Photo CD is a system designed by
Kodak for digitizing and storing photos in a CD. Launched in
1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CD discs are defined in the
Beige Book and conform to the
CD-ROM XA and CD-i Bridge specifications as well. They are intended to play on CD-i players, Photo CD players and any computer with the suitable software irrespective of the
operating system. The images can also be printed out on photographic paper with a special Kodak machine.
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