WEBVTT 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 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:12.559 photo frames. They do have LCDs inside them. We have the SPF 105P and the SPF 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:15.920 71E. And it occurred to me when we were 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:19.359 talking about topics for a video that it's going to be pretty hard for people 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:22.560 to come up with searching for these terms. And I thought, you know, I can't 00:00:21.119 --> 00:00:28.800 even figure out what these names mean. And then it occurred to me SPF is not 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:31.519 sun protection factor. It's Is that even 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:36.559 what SPF stands for? I don't actually know what SPF stands for. But either 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:40.440 way, we're going to unbox these LCDs and show you some of the neat features. 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 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:59.440 yeah. Creating open box inventory. 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:04.080 And I'm having a fair amount of difficulty with the sticker. There we 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:08.880 go. Relive your best moments is what the marketing message right on the inside 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:11.200 here reads. It's got a little blue bow. 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:15.520 Isn't that sweet? So then we take this off. And you've got your instruction 00:01:13.119 --> 00:01:22.000 manual, which is in both English and French. Thank you, Kebec. And then we've 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:24.960 got some warranty stuff. And right 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:31.759 inside you will find the 7 in digital photo frame. Now, just move that aside 00:01:26.720 --> 00:01:34.079 for now. Next, inside you've got the 00:01:31.759 --> 00:01:38.960 Oh, wow. This is complicated. Okay, you've got a power cable. You've got a 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:42.960 stand, which I will remove cuz right now all 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 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:51.439 looks suspiciously like it. Um, never 00:01:49.360 --> 00:01:57.600 mind what that is. And then the other part of the power 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:59.040 cable and a USB cable. So that is all 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:03.040 the accessories that come with the SP710A. 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:06.960 Is that what it's called? 71E. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:12.959 Okay. So the physical properties of the 7 in LCD photo frame. First of all, 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:15.760 we've got besides the 120 megs of 00:02:12.959 --> 00:02:20.959 integrated memory in the unit itself, we've got a USB slot. So, we can use 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 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 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:36.000 the screen. Now, you've also got your controls on the back, a Kensington lock, 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:37.519 a power button, and here you will find a 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:43.200 socket for this. So, I will demonstrate the 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:49.200 proper use of this instrument and this socket. First, peel back the plasticky 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:53.440 rubbery protective layer. Then, carefully insert the ball into the 00:02:51.519 --> 00:02:58.800 socket. Yeah, there we go. Okay. And then, 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 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:10.879 how the device will stay held up when you put it on the shelf. 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:15.440 So, as the cameraman pointed out, the likelihood of the contents of this box 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 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:24.400 speed unboxing here. Okay. Protective thing. Uh, driver CD that was not in the 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 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.400 a 10 in photo frame. Not that the number 00:03:34.239 --> 00:03:40.400 of inches is necessarily the most important thing. 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 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 00:03:46.959 --> 00:03:54.319 think looks pretty styling. If you can see that in our shot here. Not really 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 00:03:56.959 --> 00:04:04.159 stand for the back. And this is an interesting shaped device. I wonder what 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 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 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 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 00:04:21.359 --> 00:04:28.000 up right there. Yeah. Okay. Then, we got USB for a USB thumb drive, USB for 00:04:26.080 --> 00:04:33.360 loading things onto the internal memory, and an SD card. Now, you will also see 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:35.520 an input port at the back and that is 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:43.199 for this thing. There we go. Oh, I broke it. Hold on. 00:04:40.880 --> 00:04:47.600 Okay, that's a little tricky. Bit of a tight squeeze there. There we go. So, 00:04:45.840 --> 00:04:51.240 that way we can have the 10-in one standing on its own. 00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:57.120 So, first thing, once you've wiped the fingerprints off that you've inevitably 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:01.840 got on them while you were unpacking them, 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:07.280 It's time to turn on your new digital photo frame. So, we will have that 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:09.199 experience together right now. 00:05:07.280 --> 00:05:14.240 Aha. A lovely couple and a nice looking Asian 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:19.360 family. And there's there's the family again. Some people in the bath. 00:05:16.960 --> 00:05:23.199 Excellent. As you can see, the 10-in one actually has a feature where it is 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, 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 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:35.440 investigate a little bit further into putting our own pictures on and maybe 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:38.639 even our own music. So, I just wanted to briefly cover the viewing angle. The 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:42.880 viewing angle on these is a lot better than what picture frame photo picture 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:47.039 digital picture frames were about a year ago when I bought one. So, you can see 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:50.800 the picture perfectly clearly at an angle of about like this. So, if you 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, 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 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:02.160 frames. But that pretty much concludes the 7-in model. It's got some controls 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 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:12.080 model. Okay. So, we plug in our USB thumb 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 00:06:14.479 --> 00:06:20.240 sensitive controls right here, which are actually 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:24.000 proving to be kind of a pain. But the idea behind something like this is that 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:30.880 you wouldn't necessarily be using it very often. So USB gets connected. So we 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.800 click photo. 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:37.039 Enter. There we go. So the uh the cameraman 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:42.080 grabbed some pictures that he thought were pretty tremendous from my last 00:06:38.960 --> 00:06:45.280 vacation. And 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:48.800 so we've got a new slideshow with the uh 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:50.319 the pictures that he's chosen. 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:54.800 Apparently most of these pictures involve me thinking that men are 00:06:52.720 --> 00:07:01.120 interesting and good. Ah, and women are scary. All right, so 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 00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:12.880 along with your photo. Okay, so we just connected the USB drive 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 00:07:15.520 --> 00:07:24.800 to music, select it. I have to say though, the uh 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:27.360 the um the menus on this digital photo 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:33.199 frame are quite unintuitive at times. I'm not really sure which of these songs 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:37.639 to actually select here. So, we'll go with um this one. 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:51.599 Okay. So, at any rate, um, now we'll try 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:54.720 to play a slideshow, which 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 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:04.319 you right now. I find the menu system very unintuitive and I find these touch 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:07.199 controls are essentially useless because 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:10.720 half the time they don't register any the stroke and the other half the time 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:15.599 you like you're just basically putting a bunch of smudgy fingerprints. It's like 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 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:22.000 nice. It's all I'm not I don't like it 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 00:08:23.840 --> 00:08:29.440 to do that off camera and then we'll show you the product. 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 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:37.200 episode of uh my blog. Basically, um 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 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:44.959 feature along with you can set any number of different transitions. We've 00:08:42.959 --> 00:08:48.240 got it set to random right now. You can set which background music you want to 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 00:08:49.839 --> 00:08:56.160 limitations go with the product. Uh, you can't use anything other than JPEG as 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 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 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:07.200 with the product. The image quality is stellar. It has a better viewing angle 00:09:04.959 --> 00:09:13.200 than the 7-in model. Obviously, on the 10-in screen, it has a very high 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:14.320 resolution at 1024 by 600. Um, for the 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 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:24.320 something to do with, uh, using the up and down arrows, which, uh, honestly, if 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.320 it was documented a little better, then it would be fine. It took me about, you 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 00:09:29.839 --> 00:09:36.160 it. Once it's sitting on the mantle, then it operates as advertised. And 00:09:34.800 --> 00:09:39.920 honestly, it's a really cool little product. Thanks for watching Linus Tech 00:09:38.640 --> 00:09:43.200 Tips. If you have any comments or suggestions for future videos, please 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:46.200 post them in the comments under the video.