Kodak set to quit camera film and photo paper business

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 25 Aug 2012 at 18:42

If a buyer is not found for the camera film division that is the end of an era:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19366113

D.P. · 27 Aug 2012 at 02:26

Asi said some time back, real shame but in the end they only themselves to blame for not leveraging their digital technologies. They could have been a lead supplier of digital sensor and sown up the P&S market.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 27 Aug 2012 at 15:32

I don't like the sound of this:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/0...tronic-giants-form-consortium-to-bid-for-pate

Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal has reported that many of the world's biggest technology companies, including Samsung, Apple and Google, have formed a consortium to bid for Kodak's digital imaging patents.

Yay!! More fodder for the patent wars.

Please,can the US government step in and stop these companies,I doubt they can though!!

Ksanti · 27 Aug 2012 at 15:56

The US government doesn't want to stop patent law - Microsoft, Google and Apple are massive American companies with massive patent revenues

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 27 Aug 2012 at 16:13

Ksanti said:
The US government doesn't want to stop patent law - Microsoft, Google and Apple are massive American companies with massive patent revenues

Not if it ends up like Rambus though. All this fighting by US companies like Apple and Google over mobile patents is starting to get to that level now and it seems more and more like *** for tat. In the case of Rambus,the patent office eventually invalidated some of their top patents.

Andy90 · 27 Aug 2012 at 16:26

Was bound to happen. Whilst there are still people out there that use film, the rise of digital cameras and home printed seems to have overtaken Kodak.

I've never forgiven them for discontinuing Kodachrome :mad:

Looks like Fuji and Ilford will benefit from increased sales of film.

D.P. · 27 Aug 2012 at 16:52

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I don't like the sound of this:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/0...tronic-giants-form-consortium-to-bid-for-pate

Yay!! More fodder for the patent wars.

Please,can the US government step in and stop these companies,I doubt they can though!!

Kodak is hardy an angel, remember when they tried to sue Sun for $1billion over the flakiest of IP claims and shady purchasing of IP seemingly to profit purely from litigation.

At The Gates · 27 Aug 2012 at 17:02

Andy90 said:
Was bound to happen. Whilst there are still people out there that use film, the rise of digital cameras and home printed seems to have overtaken Kodak.

I've never forgiven them for discontinuing Kodachrome

Looks like Fuji and Ilford will benefit from increased sales of film.

Fuji are discontinuing films on a regular basis...

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 27 Aug 2012 at 18:32

D.P. said:
Kodak is hardy an angel, remember when they tried to sue Sun for $1billion over the flakiest of IP claims and shady purchasing of IP seemingly to profit purely from litigation.

I am less worried about what Kodak did then and what these patents will do now,looking at how the current patents wars are escalating.