Kodak EX-811 Easyshare 8-inch Digital Picture Frame

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This is a review of the SV811 which I bought to give to my 76-year old parents who don't have a computer, Internet connection, or digital camera. I was looking for a easy way for the family to be able to share digital photos when visiting, and to provide them with a 'stock' set of family photos that they could view whenever they wanted. The 'stock' set would be stored on a 2GB SD card that would be installed in camera when digital photo frame was given to them. It was very important that they be able to turn it on and it starts showing photos. No messing with remotes, or buttons, or inserting cards. I ordered the SV811 2 weeks ago (I see it's dropped $15 since then), and received it a week later. It has taken me 2 weekends and some long weeknights to get this frame to do what I want it to do. It would have been easier if the user manual had been better written.
To begin with this frame as advertised as 800x480 pixels and as 16:9. One of these is wrong. After much experimentation I determined

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that the frame is 16:9 and actually displays 840x480 pixels. Great, more pixels! But, also significant cropping if setting to 'fill frame' is selected. In fill frame mode, if photo is larger that 840x480, the frame center crops and resizes. This can result in missing/partial heads and other artifacts. If setting is not selected, pictures are displayed at 640x480, or less, to preserve aspect ratio. This results in a lot of unused pixels. I finally determined that to obtain best pictures, I would have to crop and resize each picture to 840x480 on my computer and then load onto a SD card to insert in frame. I found a really good freeware program (FastStone Photo Resizer) that allowed me to do batch edits. This saved a lot of time.
I had initially played around with the frame using a SD card that had a few hundred pictures in several folders. Every time I inserted the card, or turned on the Frame with the card already inserted, the frame would automatically start showing slides from the card. However, it was my plan in the final configuration, to put thousands of photos on the SD card for display. I loaded up the SD card with about 1200 photos to start with, inserted card in frame, and watch it go to Home instead of automatically showing slides. WTF? After HOURS after experimentation, I determined that this frame has a total file/folder limit. If limit is exceeded, the frame will NOT auto-start a slideshow. It just goes to Home. It appears that the folder limit is 65 or 66, and the file limit is between 943 and 966. This appears to be sum total for all memory in the frame.
Something else I determined is that the frame displays photos from a memory card in the order to which they were written to the card. This seems self-evident when inserting a memory card from a camera, but no so evident if card is being loaded from a PC. I wanted to display photos in a certain order, and it took me a few tries to figure this out.
The one feature that I wish the frame had is capability to either resume a slideshow from where it was when device is powered off, or to display photos randomly. As it is, every time the device is turned on, the slide show starts from the 'beginning'. Maybe in the next firmware update.

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8 price(s) | 175 days ago at

I sent it back

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The problem with this photo frame is that the display is widescreen 16:9, but my digital photos are standard photo format 4:3 so the images were getting chopped off. There is an option to display the entire photo but that shrunk the images down so much they were not worth looking at. If Kodak made a photo frame that used a standard photo format, that would make sense. This frame was no good for my photos.

that the frame is 16:9 and actually displays 840x480 pixels. Great, more pixels! But, also significant cropping if setting to 'fill frame' is selected. In fill frame mode, if photo is larger that 840x480, the frame center crops and resizes. This can result in missing/partial heads and other artifacts. If setting is not selected, pictures are displayed at 640x480, or less, to preserve aspect ratio. This results in a lot of unused pixels. I finally determined that to obtain best pictures, I would have to crop and resize each picture to 840x480 on my computer and then load onto a SD card to insert in frame. I found a really good freeware program (FastStone Photo Resizer) that allowed me to do batch edits. This saved a lot of time.

I had initially played around with the frame using a SD card that had a few hundred pictures in several folders. Every time I inserted the card, or turned on the Frame with the card already inserted, the frame would automatically start showing slides from the card. However, it was my plan in the final configuration, to put thousands of photos on the SD card for display. I loaded up the SD card with about 1200 photos to start with, inserted card in frame, and watch it go to Home instead of automatically showing slides. WTF? After HOURS after experimentation, I determined that this frame has a total file/folder limit. If limit is exceeded, the frame will NOT auto-start a slideshow. It just goes to Home. It appears that the folder limit is 65 or 66, and the file limit is between 943 and 966. This appears to be sum total for all memory in the frame.

Something else I determined is that the frame displays photos from a memory card in the order to which they were written to the card. This seems self-evident when inserting a memory card from a camera, but no so evident if card is being loaded from a PC. I wanted to display photos in a certain order, and it took me a few tries to figure this out.

The one feature that I wish the frame had is capability to either resume a slideshow from where it was when device is powered off, or to display photos randomly. As it is, every time the device is turned on, the slide show starts from the 'beginning'. Maybe in the next firmware update.

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8 price(s) | 238 days ago at

Great Frame!

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Great frame.
Easy installation of the Kodak Software.
Nice outlook - not looking so plastic like the picture here.
All options works fine.
It recognized all networks around, and i didn't have any problems with setting up my local Wi-Fi. Then you can easily go online to the Kodak EasyShare page and all albums you have there can be previewed on the frame.
Otherwise it has internal memory, which is not enough for anything except the initial tests, but all memory cards i used was working fine.
The only one "problem" is that the slideshow is really slow, but it's not so embarrasing.
Good choice for everyone.

that the frame is 16:9 and actually displays 840x480 pixels. Great, more pixels! But, also significant cropping if setting to 'fill frame' is selected. In fill frame mode, if photo is larger that 840x480, the frame center crops and resizes. This can result in missing/partial heads and other artifacts. If setting is not selected, pictures are displayed at 640x480, or less, to preserve aspect ratio. This results in a lot of unused pixels. I finally determined that to obtain best pictures, I would have to crop and resize each picture to 840x480 on my computer and then load onto a SD card to insert in frame. I found a really good freeware program (FastStone Photo Resizer) that allowed me to do batch edits. This saved a lot of time.

I had initially played around with the frame using a SD card that had a few hundred pictures in several folders. Every time I inserted the card, or turned on the Frame with the card already inserted, the frame would automatically start showing slides from the card. However, it was my plan in the final configuration, to put thousands of photos on the SD card for display. I loaded up the SD card with about 1200 photos to start with, inserted card in frame, and watch it go to Home instead of automatically showing slides. WTF? After HOURS after experimentation, I determined that this frame has a total file/folder limit. If limit is exceeded, the frame will NOT auto-start a slideshow. It just goes to Home. It appears that the folder limit is 65 or 66, and the file limit is between 943 and 966. This appears to be sum total for all memory in the frame.

Something else I determined is that the frame displays photos from a memory card in the order to which they were written to the card. This seems self-evident when inserting a memory card from a camera, but no so evident if card is being loaded from a PC. I wanted to display photos in a certain order, and it took me a few tries to figure this out.

The one feature that I wish the frame had is capability to either resume a slideshow from where it was when device is powered off, or to display photos randomly. As it is, every time the device is turned on, the slide show starts from the 'beginning'. Maybe in the next firmware update.

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