Kodak introduces new AV products

Jul 11, 2008 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- EK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) (NYSE: EK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) announced several new consumer electronics products today (11 July).

Able to connect to a household's Wi-FI network, the Kodak Theatre HD Player can display personal or web-based images of video content and allows the user to edit, store or upload the images to online photo galleries. The Player is compatible with USB drives and SD memory cards.

Also Wi-FI enabled, two new digital picture frames, the W1020 and the W820 (10" and 8" diagonal dimensions respectively) can display a user's favorite pictures from a wireless source or from the two inbuilt SD memory cards slots. The two frames both have 512MB of internal memory and are able to function independently of any wireless network, storing up to 4000 images depending on image size or quality.

An agreement between Kodak and Framechannel (a division of Frame Media Inc) will allow users of both the digital frames and the Player to display selected online news, information and multimedia.

The Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video camera is the first dedicated digital pocket video camera released by Kodak. Designed to be simple to use, the camera can capture HD video at 720p x 60fps and has a 2.4" TFT LCD screen.

Last on the list of new products announced is the Kodak EasyShare Z1015 digital camera with a 10megapixel resolution, 15x optical zoom and a 28mm wide-angle lens. A 3" LCD screen allows user to compose and view the results. The camera can take HD quality still images or video (720p at 30fps). Smart capture technology can adjust image capture quality to deliver better results.

Retail prices for the products were not disclosed.

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