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03-09-2007, 07:37 AM
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Microsoft move could be the end of the JPEG
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...rce=rss_news50
March 08, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- Microsoft Corp. will soon submit to an international standards organization a new photo format that offers higher-quality images with better compression, the company said today. The format, HD Photo -- recently renamed from Windows Media Photo -- is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year-old technology widely used in digital cameras and image applications. Both formats take images and use compression to make the file sizes smaller so more photos can fit on a memory card. During compression, however, the quality of the photo tends to degrade. Microsoft said HD Photo's lightweight algorithm causes less damage to photos during compression, with higher-quality images that are half the size of a JPEG. The format can also accommodate "lossless" and "lossy" compression, two methods of compressing photo data with different effects on image quality. Microsoft said adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won't discard or truncate data that occurs with other bit-map formats. Although JPEG is aging, it has been modified to help keep it up to date. The latest JPEG 2000 format features better image quality while also supporting lossless and lossy compression. The original JPEG did only lossy compression. Time will tell whether HD Photo can supplant JPEG by gaining the support of printer, camera and application vendors. But Microsoft is supporting the format in products such as its Vista and XP operating systems and has already gained an important vendor ally. In the next two months, Adobe Systems Inc. and Microsoft will release plug-ins for CS3 and CS2 versions of its widely used Photoshop program for Vista, XP and Apple Inc.'s OS X. Microsoft also has built an HD Photo Device Porting Kit so hardware manufacturers can support it. 
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03-09-2007, 01:18 PM
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Cool.
Chris 
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03-09-2007, 03:26 PM
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I never knew there would be new file formats being invented still... lol.
Chris
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03-09-2007, 03:56 PM
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Sounds awsome if what steve said will come true.
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03-09-2007, 04:18 PM
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will i am happy they going to revamp a old file type to bring it up today
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... I hope it makes the big leagues.. they already got Adobe backing it in CS2 and CS3..
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