RE: Kodak CD (was Re: Noise on my SS4000)

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've heard of these devices, but never seen one. As I understand it, another
technique they used to keep the system proprietary was to put the code for
the player on the PhotoCD itself. Even if you reverse-engineered the format,
and could create valid PCD files, you couldn't make a PhotoCD that would
play in the player without violating the copyright on their code.

Not that anyone really cared.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

> From: Carl Grohs
>
> Anyway, the current status is the CD/PhotoCD players mainly were given
> away in contests, and I occasionally see them in pawn shops, Kodak got
> CD-ROM manufacturers to make multi-session reading standard in their
> drive firmware, and they reduced the licensing and open coded parts of
> the PhotoCD file format, the format became well accepted in professional
> circles, and the rest is history...

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