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: Not good as it seems
Summary: 1 Stars
The Digital Frame itself works but the wireless capability is a disaster. It doesn't want to connect to my Cisco WPA network. It only works with the WEP and works really bad... it crashes after loading few pictures online and crashes again if you change the menu while loading the pictures online.
The network feature is just a disaster. I should have been tested before selling it!
I have also opened a ticket in Kodak to get support and they are not helpfull at all. They just answer based on the product manual...
Just buy the regular one without wireless, it's a waste of money...
Digital camera Review: Not my kind of frame
Summary: 2 Stars
This works but
* The picture and the frame itself has a bright/glossy finish, which looks like a computer LCD screen rather than a traditional picture. A matte finish is my personal preference. To be clear, the inner frame that directly borders the LCD is very shinny.
* Wireless works but requires too much manual navigation to get it to start the slide show. I'd like an integrated slide show that will automatically, randomly or sequentially show all pictures that the frame has access to. To have to use the remote to navigate through things is too much, I may as well use a computer. This is also too complex for non-computer users.
* slow - remote/action response somewhat too slowly for my taste. My my internet connection is speedy enough (no problem when used from a computer), browsing and navigating through the kodak gallery is very slow. it appears to only show thumbnail sized quality as well instead of what the frame is capable of displaying.
* size - 8 inch looks a lot smaller than it sounds. look at the dimension carefully.
* placement - the support in the back of the frame is positioned too low. placing this on table top angles the frame way too much.
Digital camera Review: OK frame - Bad Service with Kodak Gallery wifi
Summary: 1 Stars
This was a good frame until kodakgallery started charging for photo storage. If you plan on using the wifi feature, skip this frame and go with one that syncs with flickr.
1) The Ex-811 will let you connect ONLY to kodakgallery.com
2) kodakgallery.com now charges $5 per year to store photos.
I bought this & set it up at a relatives house out of state. Whenever & where ever I, or other family members, feel compelled, we upload photos to kodakgallery.com & then, like magic, they show up on the frame. Its a great way to connect our family members & share photos with people who live all over the country. I realize $5 isn't much, however I feel the photo storage should be included as a part of the purchase price of the frame - for this reason alone I gave it 1 star.
No one charges for photo storage & Kodak Gallery has been free, but as of May 2009 they will implement the "$5+ per year or deletion policy".
Digital camera Review: Pretty good product
Summary: 4 Stars
My brother and I purchased this digital frame for our parents as a gift. It displays great images and my dad has had a lot of fun playing with it while my mom has enjoyed looking at all the pictures it will hold. The only negative was that it was kind of complicated to get images on it through the wireless (memory chip worked great!) but it's likely that it was an issue with the router/network rather than the frame. It's a great product and I don't regret purchasing it!Digital camera Review: Terrible Photo Frame; Shockingly Low-Quality
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't begin to tell you how awful this product is.
First off, a bit of background on your humble reviewer. I'm a self-taught geek who does computer tech support as one of my jobs. I've never met a computer problem I couldn't fix, and I do it on a daily basis, sometimes simply for fun.
So you can imagine my frustration when I purchased this product for my wife's birthday back in June, only to discover that the networking functionality is essentially broken, even with the newest firmware (which is from October 2007, and ships on Amazon's stock of the frames). I was able to get things up and running fairly quickly. The frame connects to the network with WPA encryption and successfully sees the computer. I can even begin playing a pictures slideshow from my Windows Media Player server (which is how you have to set it up to work with a wireless network).
However--and it never fails--the frame inevitably will freeze after so long. Well, it doesn't even freeze; half the time it simply reboots itself and begins playing its built-in collection of stock photos, right in the middle of your network slideshow. I have ruled out networking problems by trying two different routers. Firewalls are not an issue. To make matters worse, sometimes the frame will not pick up on the Playlists you have configured... meaning, they'll simply not show up in the listings. That leaves you to choose "All Pictures", which are then displayed sequentially each and every time. A quick call to product support quickly revealed that they are completely inept and simply reading from a punch list of troubleshooting options ("Sir, I must now suggest that you check to see if the frame is too far from the router.") Eck.
Perhaps this all wouldn't be so bad if there were some way to get the frame to shuffle playback. YOU CAN'T. THERE IS NO RANDOM/SHUFFLE OPTION on this frame. The only way to shuffle your playback is to configure a playlist that is preshuffled via Windows Media Player and then load the playlist onto your frame--if you have so much luck, as many times, as previously mentioned, you can't even get the playlists to show up.
This product is, quite simply put, a piece of plastic trash that hardly even performs its basic functions. The quality control and, perhaps equally disturbing, product support for these frames is bottom-of-the-barrel. I advise you to avoid this product at all costs, as well as any future frames by Kodak. (Their newest line of updated frames still doesn't support shuffle playback by the way.)
I will be headed to CES this week to see what else is available and upcoming in the photo frame market. I am already strongly considering a purchase of a Sony frame to replace this junk. Its ratings are much higher, it reportedly never freezes, and it does include the elusive shuffle function.
CLIFF'S NOTES: YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL PROWESS IS IRRELEVANT; THIS FRAME IS BROKEN. STAY FAR, FAR AWAY.