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Product Description
Remember the past keep an eye on the present with the MFV700, the world's first Video-In-Picture digital frame. The MFV700 features DECT 6.0 wireless technology for secure image viewing. The 7-inch TFT screen has a resolution of 480x234 pixels and features vivid colors. Frame displays live video-in-picture monitoring from the remote video camera using DECT 6.0 technology. In addition to the video camera view, frame can simultaneously display a JPEG photo slide show. The MFV700 also features: indoor temperature monitoring, operating range of 200 meters with out of range warning and night vision functioning, making this an excellent tool for monitoring your baby's nursery. Ships with IR remote control.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8558 in Camera & Photo
- Color: Black
- Brand: Motorola
- Model: MFV700
- Dimensions: 3.74" h x 9.15" w x 8.75" l, 2.06 pounds
- Native resolution: 480 x 234
- Display size: 7
Features
- Includes 7 Inch Digital Frame and Wireless Camera with DECT 6.0
- 7-Inch TFT Screen with 480 x 234 resolution and vivid colors
- Live video-in-picture monitoring via remote video camera using DECT 6.0 technology
- Display photo slide show and monitor video camera images simultaneously
- Indoor temperature monitoring, operating range of 200 meters with out of range warning and night vision function
Customer Reviews
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42 of 45 people found the following review helpful.
Key features are missing, promo video is misleading
By Richard C. Drew
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1V71T9NIPNFL3 I purchased two of these for gifts, both to be used as baby monitors. You have two components - the frame and the camera, each with it's own power adapter. The frame also has a mini remote control.
The camera: Plays the typical MIDI sounding nursery rhymes and lullabies. Very narrow field of view. We had to mount it 6 feet above the crib to see the entire thing (just your typical crib.) To mount it, there are two screw mounting slots in the base. You can mount it on a wall or put it on a shelf. Low light quality is also decent.
Frame: Accepts USB key and SD card. Plays slide shows and lets you do a screen grab from the monitor. The left side shows a calendar or a slide show. The right side shows a clock in the lower 1/3rd and the video feed in the other 2/3rds. Unlike the video and photos show, this can NOT be changed. The video feed can't be moved or resized and the clock can't be moved or the style changed. Four different people tried - we went through all the options. It's just not done.
Because of this there's a lot of wasted screen space on the right. The quality of the feed is decent, not great. The audio is fantastic.
Controls: There are controls on the frame back and on the included remote. The controls on the frame allow you to control many of the features, turn down the volume (but not up!) and display the video camera feed. The remote has more options - and lets you turn the volume up as well.
Other observations: If you look at the sample photo with the baby closeup, the camera would have to be about 1 foot away. Not practical or safe. The Motorola website has no information on this product - no manuals, no help - nothing. The photo with the clock on top and the video on the bottom? No way. Outright deceitful by Motorola. Even the video feed dimensions are wrong - it's obviously a fake image. It's also SLOW. The demo video shows modes changing instantly. It takes at least three seconds. It's so slow you'll be pressing the buttons again and a gain thinking you pressed wrong. Also the sample photos of the frame - the video quality is not even close to those images.
The menu system is not intuitive and even hair-brained in places. What buttons do is not consistent. See the video.
For simplicity and ease of use, it's 5 stars. For not giving you what's advertised, obvious design flaws, and releasing a product that does not match the marketing, photos or promo video - 1 star. Even the manual has strips of paper glued over some lines - obvious last minute editing/removal of features from the manual. It's just obvious that the design specs and final product did not even come close to each other. Video quality, features, options - all are sub-par.
My guess - and it's obvious from the promo - the video feed portion was supposed to be positionable and able to display full screen, there were supposed to be multiple clock and calendar types, and a much better video feed/quality. Then the budget was cut, the options removed, and a very basic unit produced. Again, that's my best guess - but watch their promo video - that's not what you get!
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
SOOOO DISAPPOINTED!!!!
By Ketch.Higgins
My Husband and I have been looking for a video baby monitor for our two babies. We saw this item and fell in love with the item description. We purchased two, but after setting the first one up in our youngest babys room we didnt even bother to unpack the 2nd camera. The visual quality was awful. The night vision - even worse! We had to put 3 nightlights in his room to be able to barely see him. The screen is delayed and sometimes shows colored lines. We were under the impression that the whole frame could be used to look at baby sleeping, instead its a tiny picture in picture. This item was not made for everyday use. At night you have to prop it up at the right angle so you even see the live feed of your baby in their crib. Even with only the video feed and no pictures scrolling accross the screen its bright enough to light our entire bedroom. The last straw was the camera not picking up sound on occasion. I woke up yesterday in the early morning, when I looked over at the monitor he was crying in his room and I never heard a noise. We packed up the camera and are sending it back to Amazon.
I hope nobody else waists their time and money with this product.
30 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
A Great Idea, Almost Perfect
By Neil Estep
I bought this when it was a lightning deal--$99!--and was really excited when it arrived. We've been looking for a monitor, so that we can keep an eye on our toddler when we (eventually) get her going to bed on her own. Having the monitor included in a digital picture frame (along with a calendar, clock with alarm, temperature monitor, etc.) was a huge bonus. But there are some caveats, which might not be right for everyone.
So far, very few problems linking the camera and frame--once or twice the camera feed wouldn't display, and I had to restart the frame, which isn't a big deal. The space occupied by the camera feed is pretty small, which might not be great for everyone, and the night vision, while adequate, isn't very clear--but hey, it's vision ... at night. We can see enough to know whether the kid has fallen off the bed or is sitting up. We also haven't tested the distance yet to see whether we could use it in a bigger house someday. The sound sensitivity so far is spot on: after one cough or fuss, the speaker turns on every time, alerting us to any potential problem.
Note that there is no internal memory, so you'll need a USB drive or a memory card handy. And there is also no internal battery in the frame, so a loss of power means resetting the date and time.
For me, the only other misgiving is the lack of more detailed instructions on how to properly crop and resize pictures so they display correctly. You see, the frame seems to resize pics that were taken on your camera, so that they display properly, but if you pull them from your computer, they appear distorted, mostly stretched horizontally. As someone who prefers not to look fun-house-mirror fat in all my pictures, I spent hours attempting to get the sizing right, so that the pictures from my computer filled the entire frame, just like a real picture would. I won't get into all the details, the thousands of times I cropped, resized, deleted, groaned. But I've detailed below EXACTLY how I finally got it right, and the settings I like now that the pictures are properly sized.
The specs for this frame say that the dimensions are 480 (horizontal) x 234 (vertical), but the aspect ratio is 16:9. Now, this is confusing because according to most of the tutorials I read, dividing the vertical by the horizontal should give you the aspect ratio. Well, 234/480 is .4875 and 9/16 is .5625. I may be doing it wrong, but these two numbers should match. I finally discovered that dividing 234 into 416 is the only way to get .5625, so I set all my picture dimensions to 416x234 and, by golly, the pictures finally look true to life. It would be nice to see this in the documentation somewhere, and I wish I were smarter and understood why the 480 seems like a useless dimension when resizing pics.
I found a great program ([...]) that allowed me to resize all my pics to exactly 416x234 and batch-resize by selecting "Open Sequentially" from the "File" menu. Be sure to display the pics in full screen, and you should have beautiful pictures that fill the whole frame. It's a preference on my end, too, but I think they look great with a brightness of 9, a contrast of 8, and saturation of 6.
Overall, a great buy. It fills many needs around here, most specifically the fact that we are terrible about putting new pictures in frames, or printing pictures in general. Now we have many pictures on display, in full-frame glory, along with other great features this frame/camera offers.
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