# 4 - Many Digital Formats Are Here Today ... Temporarily ... But Will Be Gone Tomorrow
One of the challenges with digital technology is how fast the technology and various image formats become obsolete and unaccessible.
Back in the '90s we made thousands of Kodak Photo CDs like this one to digitally archive our customers' 35mm film images.
Kodak set up a "forever" PCD format. They opened this format to the world. We did the scans in our lab ... as many other top photo labs did.
Photo CDs were designed to show film images on TVs when viewed with Kodak Photo CD players. Those players will still work for TV viewing.
But, unfortunately most of today's computers will no longer open the PCD format (even it they have disc readers ... which most new computers don't.) So, many of our customers can't open their Kodak Photo CDs.
(Fortunately, most people ordered prints with their CDs and would have received negatives.)
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