Kodak EasyShare P720 Digital Picture Frame with Home Decor Kit
KODAK EASYSHARE Software, Digital Frame Edition, makes it easy to load pictures straight from your home computer. Store more pictures with two SD card slots. View your pictures on the 7-inch (diagonal) high-resolution viewing screen, featuring KODAK Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail. Complement your home décor with 6 unique looks using the included faceplate and decorative mattes. KODAK EASYSHARE Software, Digital Frame Edition, makes it easy to load pictures straight from your home computer. Be in charge with Kodak's Quick Touch Border?the unique touch border keeps fingerprints off of your viewing screen so your images stay beautiful. Display backlight - LED for extra brightness 200 Nits Contrast ratio 300 - 1 Memory cards supported 2 slots - Secure Digital (SD), Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC), Multimedia Card (MMC), MEMORY STICK (MS), XD-Picture Card (xD) Power consumption 5.04 W (power on); 1.69 W (standby power) AC Power Cord
Kodak EasyShare P720 Digital Picture Frame with Home Decor Kit Accessories
Kodak EasyShare P720 Digital Picture Frame with Home Decor Kit Reviews
Frustration, anger, disappointment. Three words sure to be forever associated with Kodak's P720 photo frame.
The interface simply does not work. Response time is very, very slow. It is painful to touch the frame and have nothing whatsoever happen for 30 seconds. I have to unplug the power cord to gain access to the menu because the power button fails to work too.
I tell it to use a slide duration of 30 seconds. Slide duration is 4 minutes. I correct it again and re-confirm I set it to 30 seconds. 4 minute slides are shown that freeze me out of getting to the menu and getting the simple setting I want. I have to unplug. This is with the latest firmware upgrade too.
Image quality is very, very bad. Anything with near horizontal lines in it looks blocky from 6 feet away. Everything has a green / yellow color cast. Black and white photos look weak. Orange looks wrong. Green looks wrong. The only crude picture quality adjustment is brightness.
Panning and zooming slide shows look bad. Photos always start with a 1/8th inch black bar at the top or bottom. Fades at the end are choppy and happen after the photos suddenly halt. It's pathetic to behold.
I want it to shuffle. I tell it to shuffle. Whenever I turn it off and on, it goes to the same photo it started with before and proceeds to play them back in the exact same order. This is not random shuffling. No customer would want a shuffling feature to function in this manner. I find it vexing and irritating!
I tell it to just use the fade transition. It does one fade, then uses a blocky dissolve. I turn off all transitions because they cannot be controlled by the user.
I tell it to fill the 16:9 frame. Many of my 4:3 photos are shown with black bars on the side against my specific wishes. This is vexing and irritating.
I want to smash the P720. I hate it. I can't believe "professional" product designers and software engineers competed for jobs and earned money producing such an obviously flawed product. I'm speechless at how pathetically bad it is.
All I want is for it to simply show photos with the duration, transition, cropping style, and frame orientation I select. This does not sound that complicated. This product makes it into an ordeal I, an enthusiastic computer user since the late 1970s, cannot master. It's just settings that can easily fit on one screen! Why does Kodak force so many layers of hidden options on the user, then not even honor their explicitly stated desires?
There is far too much friction in the interface. It is very, very difficult to get the P720 working as desired. It is a usability disaster.
5 to 10 minutes of product testing with perceptive consumers would have instantly revealed the P720's major flaws. Why wasn't this done? How did this awful product make it to market? Did any executives bother to try it out before committing to mass production? Help me understand corporate thinking that diminishes a company's good name by selling products that inspire boiling hot levels of hate and revulsion.
Why not make the screen 3:2? It's a nice aspect ratio that works well with 4:3 and 16:9 material. 16:9 screens should be reserved for larger panels that show movies. It makes 95% of my photos look wrongly cropped.
I love playing with technology. I'm used to trusting digital interfaces to observe, remember, and use my clearly stated configuration settings. The P720 violates this trust at every step.
Even the power cord is wrong. It's a weird thin cable that holds its shape too well, so it cannot flow and drape like, say, a mouse or mini USB cable. I've never seen or used any cord like it. It is too stiff. I hate it! It causes consternation!
I've used a P720 for half a day and it fills me with loathing and contempt. It offends me to have such obviously poorly thought out and tested equipment polluting my life. Kodak needs to reflect on the golden rule and not sell awful junk to people.
I got this from my mom for Christmas and I love it!! The touch-screen menu is awesome! It automatically figures out if your picture was taken portrait or landscape and flips it for you! You can also hook your camera right up to it and copy images from memory card to memory card without even needing your computer!! This is the best gift I've gotten in a LONG time! No doubt a cool picture frame!
This frame is one of the easiest to use of any I have come across. Put pictures on an SD card. Load SD card into the top slot on the back of the frame. Turn on the frame. That's it. No USB, no internal memory to worry about, no resizing of images, etc... The touch navigation is easy enough to figure out and there are a fair amount of viewing options to choose from. The only slight con I would mention is that sometimes with the panning shot option, the pan will show a black bar on the bottom or top at the end of the pan. I think they set it to pan just too much of the photo, but this is really a minor flaw.
We returned this because it wasn't very good. It did not come with a remote and to figure out how to use the on screen directions were cumbersome. For the price that we paid the features were not very good at all. There are a lot better picture frames out on the market that offer more options for less money
I was a little hesitant to purchase this frame because it was refurbished but so far so good. I had purchased an inexpensive frame at a local store and it broke after using it no more than a dozen times. This time I went for a name brand. I would have liked a bigger one but was concerned about cost. My recommendation is if you can afford it, get the biggest one with the best reputation.
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