Therefore, any PhotoCD's you produce can be used on a variety of computer systems as well as on stand-alone players. A variety of Amiga programs are available for loading and then converting PhotoCD images into IFF, GIF, JPEG, etc. Whether this was due to poor advertising by Kodak or because consumers prefer the portability of snapshots is difficult to say. Industry, however, has embraced PhotoCD's for image archiving. For Amiga users, PhotoCD's are attractive.
Image quality is close to that of film.
Multiple resolutions are produced. Using them when zooming an image yields more detail, rather than enlarged, blocky pixels. PhotoCD's are multiplatform and are therefore not limited to the small Amiga user base. PhotoCD's are easy to produce and economical as well. For many Amiga users, the drawback of PhotoCD's is their lack interactivity.