So today we've got a couple of new photo frames from Samsung. They're not just
photo frames. They do have LCDs inside them. We have the SPF 105P and the SPF
71E. And it occurred to me when we were
talking about topics for a video that it's going to be pretty hard for people
to come up with searching for these terms. And I thought, you know, I can't
even figure out what these names mean. And then it occurred to me SPF is not
sun protection factor. It's Is that even
what SPF stands for? I don't actually know what SPF stands for. But either
way, we're going to unbox these LCDs and show you some of the neat features.
Okay, so we're going to start with the 7in model. Let's open this baby up. Oh
yeah. Creating open box inventory.
And I'm having a fair amount of difficulty with the sticker. There we
go. Relive your best moments is what the marketing message right on the inside
here reads. It's got a little blue bow.
Isn't that sweet? So then we take this off. And you've got your instruction
manual, which is in both English and French. Thank you, Kebec. And then we've
got some warranty stuff. And right
inside you will find the 7 in digital photo frame. Now, just move that aside
for now. Next, inside you've got the
Oh, wow. This is complicated. Okay, you've got a power cable. You've got a
stand, which I will remove cuz right now all
you can really see is me rumaging in the box. You've got a little stand that
looks suspiciously like it. Um, never
mind what that is. And then the other part of the power
cable and a USB cable. So that is all
the accessories that come with the SP710A.
Is that what it's called? 71E.
Okay. So the physical properties of the 7 in LCD photo frame. First of all,
we've got besides the 120 megs of
integrated memory in the unit itself, we've got a USB slot. So, we can use
that for a USB thumb drive or we've got an SD slot so you can put an SD card in
so you can store a lot more than 120 megs of photos and have them display on
the screen. Now, you've also got your controls on the back, a Kensington lock,
a power button, and here you will find a
socket for this. So, I will demonstrate the
proper use of this instrument and this socket. First, peel back the plasticky
rubbery protective layer. Then, carefully insert the ball into the
socket. Yeah, there we go. Okay. And then,
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
how the device will stay held up when you put it on the shelf.
So, as the cameraman pointed out, the likelihood of the contents of this box
being very similar to the other one is very high. So, we are going to do a
speed unboxing here. Okay. Protective thing. Uh, driver CD that was not in the
other one. The cameraman is clearly wrong. They do not contain the same thing. Manual warranty and
a 10 in photo frame. Not that the number
of inches is necessarily the most important thing.
There we go. And this one also has kind of a cool, if I could get the cameraman
to zoom in, it has kind of a neat uh swirly pattern to the frame, which I
think looks pretty styling. If you can see that in our shot here. Not really
sure. Either way, let's move on to what else is in the box. So, we've got uh a
stand for the back. And this is an interesting shaped device. I wonder what
this could be used for. Um, we'll get on to that later. And then we have power
and USB. So, it is for the most part the same things inside. So, let's move on to
showing you what they look like. First of all, we show you all of the inputs on
the 10-in model. So, we've got compact flash right here. Then, we have Pick it
up right there. Yeah. Okay. Then, we got USB for a USB thumb drive, USB for
loading things onto the internal memory, and an SD card. Now, you will also see
an input port at the back and that is
for this thing. There we go. Oh, I broke it. Hold on.
Okay, that's a little tricky. Bit of a tight squeeze there. There we go. So,
that way we can have the 10-in one standing on its own.
So, first thing, once you've wiped the fingerprints off that you've inevitably
got on them while you were unpacking them,
It's time to turn on your new digital photo frame. So, we will have that
experience together right now.
Aha. A lovely couple and a nice looking Asian
family. And there's there's the family again. Some people in the bath.
Excellent. As you can see, the 10-in one actually has a feature where it is
playing music in the background. I'm not sure if the camera can hear that or not,
but it's it's nice enough. But I think it would get pretty old. So, we'll
investigate a little bit further into putting our own pictures on and maybe
even our own music. So, I just wanted to briefly cover the viewing angle. The
viewing angle on these is a lot better than what picture frame photo picture
digital picture frames were about a year ago when I bought one. So, you can see
the picture perfectly clearly at an angle of about like this. So, if you
were to mount this on the wall or uh put it up on the mantle or whatever else,
you'd be able to see it from a good part of the room, unlike older digital photo
frames. But that pretty much concludes the 7-in model. It's got some controls
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
model. Okay. So, we plug in our USB thumb
drive. And we'll use what is a very cool feature that this has, which is touch
sensitive controls right here, which are actually
proving to be kind of a pain. But the idea behind something like this is that
you wouldn't necessarily be using it very often. So USB gets connected. So we
click photo.
Enter. There we go. So the uh the cameraman
grabbed some pictures that he thought were pretty tremendous from my last
vacation. And
so we've got a new slideshow with the uh
the pictures that he's chosen.
Apparently most of these pictures involve me thinking that men are
interesting and good. Ah, and women are scary. All right, so
um moving on. I owe the cameraman one and we'll cover how to put music to go
along with your photo. Okay, so we just connected the USB drive
with the music on it and just kind of hold this up here. So, we navigate over
to music, select it. I have to say though, the uh
the um the menus on this digital photo
frame are quite unintuitive at times. I'm not really sure which of these songs
to actually select here. So, we'll go with um this one.
Okay. So, at any rate, um, now we'll try
to play a slideshow, which
I can't figure out how to use this thing. I'm going to be 100% honest with
you right now. I find the menu system very unintuitive and I find these touch
controls are essentially useless because
half the time they don't register any the stroke and the other half the time
you like you're just basically putting a bunch of smudgy fingerprints. It's like
licking one side of the frame and hoping that it's, you know, all going to look
nice. It's all I'm not I don't like it
very much. I suspect once we get it set up, it's terrific. So, we're just going
to do that off camera and then we'll show you the product.
So, we're going to wrap this up. This has been kind of a long and drawn out
episode of uh my blog. Basically, um
once we got it working, I have the clock enabled on here. It has an alarm clock
feature along with you can set any number of different transitions. We've
got it set to random right now. You can set which background music you want to
use. I mean, here's a couple things that I was not impressed with as far as
limitations go with the product. Uh, you can't use anything other than JPEG as
far as we can tell for the photo format and also MP3 was the only sound format
that we were able to get working. So, all in all, I'd say I'm pretty happy
with the product. The image quality is stellar. It has a better viewing angle
than the 7-in model. Obviously, on the 10-in screen, it has a very high
resolution at 1024 by 600. Um, for the
longest time, we couldn't figure out how to adjust the volume of the background music, but we did figure that out. It's
something to do with, uh, using the up and down arrows, which, uh, honestly, if
it was documented a little better, then it would be fine. It took me about, you
know, 5 10 minutes to sit down with it, get it working exactly the way I wanted
it. Once it's sitting on the mantle, then it operates as advertised. And
honestly, it's a really cool little product. Thanks for watching Linus Tech
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