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August 25, 1992
KODAK PHOTO CD SYSTEM MILESTONES
August 25, 1992 Kodak announces a dramatically expanded
Photo CD program that cuts across
professional and commercial markets. The
announcements include:
∙ Kodak Picture Exchange__a global
image transmission network
∙ Four new Photo CD formats__Kodak Pro
Photo CD Master, Photo CD Portfolio,
Photo CD Catalog, and Photo CD
Medical
∙ Kodak Professional Photo CD Imaging
Workstation 4200__for large-format
professional films, with features
that answer professional
photographers' unique needs
∙ Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstation
2400__with over three times the
productivity of the existing PIW,
for photofinishing labs
∙ Four new Kodak imaging software
packages__Kodak PhotoEdge, Shoebox,
Browser, and Photo CD-enabled
Renaissance
Kodak also announced more than a dozen
companies that will cooperate on the
development of new products and
commercial applications for Photo CD and
Kodak Picture Exchange products and
services. These included Applied Graphic
Technologies (AGT), Apple Computer, Inc.,
J. Paul Getty Art History Information
Program, Jostens, and Sony Corporation of
America.
- 2 -
August 1992 Photo CD players are available to
consumers in North America, followed by
Western Europe, Japan, and other major
markets.
Kodak Photo CD Access software is shipped
for Apple Macintosh and Windows
applications. Kodak also announces that
it will market a newly Photo CD enabled
Kodak Renaissance design software
program.
July 1992 Kodak's Stephen Stepnes and Scott
Brownstein win the Eduard-Rhein
Foundation's 1992 Technology Award, one
of Europe's most celebrated technology
prizes.
May 1992 Eastman Kodak Company
announces that it will supply a digital
print scanner by year-end as an accessory
to the Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstation
(PIW). The scanner will be produced with
the Kodak brand by Polaroid through an
OEM agreement with Kodak.
April 1992 Kodak begins delivering Kodak Photo
CD Imaging Workstations to wholesale
photofinishers, commercial photo labs,
and photo retail stores. Delivery of
PIWs meets the target set in September
1990, when Kodak first announced it would
introduce the Photo CD system.
March 1992 Kodak and Apple Computer, Inc.,
announce that they are working together
to integrate support for Photo CD images
into future versions of Apple's QuickTime
system software extension. QuickTime
support for Photo CD images will provide
Apple customers with direct access to
Photo CD images within any Macintosh
application.
Kodak announces that leading CD-ROM
drive manufacturers Philips, Pioneer,
Sony, and Toshiba will offer fully Photo
CD-compatible CD-ROM XA drives. Drives
that are certified by Kodak as fully
Photo CD-compatible can carry the Photo
CD logo.
- 3 -
January 1992 Kodak and Agfa-Gevaert
announce that Agfa will support the Kodak
Photo CD system, licensing Photo CD
technology from Kodak. Agfa will use
Photo CD images as one source of input to
the Agfa Digital Print System (DPS).
Kodak Photo CD Access Developer's Toolkit
availability is announced at MacWorld.
Kodak announces that the Photo CD system
will offer interactive capability when it
arrives during the summer of 1992. Among
other things, the new features will allow
people to combine sound, text, and
graphics with images and to use branching
to interact with the contents of their
Photo CD discs.
December 1991 Kodak and MCI Telecommunications announce
that MCI will use Kodak recordable data
CDs to deliver complex long-distance
bills to its largest customers beginning
in 1992. This is the first commercial
application for CD technology developed
by Kodak to support the introduction of
the Photo CD system.
October 1991 Kodak and Intel Corporation announce
support for the PhotoYCC color-encoding
scheme used in the Kodak Photo CD system,
on Intel's ActionMedia II boards, which
makes it easier and faster to incorporate
high-resolution images in desktop
applications.
September 1991 Philips Interactive Media Systems
announces plans to market dedicated Photo
CD players beginning in the summer of
1992. Philips' CD-I players will also be
Photo CD-compatible.
The Photo CD system is named "European
Innovation of the Year 1991-1992" by a
panel of editors of photographic journals
from 13 countries.
Fuji Photo Film Company announces that it
will license Photo CD technology from
Kodak, thus enabling affiliated
photofinishing laboratories to provide
services for copying film-based images
onto Photo CD discs (beginning in the
fall of 1992).
- 4 -
August 1991 Kodak announces that the Photo CD system
has received two key European honors:
the "Best Design Technology" award from
the Technical Image Press Association,
and a "Top 10 Products" award from
PhotoExpo '91.
November 1990 Popular Science selects the Photo CD
system for a "Best of What's New" award
which honors the year's 100 greatest
achievements in science and technology.
October 1990 The Photo CD system is supported or
endorsed by major developers of computer
hardware and software.
At Photokina, in Cologne, Germany, Photo
CD players are shown to the public for
the first time, generating enormous
excitement and support from trade and
consumer magazines.
Kodak announces a series of developments
designed to make it easy to bring Photo
CD images to computer applications:
∙ The Kodak Photo CD Access Developer's
Toolkit, to enable software and
hardware developers to integrate
Photo CD technology into new and
existing applications
∙ Kodak Photo CD Access software, a
package designed to give users access
to Photo CD images in computer
applications that were not
specifically designed with Photo CD
capability
-5-
September 1990 Kodak first announces the Kodak Photo CD
system, the first cost-effective tool for
digitally storing and manipulating
photographs. The system will allow
consumers to store their pictures in a
new way and view them on television. It
will bring photographic-quality 35 mm
color or black-and-white photos into
computer applications at low cost.
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[Note: Kodak, Kodak Access, Browser, PhotoEdge, Shoebox,
and Renaissance are trademarks.]