Need a photo frame - Get a Computer Sci Degree!

I bought 3 of these for my family as Christmas gifts. I had bought a cheap Venturer one that had just so so resolution but was easy to use. Not so with these babies.

I just want a digital frame to power up and display the pics in the memory. Seemed like a simple enough thought... after all it is a picture frame. But this idea has been totally lost on Nextar engineers. If I want to just play my pictures it takes many key presses on a keyboard or optional remote. What else did they think I wanted to do with this thing?? I have to power it on, wait for the menu, yep menu :-( Then I have to use keys to scroll down to what I want my frame to do, then I have to press enter, now which cryptic key is that? Then I have to select the pictures I want to see from a sub menu, then I have to find that enter key again. But it gets better, you have to do this every time you turn this thing on! I can reload a clean version of XP with less keystrokes!

Anyway, its easier to boot up windows, hunt through your folders and open a media player and see your pictures than it is to use this frame. In fact its almost an identical process, you even have the spinning hourglass between every picture, which sure is annoying and you don't seem to be able to turn that off. You also can't control how the frame fades from picture to picture.

These things even have a screen saver that pops up if you can't figure out how to get it to display a picture within a few minutes and you'll get to see that more that you will your pictures.

All in all its a nice package completely made useless by a terrible interface. Even the tech support guy was all full of apologies he did mention though that hacks were available online but they would void the warrranty! These are going right back to the store and Nextar can hack in some decent software themselves.