Digital Imaging without Computers Goodyear AZ

Posted by : Joe Farace

If you can hook up a camcorder to watch video clips on your television or connect a digicam and watch still photographs on a TV, why can't you watch images that were made using traditional film cameras too? Now you can. The secret is an unlikely blending of technologies from video, digital imaging, and consumer electronics to make the capture, collection, and sharing of digital photographs even more universal.

In 1990, Eastman Kodak announced the basics of its new PhotoCD system, but it wasn't until the summer of 1992 that most computer users were able to actually use the company's digitizing service. Kodak's original vision for this product was one of happy consumers gathered around the family TV, viewing snapshots of their trip to Yellowstone on one of its then-new PhotoCD players. But this Cleaver family dream never materialized.

Recently, Microsoft entered this same market with similar aspirations for its TV Photo Viewer, which allows consumers to watch their vacation pictures via a video floppy disk drive. Even though this is a wonderful product, it seems to have had as much success--so far, anyway--as Kodak's original PhotoCD concept. Not a company to be easily deterred, Kodak is now staking its claim to pictures on TV using a technology blending its PictureCD product and the DVD format.

Launched in 1998, Kodak PictureCD places digital photos on a CD-ROM that consumers can order when they have their film processed by a camer...

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