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The sleek and stylish Kodak EasyShare M1020 10-Inch Digital Frame hosts a suite of features including the innovative Quick Touch Border, as well as accessories for enhancing your home. With the M1020 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 M1020 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 M1020 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 M1020 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 frames 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 10-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
Buy Kodak EasyShare M1020 Digital Picture Frame with Home Decor Kit at Amazon
Buy Kodak EasyShare M1020 Digital Picture Frame with Home Decor Kit at Amazon
When I first purchased the Kodak Easy Share M1020 Digital Picture Frame, I loved it. Bright, sharp picture, easy to use interface.
Since then I’ve come to like it less and less. The reasons?
The frame offers a feature called Shuffle, supposedly selecting pictures and displaying them in random order. I have over 2,000 photos on my SSD card and I noticed that I was seeing the same photos over and over and other photos I was never seeing. I did some tests and discovered that the Kodak always selects the same photos in the same random order every time it is run. Turn it on tomorrow and you’ll see the the same three photos chosen first, second and third, and so on. Nothing random about it.
Secondly, the frame offers random transitions. One would think that this means that between each photo, the transitions are selected randomly, maybe a fade, followed by a wipe, and so on. Instead, all the transitions are the same; only when you turn it off and turn it back on again does it select a different transition, which it then uses for the entire slide show. (I’ve oversimplified this;if it chooses wipes as a transition, between pictures the Kodak will show various types of wipes, but it also does this when it is not in random mode).
Okay so what’s the big deal. Well, figuring it was Kodak, I thought I’d send a polite email telling them of these problems and asking them to fix them on the new firmware release.
I got back a stock reply telling me to download the latest firmware. I already had the latest firmware but apparently they really don’t read the emails you send them.
I sent them another polite email saying that I already had the latest firmware and that all I was asking was for them to forward these problems to their technical folks so they could fix them.
I got another email asking me to send my digital photo frame in for “repair”.
What I had not told them is that my brother has the exact same model and these tests yielded the same results on his frame. So it is the software, not the frame itself that needs repairing.
Anyway, at this point I gave up, realizing that although they make all the standard claims about “valuing their customers’ input”, they are like every other business that simply sends out automated replies without really reading the emails.
If these problems are of no concern to you, buy this frame because it really does display the picture very nicely. But I’d like it a whole lot better if I could put it in shuffle mode and know I’m going to see all my photos except the same few over and over.
No more Kodak, no way, no how. I read some good reviews here of this product (Kodak EasyShare M1020 Digital Picture Frame), and needed it soon for a family reunion. It showed up a day late — thanks to FedEx, I guess.
Right out of the box, it turned on to colorful vertical stripes, no picture, no menu, just random fine bright stripes. The quickstart guide suggested turning it on and off, or unplugging for 5 seconds and turning it back on. No joy. The user manual? Exactly the same troubleshooting steps. The online troubleshooting guide? You guessed it. The same two lame suggestions. A 30-minute wait to get Kodak chat support? First I had to type in the serial number, which may help them but not me. Then eventually (a 1-2 minute wait between texts) I get a long series of clever questions (is it plugged in?) and, although I’d told them up front that resets and unplug-replug didn’t help, they finally walked me through their suggested help process. The same 2 steps!!! Finally, long pause, then this text, “We need you to ship the unit to us.”
Instead, being in a hurry, I shipped it back to Beach Camera, who were very helpful (and should be, since I spent $20 on return shipping and was giving up their $30 restocking fee.) This is a $50 lesson in who not to trust.
Beyond all this, the surface and frame looked and felt plastic-y. The power button would disgrace a $2 calculator. The speakers (they played some demo music when I hitched it to my computer, oddly enough) were beyond tinny. The manual is chaotic. For example, it never quite tells you how to simply store some pictures in the frame’s memory and control your slideshow; instead, it goes right to the complex process of getting on your wi-fi network. Oh, and although *Kodak EasyShare Software* is available for Mac, the *Kodak EasyShare Digital Display Software* (brilliant naming) isn’t. Macs may be less than 10% of the biz market, but they’re a big part of the photo, video, and art world. Many editorial reviews criticize Kodak’s software, I know, but some of the features of this frame require it.
Luckily I have a few days before we travel to the reunion. I’ve ordered a Sony from another supplier. Wish me and my family memories luck…
Sorry guys. No Mac compatibility for this baby.
It just keeps crashing with Iphoto.
Try something else.