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This report from Lyra Research takes a penetrating look at the challenging forces at work today in the photofinishing market. The report examines the Y2K implosion in the online photo services market and divulges that many online photo service companies are changing their business models in order to survive. The digital photofinishing industry continues to struggle to match the film world's infrastructure and services. Yet, digital photofinishing currently lags behind its film counterpart (see chart). The worldwide photo-image processing industry is currently a $30 billion market. With this huge opportunity at stake, vendors, analysts, and retailers alike will want the primary research featured in this study as they strive to understand and analyze the revenue streams in this potentially lucrative industry.
Report Sections:
1. Key Findings
2. Two-Sided Coin
3. Digitized Film a Major Factor
4. Methods for Printing Digital Photos
5. The Battle for Output
6. Ink Jet Printing
7. Uploading Images to an Online Photo Service and Receiving Prints by Mail
8. Online Photo Services and End Users
9. Uploading Images to a Retailer Web Site and Receiving Prints at a Retail Store
10. Wait into a Retailer and Upload Images to an Outside Lab or In-Store Printer
11. A Future Scenario
12. Conclusions Selected Figures:
1. Source of Images Uploaded to an Online Photo Site
2. Worldwide Film and Digital Still-Exposure Forecast
3. Location of Digital Image Printing
4. Location of Film Photo Printing
5. Worldwide Installed Base of Photo-Capable and Photo Specialty Ink Jet Printers
6. User Satisfaction Levels with Online Photo Services
7. Respondents' Length of Experience with Online Photo Sites
8. Number of Images Uploaded
9. Services Used and Most Important Service
10. Services Used in the Last Three Months
11. Percent of Prints to be Ordered Online
12. Worldwide Digital Minilab Forecast
13. Digital Kiosk Installed Base | 
