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...display screen around, a memory capable of holding 1,500 high-resolution images and, for an extra $100, wireless communication. But competition is intense, especially in photo printing, which is still where the money is. In film, Kodak had only two major competitors, Fuji Photo Film in Asia and Agfa-Gevaert in Europe. Now, both its old foes are in the printing market, as is the giant HP. And Sony and Canon aside, there are at least a dozen firms making digital cameras...
Eastman Kodak is betting that Photo CDs will eventually become as familiar to photographers around the world as its bright yellow boxes of film. It has succeeded in persuading such competitors as Fuji, Agfa and Konica to agree to one standard for the discs, although Kodak is first to offer the product. What the company envisions is a future in which devices that play Photo CDs -- which also double as music CD players -- have become standard equipment in home entertainment centers, alongside the stereo, the TV and the VCR. Kodak pictures families gathered in living rooms to see photos displayed...
...film now on the market. (ISO is a new international film-speed measuring standard, whose ratings are similar to the previously used American one, ASA.) The company's most popular color print film, Kodacolor II, has a rating of 100. Kodak and several rivals, including Europe's Agfa-Gevaert Group, the Japanese Fuji Photo Film Co. and Minnesota's 3M Co., produce less popular, and more expensive, print films with 400 ratings...
...Ovshinsky has patented 102 possible applications. Several large companies have shown interest and have put up cash to spur development and to buy licensing rights to any end results. IBM and Burroughs bought into new ways of storing information on ovonic memory chips. Eastman Kodak, West Germany's Agfa and Japan's Asahi paid to participate in ECD's work toward a film that might be made without silver...
...only because of higher prices. None-theless, their big sale doesn't start for a couple of weeks. But you can get a pair of bright red boots now for $10 off. (Reduced from $40-figure it out.) Next door, Ferranti-Dege is offering half-off on fresh Gevart-Agfa photographic paper-500 8x10 sheets only...