What is the difference between .pcds and .sixel?
- Extension
- .pcds
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Kodak
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos onto a CD. Launched in 1991 the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding.
- Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-photo-cd
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.pcds
- Wikipedia
- .pcds on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia