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- KODAK PHOTO CD SYSTEM MILESTONES
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- August 25, 1992 Kodak announces a dramatically expanded Photo CD program that
- cuts across professional and commercial markets. The
- announcements include:
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- Ñ Kodak Picture Exchange╨╨a global image transmission network
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- Ñ Four new Photo CD formats╨╨Kodak Pro Photo CD Master, Photo CD
- Portfolio, Photo CD Catalog, and Photo CD Medical
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- Ñ Kodak Professional Photo CD Imaging Workstation 4200╨╨for
- large-format professional films, with features that answer
- professional photographers╒ unique needs
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- Ñ Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstation 2400╨╨with over three times
- the productivity of the existing PIW, for photofinishing labs
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- Ñ Four new Kodak imaging software packages╨╨Kodak PhotoEdge,
- Shoebox, Browser, and Photo CD-enabled Renaissance
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- 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.
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- August 1992 Photo CD players are available to consumers in North America,
- followed by Western Europe, Japan, and other major markets.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- Kodak Photo CD Access Developer╒s Toolkit availability is announced
- at MacWorld.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The Photo CD system is named ╥European Innovation of the Year
- 1991-1992╙ by a panel of editors of photographic journals from 13
- countries.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- October 1990 The Photo CD system is supported or endorsed by major developers of
- computer hardware and software.
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- 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.
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- Kodak announces a series of developments designed to make it easy to
- bring Photo CD images to computer applications:
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- Ñ The Kodak Photo CD Access Developer╒s Toolkit, to enable
- software and hardware developers to integrate Photo CD
- technology into new and existing applications
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- Ñ 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
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- 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.]