Intenso 3914800 8 Inch PhotoBase Digital Photo Frame - black

Bought for my dad who is 67 and moderately it literate..he loves it..good quality basic frame to display his slr pics of places and grandkids..happy

Right, first off, the good points:-1) I'm entirely converted to the digital photo frame concept. It's fantastic for seeing photos again that would otherwise collect dust somewhere or go unprinted.2) The frame looks really good. It is a good size, it doesn't have an annoying logo on the front so it is much more neutral and doesn't scream 'I'm a piece of new technology', it doesn't have any tacky silver/clear edging or anything like that, the proportions of it are really good, and it's generally inoffensive. Believe me, it was actually pretty hard to find one that ticked all of those boxes - it took a lot of hunting.3) It comes with a remote.4) You can programme it to come on and go off at a set time each day so that you don't have to think about turning it on and off, and that's really handy.5) You can set photos to display for 3 seconds, 5 seconds, 15 seconds, 1 minute, or 15 minutes. Some other frames offer more options than even that, but that seems like plenty for me and covers almost anything you'd want.Now, the bad points:-A) It's not possible to adjust the amount by which the frame tilts. You screw the rod in at the back, and that's it. So if the angle is wrong for the height of the item you want to place it on (and if it's wrong then you won't be able to see it properly) then all you can do is something classy like tape a pack of cards underneath it. This might be the same for all frames, and I haven't checked, but it's certainly slightly limiting.B) The remote doesn't seem to work all that well - I click 'next photo' and nothing seems to happen, but all the set-up functions worked fine so I know the remote and the battery work.C) The so called 'shuffle' function for the photos isn't wonderful. I have about 1,500 photos on my memory stick (at least), and yet it will show me the same photo twice within about twenty photos. It has done this on more than once occasion - and I only got it two days ago. Yet there are several other photos which have yet to appear on the frame - ever!D) You can either set it so that the photos fade/pattern/flicker in and out in a completely random way where it varies each time (and some of them are a bit odd - like where it slowly replaces one photo with another in a circular manner starting at the inside, so you temporarily get a creepy combination of two picutres) or you can set it to constant. However, you don't get any choice about WHICH particular setting it constantly applies. As a result, if you have it on constant then all photos fade in and out with a patchwork quilt effect. Personally, I'd rather be able to set it to just push one photo out from the side in the simplest way possible, and that doesn't seem like too much to ask but apparently it is.E) This last one is partly a good point and partly a bad point. If you want to put your photos on the frame using a memory stick, you'll need a relatively compact memory stick to be able to plug it in the back and be sure that it won't protrude out the side. Seems like an obvious point but apparently it's something a lot of manufacturers haven't thought of. However, this frame was actually a lot better than most other frames I looked at with this point in mind, and you can buy really tiny memory sticks. If your memory stick is more than about 4.5cm long (not counting the part that plugs in) then it's likely to show. You might get away with fractionally more than that, but then again it might need to be slightly less - it would depend on what way your frame was angled, as the memory stick is on the left hand side (when you look at the frame face-on).So, that's pretty much it - judge for yourself. The price is obviously very reasonable but you can see that without needing a review. Picture quality seems decent, but it's hard to judge as I'm not technologically minded and some of my pictures are old photos which have been scanned into a computer. Photos which are portrait rather than landscape don't display nearly so well as you have black columns at each side, but I imagine that would happen with any photo frame - you'll just need to crop and edit a lot so that the black columns are minimised as much as possible and the picutre takes up as much of the frame as you can manage.All in all, I do really like the frame and I'm not returning it, but there are definitely a few design flaws which bug me and which they could so easily have fixed!