New KODAK Theatre HD Player Transforms Living Rooms into Personal Home Theatres

Post by **Shane** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:21 am

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) today unveiled the KODAK Theatre HD Player, a High Definition (HD) media player that enables consumers to interact more freely and creatively with their most valuable possessions -- their memories.

Harnessing Wi-Fi and HD technologies, a wide array of organizational and display features and access to online content through unique partners, the KODAK Theatre HD Player turns consumers into the directors of their own show with...

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jerfilm · Post by **jerfilm** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:45 am

This certainly sounds interesting, but I hafta say that the story tells me almost nothing about this piece of equipment. Will I be able to take my edited HDTV movies and somehow play them on this device. What media will it then use? Or am I reading this all wrong??

Hootsman · Post by **Hootsman** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:23 am

Sounds like you can only view stills in HD. Is that correct?

jerfilm · Post by **jerfilm** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:21 am

Article sez home videos, etc........

Post by **Shane** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:59 am

For the most part, this looks like just another media player. We'll know more as they get closer to their September launch, but it appears to be much like other "media extenders" on the market.

Where this appears to differ a bit is that it looks as though you'll be able to take your locally (or network) stored media and upload it to various online services like Flickr, etc. Could be interesting.

It will all be about the implementation. It must be easier to use that a computer, or people won't change over. Personally, I'd rather do my uploading via keyboard rather than via remote control.

We shall see,

- Shane