Kodak EasyShare M820 Digital Frame with Home Décor Kit
Ratings: 3.5 from total of 27 ratings.
Price: $119.00
Price: $119.00
Product Features:
- 8-inch high quality LCD with 4:3 aspect ratio; KODAK Color Science give your pictures crisp details and vibrant colors.
- Play your videos or listen to your favorite MP3?s with the frame?s built-in speakers
- Kodak?s Quick Touch Border makes it easy to control your digital frames; 2 decorative mattes included
- Store up to 300 of your favorite pictures directly on your frame?s 128 MB of internal memory
- 2 SD card slots are available to allow you to have extra memory to view more pictures
Product Description
Kodak EasyShare M820 Digital Frame W/Home D
Got one last year which functioned great until a few days after its warranty expired, when the screen freezed white. The support staff responded quick though they didn’t help me much, as the product wasn’t giving them too much ground. The repairs would cost me the ridiculous amount of $130CAD, plus about ten s&h… The conclusion is obvious: buy another one… hell, no!
The gains in image quality are pulled back by the reliability of this product, and please note that this is not an isolated case. In case you want a reliable product, try another brand/product. Five out of ten.
This is a plug in and go picture frame. Very easy to set up and use. I bought a SD card and simply put photos on the card. Plug the card in and turn the frame on. Just that easy.
The M820 has the look and feel of a ‘normal’ picture frame, only it will display, slide show style, as many pictures as your memory card could possibly hold and it offers some, mostly unneeded but related features such as sound, the ability to play videos and some rudimentary and difficult to use file management capabilities.
WHAT YOU GET
For you money, inside the nice cardboard box you will find:
- The frame itself with an 8″ display at 800×480 resolution
- DC adapter
- 2 mattes, silver and burgundy
- A small cleaning cloth
- Kodak EasyShare software on a CD
- Manual in English/French/Spanish/Portuguese
- One-page Quick Start
SETUP AND OPERATION
Within less than 5 minutes of me opening the box, my frame was already displaying pictures. It’s as simple as plugging it in and inserting a memory card or a USB drive in the back.
For fine-tuning, the touch border menu system (NEVER TOUCH THE SCREEN) will let you customize your slide shows by selecting:
- the time each picture is displayed – from 5 seconds to one hour
- the sort order (A-Z, Z-A, newest to oldest or vice-versa)
- orientation – portrait or landscape
- the source for your pictures – internal memory, or one of the 3 (THREE) external memory ports
Physically, your frame can sit on its stands that rotates 90 degrees to allow for either portrait or landscape or you can use the mounting holes to hang it on a wall. The 2 provided mattes are easy to attach and more can be purchased from Kodak.
In addition to displaying pictures and playing videos, the frame can be also used to play music.
Besides slide shows, it’s possible to display one specific picture by selecting it from a display mode of thumbnails.
FEATURES
The most important parameter is, of course, the display and it’s a bright, crisp, , fast, 800×480.
Kodak has built a lots of features into this frame, some most welcome, others not exactly needed. The most impressive is the frame’s ability to accept just about any memory card in existence. There are 3 slots in the back:
- SD, MMC, MS, xD
- CF, MD
- USB
In addition, you can connect to a computer and load the frame’s own tiny 128 MB internal memory.
Since you can have ’something’ in each of the three slots at any given time, you could load this frame with, literally, tens of thousands of pictures if you so desire – slide shows will only look at one port at a time but you can switch any time you want.
Not likely to be used much, the frame does allow you to copy files between the various ports or from a camera/computer, you can magnify a picture, rotate it, save slide shows, print a picture and so on.
The EasyShare software lets you organize, print, and share your pictures. It’s nice that it was in the box but I am not likely to use it – it’s available as a free download, by the way.
MY RATING
Since all I wanted was a picture frame that displays pictures with bright colors without distorting the original, the M820 fully meets my expectations.
I appreciate its ability to take inputs from so many different sources – I currently have an inexpensive HP 8 GB Class 4 SDHC Flash Memory Card Q6276A-EF with over 1000 pictures on it, cycling them at a rate of one every 30 seconds. I also like the ‘real picture frame’ look and feel, with the nice mattes included. I don’t have much use for the ‘extra’ features having to do with file management or music playing but them being there doesn’t hurt. The border touch interface is not always as responsive as it could be but, once a slide show is set, the frame is likely to keep working for many days before there’s any need of controls so this is not a big demerit.
The M820 is an easy 5-star because I am impressed and so is the rest of the family and so are friends who invariably ask me the 2 questions: where I got it from and for how much
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Had one for about 2 months picture went black, got a replacement at my cost for shipping and about 6 months later it now has a dead row of pixels. Of course you also talk to Bob or Joe in India for customer support. I would avoid.
when we got the kodak easyshare it didn’t work. good thing it was a present for my husband and not someone else.. I went to walmart and exchanged the product for a working one..