August 25, 1992 KODAK PHOTO CD SYSTEM MILESTONES August 25, 1992 Kodak announces a dramatically expanded Photo CD program that cuts across professional and commercial markets. The announcements include: ù Kodak Picture Exchange__a global image transmission network ù Four new Photo CD formats__Kodak Pro Photo CD Master, Photo CD Portfolio, Photo CD Catalog, and Photo CD Medical ù Kodak Professional Photo CD Imaging Workstation 4200__for large-format professional films, with features that answer professional photographers' unique needs ù Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstation 2400__with over three times the productivity of the existing PIW, for photofinishing labs ù Four new Kodak imaging software packages__Kodak PhotoEdge, Shoebox, Browser, and Photo CD-enabled Renaissance Kodak also announced more than a dozen companies that will cooperate on the development of new products and commercial applications for Photo CD and Kodak Picture Exchange products and services. These included Applied Graphic Technologies (AGT), Apple Computer, Inc., J. Paul Getty Art History Information Program, Jostens, and Sony Corporation of America. - 2 - August 1992 Photo CD players are available to consumers in North America, followed by Western Europe, Japan, and other major markets. Kodak Photo CD Access software is shipped for Apple Macintosh and Windows applications. Kodak also announces that it will market a newly Photo CD enabled Kodak Renaissance design software program. July 1992 Kodak's Stephen Stepnes and Scott Brownstein win the Eduard-Rhein Foundation's 1992 Technology Award, one of Europe's most celebrated technology prizes. May 1992 Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will supply a digital print scanner by year-end as an accessory to the Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstation (PIW). The scanner will be produced with the Kodak brand by Polaroid through an OEM agreement with Kodak. April 1992 Kodak begins delivering Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstations to wholesale photofinishers, commercial photo labs, and photo retail stores. Delivery of PIWs meets the target set in September 1990, when Kodak first announced it would introduce the Photo CD system. March 1992 Kodak and Apple Computer, Inc., announce that they are working together to integrate support for Photo CD images into future versions of Apple's QuickTime system software extension. QuickTime support for Photo CD images will provide Apple customers with direct access to Photo CD images within any Macintosh application. Kodak announces that leading CD-ROM drive manufacturers Philips, Pioneer, Sony, and Toshiba will offer fully Photo CD-compatible CD-ROM XA drives. Drives that are certified by Kodak as fully Photo CD-compatible can carry the Photo CD logo. - 3 - January 1992 Kodak and Agfa-Gevaert announce that Agfa will support the Kodak Photo CD system, licensing Photo CD technology from Kodak. Agfa will use Photo CD images as one source of input to the Agfa Digital Print System (DPS). Kodak Photo CD Access Developer's Toolkit availability is announced at MacWorld. Kodak announces that the Photo CD system will offer interactive capability when it arrives during the summer of 1992. Among other things, the new features will allow people to combine sound, text, and graphics with images and to use branching to interact with the contents of their Photo CD discs. December 1991 Kodak and MCI Telecommunications announce that MCI will use Kodak recordable data CDs to deliver complex long-distance bills to its largest customers beginning in 1992. This is the first commercial application for CD technology developed by Kodak to support the introduction of the Photo CD system. October 1991 Kodak and Intel Corporation announce support for the PhotoYCC color-encoding scheme used in the Kodak Photo CD system, on Intel's ActionMedia II boards, which makes it easier and faster to incorporate high-resolution images in desktop applications. September 1991 Philips Interactive Media Systems announces plans to market dedicated Photo CD players beginning in the summer of 1992. Philips' CD-I players will also be Photo CD-compatible. The Photo CD system is named "European Innovation of the Year 1991-1992" by a panel of editors of photographic journals from 13 countries. Fuji Photo Film Company announces that it will license Photo CD technology from Kodak, thus enabling affiliated photofinishing laboratories to provide services for copying film-based images onto Photo CD discs (beginning in the fall of 1992). - 4 - August 1991 Kodak announces that the Photo CD system has received two key European honors: the "Best Design Technology" award from the Technical Image Press Association, and a "Top 10 Products" award from PhotoExpo '91. November 1990 Popular Science selects the Photo CD system for a "Best of What's New" award which honors the year's 100 greatest achievements in science and technology. October 1990 The Photo CD system is supported or endorsed by major developers of computer hardware and software. At Photokina, in Cologne, Germany, Photo CD players are shown to the public for the first time, generating enormous excitement and support from trade and consumer magazines. Kodak announces a series of developments designed to make it easy to bring Photo CD images to computer applications: ù The Kodak Photo CD Access Developer's Toolkit, to enable software and hardware developers to integrate Photo CD technology into new and existing applications ù Kodak Photo CD Access software, a package designed to give users access to Photo CD images in computer applications that were not specifically designed with Photo CD capability -5- September 1990 Kodak first announces the Kodak Photo CD system, the first cost-effective tool for digitally storing and manipulating photographs. The system will allow consumers to store their pictures in a new way and view them on television. It will bring photographic-quality 35 mm color or black-and-white photos into computer applications at low cost. ### [Note: Kodak, Kodak Access, Browser, PhotoEdge, Shoebox, and Renaissance are trademarks.]