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Kodak EasyShare M820 8-Inch Digital Frame
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Product Details
| Release Date: | 2008-04-14 |
| Category: | Electronics |
| Label/Manufacturer: | Kodak |
| Model: | M820 |
| UPC: | 041778485026 |
Product Description
DIGITAL FRAME, 8" M820, QUICK TOUCHProduct 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
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Customer Reviews
Rated
on 2010-08-22Bought this as a gift for my 91 year old Mom for her birthday and she had just had surgery so loving, laying on the couch while watching pictures of her favorite people and places slide by. It has a music function , which I'm not using,, was a very easy upload and so much more room for additions and updates! great price! On screen, hidden , menu is a great feature.. Love this and would highly reccommend it..
Rated
on 2010-08-18The frame never worked very well, when it did work. Now it just shows a blank white screen when I turn it on, and I can't even turn it back off without pulling the plug. Pull the plug on it, is what I did.
Rated
on 2010-08-02The description states that it plays several different formats of video. But don't be mislead. If you have the right kind of digital camera, you can move clips to the frame, as long as they aren't edited at all, or even trimmed. There are no export settings for Quicktime that produce video that will play on your frame. The only video that will play on your frame is video straight from your camera, and the types of cameras that take video that will play is extremely limited. I have three different types of digital video cameras and none of them work. I have a sony cybershot camera, and that video works as long as it's not trimmed.
If you want to shoot video that you can trim before using in the frame, you'll also need the KODAK EASYSHARE M580. Nice they don't tell you that on the box. Hopefully I've saved you two weeks of messing around if you really need this to work for something important like helping an elderly person with dementia stay somewhat oriented to their life. Of course, there are no discounts available for this camera.
Otherwise, it's a great frame. Love the quality. Fairly easy to use if you're patient.
Rated
on 2010-07-18The Kodak EasyShare M820 is a great disappointment. It seems impossible to organize the photos in the order we want them to be and have just given up. My biggest frustration is the so called "Quick Touch Border". It either reacts to sensitively or not at all. I find it distracting and frustrating. As I am trying to view the pictures, the icons just keep popping up.
I would not recommend this product to anyone. Kodak, you can do better.
Rated
on 2010-03-22The 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 the 8" display at 800x480
- 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, 800x480.
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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