CompuServe Messages

<<For two different languages?>> Yup. You can use the same images over and over in different sequences, attaching different sound clips if you like, without actually recording the image more than once on disc — which allows you to maximize the number of images per disc. <<So all of these grandparents actually have PhotoCD players?>> No, they all have PCs or Macs with CD-ROM drives. When you record a Portfolio project to disc you can optionally include our Windows and Mac viewer software (Magic Lantern), which also runs Portfolio discs. <<Have you used your (older) portable player with a Portfolio presentation?>> Yes, but it isn't that old; I think we got it last year. <<Do the players actually run your software, or does your software just assemble material into the Portfolio format, which is played by software or firmware by Kodak?>> The Kodak players are fairly "dumb," so the software has to organize all the images and sound properly _and_ write all the micro-code which the player uses to play the disc. This is part of the reason why you can't just record a bunch of PCD images on a CD-ROM XA disc and call it a Photo CD — it won't work like one. You can also choose to include the CD-I viewer app so that the disc will run on the smarter CD-I player. Ciao, D'