Kodak Photo Cd

Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 17:04:46 PST From: macmod@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU (Info-Mac Moderator) ec.photo,rec.video,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.s ys.mac,comp.sys.mac.digest Path: mfolivo From: mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John) Subject: Definitive Photo CD (specs, file formats, etc) Message-Id: <1993Feb17.100606.5305@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> Keywords: Magazine_article Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 10:06:06 GMT To: pacbell!ames!comp-sys-mac-digest@ames.arc.nasa.gov Resent-To: backmod Resent-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 17:04:45 PST Resent-From: Info-Mac Moderator <macmod@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU> Here is a informative article about the specifications of Photo CD. PLEASE, followups to the appropriate newsgroups! Atari Falcon/030 applications mean little to IBM PS/2, and vice versa. This article is of general interest. This article is from Dealerscope Merchadising Magazine, a trade publication for electronics retailers. Photo CD: New Business Opportunities for Graphics and Photo Professionals While ultimately aimed at consumers, Kodaks new technology initially is attracting graphics professionals. Software announced in August will let DOS/Windows and Mac users read and save Photo CD image, adjust colors and enhance pictures. Features added to Kodaks's Photo CD system will allow sound, text. and graphics to be recorded along with photo-quality images onto Photo CD discs. THe discs, which will be housed in attractive "jewel boxe" case displaying the recorded images, will play back on TV, using dedicated Photo CD players. For nearly two decades, Peter Mackey has been creating audiovisual presentations and video productions for busines and industry. As vice president-media integration at Imergy, and interactive multimedia production and graphics firm in Norwalk, CT, Mackey is a beta site for the much heralded Photo CD technology on the way from Eastman Kodak Co. Simply stated, Photo CD puts 35mm film photos onto compact disc. In August, Kodak announced software that lets DOS/Windows and Macintosh users import and enhance Photo CD images, plus a host of new formats and functions aimed directly at graphics and photography professionals. Beta Tester Mackey is using Photo CD to produce narrated essays, captioned photo albums, and other projects that he is more secretive about. These have given him an early insight into the value of Photo CD. "If designers and artists can personally experience what these products can do," said Mackey, "I have no doubt that they will be sold on Photo CD." Opens busines doors For the computer graphics community, Photo CD promises to bring forth not only a robust, innovative medium, but also new business opportunities. Kodak itself is betting a large part of its future on Photo CD- essentially a hybrid electronic imaging/silver halide film-based technology intended to keep alive and hopefully grow users' ingrained habit of recording e…