Kodak Easyshare M820 Digital Frame with Home Décor Kit

by Kodak

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.6 x 3.5 inches ; 3.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001FN2PDG
• Item model number: 1222009
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 8, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

The sleek and stylish Kodak EasyShare M820 8-Inch Digital Frame hosts a suite of features including the innovative Quick Touch Border, as well as accessories for enhancing your home. With the M820 control of the frame has never been easier with Quick Touch Border that allows for simple operation with a touch or slide of your finger, while leaving the screen fingerprint and smudge-free.

Transferring pictures from your PC to your M820 is quick and easy. In addition to organizing and editing your pictures, this software makes it simple to move your favorite pictures and slide shows from a computer directly onto the frame.

The Kodak EasyShare M820 displays images in HD format (16:9 aspect ratio). The screens are color tuned to Kodak's standards and use Kodak Color Science for vibrant colors and pleasing skin tones-displaying pictures in brilliant color and crisp detail.

To customize the frame to match your home's decor, two decorative mattes are included, in Cranberry Red and Silver colors. In addition, optional Kodak Digital Frame Faceplates are available in Mahogany with a gold matte, Silver with a blue matte, Black Shadowbox with a champagne matte, and Espresso Shadowbox with a black matte. Easy to change, the faceplates snap onto the frame and update the look to suit your own personal style.

Kodak EasyShare M820 Highlights

Simple to use

• Be in charge with Kodak's Quick Touch Border with back lighting--the unique touch border keeps fingerprints off of your viewing screen so your images stay beautiful. The touch panel features yellow lights that illuminate to tell you exactly where to touch.
• Create, edit and view slide shows--at the touch of your fingertips

Smart, intuitive media--done your way

• Start viewing your pictures right away--just insert a memory card or USB flash drive and enjoy
• A frame full of features: slide shows your way, thumbnails, copy, delete, and print

Easily access and transfer pictures

• Kodak Easyshare Software, Digital Frame Edition, makes it easy to access all of your pictures and transfer them from your computer to your frame
• Create multimedia slide shows on your desktop using pictures, videos, and music and easily transfer them to your frame
• Easily browse and edit your albums
• The convenient drag-and-drop feature is perfect for transferring pictures for slide shows

Store more pictures Store up to 300 pictures directly on your frame’s 128 MB of internal memory and use the two available SD card slots to view and enjoy even more of your pictures.

Set the mood with music Listen to your favorite MP3s with built-in speakers

Selectable viewing hours featuring automatic on/off settings.

Viewing excellence View your pictures on the 8-inch. (25.4 cm) 16:9 wide screen featuring Kodak Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail.

Accessorize your pictures

• New sleek design makes any living room more exciting
• Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall--vertically or horizontally
• Add style to any decor with accessory faceplates (optional)
• Your frame comes with two decorative mattes in silver and red that allow you to personalize your look and compliment your home decor
• Discreet cord design--barely visible

Product Description

Easyshare M820 Pic frame W/ dec kit

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Video clips not filling the screen - solution available, November 21, 2008

By 

A. Netter "AndyN" (Wiltshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak Easyshare M820 Digital Frame with Home Décor Kit (Electronics)

If, like me, you want your video clips to fill the entire screen of this frame (like it does with stll photos), rather than add in the black vertical borders, please feel free to email me for a solution at andynetter AT hotmail DOT com]. I've spent many hours trying to find a solution for this (Kodak were no help by the way!) and now that I've found one I thought it fair to share it. I will edit this post with step-by-step instructions when I have time to type them.

Overall, great frame, really cant complain about anything. The iPhone-style finger-swiping to flick between pictures using the touch screen is very cool! Highly recommended prodct, shame about Kodak's rubbish customer service.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I love this thing!, December 31, 2008

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Andi (Leesburg, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kodak Easyshare M820 Digital Frame with Home Décor Kit (Electronics)

I was so excited when I received this for Christmas -- all I did was throw some pictures and music onto a jump drive, plug it into the back of the frame (where it doesn't show) and I had an instant slide show set to music! Forget the software that comes with it. Later I tried to use their software and it was horrible...but you don't need it! While the slide show was playing I played with the controls on the front of the frame (which don't even show when you are not touching it)and it took about 1/2 hour to figure out all of the different options etc. Overall, this was very easy to use and looks great having different mat color options.

24 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible software and ease of use - BEWARE!, December 25, 2008

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DigitalEagle (Minneapolis MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kodak Easyshare M820 Digital Frame with Home Décor Kit (Electronics)

I got this as a Xmas present today. I'm a computer expert. I can't believe how problematic the software is with this frame.

The picture quality is actually very good compared to others I've purchased. I like that it takes multiple types of memory cards and it is a very nice looking frame. However, I couldn't get my computer to see the internal or external memory cards no matter what I tried. I finally gave up on it and just downloaded the pictures directly to my SD card. Kodak brags that it has 128MB of internal memory. Big deal! You can buy a 2 GB SD card for less than $10 these days. When will manufactures of electronic stuff quit being so cheap with the internal memory? I can't use it anyway because I can't access it from my computer.

The navigation controls on the outside of the screen is a nice idea, but it is not intuitive to learn. Once I got the hang of it I was fine, but believe me - this is not how to do human engineering.

Now for the bad part. The software took about 1 hour to install on my very fast computer. Most of the time was downloading the outdated software that came with the CD. I actually thought it had stalled once or twice. I don't think I have ever seen software take so long to load. Once the bloated software was loaded it failed to recognize my computer. Then it started locking up on me.

I spent pretty much the entire afternoon messing with this thing not believing I couldn't get this to work. Surely it can't be this difficult to link to my computer? I must be doing something wrong? (I thought) If I was, I couldn't figure it out! (I updated firmware, uninstalled the software and reinstalled, changed the order of putting in the USB cable, rebooted the computer lots of times, looked at Kodak's website for help - which was useless!)

BTW, the box says it comes with a USB cable but it doesn't. Nice touch Kodak! The very poorly written manual tells you this. (Maybe Kodak should fix this on their box?) And...if you are lucky enough to have a double flat male USB cable on hand, (which isn't common at all )it still won't work. It also has a fire wire connection which I didn't try because I didn't have that cable.

Folks - this is bad engineering in my book. How does Kodak stay in business making products like this? I understand from others that the previous model was even worse.

IMO this is a very poorly designed product. Too bad, it could have been an outstanding one if someone would have taken the time to write a simple software interface to it. Heck, I would have been happy just to transfer files directly from my PC to the internal and external memory on the display.

I haven't decided if I'm going to keep it yet or not. I give it two stars because it wasted so much of my time this afternoon and I'm still mad about that. :)

KODAK ARE YOU LISTENING? probably not....... :(