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 A nice product from Kodak August 25, 2008
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.....
Very nice display August 24, 2008
I bought this after coming back from vacation and taking hundereds of pictures of yellowstone. I loaded a memory card with my favorite photos and stuck it in the back and the touch screen settings was a breeze to set up, even shows the movies. I have it set to come on in the morning and turn off before bed, perfect feature. I have made no adjusts to color or sizing and it displays most things well. You can choose between showing the full picture which makes black bars on the side or full screen. I have glanced at it so many times I need to buy a new memory card so I can load more pictures! It does have some built in memory also.
If you read the product discription you will get the specs. Very pleased and plan on buying more as gifts this christmas for my family to enjoy.
Excellent Digital Frame August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love photography and I always wanted to have something like this, I'm very demanding when it comes to quality and I was searching for a lot of digital frames and I think this was the perfect one for me, it has excellent colors, very bright and clear. I will recommended to anybody, it's a great product!
 does not play video August 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The the box claims that this frame plays "MOV, AVI, MPEG 1, and MPEG 4" video files. Every MOV and AVI file that I have loaded on this thing only gives the error message "format not supported." Any MP4 file that I load on the frame is not recognized by the frame at all (it just tells me there are no files there at all).
The instruction book is worthless. The page on playing videos (page # 14) tells me three things: 1) that (supposedly) the video will play automatically, 2) that those same four file types are supported, and that 3) (again supposedly) you can press the play button to "play, pause and resume the video." (That does not help) The troubleshooting page says that if a video does not play I should go back and look at page 14 again. (if the video does not play automatically why does looking at a page that tells me it WILL play automatically help things any?)
I assume there is some way to get this frame to play a video. Some resolution that the video has to be set at or something. Trying to find information on the kodak website was a waste of time. The troubleshooting pdf that you can download is just a pdf version of the manual ) "the video will play automatically." Trying to enter the problem into their help center gives this advice "try turning the frame on and off" (and how is that supposed to make the frame play file types that it clearly does not?)
Also the menus on the frame are poorly designed.
Very frustrating item.
 Problems with viewing videos August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
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