Kodak EasyShare SV-710 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame

by Kodak

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.5 x 3.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MURAT2
• Item model number: SV-710
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (140 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #92 in Camera & Photo > Accessories > Photo Studio > Storage & Presentation Materials > Digital Picture Frames
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

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

Simple to use

• Be in charge with the handy remote control
• The convenient drag-and-drop feature makes transferring pictures a snap
• Connect to a PictBridge-enabled printer to print pictures without a computer

Viewing excellence

• Optimized with KODAK Light Management Film to provide a bright, clear display with excellent viewing angle
• View your pictures on the 7-inch (17.8 cm), 16:9 wide screen featuring KODAK Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail

Accessorize your pictures

• Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall -- vertically or horizontally
• Add style to any décor with accessory faceplates (optional)

In the Box

• KODAK EASYSHARE SV710 Digital Picture Frame
• Remote control
• AC power cord
• USB cable
• Software CD
• Getting Started Guide

System Requirements

• 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)
• 200 MB hard disk drive space available
• CD-ROM drive
• Available USB port

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 7-inch 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It CAN play videos!, May 14, 2008

By 

Xander Crews "We're gonna need more pickles." (The Town) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Kodak EasyShare SV-710 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

I read a lot of mixed reviews about the Kodak SV710 7" digital frame and must agree with those who say it's a great product once you learn to work with how it works - much like many new electronic digital devices. The interface with the remote and frame is quite easy with a little time invested into it. PC connectivity is a cinch, no EasyShare software necessary, and is like turning the Kodak frame into a 'drag & drop' media bay.

It is incredibly important to be able to resize and crop larger raw digital camera or scanner images to the appropriate 800:480 [480:800 for portrait] dimensions. There is freeware on the web which is highly capable of this if you don't already have any. I've noticed a few people really not liking this and it's not all that bad. Widescreen is the fad these days anyway. Isn't panoramic a part of photography as well? My hundred-dollar Nikon digital camera has a setting for taking 16:9 pictures for lossless display on a widescreen. Kind of works perfectly for this frame.

The music is straightforward; place the MP3's on storage device, plug in to frame, and play from browsed selection. The Music Key on the remote is a nice shortcut to current audio files as well.

Video playback is rather picky and sensitive as to what it will recognize. First of all, it does not take only a Kodak camera's video capture for playback (rumored from other reviews), and secondly .Avi does not mean DivX. There's many boundaries and customizable settings into video codec (compressor/decompressor) processing that it almost seems ridiculous, but alas they're there and Kodak's digital picture frame isn't open to all of them. I have not found an .Avi or .Mov video which plays, but have found an .Mpg setup that does. If your video doesn't work, perhaps recoding it will do the trick.

The .mpg found to work for me is made of an MPEG1 container/codec with MP3 audio; the video works pretty well sized at 480:272, running 23.976fps, a bitrate anywhere above 700, and the audio doesn't need to be anything over 64kbps Mono. Again, there's freeware on the web which can do this.

Will still look into other compatible video formats and update any discoveries.

Most seem to dislike the lack of a random display function and no support of DivX, which can only be hoped for in some future firmware upgrade. If that's not going to happen, then perhaps it'll take learning how to recode videos (or find a nerdy friend who knows how) and maybe add a couple bundles of other photos of some neat CG 3D art, nature landscapes, or even of outer space to make it seem more random.

After my little time put into getting familiarized with the frame I am overall 90% satisfied for what it does and for the bargain it went for which is surely worth 5 stars.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kodak Easyshare SV-710 7-inch Digital Picture Frame, July 31, 2007

By 

R. Landon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak EasyShare SV-710 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

This was very easy to use right out of the box. I was able to drag and drop pictures to it without using the Easy Share software.

I've had many compliments on this product, and people are surprised at the clarity of the pictures. I am very happy with it.

I find most of the comments here are for multiple versions of Kodak frames, so it is hard to tell which frame is being commented on.
Kodak Easyshare SV-710 7-inch Digital Picture Frame

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars some disappointment in this frame, October 3, 2008

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D. Anderson (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak EasyShare SV-710 7-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

I've used my digital frame for almost a year, and have been disappointed with some of my experiences with the frame. The biggest problem is that despite assurances from Kodak representatives that photos will displate in name order, they do not. I have not been able to determine any consistent way the frame displays photos -- not name, date, order placed on card, etc. There are also times that part way through a slide show, the frame just restarts from the beginning (or what it thinks is the beginning).

Also, I bought it knowing about the 16:9 aspect ratio, which has been more of a problem than I suspected. There are many pictures with important part of the picture chopped off at the top and bottom unless shown in the "fit entire image" option, which leaves black bars on either side of the photo.