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Originally Posted by HarryT
If your question was serious, TIFF is a graphical file format. Many high-end digital cameras, for example, have the option of storing "raw" images in TIFF format. Unlike JPEG, it's a "lossless" compression format, so no information is thrown away.
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TIFF images can be lossy. The TIFF format is very flexible in what data it can contain. The TIFF standard is open to anyone to implement, and it wouldn't be hard to include the open source libtiff on the devices. However, the flexibility comes at the cost of complexity, so maybe Sony didn't think it was worth the hassle for a not-very-popular format.
The OP banged out about six threads in less than an hour, the last one stating that he had already returned his device for a refund. It feels like we're being trolled.