Broadcast Pictures Over The Net - With Your TV

An online photography company owned by Eastman Kodak Inc. and a London-based pay-TV support group are teaming up to offer consumers the ability to practically broadcast their own digital photos over the Internet by using one's TV.

NDS Group plc, which provides business solutions to
pay-TV operators through conditional access and interactive technology,
and Herndon, Va.-based PictureVision Inc. announced that they have
entered into an agreement to jointly develop and market new
applications called NDS Interactive Photo Applications.

The companies said the applications should allow consumers to view,
use, share and order reprints of pictures from digital cameras and
those stored on the Internet via digital TV and their cable or
satellite provider. NDS will develop and deploy these applications in
return for a share of the reprint revenues, the companies said.

Both companies believe the applications will be the easiest way yet to
access pictures stored on Web sites such as Kodak PhotoNet online.
The applications are also expected to provide digital-camera users with
a simple way to download their own photographic images for traditional
printing at the 40,000 participating Kodak PhotoNet online retailers
worldwide.

Marketing the new service is expected to begin in the second half of
2000.

Reported by Washtech.com, http://www.washtech.com.