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- From: martens@prl.philips.nl (martens p)
- Subject: Re: Kodak Photo-CD software
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.093509.11797@prl.philips.nl>
- Sender: news@prl.philips.nl (USENET News System)
- Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Dec03.110216.19414@edb.tih.no> <rtgrc-041292120613@euler.rc.rit.edu> <Bz2BDD.60s@dscomsa.desy.de>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:35:09 GMT
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- In article <Bz2BDD.60s@dscomsa.desy.de> Hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
- >In article <rtgrc-041292120613@euler.rc.rit.edu>, rtgrc@rc.rit.edu (Rob Gayvert)
- >writes:
-
- >|>In article <1992Dec03.110216.19414@edb.tih.no>, oep%colargol.edb.tih.no
- >|>(oep) wrote:
- >
- >|>> By the way, the equipment that Kodak-labs uses must me a WORM of some kind.
- >|>What
- >|>> is it, what does it cost, and where can I get it.
- >|>>
- >|>
- >|>I don't think Kodak is selling the writer used in the Photofinisher kit
- >|>separately, and the kit is somewhere around $100K (Sparc, scanner, writer,
- >|>printer, ...). However, they recently announced a writable CD system for
- >|>around $8K, available in January for the Mac, first half of 93 for other
- >|>platforms.
- >
- >Sounds like a closed system to me. apart from the ease of getting the stuff
- >translated to CD-ROM it gives me nothing. Are Kodak making the decode code
- >publicaly avaliable?
-
- There is a document called:
-
- Kodak, Photo CD - A planning guide for developers (May 1991).
-
- The coding is called Photo YCC, which uses 8 bit luminance and two times 8 bit
- color information. The processing to get from film to disk is mainly to
- preserve the nature of the photo.
-
- >$100K for a kit sounds an awful, awful lot for a low end workstation, a WORM
- >drive and a laser printer and scanner.
- >
- >What we really need is for a scanner firm to produce a scanner that works off
- >transparencies and sell it in the $5000 bracket.
- >
-
- The WORM is a Philips CD-writer and no, it is not cheap. It is not
- magneto-optic, but actually burns holes in a metal layer, to make it
- readable for a standard CD-player (or Photo-CD player, CDRom, CD-I,
- etc.)
-
-
-
- Peter Martens
-