Digital Spectrum MemoryVue MV-800 8-Inch Digital Frame

Shows great quality pictures with any problems

At night is when I noticed that this frame is superior to a conventional frame holding paper photos. This was bright and sharp. The frame looks acceptable in any living room. My wife has it at work where 350 pictures slowly work through the slideshow. Her colleagues love it. Simply drag and drop, {buy at least a 500 meg card}, the files from your computer to the card, then insert your card in the side of the digital frame. You can change a couple of settings on it. It has a simple menu. Overall, a monkey could figure it out. I bought one for my wife's office and we just bought another for her mom and dad.

This product is faulty (a lemon), the first one stopped working after 5 months, they sent a new one after two months; that one developed spots on the screen two months later as others have reported.A waste of money and time.

I just got my MemoryVue today -- a Christmas gift for the in-laws. It's simple enough to operate; simply insert a media card and turn the thing on. It defaults to a nice slide show of the pictures I had on my CF card. Apparently it can also play MP3's and video, but I got it for the photo display.My issue is that I shoot a lot of close-ups and in doing so I often shoot portrait oriented photos. While the MemoryVue allows me to rotate photos so they display properly, it doesn't remember the setting on the second pass through the slide show. So somehow I need to figure out how to store the photos on the CF card in the proper orientation; I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to do that since my computer seems to automatically rotate photos to their proper orientation.Another issue I have is the user guide; it is two sheets of paper apparently printed on a laser printer and folded in half. The guide shows you what all the buttons are, but doesn't go into any detail on how the different features work. I am pretty much a power user of electronic devices, so I managed, but I am a little concerned about my retired in-laws.Also, there is a black bar at the top of the display. 35mm photos are not exactly 4:3, so to fit in the 640 x 480 display, my 35mm photos are resized to 640 x 427. I wish the frame was smart enough to split the difference between the top and bottom of the display rather than leaving a roughly 53 pixel high black bar at the top of the display. You can adjust the vertical positioning of the display but it doesn't remember the settings after you turn it off.The quality of the display itself is fair -- good enough for the in-laws :-D You can tweek the contrast, brightness, color temp and saturation to make it look respectable, but again once you power-off the unit, the settings are lost.All-in-all, I wish there was a better alternative at this price point, and considering the explosion of digital photography, I'm really surprised there isn't.

I couldn't figure out why the MV-800 would display pictures from my camera CF memory card and not one with pictures selected from iPhoto on my MacIntosh...the pictures I really wanted to see, and not the ones that just happened to be on the camera card...after emailing DSI technical support they explained that "the MV800 will not play any file that is Mac based" which I did not see in the product description...I had thought that a jpeg file was a jpeg file, but I was wrong.

The MV-800 seemed to be the picture frame where I could get the most real-estate for the buck. I bought two of them for gifts for the grandmothers of the family.It's pretty much exactly what I expected, nothing more nothing less. Dead pixel free, and the colors aren't dull, about average. It can be hung on a wall (but the cord would not be very eye appealing) or can be placed on a table (with a stand in the back). The stand seemed slightly flimsy; however it is more then sufficient to hold the weight of the frame.There isn't internal memory which is good because you're not as limited to as much pictures/movies you can put on, but you'll have to add a sD card or other type of supported memory to your order.The buttons on the right side seem a little cheap, however once again, its more then sufficient for the few times you'll use the buttons (because you have a very slim remote that comes with it).The speakers in the back for the mp3s/audio from movie aren't impressive at all. It would probably work fine for audio of the family picnic, but don't expect to be rocking' out to 311 while playing a slide show of your concert pictures.The matte is interchangeable, as is the frame, so you can match decor of the room; or just change it when you get bored. The matte and frame that come originally are attractive and would fit fine in almost any room.UPDATED:Both of the grandmothers of the family absolutely loved them. They both brought many tears seeing the sentimental pictures. Now for what you really want to know...I noticed a few things before I gave the gifts out.Before I wrapped them, I thought I'd be a good idea to get a few specs of dust/specs that were inside the plastic facing. Taking the frame and matte off was no problem, and would be very easy to replace. The one thing that I noticed was that the plastic from was rather cheap. I was considering cutting some glass to put in there, however was restricted on time.The next critique is on the LCD itself. I took a much closer look to the quality of the LCD and it was below average on both. I'm not sure if its possible that I got a bad batch, but both of the ones i bought has a slight "tiger striping" effect. There were about 25-30 (guess) vertical stripes very thin in width that were slightly darker. What brought my attention to it was when they start up, it flashes a pure white screen. Upon further review, I found it affected the pictures as well. Now this didn't make me not want to get these as a gift. They are still attractive for the price, however if you're a techie and you want one for your work desk (and would notice things such as the problem described above), this may not be the LCD picture frame for you.