NIX Designer Series Cordless 8 inch Digital Photo Frame, Internal Rechargeable Battery, Genuine High Resolution SVGA Screen, 1GB Internal Memory, Auto Rotate Sensor, ‘Blue Lite’ Touch Sensitive Controls – TS08C
Product Description
Designed & Styled by London’s NIX Digital, and sold throughout the UK, Germany and the USA, NIX proudly present their new top of the range Cordless Digital Picture Frame. The NIX TS08C incorporates key design features and components that combine to deliver a better frame and reproduction of your photos. Styled & designed by NIX, high tech processing power and firmware made by leading processor chip manufacturer Amlogic of California USA, and the all important LCD screen, an Innolux Hi-Res SVGA Active Matrix LCD Screen with LED backlighting, that provides wider viewing angles and crisp, clear images. Whether it’s sharing you holiday photos using the cordless function and passing the frame amongst friends round the coffee table, or viewing photos from your desk, this digital frame does it all in style and with the finest build quality. Featured is an Internal Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery allowing for cordless use, a 1GB Internal Memory, an Auto-Rotate Motion sensor that automatically senses when you have rotated the frame and rotates subsequent photos, ‘Blue Lite’ Touch Sensitive Controls set down the right hand side of the frame for improved ergonomic use & a random shuffle display option for your photo slideshows. The display dimensions are optimal at 4:3 as that is the standard dimension of digital photos taken by a camera. So unlike the Sony or Kodak frames which all have widescreen displays, our frame will not crop your photos. Set against a flat dark surface, the touch controls light up azure blue (on & off) upon your touch, providing a modern, yet elegant look. A video option allows you to watch videos (.avi and MP4 only), and the massive 1GB internal memory provides ample memory to store your home movies and photos. MP3 music playback, a calendar, and an alarm clock finish off the feature list.
- 8 Inch Ultra Sharp High-Res SVGA LCD Screen (4:3) 800 x 600 Pixels & Touch Sensitive Controls
- Auto-Rotate Motion Sensor, Ultra High Quality Amlogic Image Processor for sharper colour reproduction / 1GB Internal Memory
- Internal Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery / Mains AC Power Adapter / Remote Control / 2 x Integrated 1.5W Stereo Speakers / USB Cable
- Compatible with: SDHC, SD, xD, CF, MS (Sony Memory Stick), MMC & USB Memory Stick. JPEG up to 16MP, MP3 Music, MPEG4 video, AVI video, PC & MAC Compatible
- Eco-friendly photo frame with auto on/off at pre-set times for power saving / Calender / Clock / Alarm Clock / Slideshow
This is a really good product for viewing your digital photos.
I particularly like:
1. The built-in battery – this let’s you carry it around conveniently without trailing cable. Very good feature. I can’t understand why others such as Sony don’t do it.
2. The built-in 1GB storage – this is also very covenient although it support many other storage media formats.
3. Good quality feel.
4. It automatically rotates your image if you rotate the frame.
5. Many other good features.
I can’t find fault with it. Thanks to those who took their time to write a review on this product which convinced me to buy one.
The only thing I’ve noticed is that the unit may suffer from interference from other devices’ remote controls and cause it to malfunction. In my case, my Humax PVT remote causes this problem. A long as you know you can avoid it.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have to admit to being a bit of a digital frame buff as I’m a keen photographer. I used to stick with the big brands, namely kodak and sony, and being a gadget nut I always have to buy the latest model out so I’ve upgraded to the new nix. Though my sony and the kodak frames have good picture quality they really lack in features, and for the sony that’s a big deal considering they’re so expensive. so that’s why i decided to go with nix and see what the fuss was all about.
Picture quality:
without a doubt the picture quality on the nix innolux screen (just don’t ask me what innolux is) is every bit as good as anything I’ve seen if not better. and the larger 4:3 (800x 600) screen size (compared to other brands 800 x 480) makes it better as you get your whole photo displayed without cropping or black bars down the side of the screen, for some unexplained reason kodak and sony always use wide screens which as a photographer I’ve never understood.
Auto-Rotate:
i like this function quite a lot as it saves me time having to go through my collection and rotate photos manually. it’s especially useful when i’m showing people my latest portfolio of photos. figured this at first to be a bit of a gimicky feature, but now see it’s quite useful
touch controls:
look nice, hi-tech and funky. not much else to say really.
1GB internal memory:
big memory, not much else to say either
Video and Audio:
For me this was a big deal. I take a lot of videos with my camera and like watching them on the frame, which i couldn’t do on my sony or kodak frame. i even watch downloaded films on it occasionally with the headphones on in bed so as to not annoy the wife. the inbuilt stereo speakers are good for audio and playing music, but to be honest I prefer using my hi-fi for music.
the best bit about this frame that isn’t mentioned in the product description is that the frame is really easy to use. for example when you switch the frame on it automatically goes straight to slideshow mode and displays your photos and also the remote control has short cut buttons to key operations like slideshow etc. compared to kodak frames this is good as i reckon it shows that the nix designers remember what this frame is primarily used for and though the frame has a lot of functions the designers have kept operating the frame simple and streamlined, whereas kodak seem obsessed with menu’s, options & settings and it takes forever to view your photos.
also nifty is the cable arch. at the back of the frames stand is a tiny arch that you loop the power cable under. this neatly tucks the cable directly behind the frame even when you rotate the stand and have the frame standing vertically. seems trivial, but this always keeps the power lead neatly out of sight and takes the tension off the socket going into the frame in case you kick the lead.
one last comment is that some other reviews seem to be a bit sore regarding the touch controls, but i’ve had no problems.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve been a big fan of digital photo frames since i discovered them. It’s just that they make great gifts and anyone with a digital camera will want one, so it’s a no brainer and saves me time shopping.
I started buying nix frames a year back as they seemed to make more niche, style based frames like leather and wood etc. and would thus be more interesting as a gift. then recently they started making more top of the range frames like this model so i got one for myself. premium models like this are of course more expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for. In fact so far I’ve yet to come across a model with more features than the new 8 inch nix frames (there’s another version TS08B that is without an internal battery and cheaper).
generally the functions this frame performs do seem to have practical value: auto-rotate, internal battery, internal memory etc etc. The frame has touch controls which are sci-fi cool and the kids love them, but ultimately I find myself using the remote control nearly all the time. The remote is good having shortcut buttons, so for example you can just press “slideshow” and hey presto the frame is playing a slideshow!
My daughter likes the internal battery function the best, as she and her friends crowd around the thing on the couch and can flip through their videos and photos. another unexpected benefit of the internal battery is that when you want to transfer photos from your computer to the frame you just take the frame to the computer, whereas i used to have to unplug and replug in the frame next to the computer. sounds trivial, but because of that i used to update my old frame with new photos less often. i would actually say that because of the battery we end up getting a lot more out of the frame.
though the frame has a lot of functions the best thing for me is the styling. with a completely flat, black front panel the frame just looks really cool. even when it’s switched off it just looks ultra modern the way light reflects off it.
coolski
Rating: 5 / 5
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3R4DB0KF4L85D i have bought a couple of these types of frames including the NIX X10A. this one is really good, but I’ll just let you make up your own mind.
Rating: 5 / 5
One of the things that made me chose this particular photo frame was the reviews, especially the video of it in use. I bought it as a present for an 82 year old lady who is not that good with technology but wanted a digital photo frame to see pictures of holidays, family etc.
Since getting it, loading up pictures on the internal memory and demo-ing it playing a slide show with the loaded up pictures and others on a USB, these are the pros & cons from our perspective and basic use.
Pros
- it has a rechargable internal battery so doesn’t need to be connected to the mains in use
- it starts up in slide show
- USB or other external memory takes priority over the internal memory so we have been able to organise a few family pictures on the internal memory and different USB sticks for various holidays etc, making it more like a collection of photo albums
- it will accept various memory cards, so visitors should be able to plug these in directly from their camera but see below
Cons
- the maximum number of pixels per picture is 4000×4000. My camera captures 4592×3056 pixels so the pictures have to be resized before loading onto the frame’s internal memory or external memory to use with it. As a consequence I cannot take the card out of my camera and use “as is”.
- I had been unable to get some pictures to display during the slide show so the previous one stays on for ages. I didn’t get to the bottom of this before handing it over to my old lady, the invisible pictures were jpegs like the rest, visible as thumbnails and were below the maximum number of pixels. I originally thought the difference from the others was they had all been cropped so were an odd number of pixels in each direction, perhaps it just gave up the mathematical calculation necessary working out how to compress these into 800×600.
NEW INFO ON PICTURES NOT DISPLAYING
After further investigation of this (Dec 09)I have discovered that it was due to how my photo-editing software (Photoshop Elements 5) was saving individually cropped pictures. Even though it produced files ending in .JPG my default save setting was JPEG-PROGRESSIVE and these would not display in the frame. When I changed the save setting to JPEG-STANDARD they worked OK in the frame. I suspect that when resizing a batch of pictures using the multiple file function in Photoshop Elements 5 it saves as JPEG-STANDARD as these have always displayed OK in the frame.
- the remote is bit small and complicated for non technical people or those with “fat finger” syndrome
- the blue light behind the touch sensitive panel goes off after a few seconds, so you have to remember where the button you want is located
A couple of other things to note are
- it takes about 10 secs after switching on to get going, this is not a problem provided you don’t get impatient and start pressing various buttons
- the auto-rotate is good but it only rotates the next picture in the slide show, not the one you are on.
- the shiny black looks very smart but it picks up dust & shows finger prints very quickly, if a present you may wish to include a soft non-linting cloth.
All in all good but not perfect.
Rating: 4 / 5