January 03, 2008Kodak Photo Kiosk and Picture MoviesThe company has installed do-it-yourself self-service kiosks in Bartell Drug stores throughout the Puget Sound area that can take up to 60 digital photos and add music, movement effects and burn it to a DVD right there in the store. The video is nice and shows the complete process from start to finish. Looks nice (much better than the usual black out-of-order screen we see most times). 5-10 minutes to burn the DVD. Twenty songs to pick from for your theme music and facial recognition built into the software intelligently "directs".
If you're any good with a computer you probably know how to turn those collections of digital vacation and holiday photos into a slide show. But adding pans and zooms to a photo slideshow in a pleasing, professional fashion is not always easy to do. Kodak is hoping to change that. The company has installed do-it-yourself kiosks in Bartell Drug stores throughout the Puget Sound area that can take up to 60 digital photos and add music, movement effects and burn it to a DVD right there in the store. (Watch the video accompanying this story to see it in action.) All you have to do is pick the shots from a memory card you bring to the store, and the Kodak software does the rest. That means you can't control the moves -- the computer has total control. But it does a pretty good job. The one real limitation is the number of songs to choose from. Right now, there are only 20. But that library is sure to grow as Kodak introduces the kiosk to other places in the country. Each movie costs $14.99 and comes with a customized case. Posted by staff at January 3, 2008 07:50 AM |