Kodak Easyshare W1020 10-Inch Wireless Digital Frame Read more... Wireless access to pictures on your home computer and leading photo sharing sites featuring Kodak Gallery and Flickr with built-in Wi-Fi capability Play your videos or listen to your favorite MP3’s with the frame’s built-in speakers. 10-inch high quality LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio; KODAK Color Science gives your pictures crisp details and vibrant colors Store up to 4000 of your favorite pictures directly on your frame’s 512 MB of internal memory 2 SD card slots are available to allow you to have extra memory to view more pictures
169 ratio a dealbreaker as others have written in the past the 169 ration of the screen is very frustrating. you either have to fit to screen which will cut off parts of your photos and make them look like they are not centered or you have to put up with 1 inch black lines on either side of the screen to get to 43 which leaves you with nothing but a strange looking 8.5 inch frame. my suggestion would be to pass on this and get something with a proper aspect ratio.
Has it's issues It looks nice but it is not without it's issues. My husband is super tech savvy. He never could figure a way to get flickr to work with this frame. The Kodak website worked fine. However my MIL who received this as a gift has discovered some pictures that I did not put on the Kodak site. They were from a friend who shared her photos with me a while back. Weird thing is I can't access them through my account so I don't know how they showed up on the frame and I can't seem to take them off. I guess I need to talk to my friend and get her to take my email off of her account. Oy! It also does not grab new photos from the account until it is reset. By reset I mean that the whole frame turns off for a specified amount of time and then reboots up. We set it up to reset in the middle of the night but if the power goes out for some reason the clock has to be reset. Since we live 2400 miles away Grandma has to do it. This sort of defeats the purpose of setting it up so she doesn't have to learn all the confusing buttons. The idea was for her to get new pictures of the baby suddenly pop up on the screen. She could be walking by and see new pictures. A few of the times when it reset it went to the default internal pictures that came with the frame. You needed to go into the menu and make it look at the Kodak account again. We could never find a reason why it did that. Cute concept but it has a few flaws. Kodak needs to figure a way for the frame to check the online account more frequently to get updates rather then needing a timer set internally. They need to make it work better with flickr which is a free site. Using the Kodak site means that I have to make a purchase of photo prints every year from them to keep the account open. Otherwise they delete my pictures. Very coy Kodak and what a lovely way to make more money and screw the customer over. With the amount of money I spent on this frame I should be able to use the Kodak website for free to get the pictures. So if Grandma has no idea how to set up wifi much less a digital frame and can't understand what an online account is this is not the gift for her. If she is pretty savvy to fix issues then it might work out okay. And if you don't mind ordering prints from Kodak then go ahead. I can get them much cheaper through other websites so I will order the minimum requirement each year so I can keep the account open.
Not a good product This is my second Kodak frame. The previous on a 10 EX series died after about a year and a half. This W1020 reboots regularly without any input from we. The wireless is buggy and there is no software for Mac.It will go through short periods where it will not reboot by itself but they do not last very long. I have the latest firmware.The touch control on the edge of the frame is a nice idea but is poor in practice. The remote on the previous EX series frame was better.The image is good with good color. I would like better as I am a pro photographer but it is pretty good for what it costs.I replace the EX with a Pandigital Panel and it is rock solid although the color is not as good as the Kodak. No wireless on the Pandigital but for my application it is not needed.After many years of using Kodak products through film and early professional digital I don't think I will be buying another Kodak product.Kodak replaced my W1020 for the reboot problem. The new frame has issues with perfectly good files being corrupted when they are copied to the frame via usb. Files that are rotated one way on the computer are rotated differently on the frame. Sometimes the image will be rotated and sometimes not after I change it on the frame itself. This is a buggy product. The Pandigital frame that was much cheaper and it just works. Don't buy a Kodak frame.
Great for FrameChannel I bought this frame for my mother who does not own a computer. She lives with my sister and has WiFi in the house. I configured the frame to connect to the free online service called Frame Channel. Family and friends can email pictures to my Mom's Frame Channel account and those pictures will just show up on my Mom's frame. I can logon to the Frame Channel account and manage the pictures if necessary. Frame Channel also offers nice features like weather news etc. that will show up on the frame.I don't like to install PC software that comes with products like this. Generally it's not very good and screws up other things. If you want a setup like I have pictures from the Frame Channel service and nothing else don't install the PC Software.
Hardware quality issues I purchased 4 of these for relatives because I thought it would be a great way to share photos with them without having to instruct them how to get the pictures on the frame. Mission accomplished at first but then the hardware quality issues started.Within a year I had to return 3 of the 4 frames. One would lock up and continuously reboot itself. The second developed a vertical green bar on the screen. The third lost the menu option to connect wirelessly and even a factory reset and firmware reload wouldn't help.Kodak honored the warranty with no issues. I received 3 refurbished replacement frames and tested them. Of the three one of them didn't boot. I had to send that one back as well. I just received it in the mail and it's already having sporadic problems where the screen will flicker or an hourglass will come up and never disappear.If it weren't for the hardware issues I would really like this frame.
Perfect Magic Picture Frame for the grandparents Like many others I did lots of research looking for wireless digital frames with the idea of giving them as gifts to my parents and inlaws and having them constantly show photos of the kids and grandkids with little to no effort on the receiver's part. The picture quality is great and the touchscreen controls are sleek and invisible. This frame has many features but I'm focusing this review on how I set it up to do what lots of other people want it to do using Framechannel and Flickr. Here's what I did1.
Best of what's out there at a reasonable price I was able to purchase for $125 at a local electronics store. For the price the features are exceptional and the picture quality is good. I would recommend this with some caveats as noted below.Here are some tips1. Follow the install sequence precisely to get it set up correctly out of the box. Install the software first and completely before trying to connect the frame to the network.2. The software is quirky and crashes. Use the repair function on the supplied CD after crashes to repair. While time consuming this does get it working smoothly eventually. After it was fully set up there have been no additional crashes.3. If you have many pics and videos on your computer that you'd like to access via wifi I'd recommend sticking to the pics only. To avoid some of the problems reported by others I'd recommend sorting your pics into folders by year or some manageable size folders of 26 GB. I used photoshop select and copy the pics by year copying them to an internal hard drive C folder from an external which seemed to help with wifi access faster?. Then from the frame access the pics by folder. This helps avoid the problem of crashes that occurs if you try to access all wifi pics at once. This is not an ideal solution since I had hoped to have the frame access all of my network pics without intervention but it does work.Overall the frame is a good value but do not expect perfection and plan on spending a couple of hours to get it working to your satisfaction.
Shows a lot of promise The W1020 works well enough for me. I see plenty of things that could use improvement but in this case I think it's because any product that breaks new ground opens up a lot of possibilities. The 169 aspect ratio is wrong for a photo frame and the resolution is a bit coarse when you look too closely but it's good enough. I wish Kodak had included the ability to connect to Windows shared folders on my network but there are several other ways to accomplish the goal of streaming photos to the frame. I wish that the FrameChannel feed supported slide transitions the way local slide shows do but overall I'm impressed with it. It's maybe a bit overpriced considering that other frames are getting WiFi and touch borders now but at least Kodak is showing some 2ndgen improvement.
A sluggish flawed Digital Frame So I bought this frame for my wife. The idea was that I would pull the images wirelessly from our server and display them. I could update the folder on the server and the pictures would show up on the frame. Reality is that the frame can not communicate with standard servers for file service. So no sweat. Just use the special software and serve them from there. Hmm when it powers up it forgets that you told it to pull from the remote PC and pulls the demo pictures from frame memory. I gave up so wireless was a complete bust. No use at all for pictures.Now I put a digital card in a begin transferring pictures over. Oh my it was incredibly slow on the transfers. After waiting through 20 or so pictures I gave up again.
Almost Easy Enough for Grandparents I bought 3 of these in the past 6 months one for myself and one for each set of inlaws. The touch frame is better than a remote but not quite as good as I imagine a touch screen to be the only touch screen frame I found was very expensive. Most of the setup is very easy once you figure out how to scroll hint 1 touch directly under the up and down arrows rather than the nearest lighted spot on the frame as these do not necessarily line up Hint 2 the up and down arrows also scroll right and left when needed. I setup the frames to turn on and off automatically in hopes that the daily cycle would prevent any need of tinkering by the grandparents. I also went onsite to setup the link to their networks. Some have mentioned that network setup has been a problem but I was 3 for 3 and no problems at all.
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