KODAK WRITABLE CD PRODUCTS & PHOTO CD PUBLISHING FORMAT BRING CD AUTHORING
TO DESKTOP COMPUTER USERS

SAN JOSE, Calif., Mar. 30, 1993--With a series of new CD authoring products
announced today, Eastman Kodak Company is expanding the ability of desktop
computer users to output their computer files or create multimedia
presentations on compact discs.

The new products being demonstrated here at the Intermedia conference
include:

* Disc authoring software for creating Kodak Photo CD Portfolio discs,
which positions the Portfolio format to become a major publishing medium
for custom multimedia programs that can be played on television or
computers

* Kodak writable CD media with the InfoGuard protection system, designed
with special features to safeguard data for CD-Recordable (CD-R)
applications

* The Kodak PCD LAN writer 200, a CD-R production system that bundles Kodak
media and hardware with software from Meridian Data, Inc., allowing users
on a PC network to output data to writable CDs as easily as they now
choose a printer

* Two new Kodak writable CD software products, allowing individual computer
users in Macintosh and Windows environments to output data to writable
CDs

* New Kodak software that will provide access to Photo CD images for users
of MS-DOS operating software

Kodak also announced a licensing agreement with Toshiba Corp. which will
allow Toshiba to use the Kodak Photo CD logo to promote its multisession
CDROM drives.

The Kodak Photo CD system lets people take conventional 35 mm photographs
and have the film images scanned onto compact discs. They then can
incorporate their images in computing applications, using a compatible
CDROM XA drive and appropriate software, or can display them on television
using a Photo CD player (which also plays audio CDs).

Last August, as Kodak was delivering the first Photo CD players to
consumers, Kodak announced a series of new disc formats and applications
to extend Photo CD technology to commercial users.

"Before launching the Photo CD system to consumers, Kodak provided
photofinishers with enabling technologies to produce Photo CD discs
cost-effectively," said Fred Geyer, general manager and vice president, CD
Imaging at Kodak. "Today, Kodak is extending this core technology to
business and professional users by giving them the tools to produce
commercial discs at their desktop computers."

Portfolio Authoring Software

The company demonstrated new software for authoring Kodak Photo CD
Portfolio discs at the desktop, positioning the Portfolio format to become
a major publishing medium for custom-designed multimedia titles.

Available this summer, the software will let people create Portfolio discs
that contain combinations of photographic images, audio, graphics and text
screens, and programmed access. Applications include consumer "picture
stories" (like weddings or family trees), business presentations, and
commercial titles. Because the highest resolutions of Photo CD images are
not required on this format, users can have more space available for other
content, such as audio and graphics. Image professionals also will use the
format to make custom Photo CD discs with copied or edited Photo CD
images.

Like all Photo CD discs, Portfolio discs can be played on television using
a Photo CD or CD-I player. Computers can play the discs using a Photo
CD-compatible CD-ROM XA drive and the appropriate software.

Writable CD Products

Several of the new products Kodak introduced today will make it easy for
desktop computer users to output their data files to write-once CD-ROM
discs called CD-Recordable discs, or writable CDs.

* The newly announced Kodak writable CD media with InfoGuard protection
system includes several unique features that provide greater longevity and
durability than many existing write-once or mass-produced CDs. For as
little as 4 cents per megabyte, each Kodak writable CD stores 550-650
megabytes of data, text, images and/or digital audio. The discs already
are being used in a wide range of applications, and when properly authored
can be read in any standard CD hardware device.

* The Kodak PCD LAN writer 200 lets any DOS or Windows user, on a
Novell-based Ethernet network, output data to Kodak writable CDs. The
system bundles Kodak writable CD products with Netscribe Access Client
Software from Meridian Data, Inc. The software allows users to produce
single-session or multisession discs (which means data files can be
appended to the same disc at different times). Under terms of an agreement
between the two companies announced today, Meridian will market an
identical system as the Meridian Netscribe 1000.

* In addition, Kodak announced April availability of Kodak writable CD
publishing software for Macintosh computers and Windows environments.
Publishing software for DOS users is already available, and a UNIX version
will be available soon. The software packages allow individual users to
format data in conformance with the ISO 9660 file and volume structure
standard--the core cross-platform CD-ROM standard--and to drive the Kodak
PCD writer 200 from their desktop computer. Both packages feature an
easy-to-use graphical interface that allows users to click, drag, and drop
selected files, and then publish all the selected files to a writable CD
in a single step. Kodak will offer multisession formatting software for
major operating systems later this year.

Toshiba Licensing Agreement

Under terms of a licensing agreement announced today, Toshiba will use the
Photo CD trademark to promote its latest multisession CD-ROM XA drives.
The agreement with Toshiba includes the XM-3401 Series of
drives--internal, external, laptop or notebook drives, as well as a
multiple-drive unit.

Toshiba has licensed the right to use the Photo CD trademark--a graphic
representation of film merged with a compact disc, along with the words
"Photo CD"--to appear on the drives, on packaging, in promotional
literature, and in advertising.

With this latest licensing agreement, manufacturers of CD-ROM drives can
brand their multisession products with the Photo CD trademark. The Photo
CD trademark on a CD-ROM drive indicates to the purchaser that the drive
has all the capabilities inherent in the Photo CD format.

Access Software for DOS

Kodak also announced that its popular Photo CD Access software is now
available to computer users running MS-DOS software.

Kodak Photo CD Access software allows users to read and save Photo CD
images, and to incorporate them into current applications. Available since
late last summer to users of Macintosh and Windows operating systems,
Kodak has sold more than 40,000 copies so far, and is currently shipping
approximately 2,000 more units every week.

In addition to end-user software for DOS, the company announced the Kodak
Photo CD Access developer toolkit for MS-DOS. Available by mid-May, the
toolkit will give DOS application developers the ability to flexibly
access images stored on Photo CD discs.

"The compact disc has grown beyond traditional CD-ROM applications, and is
fast becoming a mainstream medium for a whole range of computer storage
and distribution needs," Geyer concluded. "With today's announcements,
Kodak is demonstrating its position as one of the industry leaders in the
growing CD marketplace."

Eastman Kodak Company, 343 State St, Rochester, NY 14650

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