Hi Tim,
Most (if not all) of the DVD players today can play JPEG files, just save
the images in JPEG at minimum compression, it will be good for both
archiving and viewing at TV. Of course if you need the best archival format,
use RAW or 16 bit tiff.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hughes" <timhughes@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The question then, is what is the best CD format to use for best
> compatibility with pc's **and DVD players** but good archiving too. In
> general the CD's seem to not only be cheaper/moire mature tech, but have
> better errror correcting than DVD's, so they likely are more robust for
> long term archiving and can still be viewed in certain formats on DVD
> players with TV. Some of the "video" formats used on CD's have less
> redundancy/error checking to pack more info in, so these may not really be
> so good for reliability reasons. Some DVD players are certified by Kodak
> to be compatible with there photo format cd's. What is the best way to
> set up your TV slide viewing part of the CD's? There are a number of
> programs for doing this but what is best for both ease of viewing and high
> resolution archiving or should you do this as two seperate steps.
>
> Has anybody on the list looked into this in detail or got some good web
> url's they can recommend? The help files with various cd burner programs
> ,photo-shop help etc are not very definitive in helping you choose. A
> cursory web search gave rather poor advice.
>
> Regards,
> Tim Hughes
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