Pexar 2K 11" – Black

So far so good, very happy that I finally found a picture frame that doesn't force the use of cloud storage. Easy to set up, good picture quality, and allows local storage. I just wish that the frame has motion detection so it's not on all the time, conserve energy and display life. I may just purchase another Pexar frame as back up just in case this one dies.My previous digital frame had motion detection which was nice but unfortunately I had to get rid of it due to Nixplays greed with the subscription business model.

This frame is such a great buy. The picture quality is amazing. The settings are easy to understand and use. The app makes it easy to upload photos. We purchased this for our elderly mom and send pictures regularly. She really enjoys new photos popping up and can use the basic functions without assistance.Very well packaged and fast delivery. Would recommend 10/10!

Update: Customer support did get back to me. The trick is to disable notifications, and the nagging message goes away. I have raised the review to 4 stars.Original review:I purchased this to display photos of my recently deceased cat. The product itself is quite nice. The screen is a good resolution, the anti-glare finish is very nice, and photos look fantastic on it. One of the reasons I purchased this frame is that Lexar was very clear in their FAQ and marketing literature on Amazon and the Lexar site say that it will work just fine without WiFi. I don't want to have yet another security risk on my network, nor do I want yet another device which demands an ongoing subscription fee to use it. Unfortunately, every morning I am greeted with an annoying error message that "Your frame is currently offline." I don't want it online, ever, and I am disappointed that I have to dismiss this message regularly in order to just appreciate photos of my deceased cat. There is no way that I have found to turn this message off in the product, and Lexar customer support has not yet responded to my inquiry about this.

This is what a high quality digital photo frame should be. It has a simple design, great matte display, high resolution and great color accuracy and viewing angles. I have tested the frame with some of my B&W photos, and they have a nice neutral color... not overly blue. I may still add some warmth to my B&W photos, but again that is a personal preference. Set up was simple without using wifi and I was able to easily add photos from a usb drive. I did connect to wifi to check the firmware, and an update was available and easily installed without any issues. The touch screen is very responsive, and the ability to remember each photos settings is a nice addition. The ability to set a schedule to turn off the display was easy to configure. The brightness out of the box was very high for my tastes, but was easily turned down to a much more appropriate level. I would have preferred a 4x3 ratio display over the frames 5x3 due to the cropping that needs to happen on most of my photos, but it is slightly better than the overly narrow 16x9 ratio of many other frames. I was actually going to pick up the larger 15.6 inch display, but that is 16x9 and lower resolution than this 11" model. I would love to see a larger, higher-res version of this frame in a 4x3 aspect ratio.

THIS is the answer to "What am I going to do with all those photos and movies?" "Is my photo collection just a hoarding vanity project never to be seen?" THIS IS YOUR SOLUTION!PROs: Top quality 1080p (really "2K" or 1200p vertical pixel density - which is even better! IPS type display panel)TOUCHscreen (you can finger swipe back and forth at any time).Good color depth, color and grayscale fidelityGood viewing angles, anti-glare coating.Plays back still photos and/or MPEG (.MP4) movies (with audio on or muted if you want).No hiccups or flakiness.Shuffle or timeline play.Shows tile title date - IF you want it.Shows current time of day in upper right corner (12 or 24 hr) IF you want it.Shows current temperature and sunny/cloudy/rain symbols - IF you want that.You don't have to buy the upgraded Frameo app if you don't want to. It works just fine (and I'm pretty happy) with the standard app.It's not too big and not too small. Two or three people could stand next to each other and enjoy the picture from a few feet away, yet the frame doesn't "take over". You can find a spot for it.The frame "matte" built into the black frame outline does a decent job of mimicking a real photo frame matte.You can use BOTH the internal storage and any docked external storage (USB or SD card) at the same time.Picture quality is GREAT out of the box. No need to fuss but you can control cropping and brightness if you want to.CONS: Must be powered by AC wall adapter. The darn thing works so well, I want to use it like a tablet, makes me wish it had an internal battery that would function for an hour or two when frame unplugged. Oh well, it's still a heck of a unit.I loaded my files with a tiny Samsung USB drive. You have to use either FAT32 or XFAT file system (NTFS file system pen drives will not be recognized).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BOTTOM LINE: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! We are very pleased.UPDATE 10/05/2024 IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING YOUR MOVIES TRANSFERRED and "RECOGNIZED" by the PEXAR.Technical tip to owners of Sony and Panasonic digital cameras as far as movies are concerned, something that might help your movie files get "recognized" by this Pexar device:If you have any 1080p (i.e. High Definition pixel density) MOVIE files created by your camera that have an .MTS file format (file extension), YOU'LL WANT TO RENAME THAT FILE EXTENSION TO BE: .MP4 (stands for Motion Picture Expert Group 4) file extension. You'll want to do this before transfering the files if you are using external storage (like USB-pen flash drive, SD ("Secure Digtal") card, etc.Once you do what is mentioned above, the PEXAR can then recognize these renamed movie files and play them just fineFor the geeks or curious, MTS (aka MPEG Transport Stream) is a container wrapper of sorts for an MP4 file. Internet search will tell you how / why these variances of video formats came about. It doesn't matter, once you rename the file extension to .MP4, the movie will play just fine in the PEXAR frame. You want to "swim with the biggest school of fish" in the technical world of video (if you want the least hassle) and the .MP4 format is exactly that in the world of High Definition (HD) video.P.P.S. I also owned some ANCIENT home movies from a 12 year old Fuji digital camera taken in .AVI format (Audio Video Interleave). I had to do a file conversion of them to .MP4 format so the PEXAR could successfully play them. . I used a simple movie editing software (Windows Movie Maker - no longer made, but there are other conversion software utilities running around that can do the job). Once I did that, the movies shot in this old format play just fine in the Pexar frame.ABOUT VIDEO LENGTH: Some users have stated a 15 second video length limit. That has not been my personal experience. I successfully have this frame playing videos of 2 minutes long of my kitty cat wallering in the driveway. This is 24 fps (frames per second) .MP4 files. HOWEVER, you ** will ** get a warning that importing that large video will eat into your 32GB of internal memory. Such is life. NOTE: I am ** not ** relying on the paid subscription Frameo app. I just use a USB pen drive. Even with importing probably quantity: 6 X 2 or 3 minute length HD .MP4 videos, I still have somewhere around 8 or 10 GB of internal memory left at this point.P.P.S. WHAT FOLLOWS IS BORING, IT MAY HELP A FEW OF YOU WHO ARE NEW: Those of you with mega fancy cameras (full frame or APS-C Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc cams) that produce 20MB+ files: There is no need to fill up the internal memory in this frame with 20MB per photo file sizes, that is overkill and ridiculous. (My opinion). JPEG (or .JPG) is what you want as a file format type/medium for still photos with this frame. An 850KB to 1MB per picture JPEG file at 200 Pixels per inch ("pixel density") will do fine for 1080p viewing resolution and, if you want it a bit nicer (i.e. 1200dpi vertical , ...