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- From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Time to boycott Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.065815@eklektix.com>
- Summary: think about consumables
- Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
- References: <FRIEDMAN.92Aug29214928@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <17pj4fINNm8i@early-bird.think.com> <Btt3nu.5py@news.udel.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:58:15 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
- >My understanding is that the patentable part involves a rewritable
- >CD format, and the hardware differences needed...
- ...
- >The photographer may send a couple of rolls of film to be developed
- >and printed as 300 meg to a Photo-CD CD ROM. Later on, the photographer
- >may send another roll of film along with the CD back to Kodak for another
- >few hundred meg of prints.
- ...
- >My bet is that CD media will become cheap enough that rewriting
- >will not be seen as a major advantage compared to the hassle of
- >trying to convert the marketplace over to a new, incompatible
- >hardware standard...
-
- Seems like a bad bet to me.
-
- Think just for a moment what Kodak's current business is.
-
- They deal in "consumables"--stuff you buy and use. Whether that's good or
- bad, they probably have a very good understanding of such markets.
-
- The important part is not that you can take one CD and have them add stuff
- to it vs having one CD per roll of film. It's that you can have fewer CDs
- if they can add to it. You carry around one object vs 3 or 4. It doesn't
- matter whether CD media are cheap.
-
- Organizing the data is a hard problem. If you have some control over that
- at the physical level, you're ahead.
- --
- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado
- Cats!
-