Features:

  • THE SUPERIOR DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME: Enjoy crisp, vivid photos and videos with the NIX Advance digital photo frame's 13 inch IPS display and built-in stereo speakers; Energy saving Hu-Motion Sensor automatically turns the frame on and off
  • DISPLAY THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS AND VIDEOS: Enjoy all your favorite memories on the NIX Advance Digital Photo Frame; Choose from different slideshow transitions: Play them according to their date, their file name, or shuffle them
  • EASY PLUG AND PLAY: Set up your Frame in minutes; Just insert a USB stick or a memory card (SD/SDHC) to instantly display your favourite photos and videos on the NIX Advance Digital Picture Frame
  • PACKED WITH FEATURES: Never miss an important date again with the NIX Advance Digital Picture Frame's Clock and Calendar functions; Use the remote control to manage how your photos are displayed
  • SUPPORT WHEN YOU NEED IT: Our Customer Service team is here to help should you have questions about your NIX Digital Frame; We have hundreds of thousands of happy customers, and we want to do everything we can to make you happy with your frame
Works well and have had no issues. The reviews ...

Works well and have had no issues. The reviews about the sticker being directly on the screen aren't correct. There is a sheet of plastic over the screen which you peel that has the sticker on it.

NIX X12D Frame and Customer Support are AMAZING!

Yes my five star review for the NIX X12D Digital Photo Frame is for the product itself BUT more importantly it is for the AMAZING customer service assistance my wife and I received from Daryl. The frame is for our grandson who has severe autism. At age 18 he doesn't yet talk and bounces off the walls. However, one of his favorite past times is sitting still for hours and watching videos of all the fun times we've had as a family - swimming, going on amusement park rides, sled riding, playing on park swings, etc. He has been using for years an older digital frame from Brookstone that played videos from our Casio Exilim camera. Up until recently all was well, but now with our videos being created with more updated cameras AND iPhones, his older digital frame was useless - it couldn't utilize the new video formats. Thus we purchased the NIX X12D. However, we found that although all of our videos from the past 8 years could be played on the NIX system, we needed to first convert them to MP4 format . We had no idea how to go about doing this - and we had 10GB of videos. We called NIX and explained the issue to Daryl. He spent over an hour PATIENTLY helping my wife, who by her own admission is a non-techie grandmother, to convert all videos which now work PERFECTLY on the new digital frame. We wish we could send Daryl a video to show him the delight that his "above and beyond" customer service produced for our happy grandson. Thank you NIX for not only building a capable, sturdy system (our grandson is not always gentle with electronics - so far so good) but more importantly for hiring support personnel such as Daryl who go the extra mile.

From boring to Awesome

We had a blank white wall in our living room with 2 return air vents up high that was ugly and boring. We bought 2 of these 15 inch frames and hung them from the vents. The frames looked great but the wires were ugly and the grand children could pull on them. I added an electrical box at about eye level running wire from the box below. Then made a frame out of 1X2 stock and covered it with a piece of luan and framed it with mitered door casing matching the trim in our house. A couple of screws in the luan mount the digital frames. The frame fits over the power supplies for the digital frames and rests on a couple of deck screws that are screwed into the studs. Now I have a photo art gallery with no visible wires that is nothing short of AWESOME. They are large enough to be viewed from anywhere in the room and the picture quality is as good as my computer monitor. Changing the pictures is as easy as powering down the frame, changing the usb drive and powering it back up.

Excellent shuffle and play through over 15,000 images and videos

I've had it for 3 days and I'm totally satisfied. I have over 15,000 photos and about 100 videos loaded on an SD card and it skips between them on shuffle mode with seemingly no favored image or folder. The shuffle function does seem to like to pick a folder at random, do 1-3 pictures from that folder and then jump to another folder (not in order, so works for me!), so bear that in mind. It's still doing a nice shuffle, but you'll get some pictures that are from the same folder in small batches. I can turn up the volume with the remote if I see a video I like as I pass, but I almost always have it on mute. I've noticed it occasionally (~1 per day) crash while trying to transition, and unfortunately I don't know a way to see a crash log to find out if it's on the same or similar images. A minor issue and it restarts and goes back into slideshow mode without needing any input. I have it set to autoplay all media, so it just goes right back to it. Currently not using the motion sensor, but I have it scheduled to turn off at night and on in the morning. Some people said theirs plays GIF files, but I tried one and it doesn't even show up in the browser. Picture quality excellent, everything I want in a digital photo frame.

Excellent Frame (if you don't need the bells and whistles)

I wasn't looking for a digital frame with its own email address or a frame that was going to call me to remind me to go on another vacation. I wanted superb picture quality, and I needed a frame that would recognize portrait orientation and adjust accordingly. My old frame cut off the tops on all portrait pictures (a plus if I was in the shot). Well, this frame has better picture quality than I could have imagined, was a breeze to set up, and does adjust portrait pictures to display the entire image. It sits on my desk at work, and I am blown away by things I've never seen in some of these pictures. I usually only write reviews on products I hate, which tells you how much I love this frame.

Easy to Program & Great Image Quality!

For me, the 10" model is the perfect size to keep on the kitchen counter. It's big enough that I can easily see photo details without taking up too much counter space. If you want to see a demonstration of how easy this model is to program, please check out my video on YouTube: "Demonstration: NIX Digital Photo & HD Video Frame - X10G" on Shawna Who. My favorite features are the automatic sleep mode (5 minutes w/o motion) and the slideshow delay (5 seconds per image). Plus, the image quality is fantastic! I had no problem loading the images (200+ photos) onto the SD card or figuring out how to program the features that are important to me. I highly recommend this NIX model...worth every penny!

I bought 3 frames and kept the best. This was the winner!

I was buying this frame as a Christmas present for grandpa, so I wanted to make sure it was high quality like many of the glowing reviews stated. But because I started shopping too late, I couldn't afford the time to order this frame, see if it was good, return if it wasn't, and buy another frame. So I bought 3 at the same time and decided to keep the best. TL;DR winner (and not even close!) was this frame! The Contenders: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Z9ZP5HY (this frame) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075W4FMKL Insignia 10" widescreen lcd digital photo frame espresso 5498800 (from my local Best Buy) So here's my 2 cents on this frame... PROS: * Includes a USB stick. I was planning on buying an SD card, but it had a USB inside the packaging. That was a nice bonus the other contenders did not include. * The picture quality. The Spiro frame quality sucked. The Best Buy Insignia frame was actually pretty good (surprisingly considering it seems like it's older technology). But the 12" HD screen beat out the smaller Insignia screen (I know, not really a fair comparison). Even from an angle the picture quality is crisp. * The sleep functionality was pretty slick. I tested a few different times and it worked perfectly every time. I would set a time to go to sleep and have it wake up a couple minutes later. It turned off right on the dot, and when it came back on it automatically started the slideshow. I have a much older digital frame in my house and when it comes awake in the morning you have to press play on the remote or the back of the frame to start it. This Nix is hassle-free. * The clock feature is actually kinda nice. We opted not to use it, but it's clear type and you can change a few of the settings, like whether to show date, just time, location on the screen, etc. * Remote control storage. There's a slot in the back where you can squeeze in the remote. It's a tight fit which is nice because the remote won't be used much so this is a great place to store it so you don't lose it. CONS: * Remote. I don't know that it's really a con as much of a head scratcher, but why a square remote? You have to look down every time to see what button you are clicking instead of holding it like a normal remote and knowing what you are clicking because of how it fits in your hand. But then again, I only used the remote to help setup the settings and then I store it forever. * Cord length. The cord was the shortest of the 3 frames I bought. It wasn't a big deal where we ended up placing the frame, but be aware that you might have to use an extension cord if the frame isn't within a couple feet of an outlet. * Frame color options. It would be nice to have other frame color options. The black looks nice, but it also makes it an obvious electronic device. My older picture frame and the Best Buy Insignia frame I tested are brown frames made to look like a standard picture frame. Perhaps more people like the shiny black frames nowadays, but it would be nice to sit it on a shelf with a bunch of other "dumb" regular photo print frames and fit in. I seriously considered the Insignia frame for that reason even though the screen was smaller and the settings not as robust. But in the end I went with the higher resolution frame for grandpa's eyesight. Bottom line... there are more frames on the market I could try, but considering the positive reviews on this frame and compared to my other 2 purchases, this was the best bang for my buck. I didn't need something that connected to the Internet, just a frame that would play a simple slideshow from a USB/SD with a high quality resolution. This frame checked off all my needs.

WOW! Where has NIX been hiding this great frame.

WOW! Where has NIX been hiding this frame all this time. It plays the slide show seamlessly. I own three older NIX frames...a 10",12" and 15" and they all work perfectly; however, I purchased a second 12" NIX frame as a gift for a friend. The model I purchased was the NIX X12C and it just did not work properly. It would not play any flash drive that I purchased. Sometimes nothing played with one flash drive, while another flash drive kept repeating photos or froze photos for up to a minute, even though I set it for 3 seconds. I was also told that I had to resize the photos for them to work properly. I did not do that because I never had to do it with the older frames, and several people wrote reviews on Amazon that they tried doing that, but it did not help at all. I returned the frame and wrote a one star review here on Amazon for that frame. You can find that review under my name for the NIX X12C frame.. NIX Support viewed that one star review and contacted me. As a result, NIX took it upon themselves to send me this new NIX frame free of charge. The frame I was sent is this new NIX 12D frame that is now offered here on Amazon. Note the new frame has a "D" nomenclature whereas the older frame had a "C". I have nothing but praise for the NIX Support team. Now, about this new frame. It works perfectly with the currently available flash drives, and I tried three different drives. The remote and the software are newly designed and more user friendly. Needless to say, none of that silly photo resizing is necessary, as it was not necessary with my older frames. I did not try the motion detection or the video feature, because I don't use these functions. If you are going to purchase a NIX frame, make certain that you get the NIX 12D model. You will not be disappointed. Not sure if it is currently available in other than the 12" size, but I am certain it will be available shortly, if not available already. Hope this review is helpful.

NIX X18A Digital Frame only! No motion sensor or 18B model!

NIX X18A Digital Frame My wife and I purchased this device recently at the end of August, 2012 from Amazon and enjoy it immensely. This unit delivers a bright, sharp, saturated, colorful image right out of the box. This model is a widescreen model. We own cameras of differing formats. Fortunately we have a widescreen format camera (Canon SD 3500) and I think that is the format of the future. However, we have thousands of images on the older 4/3 size format, and the same is true for my SLR 3/2 format digital camera. Our images are mainly nature photographs with a few family images spaced throughout the slide show. When using the NIX X18A unit the screen is full size for all image formats when the display mode is set for "Optimal". This setting is found when clicking the "Settings" button on the remote and is the default condition. When setting the Display mode to "Original" there is no stretching applied to fill the screen so images of people are far more flattering. However, there will be a vertical black bar on both sides of the images when viewing the older formats. This is not a problem for us, so our picture frame is set for "Original". My opinion is that if you have mainly people images on the older, almost square 4/3 format, I would buy the smaller NIX X15B which is a 4/3 format unit and you might be happier. The photos would fill the screen, and on the "original" setting, no stretching would occur for any format. If you were to use widescreen images, a horizontal space appears at the top and bottom of the screen on the NIX15B. I use a San Disc 8 GB SDHC (Class 4) card for the photos and the music. It can be purchased at Amazon for less than $6.00. A comment was made in a previous post that you cannot load the pictures directly into the card and then place the card into the picture frame. I resize all my image files to 2000x2000 pixels (~700 jpg images and growing) in a separate folder on my computer, and then copy that folder onto the SD card. I also place the mp3 audio file in the same folder. That way the music is just for those files. I have no trouble viewing my image files on the NIX. As an aside, I found the PNY 8GB Optima HD card (Class 4) was faster in downloading the picture files from the computer to the card. That is a small issue but where I am putting in 100's of files, it saves me a bit of time. Our slide show time is set for 5 seconds. This is done by pushing the "Settings" button on the remote. On our NIX it appears that the actual timing depends on the transition (fade) such that the time the image is viewable can vary between 4 seconds and 10 seconds. This is not an issue with us. If the image has a title, it can be viewed by pressing the "Menu" button on the remote. The addition of music to the slide show is a bit tricky, but once learned it goes quickly. On our NIX, the slide show comes up if the SD card is in place. I insert and replace the SD card with the unit powered off. With the unit powered up, push the "Exit" button twice to get the screen to show the icon with "Pictures" on it. Push the right arrow button once and the "Combo" icon should be highlighted. Then push the "Enter" button twice. Wait a few seconds until you see the list of picture files on the screen and then push "Enter" again. You should then get an almost blank screen and after several seconds the sound will come on. Make sure the sound volume is up in order to hear the sound because the unit comes with the sound volume off. The volume control is on the remote too. We have found that the sound seems to be too loud or too soft at first, but if you go behind the unit and press the "Up/Down" controls, it seems to adjust in smaller increments. I have loaded an AVI video file into the included 4 GB thumb drive, and inserted it into the NIX and that worked beautifully, too. If you go to the FAQ on the NIX site for the NIX 18-A, you will find a link to a video converter that works well, but also loaded an unwanted search engine into my computer, so beware. It seems that whenever a button on the remote is pressed the music goes away and you have to start over again to get it back. The music "Combo" function is an area where improvement could be made. The NIX 18-A digital picture frame is a great piece of equipment. We thoroughly enjoy it with or without the music.

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