Now used in 8, 500 U.S. shops, PhotoNet allows retailers to digitize conventional photos and store digital images on central servers so customers can access them via the Internet, edit them, electronically send the results worldwide or order prints, mugs and other paraphernalia.

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The push, some three years in the making, comes in the form of deals with Warner Brothers Studios to restore and digitize the Warner motion picture and television library, the world's largest, and also create a digital post-production studio.

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