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Optical discs
General
Optical disc
Optical disc drive
Optical disc authoring
Authoring software
Recording technologies
Recording modes
Packet writing
Burst cutting area
Optical media types
Compact disc (CD): CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, Super Audio CD (SACD), Photo CD, CD Video (CDV), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i, MIL-CD, Mini CD
CD-based format used for storing uncompressed photos
Kodak Photo CD and packaging
Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991,[1] the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and CD-i Bridge specifications as well. They were intended to play on CD-i players, Photo CD players (Apple's PowerCD for example), and any computer with a suitable software (LaserSoft Imaging's SilverFast DC or HDR for example).
The system failed to gain mass usage among consumers partly due to its proprietary nature, the rapidly decreasing scanner prices, and the lack of CD-ROM drives in most home personal computers of the day. Furthermore, Photo CD relied on CRT-based TV sets for home use. However, these were designed for moving pictures. Their typical flicker became an issue when watching still photographs. The Photo CD system gained a fair level of acceptance among professional photographers due to the low cost of the high quality film scans. Prior to Photo CD, professionals who wished to digitize their film images were forced to pay much higher fees to obtain drum scans of their film negatives and transparencies. Both JPEG[2] and JPEG 2000[3] support PhotoYCC colorspace as described below that is used in pcd files.
Designation
Resolution
Uncompressed Size
Intended typical use
(px × px)
(Mpx)
(MB)
Base/16
128 × 192
0.025
0.07
Preview (index print, thumbnail)
Base/4
256 × 384
0.098
0.28
Web
Base
512 × 768
0.393
1.13
Computer screen, TV, Web
4 Base
1024 × 1536
1.573
4.50
HDTV screen
16 Base
2048 × 3072
6.291
18.00
Print-out up to ca. 20 x 30 cm
64 Base
4096 × 6144
25.166
72.00
Professional print, pre-press, archiving (optional)
^Crook, Jordan. "What Happened To Kodak's Moment?". Techcrunch. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
PhotoCD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality...
storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), PhotoCD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i), Enhanced Music CD, and...
alias CD-E (Eraseable) – partially standardized as ECMA-395 PCD (Photo) CD-i Bridge - a bridge format between CD-ROM XA and the Green Book CD-i, which...
mini CD. It was a precursor to the various portable media storage devices such as the iPod Photo adapters and various other hard disk based photo storage...
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Super Audio CD (SACD) is an optical disc format for audio storage introduced in 1999. It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics and intended...
CD (Super Video Compact Disc or SVCD) is a digital format for storing video on standard compact discs. SVCD was intended as a successor to Video CD and...
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supported exporting the photo story as a Video CD. Version 3.0, although still a free download from Microsoft, removed direct Video CD burning, but supported...
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of a CD ROM to use the images as many times as they liked without paying further fees. There was a great amount of consolidation among stock photo agencies...
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organizing data on CD-ROMs into logical units such as files, which led to every CD-ROM maker creating its own format. In order to develop a CD-ROM file system...
files. DVDs offer significantly higher storage capacity than compact discs (CD) while having the same dimensions. A standard single-layer DVD can store up...
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Corel Photo Album. First release was PaintShop Photo Express 2010. Paint Shop Pro Photo Studio is a site launched as part of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2...
photos for their own usage. Since photos can now be delivered by means other than printed, some variant wordings of this arrangement are time for CD or...
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