JPEG Photo Format on Its Way Out?

[Jose_R.A.M]

8th March 2007
PCWorld
JPEG Photo Format on Its Way Out?

Microsoft's new HD Photo format offers higher-quality images half the size of JPEGs, company says.

Microsoft Corp. will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards organization that it says offers higher quality images with better compression, the company said on Thursday.


The format, HD Photo -- recently renamed from Windows Media Photo -- is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year old technology still 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...

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[bnza8]

sounds interesting. im looking forward to the new upgrade.

[TheZodiac]

Only if every OS supports it, most digital cameras, photoshop adopts it, and web browsers care about it besides IE).

Maybe in 5-10 years.

Then of course, you will have SONY who will come out with their own proprietary photo format that only works in their cameras. Sheeesh. Haha.