First of all, this review is for the COBY DP-758 ONLY. be forewarned, Amazon has this tendency lately to lump reviews for different products together, which makes finding accurate ones for what YOU are purchasing difficult at best! That being said, here’s my review: There’s nothing like the gift that keeps giving, and this thing is like Herpes…the pain never stops. I received it as a gift, and if you are thinking of buying it for someone, DON’T!! Just give ‘em cash, I beg of you. To begin with, it has no internal memory, so immediate purchase of an SD memory card is a must. Then you are limited to the old fasioned, slow SD card (SDHC not compatible) with a 2GB max. So if you have LOTS of pictures, as I do, you will need several, and have to interchage them at regular intervals. Ok, so you have your SD card and think you’re ready to go, right? WRONG!! They didn’t even include a connectivity cable to hook it up to your computer! The instructions (The marginally better downloaded PDF document by the way, not the crappy instructions included in the box) simply say to connect your computer using a USB 2.0 High-speed cable, which should be easy, but what you actually need is a USB male ‘A’ to male ‘A’ connector NOT an A/B extension or even A/A extension which has one female end. This cable thus far, seems to be made with unobtainium, ’cause it’s impossible to find. First, I went to Radio-Shack, Staples, Wal-Mart, Best Buy (the list goes on…) and nothing, zero, zip nada…there just isn’t any. Not even Belkin had one. Next, I tried online… but 2 tries later (even though the description sounded right) I have returned both, and had to pony up the return shipping to boot (more time and money wasted). Oh and forget about customer service, you are better off asking your pet, or maybe one of those fortune telling eight-balls. Consequently, I still have a picture frame that’s only good for a door-stop, and my limited options are; Build the cable myself and risk damaging my computer for this piece of crap, trash it altogether, or perhaps re-gift to someone I really, really don’t like.

Coby 10" Digital Picture Frame MP3 iPod Player DP-102 US $114.99 End Date: Thursday Mar-11-2010 5:57:31 PST

COBY 7" Widescreen Digital Photo Frame DP-758 NIB US $39.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Thursday Mar-11-2010 10:18:09 PST

Coby DP702 7-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame US $54.99 End Date: Thursday Mar-11-2010 10:30:33 PST

Coby DP700BLK 7.0" Digital Photo Frame - Black US $49.99 End Date: Thursday Mar-11-2010 10:32:23 PST

Researched Consumer Reports to see which digital photo frames they rated highly and SmartParts frames did well. After reading several reviews, I decided I definitely wanted one with at least 800×600 resolution (higher the better). Drew the picture size on a piece of paper for 7 inch, 8 inch, 9 inch, 10 inch and 15 inch frames and decided that the 10 inch frame was the right size – the 7 and 8 inch ones are not much better than a 3×5 and 4×6 inch prints, respectively so they aren’t that big. This was a gift for an 85 year old so we needed something big but not huge. The 15 inch frames were just too big and finding a spot to place them would be difficult.

The frame functions very well – picture quality is excellent and loading it was very easy; however, I recommend you not bother using the software that was bundled with it – that does not work well at all. I simply hooked it up to my PC using the enclosed USB cable and copied photos from my PC directly to the memory in the frame (drag and drop). I have Windows XP and had previously downloaded from MicroSoft, a program that resizes photos into one of four selectable sizes. I used this ImageResizer to resize all the photos I was moving to the frame to save space on the memory card. One piece of advice, do not resize all the way down to 800×600. I found that using 1028×768 made the pictures look better. If you install an additional memory card in the frame then you really do not need to resize the photos.

I have not yet tried to use all the additional features like adding music to go with the slideshow or viewing video clips. For viewing photos, this product works great – you can replace all your photo albums with it.

SMARTPARTS SP15MWA 15" DIGITAL PICTURE FRAME US $49.99 (0 Bid) End Date: Wednesday Mar-10-2010 19:47:07 PST

SmartParts SPX8 Syncpix 8" Digital Picture Photo Frame US $46.99 (1 Bid) End Date: Wednesday Mar-10-2010 20:33:40 PST

1 SMARTPARTS SP1000EF 10.4" DIGITAL PHOTO PICTURE FRAME US $57.49 (1 Bid) End Date: Wednesday Mar-10-2010 20:41:10 PST

1 SMARTPARTS SP1000EF 10.4" DIGITAL PHOTO PICTURE FRAME US $57.49 (0 Bid) End Date: Wednesday Mar-10-2010 20:41:22 PST