Kodak Digital Photo Frame
Now is Kodak! Eastman Kodak Co entered the digital photo frame market and now offering a set of products that links wirelessly to a computer and can access photos on its photo-sharing website, “Kodak EasyShare Gallery”.
The Kodak EasyShare Gallery offers prints and gifts from consumer digital photos. It also offers a mobile service so you can view your pictures on your mobile phone. Though the service was originally called Ofoto, it was renamed “Kodak EasyShare Gallery” in summer 2005. It had been earlier acquired by Kodak in June 2001. Kodak EasyShare currently serves about 20 million users and 500 million photos.
The offer from Kodak marks the latest move toward digital for a company that used to rely on film, chemicals and paper for profits and brings a measure of credibility to a technology that’s been around for several years.
The frames, with interchangeable faceplats, directly accept memory cards of all types, USB connections and WiFi commands to and from a computer. It can even command a printer to print out a photo. In case the user wanted a hardcopy, after all.
There are 9-inch and 10-inch WiFi version (wireless type), as well as an 8 and 7 inch standard version (LCD screen types), with card slots only. The WiFi version enables you to view photos on your home computer and also display them straight from your online Kodak gallery. There’s also the option to set it to music which plays through the two inbuilt stereo speakers, as well as a remote control.
Both of the versions are ranging in price from US$179.95 to US$279.95. Sales are expected to begin in March in the United States.
Read review from D-Preview.
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Kodak Digital Photo Frame
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July 18th, 2008 01:34
Well, I got this DPF 800 last year from my brother. Seems this piece is a returned item from Target. It missed the remote control & manual sheet/book (anyone willing to sell one to me?).
It works fine with me though. Have not tried any video file yet, so I’m not sure what video format does it support.
Dave: It’s bright enough on mine, even on daylight. Maybe yours’ a defective unit? I only regret that the brightness control/dimmer didn’t work like it supposed to be. Basically there is no dimming effect when I turn the dial. It goes from completely dark then the picture pop in full brightness right away. But hey… I don’t mind, as long as it’s bright enough to view under normal lighting.
Henry: Not sure of the resolution specs, but it does has USB port and USB host connection. It says in the box, the display screen fits for 4×6″ picture format.
Cora: You need devices to input images inside your memory card i.e your digital camera or personal computer/note book computer. From your digital camera, just shoot the images and try to plug the memory card into the slot behind the frame. It accept several different memory devices/format (CF,SD,XD,MMC,Memory Stick,USB Drives), Or if you have access to computers, then you can input any images to your memory cards using card reader before you plug that into the frame to display the images. All of these gadgets can be purchased at your local electronic store that sells Cameras & Computers.
Ann: Don’t connect it directly to your MAC. Just get USB thumbdrive or memory cards, upload Jpeg images into it (again I’m not sure for movie files), then plug it to the frames… works like a charm. Suggestion for you, load 4×6 images with 72-100dpi resolution. Therefore each file is not too big and will load fast during the slide show. Heavy picture loading maybe the factor for your ‘poor response’ remote control problem.
Anthony: DPF 800 does have video feature on their start up menu. But I use this frame mainly just to show picture clips. For videos I use my portable EPSON P2000. DPF 800 Frame also playback music. Unfortunately they support only MP3 files I believe. When I tried other music formats, It refuse to produce sounds. Plus the frame does not have volume control (or maybe it comes in the remote???), the sound is too low. I cannot verify this issue in Kodak’s website since under this particular product, Kodak doesn’t put technical specification/data.
Overall, I got this frame for free, can’t complain about that.. and it display my pictures just fine… I’m happy. (happier if I can secure the remote control unit for myself).
January 30th, 2008 09:36
I dont think that model does video, I know the 811 does, but I’m almost certain the DPF800 does not.
January 2nd, 2008 01:26
I received the DPF 800 for Christmas. Nowhere on the box does it say that it is incompatible with MacOS systems, yet I am unable to load ANYTHING into the frame that has been near a Mac.
My flash drive does NOT work, when I follow the instructions in the user manual. I used a memory card straight from my camera and found that the remote control is very unstable and doesn’t work unless one stands right in front of the frame and even then its pretty hard to get it to work.
At the very back of the instruction manual there is one line that says that I can’t plug the frame into my MAC. If this information had been displayed on the box, my daughter would not have bought it for me. The frame was very expensive but she bothered to spend the money because she wanted to get me something nice. I bought a cheap one at Kmart for my mother and it works great! I’m taking this piece of garbage back, giving my daughter the difference and buying the cheap frame from Kmart for myself.
July 9th, 2007 09:41
I was given a Kodak D P F 800 Digital picture frame as a gift I do not know how to put pictures on the memery card, I have red the instructions, not clear to me. I think I need some sort of devise to do this , can not finde what it is or where to get it. best I can tell I need a flash reader or scan disk .where can I find it? please help.
February 22nd, 2007 09:27
Anyone know the resolution of Kodak’s frames? I was looking for something with the same specs as this one…
http://www.digivista.com.au/product_digivista_clearview_10.html
which has 640×480 resolution and a USB port.
Personally I think these widescreen frames are useless.
February 15th, 2007 13:05
I too bought the DPF 800, and it is very dim. The brightness adjustment makes no difference. Its dark in my house now, in the daylight it may become completely worthless.
Also will not play the videos I took with my (new) digital camera.
It’s going back to Target I think.
January 19th, 2007 20:59
I received a Kodak DPF800 for Xmas but it will not play AVI files. The unit freezes up and has to be turned off and restarted.
I’ve emailed Kodak at the specified support addy 3 times over the past 3 weeks and have had no response. So, I called the support telephone # listed specifically for the DPF800 and the person there said she could not help but gave me a customer # and said it could be up to 4 hours before I received a return call.
I’ve called back twice and the person says that they are real busy and can’t say how long it might be before they provide me help.
I’m retuning the DPF800 to Target today.