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Bob Russell · 05-25-2006, 03:29 PM

One more picture format along side JPEG probably wouldn't attract much attention if it wasn't from Microsoft, but when they push a new format you probably can't ignore it completely. The photo format is called Windows Media Photo, and claims to have the following features:
* Multiple color formats for display or print
* Fixed or floating point high dynamic range image encoding
* Lossless or high quality lossy compression
* Extremely efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and sub-regions
* Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode

With the increasing power of hardware, even in mobile devices, I'm not sure that JPEG really needs this kind of radical makeover for a general purpose format. Well, not unless Vista uses so many system resources that in the future we have to squeeze a little extra cpu power wherever possible!

Via Slashdot.

05-25-2006, 03:29 PM	#1
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	Just what we needed - another picture format One more picture format along side JPEG probably wouldn't attract much attention if it wasn't from Microsoft, but when they push a new format you probably can't ignore it completely. The photo format is called Windows Media Photo, and claims to have the following features: * Multiple color formats for display or print * Fixed or floating point high dynamic range image encoding * Lossless or high quality lossy compression * Extremely efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and sub-regions * Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode With the increasing power of hardware, even in mobile devices, I'm not sure that JPEG really needs this kind of radical makeover for a general purpose format. Well, not unless Vista uses so many system resources that in the future we have to squeeze a little extra cpu power wherever possible! Via Slashdot.