News - Kodak files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

[Saracen]

I still have a hankering for my old Sony "mars bar" ... the CMH-333. In fact, I've still got it somewhere. Trouble is, the old analogue network has long gone.

Still got a Nokia 5.1 though.

[crossy]

Isn't it similar to Nokia - a company who once had the whole phone market to themselves, somehow lost the lot.

Erm, I'll say "no" - although I'm sure that there's a lot out there who'll disagree.

Kodak are in Chp11 bankruptcy protection, Nokia - last time I heard - ARE losing market share, but are also continuing to make a reasonable income, albeit well down from the heady days of the past.

Where I'll agree with you is that Nokia, like Kodak, sat safe in their castle, not realising that other folks were busy undermining it. Kodak stuck with film and Nokia with Symbian.

Work's phone is a 2330 Classic and while it's "only" a dumbphone it's great at doing those basic jobs that used to be all we wanted a phone for - making calls and sending texts, (oh and it lasts about a week between charges).

[AGTDenton]

And here come the patents.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16631710

Only ever had Kodak films and 1 under water happy snap camera. Pictures werent too bad quality from that, still have the film somewhere.

[redddraggon]

T-Max and Tri-X are my favourite B&W films so I'd be sad to see Kodak totally disappear.

Film is not dead, Harman/Ilford seem to be doing quite well out of that game.

[ik9000]

Yes, I shot some beautiful night-shot snow pics on TMax 3200.

Ilford might be doing ok, but even in the hey-dey they were for (amateur-) enthusiasts rather than the high street where the bulk of the sales lie.

I agree it would be a shame to see it go entirely, but they missed the trick in thinking their industry wouldn't shift. As previous posts, Kodak started to make digital cameras (or were they simply licenced?) then stopped. Suicide - surely they must have seen where the market was heading? Apparently not.

[Workaholic]

And here come the patents.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16631710

Only ever had Kodak films and 1 under water happy snap camera. Pictures werent too bad quality from that, still have the film somewhere.

I'm intrigued to know about the quoted section:

The latest alleged infringements include technology to make an electronic camera capable of "automatically transmitting images... to a service provider using a network configuration file," and having a "communications interface for selectively transmitting images over a cellular phone network and a wireless LAN network to a destination".

Samsung launched its AllShare Play cloud storage service, which allows its cameras to upload pictures to remote servers after they are taken, earlier in the month.

This sounds VERY suspectly similar to the consept of Sandisk branded Eye-Fi cards and dare I say it, the easy-ness of direct upload from a mobile. Unless I'm reading it wrong....

[ik9000]

I'm intrigued to know about the quoted section:


This sounds VERY suspectly similar to the consept of Sandisk branded Eye-Fi cards and dare I say it, the easy-ness of direct upload from a mobile. Unless I'm reading it wrong....

no, that's how i read it too. Though it's hardly a sci/tech site so who knows their accuracy - even the beeb has been known to spout some real flannel when it comes to the finer details of sci/tech/engineering