KODAK LISTS HUNDREDS OF U.S. PHOTO CD SERVICE PROVIDERS

Photo CD Service Providers Now Deliver Inexpensive High-Quality Digital
Images from Film Originals onto Three Photo CD Formats

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 5 -- Eastman Kodak Company today published two lists
of businesses offering Photo CD services. One list comprises
photofinishing labs, audio-visual service bureaus, business printers, and
other providers that will produce Photo CD Portfolio discs. The second
list comprises photofinishing labs and service bureaus that transfer
photographic film, from 35 mm up to 4 x 5 inch, to Photo CD Master or Pro
Photo CD Master discs.

"When we introduced desktop software for Macintosh computers to produce
Photo CD Portfolio content last week, we expanded the benefits of using
the Photo CD system," said Fred Geyer, general manager and vice president,
Kodak CD Imaging. "Today, we enhance the picture by publishing lists of
services located throughout the United States that can help end users take
advantage of Photo CD features."

KODAK Photo CD System Expands

The introduction of the Kodak Photo CD system began in the spring of 1992,
when Kodak shipped the first Photo CD Imaging Workstations (PIWs) to
photofinishers in the United States. PIWs transfer color negatives and
transparencies, or black-and-white film, to Photo CD discs. Today, three
PIW models are available, with two for 35 mm film, and a professional unit
that can transfer up to 4 x 5 inch film to Photo CD discs.

"We introduced the Photo CD system to bring the benefits of digital imaging
to people who also want the high quality of film," Geyer said. "Our first
objective was to establish a network that can transfer film images, from
35 mm up to 4 x 5 inch, to digital Photo CD format. As the enclosed list
of photofinishing labs and service bureaus offering Photo CD transfer
services illustrates, we have succeeded."

Kodak Photo CD Master discs hold up to 100 high-quality images, available
in five resolutions, from 35 mm film, and are relatively inexpensive to
produce. For the professional and commercial photographic markets, Kodak
introduced the Pro Photo CD Master format, which can contain from 25 - 100
images, from film sizes up to 4 x 5 inches, and up to six resolutions.

A third Photo CD format introduced last week--Photo CD Portfolio--enables
users to copy images from Photo CD Master and Pro Photo CD Master discs,
and to create exciting interactive presentations that contain images,
text, graphics, branching menus, and sound. Now virtually anybody with a
Macintosh computer and compatible CD-ROM drive can design exciting
interactive presentations or stories that can be written to Photo CD
Portfolio discs.

Kodak has introduced several home Photo CD players that play Photo CD discs
on TV and also play audio CDs on stereos. All major CD-ROM manufacturers
now make Photo CD-compatible CD-ROM drives that enable computer users with
the appropriate software to use Photo CD discs on computers.

The pieces are all in place--image transfer services, software, hardware,
and disc replication services--to let people take pictures using existing
cameras and high-quality photographic film, and, through Photo CD, use
those pictures in their desktop applications. 

KODAK Photo CD Portfolio Format

Last week, Kodak announced the immediate availability of three new software
packages. Two are for Macintosh computers. They are economical
shrink-wrapped applications for creating Photo CD Portfolio content.

* Kodak Create-It Photo CD presentation software lets desktop computer
users create presentations with simple interactive menu choices and
virtually unlimited options for designing individual frames.

* Kodak Arrange-It Photo CD Portfolio layout software lets users design
more advanced multimedia programs with sophisticated interactive branched
disc layouts. Users can import images and frame designs from Create-It or
from other applications such as Adobe Photoshop software.

Both Create-It and Arrange-It software products create a script language
that enables the new Kodak Build-It Photo CD Portfolio disc production
software-also announced by Kodak last week--to structure the images, text,
sound clips, and other content on a Photo CD Portfolio disc. Kodak
Create-It and Arrange-It software packages are available now for Macintosh
computer users, with Windows software versions expected to be available
later this year.

Kodak Build-It Photo CD Portfolio disc production software formats data for
writing onto Kodak Photo CD Portfolio discs. Build-It software allows
users to write Photo CD Portfolio discs by processing a Photo CD Portfolio
script file from a design application, by copying Kodak Image Pac files
from Photo CD discs, or by converting computer graphics image files, such
as PICT or TIFF files, to the Kodak Image Pac file format.

The initial release of Kodak Build-It Photo CD Portfolio disc production
software runs on a Sun computer; Macintosh computer and Windows software
versions will be released later this year.

Target applications for Photo CD Portfolio discs include business
presentations, informational kiosks, trade show displays, multimedia
titles, and educational programs.

At MacWorld Expo in San Francisco and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, Kodak released a list of photo labs, audio-visual service bureaus,
business printers, and other providers that will produce Photo CD
Portfolio discs for their customers using Kodak Build-It Photo CD
Portfolio disc production software. Because the economical production of
multimedia titles, in Photo CD Portfolio and other formats, depends on
low-cost high-quality digitization of images, Kodak also released a list
of service providers where film from 35 mm up to 4 x 5 inch in size can be
converted to Photo CD format.

To enable users of other software packages to create Photo CD Portfolio
presentations, Kodak expects to publish the script language in February,
and to make it available to software developers free of charge.

Multimedia for The Masses

Kodak Create-It, Arrange-It, and Build-It software tools make it easy to
create exciting, interactive presentations using pictures and sound.

People can play their Photo CD Portfolio discs on TV using Photo CD, CD-I,
Apple PowerCD, and 3DO/Panasonic R.E.A.L. players. Kodak recently
introduced the Kodak Photo CD portable player, a compact unit that
displays Photo CD discs on TV and plays audio CDs on stereo systems.

Photo CD Portfolio discs also can be played on Macintosh and Windows based
computers with compatible CD-ROM drives and player software. The required
playback software is available as a feature of Kodak Photo CD Access Plus
software, a shrink-wrapped product, with a suggested retail price of
$49.95, that lets users read and display all Photo CD disc formats. Kodak
began shipping Photo CD Access Plus software for Macintosh systems in
December. A Windows version will be available soon. A Photo CD player
software application is included with the Create-It and Arrange-It
software packages.

Some disc publishers will choose to include Kodak player software on their
Photo CD Portfolio discs. This will allow users to play the discs back on
any Photo CD Portfolio-compatible CD-ROM drive without the need for
additional software. 

Pricing and Availability

Kodak Create-It software for Macintosh computers has a manufacturers'
suggested retail price of $245. Kodak Arrange-It software for Macintosh
computers has a manufacturers' suggested retail price of $395. Kodak
Build-It software for Sun systems has a manufacturers' suggested retail
price of $4,995.

Visitors to MacWorld Expo will see all the new products in Kodak's booth,
#1915. The show runs from Jan. 5-8 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Kodak also is demonstrating Create-It, Arrange-It, and Build-It software
at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, January 6 - 8.

For more information on Photo CD software products in the U.S. and Canada,
customers and interested service providers can call the Kodak Customer
Assistance Center at 1-800-CD-KODAK (235-6325).

For the most current information on Photo CD transfer services, or services
for Photo CD Portfolio disc production, users can call the Kodak Customer
Assistance Center at 1-800-242-2424, extension 36.

Eastman Kodak Company, 343 State St, Rochester, NY 14650

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