Product Description

Start viewing your pictures and videos right away by inserting a memory card or connect your digital camera and enjoy. Set the mood with music by listening to your favorite MP3s with built-in speakers while you view your photos. The convenient drag-and-drop feature makes transferring pictures easy. View your pictures on the 7-inch 16:9 wide screen featuring Kodak Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail. It is optimized with Kodak Light Management Film to provide a bright, clear display with excellent viewing angle. Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall, vertically or horizontally.

Product Details

• Brand: Kodak
• Model: SV-710
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 3.27" w x 11.44" l, 2.70 pounds
• Display size: 7

Features

• 7-inch viewable LCD display
• Play back video and MP3s; built-in speakers
• On-frame viewing and editing features
• Compatible with SD, MMC, Memory Stick, xD, CF, and MD cards
• Convenient remote control included

Manufacturer Description

The New Way to Frame Your Pictures

Smart, intuitive multimedia -- done your way

• Start viewing your pictures and videos right away -- just insert a memory card or connect your digital camera and enjoy
• A frame full of features: Control how you display slide shows and view thumbnails; Additionally, copy, delete, and print images
• Set the mood with music -- listen to your favorite MP3s with built-in speakers
• Selectable viewing hours -- featuring automatic on/off settings

• Be in charge with the handy remote control
• The convenient drag-and-drop feature makes transferring pictures a snap
• Connect to a PictBridge-enabled printer to print pictures without a computer

• Optimized with KODAK Light Management Film to provide a bright, clear display with excellent viewing angle
• View your pictures on the 7-inch (17.8 cm), 16:9 wide screen featuring KODAK Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail

• Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall -- vertically or horizontally
• Add style to any décor with accessory faceplates (optional)

• KODAK EASYSHARE SV710 Digital Picture Frame
• Remote control
• AC power cord
• USB cable
• Software CD
• Getting Started Guide

• Windows Macintosh Hardware
• Windows XP or higher
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
• 600 MHz processor or greater
• Macintosh OS X 10.3 or higher; Power Mac/Power Book G3, G4, G5; iMac; eMac; iBook; MacBookPro
• Safari 1.1 or higher
• 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
• 200 MB hard disk drive space available
• CD-ROM drive
• Available USB port

Customer Reviews

Kodak Easyshare SV-710 7-inch Digital Picture Frame
This was very easy to use right out of the box. I was able to drag and drop pictures to it without using the Easy Share software.

I've had many compliments on this product, and people are surprised at the clarity of the pictures. I am very happy with it.

I find most of the comments here are for multiple versions of Kodak frames, so it is hard to tell which frame is being commented on.
Kodak Easyshare SV-710 7-inch Digital Picture Frame

It CAN play videos!
I read a lot of mixed reviews about the Kodak SV710 7" digital frame and must agree with those who say it's a great product once you learn to work with how it works - much like many new electronic digital devices. The interface with the remote and frame is quite easy with a little time invested into it. PC connectivity is a cinch, no EasyShare software necessary, and is like turning the Kodak frame into a 'drag & drop' media bay.

It is incredibly important to be able to resize and crop larger raw digital camera or scanner images to the appropriate 800:480 [480:800 for portrait] dimensions. There is freeware on the web which is highly capable of this if you don't already have any. I've noticed a few people really not liking this and it's not all that bad. Widescreen is the fad these days anyway. Isn't panoramic a part of photography as well? My hundred-dollar Nikon digital camera has a setting for taking 16:9 pictures for lossless display on a widescreen. Kind of works perfectly for this frame.

The music is straightforward; place the MP3's on storage device, plug in to frame, and play from browsed selection. The Music Key on the remote is a nice shortcut to current audio files as well.

Video playback is rather picky and sensitive as to what it will recognize. First of all, it does not take only a Kodak camera's video capture for playback (rumored from other reviews), and secondly .Avi does not mean DivX. There's many boundaries and customizable settings into video codec (compressor/decompressor) processing that it almost seems ridiculous, but alas they're there and Kodak's digital picture frame isn't open to all of them. I have not found an .Avi or .Mov video which plays, but have found an .Mpg setup that does. If your video doesn't work, perhaps recoding it will do the trick.

The .mpg found to work for me is made of an MPEG1 container/codec with MP3 audio; the video works pretty well sized at 480:272, running 23.976fps, a bitrate anywhere above 700, and the audio doesn't need to be anything over 64kbps Mono. Again, there's freeware on the web which can do this.

Will still look into other compatible video formats and update any discoveries.

Most seem to dislike the lack of a random display function and no support of DivX, which can only be hoped for in some future firmware upgrade. If that's not going to happen, then perhaps it'll take learning how to recode videos (or find a nerdy friend who knows how) and maybe add a couple bundles of other photos of some neat CG 3D art, nature landscapes, or even of outer space to make it seem more random.

After my little time put into getting familiarized with the frame I am overall 90% satisfied for what it does and for the bargain it went for which is surely worth 5 stars.

NIce picture quality, doesn't randomize pictures
I bought this frame as a mother's day gift after buying the polaroid version that had really bad picture quality. Digital picture frames (in my opinion) are just unnecessarily expensive. So with that said, and realizing that you will have to pay over $100 for ANY frame with 1/2-way decent pics, I will say that this frame is a very good value (comparatively) for its price.

I have no complaints on the picture quality (although of course, there are more frames out there with better quality...but for a better quality you will definitely have to pay over $200), especially at this price. It is quite crisp and very bright. I really enjoyed watching the pics on this frame. My only gripe with this frame is that it does not automatically randomize your pics, nor does it offer an option to let you do so. It would really make the show more interesting if you didn't have to view all the pics in each folder on your memory card before moving to the next one. Also, a lot of frames come with changeable faceplates to change the color of the frame--or have nicer frames in general, rather than the plain (and kinda cheap looking) black plastic that is on the kodak frame. That is one area that could also be improved. Overall though, for the price, I think this is a good purchase. DEFINITELY a much better choice over the polaroid or smartpants frames that are around $30 less.