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In article <1992Oct21.202222.2951@sfu.ca> howesb@monashee.sfu.ca (Charles Howes) writes:
   Actually, it could be that it's an open standard, but they're afraid that
   someone will do it wrong, and a 'Kodak' picture will look bad, as a result.

   This could hurt their CD sales.

I don't buy this. It would be very interesting to hear more about this
format so you could tell if there really is a way to decode the images
in an "incorrect" way and get something viewable but "inferior". I
think they have other reasons and tell us this to stop speculation.

There was a posting in alt.sources that told about an image decoding
program available at an ftp(*) site. It works with an image file that
I got there as well, but I'm not sure about how the image was
retreived from the CD. Was it just taken as raw data, or was some
Kodak product involved (it is about 3Mbyte and seems to contain the
image in all sizes, I havn't examined the code yet)? If anybody could
enlighten me on this I would be happy.  Is this program infringing
Kodak's patents, and in that case, in what ways (are you allowed to
make such a program for your own use)?


(*)
The site was:
switek.uni-muenster.de = 128.176.120.210
in directory /pub/pictures/PCD.

They only want you to use it on off hours, local time.


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Mats Luthman
Systecon AB (A subsidiary of Industri-Matematik AB)
Stockholm, Sweden