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 8-inch (20.3 cm) 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 Display type - aSi TFT active matrix, with Kodak Light Management Film Display backlight - LED Display brightness - 300 NITs Contrast ratio - 300 - 1 Image file formats - JPEG & EXIF Video formats - MOV, AVI, MPEG 1 and 4 Audio formats - MP3 Memory cards supported - Secure Digital (SD), Multimedia Card (MMC), Memory Stick (MS), xD-Picture Card, CompactFlash (CF) & MicroDrive (MD) System Requirements - Windows XP or higher, Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher, 600 MHz processor or greater, Macintosh OS X 10.3 or higher, PowerMac/PowerBook G3, G4, G5, iMac, eMac, iBook & MacBook Pro, Safari 1.1 or higher, 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended), 200 MB hard disk drive space available, CD-ROM drive & Available USB port Dimensions - 11.2 ? 8.3 ? 1.5 in. (284 ? 211 ? 38 mm)

Product Details

• Brand: Kodak
• Model: SV-811
• Dimensions: 5.02" h x 1.38" w x 3.84" l, 7.05 pounds
• Native resolution: 8
• Display size: 8

Features

• 8-inch viewable LCD display
• Play back videos and MP3s; built-in speakers
• On-screen viewing and editing features
• 128 MB internal memory; compatible with SD, MMC, Memory Stick, xD, CF and MD cards
• Convenient remote control included

From the Manufacturer

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
• Fill it up with memories thanks to 128 MB of internal memory
• 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 8-inch (20.3 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 SV811 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)
• CD-ROM drive
• Available USB port

Customer Reviews

Terrible Photo Frame; Shockingly Low-Quality
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.

Stay away from this product
I have had this frame for 13 months. It broke. I went to get it fixed from kodak and they told me that it is out of warranty and it would cost $150 to fix. I refused to pay them another dime and will buy another manufacturer's model for that same price.

Colours are vivid but not accurate and clipped
One thing that first came to my mind when I turned the frame on and saw my pictures on it is - "Why no one here talks about bad colour reproduction of the frame?" The colour is not natural, and worst of all it is "clipped" (lacks smooth transition). Put a picture with fine variety of shades (for example on a sky) on this frame and you will see what I mean.

The only reason I kept the frame - wifi enabled access to online gallery.

The colours are very poor. (And don't look at those kodak picked demo pictures preloaded on the frame - they are made to look good on it).