Samsung Digital Photo Frames - SPF-71E, SPF-105P (Linus Tech Tips #6)

We take a look at some new digital photo frames from Samsung which offer a good assortment of feature and excellent picture quality.

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so today we've got a couple of new photo
frames from Samsung they're not just
photo frames they do have lcds inside
them
we have the SPF 15 p and the SPF 71 e
and it occurred to me when we were
talking about topics for a video that
it's gonna be pretty hard for people to
come up with searching for these terms
and i thought you know i can't even
figure out what these names mean and
then it occurred to me
SPF is not sun protection factor it's
not even ask for i don't actually know
what SPF stands for but either way we're
going to block these lcds and show you
some of the features so we're going to
start with the 7 inch model it's open
this baby up
yeah creating openbox inventory and
having a fair amount of difficulty with
the sticker there we go
relive your best moments is what
marketing message right on the inside
here reads it's got a little blue bowl
is not sweet
so then we take this off and you've got
your instruction manual which is in both
English and French thank you came back
and then we've got some warranty stuff
and right inside you will find that the
7 inch digital photo frame now that
aside for now next inside you've got the
wow this is comfortable
okay you've got a park and you've got a
stand by we'll move right now all you
can really see is me managing the box
got a little stand it looks suspiciously
like it
nevermind with that and then the other
part of power cable and a USB cable so
that is all the accessories that come
with the SP 710 87 buddy
ok so physical properties of the 7-inch
LCD photo frame first of all we've got
but besides the 120 megs of integrated
memory in the unit itself
we've got a USB slot so we can use that
for a USB thumb drive or we've got an SD
slot so you can put an SD card in so you
can store a lot more than a hundred and
twenty- photos and have them displayed
on the screen now you've also got your
controls on the back a Kensington lock
the power button and here you will find
a socket for this so i will demonstrate
the proper use of this instrument and
the socket first peel back the plastic e
rubbery protective layer then carefully
insert the ball into the socket
yeah there we go okay and then that's
not very well protected at all is it but
we're going to do so that is your stand
and that is how the device will stay
held up when you put it on the shelf so
as the cameraman . the likelihood of the
contents of this box being very similar
to the other one is very hot so we're
going to do a speed unboxing here
ok protective thing driver CD that was
not in the other one the cameraman is
clearly wrong we do not contain the same
thing manual warranty and a
$OPERAND inch photo/frank not that the
number of inches is necessarily the most
important thing go and this one also has
kind of a cool effect of the camera zoom
in it has kind of a neat swirly pattern
to the frame which I think looks pretty
stylin you can see that you are shot
you're not really sure either way let's
move on to what else is in the box so we
got a stand for the back and this is an
interesting shape device
I wonder what this could be used for
will get onto that later and then we
have power and USB so it is for the most
part the same things inside so let's
move on to showing you what they would
like first of all we show you all of the
inputs on the 10 inch model so we've got
compact flash right here then we have
their yeah ok then we got us be four USB
thumb drive USB for loading things onto
the internal memory and an SD card now
you will also see an input port at the
back and that is for this thing
oh ok hold on okay that's a little
tricky bit of a tight squeeze there
there we go so that way we can have the
tenant one standing on its own so first
thing once you wipe the fingerprints off
that you've inevitably got on them while
you were unpacking them it's time to
turn on your new digital photo frame so
we will have that experience together
right now
ah a lovely couple and a nice-looking
asian family there's there's the family
again people in the bath
excellent as you can see the 10-inch one
actually has a feature where it is
playing music in the background i'm not
sure the camera can hear that or not but
it's it's nice enough but i think it
would get pretty old so we'll
investigate a little bit further input
our own pictures on and maybe even our
music so i just wanted to briefly cover
the viewing angle viewing angle on these
a lot better than what picture frame
photo picture digital picture frames
were about a year ago when I bought one
so you can see the picture perfectly
clearly at an angle of about like this
so if you want to mount this on the wall
or put it up on the mantle or whatever
else you'd be able to see it from a good
part of the room
unlike older digital photo frames but
that pretty much concludes the 7 inch
models got some controls on the back
that's pretty basic thing so we're going
to move on to some of the meat features
of the 10 inch model
ok so we plug in our USB thumb drive and
we'll use what is very cool feature that
this has which is touch-sensitive
controls right here which are actually
proving be kind of a pain but the idea
behind something like this is that you
wouldn't necessarily be using it very
often so USB gets connected so we click
photo enter there we go
so the the cameraman grab some pictures
that he thought were pretty tremendous
from my last vacation and so we've got a
new slideshow with the pictures that
he's chosen apparently most of these
pictures involved me thinking that men
are interesting and good
I women are scary alright so I'm moving
on
I'll be cameraman one and we'll cover
how to put music to go along with your
photo
okay so we just connected the USB Drive
with the music on it and this up here so
we navigate over to music
select it I have to say though the the
the menus on this digital photo frame
equate unintuitive at times i'm not
really sure which of these songs to
actually select here so we'll go with
this one
yeah
ok so at any rate now will try to play a
slideshow which I can't figure out how
to use this thing i'm going to be a
hundred percent honest with you right
now I find the menu system very
unintuitive and I find these touch
controls are essentially useless because
half the time they don't register and
the stroke and the other half the time
you feel like you just basically putting
a bunch of smudgy fingerprints like
licking one side of the frame and hoping
that it's all gonna look nice and tall
i'm not i don't like it very much i
suspect once you get it setup it's
terrific
so we're just going to do that
off-camera and then we'll show you the
product so we're gonna wrap this up this
has been kind of a long and drawn-out
episode of my blog basically once we got
it working i have a clock enabled on
here and has an alarm clock feature
along without you can set any number of
different transitions we've got it set
to random right now you can set which
background music you want to use I mean
here's a couple things that I was not
impressed with as far as limitations go
with the product you can't use anything
other than jpg as far as we can tell
from the photo format and also mp3 was
the only sound format that we were able
to get working
so all in all I'd say I'm pretty happy
with the product the image quality is
stellar it has a better viewing angle
than the 7 inch model obviously on the
10 inch screen it has a very high
resolution that 1024 x 600 the longest
time we can figure out how to adjust the
volume of the background music but we
did figure that out it's something to do
with using the up and down arrows which
I honestly if it was documenting a
little better
that would be fine it took me about you
know 5-10 minutes to sit down with a get
it working exactly the way I wanted it
once it's sitting on the mantel than it
operates as advertised and honestly it's
a really cool little product thanks for
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