The picture quality is great. My only complaint is that the frame on ...
938998
The picture quality is great. My only complaint is that the frame on two of the canvases are slightly warped.
3449689
I found the picture quality to be good and the use of the remote control allowed me to easily control the way in which the pictures are displayed. I experienced  problems loading pictures in the internal memory of the device and I was unable to get as many pictures into the system as the instruction booklet said that I should get. However I did buy a Flash memory card and that has proved to be convenient and effective for loading pictures to be displayed.

I did hang the frame on a wall in the living room and would have preferred a much larger display such that someone could clearly discern the images while seated. Unfortunately the D1010 seems to be the largest available.

 I do have a mix of pictures in landscape and portrait orientations for display. I have set the frame for landscape orientation so the presentation of the portrait oriented pictures is not very good.  I will suggest that a good feature to be added to the system is to be able to select one of the viewing options available in the device for each picture.
4936594
Would rate 4.75 stars if possible as there are just a couple minor issues I ran into.

This is my first dedicated digital picture frame. I have used computer screens, TVs and ipads to display slide shows, but never was happy with the quality of dedicated picture frames until now. I have a Canon 5d Mark iii and L lenses, so I wanted a high quality display to show off my photos.

The unit came well packaged, similar to how Apple would package their products. I plugged it in and was prompted to connect to my wifi network. The firmware was automatically updated from the Internet and I was ready to begin uploading pics to the Nixplay.com site. Took less than 10 min.

I expected the Nixplay.com site to offer a poor experience based on some of the reviews. I was pleasantly surprised with the simple interface and upload process. Maybe some of the reviews were older and the features were improved since then. I uploaded 3 pictures to test the process and to make sure the format, etc would work fine on the frame. Everything worked well, so I proceeded to upload 1300 pictures to the site in the next couple days. All my pictures are full size jpg, ranging from 3MB to 20MB. I am continuing to upload more pics as time permits.

Realizing ahead of time that the Nixplay Edge 13 has a 16x9 ratio, I converted my pics to 16x9. I actually prefer the wider ratio and have updated my pics stored on Smugmug to 16x9 as well. I use Lightroom to manage my photos and it was fairly easy to convert. I recommend converting to 16x9 as it fills the screen as intended on the Nixplay.

The screen quality is impressive. Not as vibrant as the retina display on my MacBook Pro, but still very good.

Couple of minor issues....when I "sent" a new playlist to the frame from the Nixplay cloud, the frame would reboot after displaying a few pictures. (30-40 seconds). Unplugging the frame and restart resolved that issue. It does not happen every time, but it did a few times. Another issue is my frame would only play for 1-2 hours, before shutting down. I ended up turning off the "sleep interval" which allows to turn off/on the frame at a certain time of day. My problem is fixed. I have not tried the motion sensor feature yet.

Suggestions....I wish there was a Lightroom plug-in. My current workflow is to export to hard drive and then upload to the Nixplay cloud. It would be much easier to manage the upload process directly from Lightroom, while also automatically publish updates to Nixplay if changes are made to picture. I use a similar process for Facebook, Smugmug, Flickr, etc. If not from Lightroom, a link between Smugmug and Nixplay would be much appreciated.

Overall, I am very happy with my Edge 13. I am looking forward to the 18" Edge to come out.
2442941
I bought this frame as a Christmas gift for my parents to have pictures of their only grandson. I was very impressed and wished I had one for myself. Setup was fairly easy and I didn't seem to have any problems with the menu, though it could be a bit more user-friendly. Using the remote is much easier than using the buttons on the back of the frame. The remote works just fine if you point it toward the sensor which is located toward the bottom of the frame in the horizontal orientation.

I was planning on keeping the images on an SD card so I could keep them at full high quality. I had around 270 images taken on a 14 mp camera and some of the images were as big as 4.9 MB. However, if you do this the images take a long time to load and the slideshow runs much slower. So I went ahead and loaded them on the internal memory as compressed images, otherwise they wouldn't have all fit on 1 GB. It compressed most of the images down to 152 KB, but I was very surprised that you couldn't tell much difference at all in quality. It has to compress them down to a pretty small file if it is going to hold 5000 images which it claims to do.

The color and brightness were very good on the LED display. I don't care for the Kodak frames which distort the color to make it much brighter and ends up looking fake. The 4:3 ratio is great so you don't have to crop the images at all (I'm so glad I didn't end up getting the Sony frame that was on sale at Target, which is 16:9). Most of the images I put on it can be viewed in either orientation to run through the slideshow, although if you have vertical pictures and the frame is horizontal you have some of the picture cut off (and vice versa). An 8 inch frame would have worked, but the 10.4 in is a very nice size, especially for aging grandparents.

I don't really know why a charcoal mat is included, it doesn't really go with the espresso frame. I wasn't really interested in the calendar, alarm or music functions. I would like to try to load a video, but I didn't have time to do so before Christmas, so I can't really comment on the audio or video quality. I also never tried out the random feature.

Overall, it is a very good quality frame for the price.
2915202
This is a nice quality picture frame for its low cost. The color that is shown in the picture is a little off. It is more of a bronze color than the silver color shown in the picture. Would definitely purchase another of these if I were in the market for a picture frame of that nature.
1729095
I made some research into picture frames between 7" and 8".  A lot of them are wide-screen with low resolution.  I was pleasantly to find the Viewsonic 8" frame has a resolution of 800x600.  It is more than twice as much resolution for similar frames at the same price.  The picture is very high quality and is very bright.  The pictures from my SD Card were recognized right away.

One thing I would have like to be able to do is to put this frame on a wall; but it lacks the necessary screw holes in the back for doing this.  In light of this, I would still recommend this frame over the others.
2025248
Light, simple, with great picture quality.  The menu was very easy to set up.

****After two weeks, suddenly the frame showed a mirror image of the screen, so all pictures, the date/time, and menu were all reversed  - quite strange.  I contacted NIX Customer Support who gave me a few suggestions to no avail.  The next day the VP of Customer Support emailed me stating they would replace the frame, and sent me a UPS label to return the faulty one.  NIX Customer Support is very responsive.

I received the new one today via Amazon, and it works fine.  I'd give this frame 5 stars but cannot because of this unreliability.
2196640
I like this frame, but the picture openings are a little too small.  Just about any pictue had to be shrunk on my computer before I could use it.  But, overall the frame is nice, sturdy and creates wonderful memories.
4120747
The picture quality is actually pretty nice on this frame.  All the items came exactly as listed.  I would say the remote works properly, but you do have to press really hard sometimes for the buttons to work.  The setup of date and time settings/schedule was incredibly easy.  The features work as intended, however I've mostly only used the slideshow for pictures and not so much video.

The one drawback that is a concern for me is that a couple of times the pictures have turned to white lines that I can see change as the pictures change, but it does go away if I power down and back on.  However I'd really prefer not to have to reboot it to correct and also I'm not sure if it would eventually stay that way even after a reboot.

**[UPDATE]** So this product has now stopped functioning altogether.  The backlight turns on, but no matter how many times I reboot it, the device fails to display images.  I have returned to Amazon for a refund.
2717622
I had very specific features I wanted in a digital picture frame. This model delivers in nearly all of them. Here is a breakdown of the good and the bad:

1) Picture quality is outstanding. Much better than I expected. This frame really brings pictures to life in a way that traditional prints can't.
2) There is no product logo blaring on the front of the frame. All you see is the dark frame and the picture itself.
3) There are several slideshow settings, including many different transitions and many different lengths of time for each picture.
4) Buttons, which are located on the back of the unit, take some time to learn. But once you do it is very easy to operate. Somebody not good with electronics, like an elderly person, may have a little trouble, however.

The drawbacks I've encountered are relatively minor:

1) No remote control or wireless capability. Since this is a gift for my elderly parents, this wasn't a concern for me.
2) No option for having multiple albums from which to choose. Or if there is, I haven't found out how to set it up yet. All photos are lumped together on my memory card.
3) Compact Flash disk is VERY hard to remove. An elderly person may need pliers to remove it, in fact. Since I only use memory cards, I have not tested the PC connection method.
4) The frame will crop photos if they are not resized. Most digital pictures are not taken in the widescreen format, so the top and bottom will be slightly cropped. The best way to ensure this doesn't happen is to resize horizontal photos to 720 px wide and vertical photos to 480 px tall. This will ensure photos will be displayed at maximum quality at the original dimension.
5) The stand on the back comes off VERY easily. I highly recommend taping it to the frame so that it does not come off. I made the mistake of picking it up by the stand, and when it came off the frame fell onto the table and scratched.

Several reviews state that settings are erased if the unit is unplugged. The clock settings do get erased if unplugged, but the slideshow settings remain intact.

Bottom line: Excellent picture quality, solid slideshow features, no wireless and no remote, and watch out for the stand.
1850146
Very pleased with the quality of the pictures. I was a bit concerned to buy such a large display with the different quality of picures I save but they all look great on the large display. I did find the connections and set-up a bit touchy and the newer SDHC memory cards I purchased were not compatible; they must be the original HC. Would love to get more of these frames for Christmas presents.
4324643
Excellent picture quality, although I've only used DVI, haven't tested VGA output but I imagine it's the same. My one complaint is aesthetic -- the "LED 1080p" that's printed on front of the monitor doesn't come off. In the product photo, it looks like it might be a peel-off sticker. But it's actually permanent and can't be removed. In a business setting, I wouldn't rather have the face of the monitor be all black and not advertise the tech specs.
572551
Thankfully I was just looking for a digital picture frame (no need for video or music) since the video feature does not work for me.

For pictures, I'm thrilled.  Quality is better than I expected since I feared resizing all my images to 480x860 would result in poor quality.  It's plenty good enough for the price.

I used ACDSee to batch process several hundred images.  First I cropped to widescreen format, then resized to 480x860.  I used an SD card for the photos.

I few images suffered from the cropping (lost the top of peoples heads), but for the most part cropping didn't hurt too much.  For those that were impacted, I just manually moved the crop to avoid cutting out content.  I think I rather have a standard format frame though since that matches my camera.

Overall, if you get a defect free unit, and don't expect to use the video feature, you should be happy with it.
1852236
I've had this for about 2 years and I'll keep this very simply. Everyone who watches TV or a Movie on this with me LOVES the picture quality. Everyone always comments on it. Enough said lol. The only issue I had is that like someone else the infared to the remote broke but they swapped out the TV for free since it was still under warranty. I wasn't expecting a brand new TV. If it happens again, I guess I'll just turn the TV off on the side, not the end of the world lol, but hopefully it won't. Now would I pay 7K again for a similar TV, probably not as you can get comparable quality for much less.
2447711
Updated review. The picture frame was great, I purchased it in June 1016, unfortunately about a month ago it started freezing. I keep resetting it, disconnecting it from the power source and it starts back just fine and everything is working until ...the next time it freezes, which varies from the one day to a week. As to the picture quality, I think is great assuming you have high resolution pictures, low resoluton pictures might not be displayed well, but that's not a frame's fault, after all it is 15" picture frame so your low resolution picture looking great on your phone will not look the same on the large frame. As to the pictures displaying sideways, this can be easily changed, when you view the picture displayed sideways, just press menu on the remote and the 4th icon down should have "rotate right" option, once you turn it it will stay that way. I'm going for 3 stars despite the freezing issue because of a great price I bought it for, my previous name brand much smaller picture frame was $200 and it did not have option for emailing/receiving pictures, feature I love.
2751222
I purchased this frame to replace another that died several months ago. I love the clear bright pictures and the motion sensor works great. The only problem I have is that quite a lot of my pictures view sideways on my frame. If I put the same memory card in our tablet or computer they view upright. Help!!!!
4974146
The frame works great and has a great picture. The directions for use after set up could be better but, even I figured out how to navigate the web site.