Product Description

PRODUCT FEATURES:Simple to useSmart, intuitive media - done your waySet the mood with musicEasily access and transfer picturesStore more picturesViewing excellenceAccessorize your pictures

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Product Details

• Brand: Kodak
• Model: M820
• Released on: 2008-04-14
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 7.10" w x 10.10" l, 3.38 pounds
• 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

From the Manufacturer
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.

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

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.

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

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Customer Reviews

Revised: Good frame with some issues and my solutions
This frame is one of the better ones that can show pics and video at the same time. The frame controls took a little getting used to but, found it better than the tiny remote on other frames. I did a firmware update (the frame's operating software)which i think improved the icons making it easier to understand for the non-techie types. One disappointment was there was no mini-usb cable included in the package, when most other companies include it in theirs; it's just the frame, power adapter, and software. A slight peeve with most digital frames; is the new frames are coming out in the widescreen format (16:9 ratio/ 800 by 480 resolution like this frame) and not fullscreen format (4:3 ratio/ 800 by 600 resolution) which most pics are in anyway. So, with this frame your getting an 8 inch screen but, it displays like a 7 inch screen pic and i apologize for my ranting and raving.

Sidenote : From the Kodak website, their coming out with OLED frames; kinda like LCD but, with more vibrant colours like plasma. Samsung frames are another consideration but, stiffer price tag.

Issues and My Solutions:
1)After trying different brands; like all digital frames this issue of not recognizing formats it supposed to be able to play has come-up regularly. My original pics and videos worked fine but, when i altered them using Adobe and keeping the same format, the frame didn't seem to recognized them anymore. *revised: There is a little oddity with pics you can alter size, resolution, rotate and enhance but, this must be done on the computer before you download it on any flash memory device.* In video on this frame; altered it with Adobe but, using free software(from tucows website)to make sure it's at 640 by 480 resolution with minor degradation in the video so, solved both problems.
2)I was trying to put wedding pics in chronological and songs in play order but, it didn't matter how i renamed them using #s or A-Z even when i set the frame to play A-Z. It wouldn't play in that order but, when i renamed them on the computer then downloaded it into a SD card, it worked. yep-pee

Addendum: My big conclusion about this frame and it might work on others as well is when doing any form of editing from pics to video, do it on your computer before downloading it onto any flash memory device. Don't even try to edit within any flash memory device cause you will run into these problems.
CONSIDERATION NOTICE: There is new version of the kodak m820 model with decor frame(same price or cheaper); saw this recently in a store which i think improved the exterior look of the frame.

A nice product from Kodak
As usual, after searching for products and checking all possible reviews, finally decided to buy this Kodak M820 attributed to the balance of price and performance.

After opening the box, peel off screen protector, plug in and power it on. While enjoying its introduction show, I download >400 pictures from my picture folder (that I took now and then by Sony W7, Nikon L4, Panasonic LZ7, and Kodak very early digital camera) into a SD card (with some MP3 music files too). It seems that all pictures and motion file taken by those camera are all been play very well with good picture resolution and clear sound. The picture is very bright and the sound is loud enough to be heard in all corner of a 20 x 20 living room.

So far, this frame has done what it supposed to do: showing pictures with some blending of music as bonus. The 800 x 480 resolution is so far the best on the available market with hope-to-be-cheaper price. 8" screen size is visible within reasonable distance, however, buy larger one if you can afford and hang it on the wall...

I do enjoy this digital picture frame, and so will you.....

Problems with viewing videos
I purchased the Kodak EasyShare M820 digital frame as a birthday present for my sister. I wanted to set it up with a few family pictures, a couple of short videos, and add background music to the slide show before I give it to her. After reading the manual several times and calling the Kodak technical support for help three or four times, I was only able to achieve one of my three objectives.

I think the instruction manual lacks some vital information about the steps that should be followed to perform different tasks. I was able to create a slide show after one phone call to the technical support. However, installing a 20-second video was a different story. To install my video, I learned that first, I had to convert it to the right format since it was in Avi format. However, one technical support representative told me it should be in MPEG4 and another said it should be in MPEG1. After several conversions, I still could only see the first frame rather than the entire video. I am sure if I could spend a few more hours, I could either make it work or figure out the source of the problem and then give up. Unfortunately, I ran out of time and had to give my sister her present.
I wish the frame would come with a better instruction manual so I could figure out in a timely manner how to use all the features that the frame claims to offer.
N. Brown