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Ross expects digital camera technology to become more pervasive in web guides, mainly to provide a greater variety of information. Broadened use of camera technology can also eliminate moving parts from guide systems, and thereby additional opportunities for inaccuracies, he explains.

Hrycko also anticipates more CCD camera guide applications cropping up, "as converters become used to them." The technology has, however, been available for more than seven years.