Kodak EasyShare SV811 8 inch Digital Picture Frame

Customer Reviews

Nice product but can be better

2008-07-15
Kodak is known by the above quality of its products...but I think that Kodak could be better...and also includes complete technical information on his site, especially in the part of supported video formats, because there are so much video formats that you can confuse about the correct video format to use with this Digital Picture Frame...About the picture feature It works fine...I test with a 3.8 MB jpg picture from a 8.1 Megapixel camera and plays well.

It is what it is...and it's pretty good.

2008-07-13
I've owned this frame for about a week now. It isn't anything fancy, I just wanted a small digital frame for my desk at work. When Amazon made it available for under seventy-five dollars I just couldn't pass it up.

The picture quality is great, and that's really the whole story for me. I bought a frame to show off my pictures, and it does that beautifully. It's as easy as loading up a memory card (SD in my case) with the pictures you want, sticking it in the frame, and turning the frame on. It isn't going to get much easier than that.

It will play music with your slide show if you like. It will even play MP3's that you put in. I usually don't mess around with these things, but I occasionally will play a bit from my camcorder with sound though it and again, it works fine.

What don't I like? I don't like the same thing that I don't like about many electronic products these days. Some of the controls are only on the remote. Some of them are on the back of the frame, but some are remote only...so don't lose it.

Bottom line, it's a great little display for the money. I'm thinking about buying another one for my bedroom. I just haven't decided if I want to pony up the extra money for one that I can update and change pictures on remotely.

WiFi functionality does not work as advertised

2008-07-13
It's a normal picture frame just like many other on the market, but I bought this one because of it's wireless capability. The claim is that it can be synch up with a home desktop via wifi so that it does not store any images locally but rather gets the from the desktop. THIS DOES NOT PRACTICALLY WORK! The bug is that you can make the two connect and start the slide show. However, whenever there is any minor network or a computer slowdown, that happen a couple of times a day never mind power outages, the slide show stops. The only resolution is restarting the show manually. There is no automatic restarting of the show. Unless you want to be restarting the show several times a day wait till this product matures.

Great product

2008-07-12
We've had this for over a month. I used their software which takes a little bit to set up but once done it is easy load up pictures.

Great way to see your photos

2008-07-10
Bought for my husband for father's day. He has it at his desk at work. It's easy to use and hold all the pictures of kids, grandkids, etc... Great product for the money.

really good item

2008-07-24
I got this for my gf and she loved it. It was cheaper being refurbished and still looked new and still had a warranty. she loves it!

Absolutely great Pictures

2008-07-24
Of course they are never any better than the pictures you put in them. This frame complimented my new digital camera better than I expected. I love it. As usual the professional manner that I was taken care of by Amazon keeps me coming back.

Excellent

2008-07-22
I bought the 10" one (without wireless) and I love it. The large screen is great. It is bigger than I really realized and I probably would have bought the 8" had I known just to save money but it is wonderful. I had no problem at all transferring pictures (using Windows XP). There isn't much space on the frame itself (128 MB I believe) so I ran out of room pretty quick with 2 and 3 MB pictures. So, I'd recommend getting an SD card from the start since they're so cheap. Also, in hindsight I would have done the wireless. I didn't think I'd need it but it would be a lot easier and worth that small additional cost if you have a wireless network. My mom has the 8" wireless one and it's pretty slick.

Good product for the price

2008-07-21
I bought this frame to give it as a present.

First, I put some pictures and music so the couple could enjoy it immediatly with pictures of their friends.

I had the problem with the picture size. It's 800x480 ... no so standard, so I had to crop the pictures so they could show well in the frame.

The viewing is pretty cool. Also the sound. It accept all kind of flash cards and also has 128Mb on itself.

I would have liked it had a 'random' view, for me it would have been the 5 stars.

I recommend this product, specially for the competitive price and the good quality viewing.

Power supply is 110V only

2008-07-18
Power supply is 110V only, so don't go buying this for any friends in Europe or the rest of the world. It is also pretty difficult to find a 12V 2A power supply to replace the one provided.
Other than that it does what it says on the tin.

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