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On some picture discs, the images used were meant to create an optical illusion while the record was rotating on the turntable (as in the B side of Curved Air's Airconditioning), while others used the visual effect to add to the music — for example, the 1979 picture disc of Fischer-Z's The Worker featured a train which endlessly commuted ...
A picture disc has graphics visible in the grooved playing area, rather than just on an unplayable back side or large label. Picture discs have been around since the 1920s—or since about 1910, if postcard-size rectangular picture records are included.
Kodak Photo CD and packaging. Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991, [1] the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding.
Picture CD is a product by Kodak, following on from the earlier Photo CD product. It holds photos from a single roll of color film, stored at 1024×1536 resolution using JPEG compression. The product is aimed at consumers.
View-Master is the trademark name of a line of special-format stereoscopes and corresponding View-Master "reels", which are thin cardboard disks containing seven Stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film. [1]
The discs were manufactured by first sandwiching printed illustrations around a core of aluminum, then coating both sides with clear vinyl upon which the grooves were stamped. The company went out of business the following year, having released between 67 and 74 double-sided 78 rpm gramophone records. Some of the Vogue issues were re-releases ...
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The album was one of the first vinyl picture discs [6] to be produced, and it was released as a limited edition of 10,000. [7] Picture disc technology was in its infancy and this resulted in a level of surface noise. The disc was re-issued in conventional album format (the "Green Label" edition), with a photo of the original picture disc on the ...