Kodak EX-811 Easyshare 8-inch Digital Picture Frame with Wireless Capability by Kodak
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Digital camera reviews of Kodak EX-811 Easyshare 8-inch Digital Picture Frame with Wireless Capability
Digital camera Review: Beautiful but difficult
Summary: 3 Stars
The picture quality displayed is great. 5 stars. And the overall package is quite handsome. However, transferring pictures isn't as easy as it is on my daughter's cheap Phillips frame (purchased at Brookstone). The wireless feature is nice, if I had any idea what the password for my wireless network is. but I don't. So I have to rely on cables.
And what's with Kodak loading all their photo-sharing software onto my computer? I suppose I agreed to it. but once it was there, I realized its not what I was looking for (its more for printing out hard copies using their printing service).
But the picture quality is nice once the pics are on the frame!
Digital camera Review: Great except the wirlees is worthless
Summary: 2 Stars
Summary: Great product if the wirless was reliable.
Pros:
Bright screen with good resolution.
Good off axis viewing.
Great feature set.
128MB internal memory
Card reader handles a lot of card formats
Cons:
Wireless can't stay connected for 24 hours even when close to access point.
Eashyshare software is poor
Loading photos is painfully slow
App will sit in the background chewing up CPU cycles doing nothing
Wide frame aspect ratio can be frustrating when dealing with portrait shots
Customer support is poor
Details:
I spent weeks trying to make this work. The Kodak Easyshare web site wouldn't stay connected more than a few hours. I changed from a 5 second picture rotation to 15 minutes thinking bandwidth might be a problem. I then tried using a directory off of my laptop. That would crash the frame in the same way i.e. to the top menu. After the frame crashed to the top menu the only way to get the wireless connection back was to power cycle the frame. Otherwise you would drill down to the photo directory and select a slide show only to be bounced back to the home (top) menu. I then tried my desktop. I then though Vista might be a problem so I tried another desktop running XP Pro. I never got the frame to keep displaying the photos over the wireless link for an entire day.
Throughout all of this I tried several other things. Photos were sized down so they weren't too large in case that was a problem. The frame was tried in two locations. One had direct line of sight to the wireless antenna. Both locations were 10' to 15' away from the wireless antenna with no obstructions. Troublesome photos were removed. As another reviewer commented, this frame dislikes photos that work fine when viewed on my computers. I even tried using 2 different routers and made sure QOS was turned off.
This was an anniversary gift to my wife and she loved the frame except for the crashing. That is why I tried so hard to make it work. Competing frames are either too big or low in resolution so I will have to wait for someone to bring out one that fits our needs.
Digital camera Review: Great picture quality, but you may get "current file is bad" on picture frame
Summary: 4 Stars
The picture quality is probably one of the best I've seen but......
There's only one problem that I have had with the Kodak SV 811. If your files are too large, i.e. 3MB+ photos you may receive the following error message "Current file is bad" on the picture frame. To resolve this problem do the following and it will correct the problem: resize your photos to 1600 X 1200 dpi(landscape mode), (1200X 1600 for portrait mode) and the frame will work fine.....Plus you'll be able to store over 300+ photos in the internal memory.
P.S. Edit the photos in a program like Adobe Photoshop (resize the images in Adobe to 1600X1200 dpi) and then reload the resized images back into the Kodak digital picture frame. I resized all my photos in the Kodak digital picture frame to 1600 X 1200 dpi and there are no more "bad files." And the quality of the photos is still very good....
Digital camera Review: Bad Documentation - NO SUPPORT!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought the sister product - the 10" EX 1011 - same issues apply to both the 10" and this 8"
The product looks great BUT!!
I bought it to send pictures to Grandma. We thought we could post pictures on the Kodak Gallery, and she (many many miles away) could see the latest of the grandchildren. HOWEVER ... it keeps losing its contact withe Wifi and reverting to its internal memory. If Grandma was up to resetting it to point at Gallery, she would have a computer and wouldn'r need this.
The on-line documentation says that you can make the Gallery the place it automatically goes to BUT .. the menus described on the web page are NOT, in fact, availale on the device. We sent a question email to customer service .. git an autmated response that said we would get a real response within about 24 hours. 5 Days NO RESPONSE. They do not post any phone numbersw to call for this device. They have an online chat that is ALWAYS BUSY, and so does not respond.
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!! Personally, I will never buy any Kodak product again. I expect some minimal level of support from companies that want me to buy their products.
Digital camera Review: This is EXACTLY the Digital Picture Frame I have Been Looking For!
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, the picture quality is excellent and in my book, that is most important. Pictures look sharp and contrasty from almost all viewing angles.
The image size is similar to a 5x7 and the overall frame size is like a matted 5x7 photo.
This thing is flexible to the max!!
* You can view pictures on a memory card.
* You can view pictures on your computer (but you have to load Microsoft Media Player 11
* You can view all of your pictures and your friends pictures on the Kodak Gallery.
* You can download pictures to the built in memory from your computer via USB2.
* You can upload pictures from a memory card inserted in the frame to your networked PC (I'm not sure why you would want to do that.)
What's wrong with it? Not much but you will have to look in the manual at least once to figure out what the icons on the remote are all about. The menus aren't that straight forward, but once you go thru them they are good enough. Finally, I had to upgrade my old 802.11 B wireless router to a newer 802.11 G router to get the wireless stuff to work. No big deal, I bought a $35 basic router and it works fine.
Highly recommended!!!