Product Recommendations
There are dozens of digital picture frame brands and products on the market today, and this can make it difficult to choose the best frame.
The PhotographyREVIEW.com Digital Picture Frame User Reviews are a good place to compare different frames. And I’ve personally tested and evaluated many different digital picture frames. My Web site, Which Frame?, offers easy and simple recommendations for which frames to choose and which ones to avoid.
Which Frame? named Kodak the best and top-ranked brand of digital picture frame products with respect to a number of factors, including overall quality, reliability, number of features, feature quality and ease-of-use.
Kodak’s 7-Inch P720 ranked at the top of the digital photo frames, and Kodak’s M Series, including the 8-Inch M820 and the 10-Inch M1020, ranked among the top of the digital multimedia frames. While Kodak’s wireless frames from this past year, the 8-Inch EX-811 and the 10-Inch EX-1011, still rank among the best wireless frames on the market today, in fall 2008, Kodak will be launching its new W Series, including the 8-Inch W820 and the 10-Inch W1020. These products will be must-haves this coming holiday season. The W Series frames are essentially the M Series frames with wireless connectivity. This means that these frames will not only play your own pictures, music and videos as on the M820 and the M1020, but will also allow you to access pictures and personalized web media for free from your home computer and leading photo sharing web sites, including Kodak Gallery and Flickr, as well as Facebook, Picasa, Webshots, MSN, Photobucket and more via FrameChannel.
Digital picture frames from Philips, Sony, Westinghouse and Samsung also ranked among the top-performing and best-quality digital frame products.
Recommended Kodak Digital Picture Frames
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About Which Frame?
Which Frame? is your source for digital picture frame reviews and information.
There are dozens of digital picture frame brands and products on the market today; however, up until now, there has been no clear or consistent guide to which ones are the best quality and most reliable.
Well, Which Frame? has personally tested and evaluated these digital picture frames so to give you an easy and simple recommendation of which ones you should choose and which ones you should avoid.
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Interesting. Thanks for the overview.
Thanks for commenting, Paita. And I agree. I know about digital pictures frames and how they basically work. But beyond that, I don’t know much. So it was good to get a quick lesson. Plus, the frame in the photos is one I bought. So I had to play with it a little to get the photos and get the article up. So now I know a smidge more than nothing. I’d like to try some other brands besides the Kodak that I bought. The Kodak seems pretty well-built and the screen is nice. But I have to admit – I am no fan of Kodak’s software. And this wasn’t the first time I’ve tangled with it.
Very nicely explained. Helped me a lot.
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Bogus article and web site. Glorified advertisements for Kodak. This is just generic common sense information. I don’t need an article to tell me that I should consider the modern/traditional frame style of a candidate frame.
You list various features but don’t tell us which features are important and which ones are trivial. Here’s an article, right off the top of my head, more useful than yours.
The following frame features are important:
*Ability to show photos and movies in random order, hopefully from organized folders rather than just one big list.
*Front panel controls that allow you to pause the slideshow, back it up, or mute/activate the sound.
*All frames will support jpg format photos…and that’s all you need.
*Should support movies in at least these formats: .wmw, .avi. If you are a MAC user, you will want it to support movies in .mov format. Other movie formats may be important for you depending on how you work with DVDs.
*Front panel control that allows you to erase a photo would be handy.
*Must auto sense the portrait/landscape orientation of the picture and automatically adjust it to display properly. If it can’t do this…forget it.
*Ability to play directly from an inserted memory card rather than only from the internal memory.
Here are features that are not so important:
*Background music. Though this seems like a great feature, the novelty will wear off after about the first 5 minutes and you’ll never use it again.
*Widescreen – really doesn’t matter. Big size is what matters, regardless of the aspect ratio.
Larry-
Thanks for taking the time to leave your comments and additions. I’m sorry you didn’t like the article. It wasn’t intended to be an advertisement for Kodak. But their digital frames are the most readily available. If you have some suggestions for products we can add to balance out the article, I’ll be happy to make some changes. This guide was also written for people who know little about digital cameras and so it’s very basic. But your list of features is a good one. And that’s part of the reason we have comments here – so people can add to and improve what’s been published.
No discussion of how to evaluate frame models and sizes based on brigtness value, contrast ratio, viewing angle, or TFT – LCD combination screens.