Kodak EasyShare M820 8-Inch Digital Frame

Kodak EasyShare M820 8-Inch Digital Frame
From Kodak

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Product Description

Indulge your senses with pictures, videos and music. Just insert a memory card or USB flash drive into the Kodak EasyShare M820 Digital Picture Frame and enjoy viewing your pictures right away. Your frame comes with decorative mattes that allow you to personalize the look of the frame, and complement your home decor.

Kodak EasyShare Software makes it easy to access all of your pictures and transfer them from your computer to your frame. Kodak's Quick Touch Border keeps fingerprints off of your viewing screen so your images stay beautiful. The touch panel features yellow lights that illuminate to tell you exactly where to touch.

Create, edit and view slideshows at the touch of your fingertips. The convenient drag-and-drop feature is perfect for transferring pictures for slideshows. View your pictures on the 8" (20.3 cm) 16:9 wide screen featuring Kodak Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail.

Store up to 300 pictures directly on your frame's 128 MB of internal memory and use the two available SD card slots to view and enjoy even more of your pictures. Set the mood with your music, listen to your favorite MP3s with built-in speakers Selectable viewing hours featuring automatic on/off settings Easily browse and edit your albums Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall, vertically or horizontally Add style to any decor with optional accessory faceplates Discreet cord design is barely visible

Product Details

* Brand: Kodak
* Model: M820
* Released on: 2008-04-14
* Dimensions: 1.30" h x 7.10" w x 10.10" l, 4.87 pounds
* Native resolution: 8
* Display size: 8

Features

* 8-inch high quality LCD screen
* More memory with 2 card slots
* Play video and listen to MP3s
* Ease of control with Kodak's Quick Touch Border
* Create on-frame multimedia slide shows using Kodak Easyshare software

Editorial Reviews

From the Manufacturer

The sleek and stylish Kodak EasyShare M820 8-Inch Digital Frame hosts a suite of features including the innovative Quick Touch Border, as well as accessories for enhancing your home.

With the M820 control of the frame has never been easier with Quick Touch Border that allows for simple operation with a touch or slide of your finger, while leaving the screen fingerprint and smudge-free.

Kodak EasyShare M820
Transferring pictures from your PC to your M820 is quick and easy. In addition to organizing and editing your pictures, this software makes it simple to move your favorite pictures and slide shows from a computer directly onto the frame.

The Kodak EasyShare M820 displays images in HD format (16:9 aspect ratio). The screens are color tuned to Kodak's standards and use Kodak Color Science for vibrant colors and pleasing skin tones-displaying pictures in brilliant color and crisp detail.

To customize the frame to match your home's decor, two decorative mattes are included, in Cranberry Red and Silver colors. In addition, optional Kodak Digital Frame Faceplates are available in Mahogany with a gold matte, Silver with a blue matte, Black Shadowbox with a champagne matte, and Espresso Shadowbox with a black matte. Easy to change, the faceplates snap onto the frame and update the look to suit your own personal style.

Kodak EasyShare M820 Highlights

Simple to use

* Be in charge with Kodak's Quick Touch Border with back lighting--the unique touch border keeps fingerprints off of your viewing screen so your images stay beautiful. The touch panel features yellow lights that illuminate to tell you exactly where to touch.
* Create, edit and view slide shows--at the touch of your fingertips

Kodak EasyShare M820
Smart, intuitive media--done your way

* Start viewing your pictures right away--just insert a memory card or USB flash drive and enjoy
* A frame full of features: slide shows your way, thumbnails, copy, delete, and print

Easily access and transfer pictures

* Kodak Easyshare Software, Digital Frame Edition, makes it easy to access all of your pictures and transfer them from your computer to your frame
* Create multimedia slide shows on your desktop using pictures, videos, and music and easily transfer them to your frame
* Easily browse and edit your albums
* The convenient drag-and-drop feature is perfect for transferring pictures for slide shows

Store more pictures Store up to 300 pictures directly on your frame’s 128 MB of internal memory and use the two available SD card slots to view and enjoy even more of your pictures.

Kodak EasyShare M820
Set the mood with music Listen to your favorite MP3s with built-in speakers

Selectable viewing hours featuring automatic on/off settings.

Viewing excellence View your pictures on the 8-inch. (25.4 cm) 16:9 wide screen featuring Kodak Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail.

Accessorize your pictures

* New sleek design makes any living room more exciting
* Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall--vertically or horizontally
* Add style to any decor with accessory faceplates (optional)
* Your frame comes with two decorative mattes in silver and red that allow you to personalize your look and compliment your home decor
* Discreet cord design--barely visible

Customer Reviews

Good High Quality Picture and Sound with a few minor quirks
This purchase was a gift for my mother. In my search, I went through several other frame manufacturers (Pandigital, Winbook, etc) that had poor interfaces and firmware, taking them all back. I was a bit skeptical of a "Kodak" product, but decided to try it after seeing the display in the store. And even though it's not perfect, I've been pleasantly surprised.

I loaded music (.mp3), video (.mov) and pictures (.jpg) onto a 2GB SD card inserted in the frame by connecting my PC to the frame with my own mini-usb connector and downloading files. The frame presents itself to the computer as a USB hub with 5 USB drives connected.

These represent the Internal Memory, the SD/MMC, MS(?), xD and CF media. A USB Keydrive is not recognizable in this mode, but works well with the frame disconnected from the computer (I was tempted, but did not have time to see if an external HDD would work with the frame). Folders can be created on the frame when connected to the PC and files are easily copied/pasted.

The included software is not needed to access the frame from the PC, so I did not load it, and have no feedback on the software quality.

The border-touch interface has a learning curve, but once you get used to it (with a little help from the advanced manual downloadable from the Kodak website) I feel it's preferrable to other frames which use remotes or hidden buttons on the back of the screen.

Music sounds good (tiny speakers, so volume is limited, but you can connect to larger self-powered speakers if your goal is to have this act as a media player). Pictures are crisp (given that you load files of decent resolution) and there are "fit" and "full" sizing options. Videos played quite well also.

A few quirks:
* The frame doesn't appear to want to "remember" the music you select for a slideshow. I had to re-assign music each time I reinitiated a slideshow or rebooted the frame. This may be due to the fact that I had my files segregated into folders ("/Pictures", "/Video", "/Music") on the SD. There may be a workaround, but I haven't found it.
* Although there is a clock internal to the system that will wake the frame up and put it to sleep at given times, there is no function to allow you to display the clock along with a small picture or as an overlay like other frames allow. This is a significant oversight in my opinion, but not a deal killer.
* The 128 MB of internal memory is quite small, but at least you have the option of plugging in a very large CF, SD, xD or USB Keydrive.

I'm fairly satisified with the frame and hope my mom likes it.

Where to begin...
I'm using this with a 2GB USB drive unit for storage. I've set it to shuffle through the photos on the drive but from what I can tell it's not really shuffling at all. I'm seeing the same photos over and over again and there are nearly 1000 on the drive.

Far too often it's not able to read the JPG and says that the file is corrupt when it's not. I've set the unit to cycle to a new photo every 3 seconds but it's often much longer than 3 seconds between photos; sometimes 20 to 30 seconds or more.

After a few minutes it stops displaying photos all together and appears as though it's still cycling through photos but I can't make out an image. After a while of this it will reboot itself and begin the process again.

I couldn't be more disappointed with this product.

Kodak M829 Digital Picture Frame
This digital picture frame is very easy to use even without the manual. Everything you need is on the touch screen. Very easy to use from your digital camera, flash drive or the computer.

Also the videos that I tried from my digital camera played very well and where clear. I haven't as yet tried any music. The clock feature that turns the picture frame on and off is a very convient idea but be sure you use the 24 hour cycle, I didn't understand this at first and couldn't get mine timer working right.

I did have a little trouble coping picture files to my SD card but I think, I need to put them on my computer first and see if that is what is need to get them on my SD card, not sure about this right now, but I will try it and see if that works. Overall I'm very please with the Kodak digital picture frame and would recommend it to anyone as a gift for the Holidays.

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