First a Digital Camera was used to capture digital images of the audience. The Disk was then read through driver letter access to see the images on the newly created Disk. Crucial to the success of this format was the UDF format support. Currently, most new high speed CD-ROM drives incorporate MultiRead compatibility. Adaptec's DirectCD software is part of the Adaptec Easy CD Creator application, which is currently the preferred software for creating CD's on the desktop.
Products are market driven.
First to market and first to market a Standard can make a big difference. Look at the players, look what Microsoft has done with operating systems. A picture is worth a thousand words. Application providers included Seagate Software, MGI, Adaptec, Cakewalk, CeQuadrat, Corel and Live Pix. Certainly a formidable market driven group eager to market product and test the waters.