Kodak PhotoCD is discontinued

http://www.kodak.com/go/photocd

"This product is discontinued. Kodak no longer offers technical support by telephone or e-mail."

"Introduced in 1992, Kodak discontinued support and parts for the scanners in 2004."

 - Adobe support of PhotoCD was limited after CS2 and discontinued after CS3.

PhotoCD information

PhotoCD was a special "Image Pac" film negative scanning format consisting of basic resolution images with additional information for higher resolutions, up to 2048 x 3072 pixels.

All disks were written professionally in special image processing workstations.

Whatever Happened to Photo CD? - written by Brian P. Lawler on June 15, 2000
http://www.creativepro.com/article/whatever-happened-to-photo-cd-

Ted's Unofficial Kodak Photo CD Homepage - best information source 2013
http://www.tedfelix.com/PhotoCD/

Photo CD Forum: Bilder speichern und verteilen mit der Kodak Photo CD
http://www.photocd.de/

Photo CD kuvantallennusjärjestelmä, 2. painos
Ilkka Alavalkama & Ilkka Lehdonmäki, editor
TTY / Arkkitehtuurin laitos / August 8, 1995
43 sivua + liitteet / ISBN 951-722-349-8

Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists by Fred R. Byers, October 2003
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub121abst.html

OSTA: Understanding CD-R & CD-RW
http://www.osta.org/technology/pdf/cdr_cdrw.pdf

Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access / April 1998
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/kodak/cover.htm

"Gold" CD information

Manufacturer 2013: http://www.mam-a.com/

"Because of our patented Phthalocyanine (thalo-sy-a-neen) dye and our attention to detail in the manufacturing process, we offer recordable media that is more reliable and longer lived than any other recording media available today. If you store it on MAM-A CD-R, you can be sure that you can reliably retrieve it for a long time to come. In fact, we conservatively estimate that our MAM-A Gold CD-R will last in excess of 300 years when stored at room temperature.  No other recording media that we know of can offer that kind of reliability. (Tapes don't come close and even "stamped" CDs will last 5-25 years at best)."

http://www.mam-a.com/phthalocyanine
http://www.kmgdigitalinc.com/

PhotoCD lifetime 1995:

"The official position on the lifetime of KODAK Writable CD and Photo CD Media is "We predict the lifetime of KODAK Photo CD, and KODAK Writable CD Media with InfoGuard Protection System, under normal storage conditions in an office or home environment, should be 100 years or more." In our opinion, the official KODAK statement is well within the legitimate interpretation of this study. Under controlled conditions, our best estimate of the data life of these products is 217 years, which provides room to incorporate reasonable differences of opinion as to what constitutes normal storage conditions."

http://www.cd-info.com/archiving/kodak/index.html

Lisätietoja : Ilkka Alavalkama