I bought this for my elderly/confused mother's apartment. It was hard to find something that has no cloud or app dependencies, but I can confirm this frame is completely stand-alone and does the job. There are some issues, and most of them have work-arounds. Detailed list below.
Positives
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* It is inexpensive and has a large screen.
* Has a remote, several options for storage reading, included power supply, kickstand, and manual.
* It is non wifi, so no stupid apps, tracking, cloud crud dependencies, or extra costs/complexities.
* I set it to play photo slideshow as default. Tested unplugging it while running, when plugged back in, it went to main screen and after several seconds, it did start the slideshow. So it should resume after a power failure, and it is not losing its programming.
* Display of photos looks really good- sharp, good color, bright.
* Tested the auto on/off function, it is complicated but it does work.
Negatives
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* The scaler doesn't work properly for photos that are at or lower than 1280 wide or tall, it will squish landscape pictures vertically, regardless of setting. It does work correctly if the photo resolution is 1281 or larger wide or tall, when put in "original size" mode or "scale" mode. The "full screen" mode will never work properly unless all photos are landscape, because it will always horizontally stretch portrait photos.
* It has no autodimming for night- no light sensor, no time to set for a lower brightness. But at least you can use the auto on/off feature for night.
* There is no option to have it display the file name or file path/name on the screen during a slideshow.
* The IR remote has very limited distance.
* Construction is poor, it seems to flicker when anything is moved or touched, like it has a poor connection somewhere.
* Power supply is not usb.
* Seconds delay for slideshow is adjustable only to 5, 10, 15, 30 seconds, and 30 min.
* Has a random mode for photos, but it is not a random playlist, meaning each time it loads, it picks randomly again from all the photos. So one photo you saw minutes ago might play again soon, others you might never see. This is pretty typical with frames, though.
* User interface is laggy.
* Manual has no website link.
* There is no option to update firmware, so you are stuck with featureset/limitations.
Neutral
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* I didn't test videos or audio
* The transition effects are not bad, but they are not great or smooth, either.
* You might have issues if you try using ridiculously large photos. Do yourself a favor and resize them.
Overall, it is what I was looking for. If it lasts, I will be quite satisfied/happy. It has been running for a few weeks now with no issue.
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