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Ceiva put the future in an unassuming black picture frame with this amazingly simple yet innovative product. This Internet-enabled frame makes it so easy to receive and display digital photos that even the most tech-shy relatives will love it. The traditional frame houses an LCD screen that displays up to 20 pictures in a single-view or slide-show format. Once a day, the frame dials in to Ceiva's Web site and downloads any new photos that have been sent to you (or that you've uploaded). What's truly amazing is that it works flawlessly--it's a cutting-edge technology idea that's well executed.
The frame itself is a handsome classic black with a black matte. It's about the size of a standard 8-by-10-inch frame, and the viewing area is about 5 by 7 inches. The display resolution is 640 x 480 VGA, and the images are displayed as JPEGs. We were impressed with the picture quality, especially considering the display is passive matrix--colors were a bit washed out, but otherwise pictures were sharp, bright, and looked good. The viewing angle isn't great--you won't be able to see pictures well from the side--but overall, the screen worked very well, even in relatively bright light.
You do the bulk of your setup online at Ceiva's Web site. Here, you can lock, delete, upload, or send photos, and you can adjust the rest of your settings, such as the slide-show interval or the time the Ceiva turns off the display every night. (The standard setting shuts it off from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m.) Within your account, you can choose who can send pictures to you (your "Buddy list"). Your buddies don't need to own Ceiva photo frames, but they have to get Ceiva accounts, which are free. In addition to photos, you and your friends can send and receive any kind of digital image, from hand-drawn cards to scanned art. Subscription channels even let you get comics, weather and traffic reports, and horoscopes on a daily basis. Ceiva's site also provides simple tools to add messages to your photos.
The controls on the Ceiva are extremely easy to use--there is one button that adjusts brightness and another button to stop the slide show and dial-up on demand. If you want to download pictures immediately (for instance, right after your mother calls and tells you she just sent a new batch), you press and hold the settings button on the frame until it connects.
You don't need an extra telephone line to use the Ceiva--the photo frame uses your existing line for just a few minutes every night. Ceiva provides a Y-connector in the box to make it easy for you to plug the frame into your phone jack without disconnecting your phone. The photo frame also doesn't require you to have an Internet connection to download photos, although a subscription is required to download photos. The subscription costs $79.95 per year to maintain this service via a local connection, and multi-year plans are available starting at less than $5 a month. However, if you want to upload pictures, send them to other people's Ceivas, or modify certain frame settings, you'll need to use an Internet connection.
Overall, our experience using the Ceiva was simply wonderful. It's intended to be simple to use, and it does a great job receiving and displaying photos. It strikes us as the perfect gift for your mom and dad, your grandparents, or any long-distance friend who is computer-shy. Not to mention that the Ceiva photo frame is just plain cool! --Michael Lewis
Pros:
- Extremely easy to use
- Good picture quality
- No existing Internet account necessary
- Others can send you pictures for free
Cons:
- You must adjust most of your settings on the Web site
- An ideal gift for even the most non-technical parents or friends, the Ceiva digital photo receiver downloads your latest digital photos
- Simple plug-and-play connection and 1-button operation--owner or user needs no computer skills or Internet access
- Upload photos to your Ceiva Web account; the Ceiva downloads automatically and displays them in slide-show mode
- Sharp, bright VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels)--thousands of colors
- Requires subscription to Ceiva Network; low monthly rates available
Ceiva Digital Photo Receiver Model LF2000 Reviews
Ceiva Digital Photo Receiver Model LF2000 Reviews
| 387 of 393 people found the following review helpful  Fabulous, By Bruce (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Ceiva Digital Photo Receiver Model LF2000 (Electronics) I just got one to give to my technophobe mom on Mother's Day. I am extremely impressed. It's attractive; it looks far more like a picture frame than an electronic device. The photo quality, while not quite as good as an average computer monitor, is quite respectable. It was extremely easy to set up and get working. And it works perfectly. The frame cycles between 20 pictures that you've uploaded to the Ceiva web site, showing each for between 5 seconds and 2 hours (the time is up to you). It downloads new pictures from the web site automatically every night; you can also force it to download immediately. You can store up to 1000 (I think) pictures on the web site, and the frame will rotate them, choosing 20 different ones each day. You can also tell it to keep pictures until further notice, or have it choose one picture randomly each day from each of 20 albums that you establish online, or show "channels" like the local weather and prime-time TV schedule, or any... Read more 117 of 125 people found the following review helpful  Not something I want in my house!, By A Customer I was initially very excited about the idea of a digital picture frame, but my expectations were not met when I got my frames. (Yes, I ordered two!) I was very surprise regarding the quality / appearance. The front of the frame has a large black mat that has the Ceiva name in large letters on it. (They could have been more subtle...) Also, the glass on the frame makes it very difficult to see the photos due to glare. The frame itself looks like a Walgreen's special. The back is made out of cheap black cardboard and the outer frame looks like it cost pennies to make. Unless you want something that has that bargain look, I say wait until there are more options on the market. When you pay this much money, you expect something that looks nice and is built to last. Also, I think just being able to download photos from their website is an inconvenience. I want to download pictures from my computer - or - better yet, from my compact flash card! Another annoyance - when you... Read more 113 of 122 people found the following review helpful Experiences with Ceiva, By Stuart McKechnie (Saratoga, CA) - See all my reviews Hooked it up and that's where the problems started. Not only did my photos not appear (the ones I'd uploaded to the website, which seemed to work fine), but later in the evening a lady called me asking why I kept calling her. She sounded really stressed. Later she called me again and was on the point of calling the police when I realized that my brand new Ceiva was calling her. And she had caller ID. Well, Ceiva technical support were very helpful and told me about an undocumented feature for resetting the dial-in number (I don't know WHY they didn't put that in the manual). And the poor lady didn't send the police, so, OK. My previously uploaded features didn't appear however. Seems Ceiva had changed their software version and "forgotten" what I'd previously spent an hour setting up. I went through this again, so, finally,... Read more |
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