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Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard?
Mortimer.CA writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft has submitted their HD Photo to the JPEG committee: 'Microsoft's ongoing attempt to establish its own photo format as a JPEG alternative (and potential successor) took another step forward today when the JPEG standards group agreed to consider HD Photo (originally named Windows Media Photo) as a standard. If successful, the new file standard will be known as JPEG XR.' Microsoft has made a 'commitment to make its patents that are required to implement the specification available without charge.' While JPEG 2000 exists, HD Photo has several advantages (not the least of which is a lot less CPU power is needed). Is this a big of an issue as ODF/OOXML?"
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Wow! The image compression used by Microsoft's HD Photo format is so good that it can reduce any image down to 0 bits!
It looks fine on my lynx.
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Wow! The image compression used by Microsoft's HD Photo format is so good that it can reduce any image down to 0 bits!
It's decompression that's always been the sticky part.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Before a ton of posts show up bitching about the last sentence, you should ask yourself, "Is grammar as big of an issue as you think?"
Fixed.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Ahh, that reminds me again of the superb compression program I wrote a while ago: LZip (Lossy Zip). The only problem is that I LZipped the source code and removed all binaries.
Before a ton of posts show up bitching about the last sentence, you should ask yourself, "Is I as much grammar of think an issue as ?"
Fucked.
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