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Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG?
jcatcw writes "Microsoft Corp. will submit a new photo format to an international standards organization. The format, HD Photo (formerly known as Windows Media Photo), can accommodate lossless and lossy compression. Microsoft claims that adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won't discard or truncate data that occurs with other bit-map formats."
I predict it will succeed in displacing jpg just like png displaced both gif and jpg.
displays for sure!
You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
there are plenty of formats out there that are better than JPEG, and yet only the popular will continue to live on.
...actually flash could probably be the good combo format, but it's hard to get designers to output flash that doesn't have some form of retarded movement in it.
There used to be a direct JPEG competitor (wave based raster compression) called 'Lightning Strike' or something... you could actually control the level of compression by an alpha channel. That way, like a portrait, you could keep the face in sharp detail without loss, and the rest will be compressed to heck leaving a file size and compression truly in the hands of the person making the file.
But it's not even about file size... in many instances, if you want a lossless image just the plain 'PSD' photoshop is by far the best. Many times I've had to send large images for adverts, and just used the flat PSD image as it was the smallest file size and obviously no loss in quality.
The image format war is just about popularity... which is why Gif has lasted through everything even though PNG is just as good and more open. New image formats will actually have to do something new for them to gain any traction at all... a pervasive vector and raster combination image should have been available by now and renderable in browsers. There's EPS, but we need browsers to support these things if they're going to get anywhere for the web... anything else but end users saying "fantastic, I really need to get that" just wont have a hope.
And while it's kind of on the topic, something like MetaStream should have been pervasive by now... along with LightningStrike, there's another "should have been awesome" product. *sigh*
But with JPEG being everywhere, the JVM's, the server solutions, the just-about-freaking-everything... there is no way MS can even think of threatening JPEG. It's just absurd to think they can.
It's "widespread", not "widespred."
Also, look into using the caps key for the beginning of your paragraphs.
Dear stubear,
Allow me to introduce myself. I am number six.
I recommend not using this technology.
Please update your statistical database accordingly.
I believe it will be here where it will be met with stiff resistance
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Both spellings are correct. Sorry.
OED says 'whiney' has only been around since 1920. Are we supposed to be on top of all these brand-new spellings? Huh?
[/humour][17] Leary, T., White, C., Wood, P. R., Bhabha, W. D., and Wirth, N. Lambda calculus considered harmful. In Proceedings
Jesus, now you had to go bringing 'alternate' vs 'alternative' into it.
We'll never get to close posting on this thread.
[/humour][17] Leary, T., White, C., Wood, P. R., Bhabha, W. D., and Wirth, N. Lambda calculus considered harmful. In Proceedings
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