Digital Spectrum NuVue 560 5.6-Inch Digital Photo Player (White)

I got a NuVue 560 as a gift, and am very disappointed in the total lack of customer support, and it clearly does not perform as described in the documentation. Stay away from this one unless you have very low resolution jpeg.

VERY poor picture quality. Card reader suddenly stopped reading the same card I've been using with it. Also the screen has dimmed to the point that it is basically not even visible. Trust me, this is not because of overuse, since I only used the thing about 6 times in the last year. It makes a faint buzzing noise that drives me crazy. Expensive piece of crap. Save your money for something better.

I recently got one of these frames for free from some family and I was playing around with my photos trying to make them fit inside the full pixels of the frame. I read the included manual (don't bother it doesn't say much) and it says the pixels are 320x234. I tried scaling my images to that and they showed up tiny on the frame. I then went to the company website where the specs said 320x3 by 234. This confused me, and I didn't understand why it would be written like this. 320x3=960 so I tried scaling my images to that width with the matching height. This gave me perfect width, but the height was still a little short. After trial and error I have found that 960x710 is an optimal pixel resolution for this particular frame. This may of course stretch some of the images, but for me the difference is not that bad, and this frame is not of the highest quality to begin with, but at least now my photos fill the frame in its entirety.

Photo display quality is poor.
No built in memory.
No supporting documentation.
Cheap & Poor construction quality.

For the money, you can spend 30-45 extra on another brand and receive memory and better video quality.

PS - If I could give a Zero Star I would.

As others have mentioned, ours did not come with a manual. However I found the manual in just a couple of minutes on the manufacturer's web site and printed it. We were able to get it to read from every memory card the relatives had, which included multimedia card, Sony memory stick, an XD card, and a flash memory card. The resolution is not great, but that is what allows it to hold a lot of photos and be less expensive than most digital frames.

I also liked this one because it was so simple (the company makes more advanced models, but some start up with a menu). If you ignore the extra buttons on this one, it just starts up playing a slide show and continuously rotates through all the pics on the memory card. This makes it a perfect gift for a non-tech person to have a lot of photos to look at. (you just have to take their card to a computer and load more pics on it when you want to add pics). Mine came with other cables, but we haven't used them.