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In article <1992Nov5.171420.18531@news.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.074234.6889@ulrik.uio.no> stein@sionext.uio.no (Stein  
>Onsrud) writes:
>> Are there anyone out there on the network, that knows anything about  
>> support for the Kodak PhotoCD system on the NeXT Platform. I understand  
>> that Sony will very soon ship a CD player that supports the multisession  
>> format from Kodak/Phillips, will this player ship as a NeXT Player ?
>> On the PC and mac platforms there is allready a number of Software  
>vendors  
>> that either already supports the format or say they will. What about  
>> software on the NeXT ?
>> 
>
>	I believe the new Apple CD-300 is a faster Kodak Photo ready  
>CD-ROM. Whether the new SONY CD-ROM will be shipped as a NEW NeXT CD-ROM  
>is always a dream to me. A lot of us including me are still waiting for  
>our NS 3.0 CD-ROM bundle....... **SIGH** I hope this wait is really worth  
>of waiting....
>
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>| Gary I. Chang	 |
>+----------------+   NeXT-Mail: garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu
>Northwestern Univ.      E-Mail: garyc@eecs.nwu.edu


I just received confirmation from my NeXT dealer that the 
NeXT CD-ROM player WILL play Photo-CD ROMs, however it plays
_only_ single session ones, not multi session.  The difference?

The first time you have photos put on the disk = single session.
Subsequent addition of photographs = multi session.

The fix?  Save your negs until you have enough to fill a CD.
Since only 100 pictures (approx) fit on a CD that shouldn't
take too long.  (Well, I'm a hobby foto nut - your mileage
may vary).  For you medium format freaks (me too!) there should
be duplicators which will take negs and chromes up to 5"x7"
and put them on CD, although I doubt you will get 100 on a disk.
These are expected to be ready in the spring/summer of next year.

I have talked to Apple, bu haven't verified if their drive will
work.  As soon as I get my cube up again I'll see if I cant
borrow a drive to test...!

Regarding software - I just received in the mail a PhotoCD reader
App, but until my machine is up (about a week, I hope) I won't
be able to test it.  Sorry :-(

Regards,
Thor
NorNeXT user group leader
edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail O.K.)
edmtl@alf.uib.no (did you hit 'r'?  Then use ASCII mail...)