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#PhotoCD

    04-Dec-93 09:11:20
Sb: #69654-#PhotoCD
Fm: Mike Hobart 75136,1153
To: Educom 100325,637
It's too bad that Kodak isn't taking the approach that CBS took way back when it developed the 33 1/2 RPM LP record. CBS licensed the technology to other manufacturers for $1/year! Kodak should be doing everything they can to make the PhotoCD format readable by anyone and everyone. At Kodak's scale, a $15K license fee is peanuts for their corporation. They will make much more money if they can get EVERYONE using PhotoCD's. It's the prospect of millions of consumers eventually using them which offers them real earnings potential. It's especially silly given the prominence of the Amiga as multimedia platform. Once again it looks like short term bean-counting winning out over long term intelligent planning. Mike Hobart