Re: Evaluating the Use of Photo CD Technology for Preservation

Bob Weaver (mailto:Bob.Weaver@NAU.EDU)
Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:15:10 -0700 

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Date:         Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:15:10 -0700
From: Bob Weaver <mailto:Bob.Weaver@NAU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Evaluating the Use of Photo CD Technology for Preservation
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>Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:15:30 +0000

>From: Jeffrey Heehs/483403/EKC <mailto:jheehs@kodak.com>

>Subject: Re: Evaluating the Use of Photo CD Technology for Preservation and

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>To: Bob Weaver <mailto:Bob.Weaver@NAU.EDU>

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>Bob Weaver,

>I can receive from but can't post to the IMAGELIB listserv. Would you be kind

>enough to post this for me? Thanks.

>

>Kodak is beginning to exhibit a new set of technologies for online image

>management based on the FlashPix image format. They will be on display

tomorrow
>at the Visual Resources Association Conference in New York, and at the Seybold

>conference in March. It is not accurate at this point to say that FlashPix

will
>"supercede" Photo CD Image Pac. FlashPix at this point is suited almost

>exlusively for home imaging applications. The long-term prospects for adoption

>of FlashPix by parties other than Kodak and Microsoft, particularly for

>professional applications, are undetermined. There are many inside and outside

>of Kodak who continue to feel that Photo CD Image Pac is and will remain the

>format for choice for archival imaging applications. Kodak will always provide

>forward compatibility between Photo CD Image Pac and FlashPix formats,

whatever
>direction FlashPix might develop.

>

>Jeff Heehs

>Kodak

mailto:>jheehs@kodak.com
>

>Is anyone evaluating the Kodak/HP/Microsoft/Live_Picture "FlashPix"

>"resolution-independent" technology (they call it that--can it be so?)

>It seems that this will supersede Photo CD technology if it lives up to

>its promise, as laid out in Kodak's literature.  Info is on URLs

>  http://www.kodak.com/drgHome/productsTechnologies/niftyTech.shtml

>and

>  http://www.kodak.com/pub/neale/magnet/flashPix/flashNews.shtml

>

>Bob Weaver

>Northern Arizona University

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