Kodak Launches Consumer-Direct Service to Digitize Analog Media

Kodak partnered with AMB Media to launch a consumer-direct service for transferring analog media and photos into digitized viewing and listening options. The Kodak Digitizing Box builds on the “trust and recognition” of the Kodak brand, sending a prepaid box to customers for media they want converted, said the company. The content is sent back on thumb drives, DVDs or digital downloads in an updated version of a yellow Kodak envelope. Customers can track the process of the order via a barcode. Prices start at $69 for a three-piece box, which Kodak gave by example as one tape, one film reel and one set of 25 photos. Media converted include 8mm and 16mm film, nine types of videotapes, 35mm slides and prints, audio cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes.