Everplay™ Standard To Be Administered By Osta

Everplay™ Standard To Be Administered By Osta

FUJIFILM Corporation, Eastman Kodak and Konica Minolta Photo Imaging Inc., founders and owners of the EVERPLAY specification, today announced an agreement with the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) to transfer ongoing administration and future development of the EVERPLAY image interoperability specification to OSTA. The EVERPLAY specification is designed to ensure compatibility of digital photos and videos across a broad range of consumer products for future generations.

When the EVERPLAY specification was finalized in February 2006, Kodak, Fujifilm and Konica Minolta initiated a royalty-free license program and urged widespread adoption by companies throughout the consumer digital imaging industry, as well as the consumer electronics, software, photo, and image processing industries. “After starting the EVERPLAY license program, a lot of people and companies had interest and downloaded the EVERPLAY specification v.1.10 from the web site,” said Hideki Morikawa, Operations Manager, Business Incubation Division, for FUJIFILM Corporation. “We think it is important to set EVERPLAY as an international standard for it to be widely adopted, and this gives customers tremendous benefits.”

“The EVERPLAY founders agree that it is time to transfer the standard to an established trade association to manage ongoing administration and engage a more open standards process to further promote its adoption,” said Frank M. Ranalletti, Director, Technology Initiatives, Consumer Digital Imaging Group, for Eastman Kodak. “OSTA has a long history of creating and promoting widely adopted compatibility specifications including the Universal Disk Format (UDF) file system used on every DVD in the world and the MultiRead specification for interoperability of recordable CDs. As a result, we felt that OSTA was best suited for the task.”

“We are very pleased that OSTA has been selected to advance the EVERPLAY specification and promote its adoption as an international standard,” said David Bunzel, OSTA president. “It offers excellent interoperability benefits to the imaging industry, and has great potential beyond imaging to facilitate storage, search, exchange, printing and playback of consumer data, with the recognition and organization of the images or content available across multiple devices.”

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