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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: NeXT Embraces Photo CD Multimedia Imaging Technology (Update) Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com News: Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. (415) 780-3786 or Paul H. McAfee Eastman Kodak Company (716) 724-6404 NeXT Embraces Photo CD Multimedia Imaging Technology SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 1993 - Kodak and NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that NeXT has embraced Kodak's Photo CD technology as part of its multimedia strategy. As part of this strategy, NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 includes a demonstration application called Photo Album that allows users to view high-quality images based on Kodak's Photo CD standard. NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 began shipping today, for both Intel-based PCs and NeXTi workstations. Photo Album allows people to view their photographs on-line and to create on-line scrapbooks or photo albums, using a CD-ROM drive to view images stored on Photo CD discs. Film shot using a standard camera can be taken to a Photo CD Imagining Workstation-equipped processing outlet that develops the images for CD viewing in addition to standard photographic prints. "With the Photo Album demo application, NEXTSTEP is embracing a key multimedia standard," said Margaret Chan, manager of NEXTSTEP product marketing at NeXT. "By including the Photo CD capability with our system software, we hope to help awaken users to the possibilities of on-line photographs. We think CD-ROM-based images will be increasingly important for wide-ranging business, education, entertainment and personal applications." NeXT is also porting Kodak's Photo CD Access Developer Toolkit for the NEXTSTEP environment. This toolkit, which will work like any other object-oriented toolkit for NEXTSTEP, will allow developers to incorporate Photo CD-based capabilities into any kind of application. "We're looking to NEXTSTEP, as a premier object-oriented software environment on the market today, to pave the way for broader use of Kodak's Photo CD Access Developer Toolkit," said Georgia McCabe, worldwide manager, commercial CD Imaging at Kodak. "Our long-term strategy is to help developers create software that will let people interact with photographic images in new and different ways." As a demonstration application, and an additional step in NeXT's technology directions, Photo Album will be provided free of charge to all NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 customers, but it will not be supported by NeXT. NeXT develops and markets the industry-acclaimed NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is used by customers to develop and deploy client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped productivity software. NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, Calif., 94063. -30- Kodak is a trademark. NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
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