Photo-CD & displaying slides on TV

[P3D Ronald J Beck <rbeck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a few thoughts on the subject of Photo-CD and slides on TV.  First, I 
think that widespread use of Photo-CD didn't do well in the mass market 
for a couple of reasons.  First, expense.  It's more expensive to get your 
photos put on photo-CD.  Second, speed.  It takes too long to get your 
prints  & CD back.  If the 1 hour places could take an extra hour or so to 
transfer the photos to CD, it'd be worth it for me.  I've been spoiled by 
1 hour processing and don't even like to wait for those services which 
process overnight.  Third, viewers.  While Kodak and Phillips had a great 
idea with their CD-Interactive system, It would have been more prudent to 
develop something that would work with a computer OR the CD-I unit.  
Better still if they could have made a dual purpose unit with CD-I and 
VCR.  Still, I think it's a great idea and maybe some day I'll go through 
the mound of slides & pics I took during my college days and get them 
transferred.

Now, on the topic of displaying slides on TV.  I think there's a unit out 
there that projects slides onto a CCD "camera" which then translates it 
directly to a TV or VCR.  What would be really great is a unit of this 
type designed to replace the lens of a standard Kodak projector.

What would be needed for the 3D world is a setup of this type on a 3D 
projector with a "combiner" unit that would provide the interleaving 
needed for LC glasses.  Hmmm... sounds like a product to me!

Anyway, that's my musings for the day.  Now, back to work :-)

Ron


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