carefully insert the ball into the 38 00:02:51,519 --> 00:02:58,800 socket. Yeah, there we go. Okay. And then, 39 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:05,599 see, that's not very well protected at all, is it? But what are you going to do? So, that is your stand and that is 40 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:10,879 how the device will stay held up when you put it on the shelf. 41 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:15,440 So, as the cameraman pointed out, the likelihood of the contents of this box 42 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:20,319 being very similar to the other one is very high. So, we are going to do a 43 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:24,400 speed unboxing here. Okay. Protective thing. Uh, driver CD that was not in the 44 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:34,239 other one. The cameraman is clearly wrong. They do not contain the same thing. Manual warranty and 45 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,400 a 10 in photo frame. Not that the number 46 00:03:34,239 --> 00:03:40,400 of inches is necessarily the most important thing. 47 00:03:38,799 --> 00:03:44,239 There we go. And this one also has kind of a cool, if I could get the cameraman 48 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:49,519 to zoom in, it has kind of a neat uh swirly pattern to the frame, which I 49 00:03:46,959 --> 00:03:54,319 think looks pretty styling. If you can see that in our shot here. Not really 50 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:58,879 sure. Either way, let's move on to what else is in the box. So, we've got uh a 51 00:03:56,959 --> 00:04:04,159 stand for the back. And this is an interesting shaped device. I wonder what 52 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:09,280 this could be used for. Um, we'll get on to that later. And then we have power 53 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:13,599 and USB. So, it is for the most part the same things inside. So, let's move on to 54 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:17,680 showing you what they look like. First of all, we show you all of the inputs on 55 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:23,680 the 10-in model. So, we've got compact flash right here. Then, we have Pick it 56 00:04:21,359 --> 00:04:28,000 up right there. Yeah. Okay. Then, we got USB for a USB thumb drive, USB for 57 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:33,360 loading things onto the internal memory, and an SD card. Now, you will also see 58 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:35,520 an input port at the back and that is 59 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:43,199 for this thing. There we go. Oh, I broke it. Hold on. 60 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:47,600 Okay, that's a little tricky. Bit of a tight squeeze there. There we go. So, 61 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:51,240 that way we can have the 10-in one standing on its own. 62 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:57,120 So, first thing, once you've wiped the fingerprints off that you've inevitably 63 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:01,840 got on them while you were unpacking them, 64 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:07,280 It's time to turn on your new digital photo frame. So, we will have that 65 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:09,199 experience together right now. 66 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:14,240 Aha. A lovely couple and a nice looking Asian 67 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:19,360 family. And there's there's the family again. Some people in the bath. 68 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:23,199 Excellent. As you can see, the 10-in one actually has a feature where it is 69 00:05:21,039 --> 00:05:28,000 playing music in the background. I'm not sure if the camera can hear that or not, 70 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:30,960 but it's it's nice enough. But I think it would get pretty old. So, we'll 71 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:35,440 investigate a little bit further into putting our own pictures on and maybe 72 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:38,639 even our own music. So, I just wanted to briefly cover the viewing angle. The 73 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,880 viewing angle on these is a lot better than what picture frame photo picture 74 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:47,039 digital picture frames were about a year ago when I bought one. So, you can see 75 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:50,800 the picture perfectly clearly at an angle of about like this. So, if you 76 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:54,400 were to mount this on the wall or uh put it up on the mantle or whatever else, 77 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:58,560 you'd be able to see it from a good part of the room, unlike older digital photo 78 00:05:56,639 --> 00:06:02,160 frames. But that pretty much concludes the 7-in model. It's got some controls 79 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:07,199 on the back. Uh it's a pretty basic thing. So, we're going to move on to some of the neat features of the 10-in 80 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:12,080 model. Okay. So, we plug in our USB thumb 81 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:16,080 drive. And we'll use what is a very cool feature that this has, which is touch 82 00:06:14,479 --> 00:06:20,240 sensitive controls right here, which are actually 83 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:24,000 proving to be kind of a pain. But the idea behind something like this is that 84 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:30,880 you wouldn't necessarily be using it very often. So USB gets connected. So we 85 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:32,800 click photo. 86 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:37,039 Enter. There we go. So the uh the cameraman 87 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:42,080 grabbed some pictures that he thought were pretty tremendous from my last 88 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:45,280 vacation. And 89 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:48,800 so we've got a new slideshow with the uh 90 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:50,319 the pictures that he's chosen. 91 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:54,800 Apparently most of these pictures involve me thinking that men are 92 00:06:52,720 --> 00:07:01,120 interesting and good. Ah, and women are scary. All right, so 93 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:08,160 um moving on. I owe the cameraman one and we'll cover how to put music to go 94 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:12,880 along with your photo. Okay, so we just connected the USB drive 95 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:18,000 with the music on it and just kind of hold this up here. So, we navigate over 96 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:24,800 to music, select it. I have to say though, the uh 97 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:27,360 the um the menus on this digital photo 98 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:33,199 frame are quite unintuitive at times. I'm not really sure which of these songs 99 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:37,639 to actually select here. So, we'll go with um this one. 100 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:51,599 Okay. So, at any rate, um, now we'll try 101 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:54,720 to play a slideshow, which 102 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:58,720 I can't figure out how to use this thing. I'm going to be 100% honest with 103 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:04,319 you right now. I find the menu system very unintuitive and I find these touch 104 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:07,199 controls are essentially useless because 105 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:10,720 half the time they don't register any the stroke and the other half the time 106 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:15,599 you like you're just basically putting a bunch of smudgy fingerprints. It's like 107 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:20,160 licking one side of the frame and hoping that it's, you know, all going to look 108 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:22,000 nice. It's all I'm not I don't like it 109 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:25,039 very much. I suspect once we get it set up, it's terrific. So, we're just going 110 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:29,440 to do that off camera and then we'll show you the product. 111 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:35,120 So, we're going to wrap this up. This has been kind of a long and drawn out 112 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:37,200 episode of uh my blog. Basically, um 113 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:41,599 once we got it working, I have the clock enabled on here. It has an alarm clock 114 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,959 feature along with you can set any number of different transitions. We've 115 00:08:42,959 --> 00:08:48,240 got it set to random right now. You can set which background music you want to 116 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:52,160 use. I mean, here's a couple things that I was not impressed with as far as 117 00:08:49,839 --> 00:08:56,160 limitations go with the product. Uh, you can't use anything other than JPEG as 118 00:08:54,080 --> 00:09:00,240 far as we can tell for the photo format and also MP3 was the only sound format 119 00:08:58,399 --> 00:09:03,519 that we were able to get working. So, all in all, I'd say I'm pretty happy 120 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:07,200 with the product. The image quality is stellar. It has a better viewing angle 121 00:09:04,959 --> 00:09:13,200 than the 7-in model. Obviously, on the 10-in screen, it has a very high 122 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:14,320 resolution at 1024 by 600. Um, for the 123 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:19,920 longest time, we couldn't figure out how to adjust the volume of the background music, but we did figure that out. It's 124 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:24,320 something to do with, uh, using the up and down arrows, which, uh, honestly, if 125 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:28,320 it was documented a little better, then it would be fine. It took me about, you 126 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:32,160 know, 5 10 minutes to sit down with it, get it working exactly the way I wanted 127 00:09:29,839 --> 00:09:36,160 it. Once it's sitting on the mantle, then it operates as advertised. And 128 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,920 honestly, it's a really cool little product. Thanks for watching Linus Tech 129 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:43,200 Tips. 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