Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard? 369
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?"
Re:"Nothing for you to see here; please move along (Score:4, Funny)
Wow! The image compression used by Microsoft's HD Photo format is so good that it can reduce any image down to 0 bits!
Re:"Nothing for you to see here; please move along (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh, I've got a suggestion as well (Score:3, Funny)
Trauma to the groin
Nothing's quite as funny
As a trauma to the groin
There is no wit more pretty
There is no joke divine
Or limerick as witty
As a trauma to the groin
- Heywood Banks
Re:JPEG 2000 (Score:3, Funny)
That's easy... (Score:5, Funny)
It's decompression that's always been the sticky part.
Re:Grammar nazis (Score:4, Funny)
Fixed.
Re:can this be the only solution? (Score:2, Funny)
I wish I could mod you up.
nntr
Re:As long as anyone can implement it ... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Grammar nazis (Score:2, Funny)
Fixed.
Re:"Nothing for you to see here; please move along (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FP (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Deja GIF. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:MNG is too comples for Firefox (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Grammar nazis (Score:3, Funny)
Fucked.