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- From: dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon)
- Subject: Re: Kodak Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.044436.20131@seas.smu.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov5.074234.6889@ulrik.uio.no> <1992Nov5.171420.18531@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Nov6.095921.19610@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:44:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.095921.19610@alf.uib.no> edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.171420.18531@news.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov5.074234.6889@ulrik.uio.no> stein@sionext.uio.no (Stein
- >>Onsrud) writes:
- >>> Are there anyone out there on the network, that knows anything about
- >>> support for the Kodak PhotoCD system on the NeXT Platform. I understand
- >>> that Sony will very soon ship a CD player that supports the multisession
- >>> format from Kodak/Phillips, will this player ship as a NeXT Player ?
- >>> On the PC and mac platforms there is allready a number of Software
- >>vendors
- >>> that either already supports the format or say they will. What about
- >>> software on the NeXT ?
- >>>
- >>
- >> I believe the new Apple CD-300 is a faster Kodak Photo ready
- >>CD-ROM. Whether the new SONY CD-ROM will be shipped as a NEW NeXT CD-ROM
- >>is always a dream to me. A lot of us including me are still waiting for
- >>our NS 3.0 CD-ROM bundle....... **SIGH** I hope this wait is really worth
- >>of waiting....
- >>
- >>--
- >>+----------------+
- >>| Gary I. Chang |
- >>+----------------+ NeXT-Mail: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu
- >>Northwestern Univ. E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu
- >
- >
- >I just received confirmation from my NeXT dealer that the
- >NeXT CD-ROM player WILL play Photo-CD ROMs, however it plays
- >_only_ single session ones, not multi session. The difference?
- >
- >The first time you have photos put on the disk = single session.
- >Subsequent addition of photographs = multi session.
- >
- >The fix? Save your negs until you have enough to fill a CD.
- >Since only 100 pictures (approx) fit on a CD that shouldn't
- >take too long. (Well, I'm a hobby foto nut - your mileage
- >may vary). For you medium format freaks (me too!) there should
- >be duplicators which will take negs and chromes up to 5"x7"
- >and put them on CD, although I doubt you will get 100 on a disk.
- >These are expected to be ready in the spring/summer of next year.
- >
- >I have talked to Apple, bu haven't verified if their drive will
- >work. As soon as I get my cube up again I'll see if I cant
- >borrow a drive to test...!
- >
- >Regarding software - I just received in the mail a PhotoCD reader
- >App, but until my machine is up (about a week, I hope) I won't
- >be able to test it. Sorry :-(
- >
- >Regards,
- >Thor
- >NorNeXT user group leader
- >edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail O.K.)
- >edmtl@alf.uib.no (did you hit 'r'? Then use ASCII mail...)
- >
- >
-
- Are you referring to the current batch of existing CDROM drives or are you
- referring to a new/unreleased CDROM drive? Also, where did you find a
- photoCDreader? If the NeXT CDROM dirve that I received a month or two ago
- can do PhotoCDs, then that would be the a well deserved peice of good news.
-
- David
- dleon@seas.smu.edu
-
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