Photo CD is a system designed by
Kodak for digitizing and saving photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the
Beige Book and conform to the
CD-ROM XA and
CD-i Bridge specifications as well. They were intended to play on
CD-i players, Photo CD players (
Apple's PowerCD for example), and any computer with a suitable software (
LaserSoft Imaging's SilverFast DC or HDR for example).