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- From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Photo CD and computers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.094001.4740@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:40:01 GMT
- Organization: SPC Community Access System
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- Note 48.81 Audio & Video 81 of 83
- EISNER::KILLEEN "Jeff Killeen NLC Chair" 12 lines 21-DEC-1992 22:20
- -< KODAK Photo CD >-
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- Does anyone know anything about the new Kodak Photo CD system? What I am
- really curious about has anyone heard about using this technology on a
- computer?
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- The CD is a WORM unit. In theory they could be produced by a WORM drive
- attached to a computer. You could read in a KODAK CD, edit it, and write out
- many copies.
-
- The resolution on the Photo CD is much higher than what it can display on a
- NTSC TV today. It would be interesting to use a PC or workstation with a high
- resolution color monitor to display the images. Anyone heard of software yet
- to do this?
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- Note 48.82 Audio & Video 82 of 83
- EISNER::MEZEI_JF "Jean-Francois Mezei" 7 lines 21-DEC-1992 23:12
- -< APPLE is supposed to support the KODAK CD >-
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- I have heard that APPLE supports the KODAK PHOTO CD format with system
- 7.1. I do not know what level of support that is. They probably have a
- driver that can read KODAK files.
-
- I'd be interested in knowing if the format is TIFF. That would be neat,
- I could import pictures at high resolution. Probably cheaper than
- buying a high res. scanner.
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- Note 48.83 Audio & Video 83 of 83
- EISNER::LEDERMAN "Bart Z. Lederman" 14 lines 22-DEC-1992 07:16
- -< People have read Photo-CD with Macintoshes. >-
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- The announcements are that Apple Macintosh systems will read and
- display Photo-CD images. It may be possible on System 7.0 if you pick
- up the new CD-ROM Drivers (which I haven't done yet), and you may also
- need the current Quicktime as well. The image format is reported to be
- unique, and not TIFF, but existing programs are supposed to be able to
- display the images with the correct system software installed. I don't
- have any Photo-CDs, so I haven't tried it myself, but people have
- reported that it works.
-
- Old CD-ROM drives will only read single-session Photo-CDs, or the first
- session only from multi-session CDs. The newest Apple (Sony) and NEC
- drives are able to read multi-session. It isn't entirely clear which,
- if any, older CD-ROM drives will be able to read multi-session CDs with
- updated software.
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