Kodak EX-811 Easyshare 8-inch Digital Picture Frame with Wireless Capability

I first bought one of these when it first came out. Now you can buy refurbished ones for $40, which is insanely cheap considering the features of this device. So I bought 2 more :-) Ok, the remote is not perfect, and the frame responds a bit slow to user input. But it reads from USB, memory cards, and the Kodak Gallery through WiFi. The Gallery is not extremely usable, but you get 2gb of space to upload your pictures for free, and the uploading is extremely fast. So now I have three of these: one sits at my parents' place, on at my girlfriends' and one at mine. We upload pictures to our Galleries and share them. This is an awesome way to keep in touch; no need to send huge emails or browse to Facebook... just upload it to the Gallery and the frames will download and display the pictures automatically. Great product!

I recently bought this frame after returning a cheaper lower quality one to Walmart ... it was a gift to my recently married nephew ... I put wedding photos and also some of their wedding songs on the frame and gave it to them for Christmas ... it came out awesome ... the pictures display great and the music is pretty good for a picture frame (don't expect awesome sound, it is a PICTURE frame after all), but I really can't complain ... I learned a trick also ... I had the songs in order of how I wanted them to play, but the picture frame plays them in alphabetical order ... so you just need to go back onto the memory card and sequence them by putting A,B,C, etc as the first letter for the song files ... can't rate the wireless capability yet, but this is a great frame!

The hardware for this product works just great. No complaints other than the aspect ratio is odd ( very wide ). The issue I have is with the WiFi interface. As far as I can tell, it is only designed to talk to a UPnP media server. The manual walks you through trying to use Microsoft Media Player (huh?) to handle all of your photos and dish them out to your frame. When that doesn't works ( it didn't for me ), you're stuck. Even if it did work, what are the chances that Windows Vista, or followon OS will still work with the frame 2-3 years from now? Answer - very slim. Thankfully sneaker-net with a SD flash card works just great. Copy your pics to the card, slap it in the frame. For WiFi, I was hoping for a simple little application that you would just drag your JPEGs into and the software would transfer the files to the picture frame. Even better would be to have the picture frame show up as a network share drive. No such luck. Kodak simply washes their hands of trying to support WiFi with a simple to use interface. I can't recommend the WiFi Frame as Kodak provides no software to interface with it.

I bought this for my wife's parents who are allergic to technology. They live in another state so we thought a digital frame might work nicely. This Kodak EX-811 seemed like a good deal. Other frames I've seen have monthly fees and that was a no go. I was a little weary of it based on other reviews. I tested it out at my house on my network and the setup was relatively easy. At first it didn't recognize my router. Turning the frame on and off fixed this. After that I was able to connect easily. I set up an account on [...]. Again I had to turn it off and back on after entering my login info. After that I was easily able to navigate my albums and friends albums' from the frame. Wi-fi setup at two other homes also worked after turning on and off the frame. It works with WPA2 although it is slow to navigate the onscreen keyboard with the remote. To simplify the setup for the in-laws we deleted all local pictures and created a single album on [...]. All of the children share the account and add to the album when needed. We didn't want to complicate things by connecting it to their computer or the Kodak software. A couple of things I didn't like were that it didn't seem like there was any type of order to the pictures. It was supposed to be by date, but I'm not sure what info it uses. I also would have liked to be able to do a slideshow across multiple albums at the same time. Otherwise you have to open each album separately. Pros - easy and stable connection to wi-fi - simple to use interface - remote control has a nice dock if you are not hanging up the frame. - photos look excellent. Cons - had to turn the frame on and off during setup to get certain things recognized. - 2 GB of space on Kodak Gallery for $5/year (I wish it was more space and free). - lacks a lot of options for slide shows and sorting (of course this is also keeps it simple) Overall, this is a great item at an excellent price. Great for in-laws, set it up with simple options and then leave it alone. My wife wants one for us now.

My husband is a photographer and I got this for his birthday. It took him about 10 minutes to set it up and we had an ever changing view of some of our favorite pictures. He also takes it along to use as a table display when he does an event because it's so portable. It looks good sitting on a table in your living room or den. It also makes a great gift to friends or relatives who don't have internet access. We would highly recommend it.