Microsoft creating new image format

TonyMontana · **Microsoft creating new image format -** 05-28-2006, 10:22 PM

http://tinyurl.com/hdlmd

[quote:71d31]SEATTLE--If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo.

The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here. Windows Media Photo will be supported in Windows Vista and also be made available for Windows XP, Bill Crow, program manager for Windows Media Photo, said in a presentation.

In his presentation, Crow showed an image with 24:1 compression that visibly contained more detail in the Windows Media Photo format than the JPEG and JPEG 2000 formats compressed at the same level.

Still, the image in the Microsoft format was somewhat distorted because of the high compression level. Typically digital cameras today use 6:1 compression, Crow said. Windows Media Photo should offer better pictures at double that level, he said. "We can do it in half the size of a JPEG file."

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Short Hand · 05-28-2006, 10:24 PM

Awesome news for the graphics industry and for web as well.

Jin-Roh · 05-28-2006, 10:24 PM

Porn will never be the same.

HeadUp · 05-28-2006, 10:27 PM

windows vista

WidowMaker555 · 05-28-2006, 10:27 PM

fuck computers im a caveman

Arch · 05-28-2006, 10:54 PM

That's Awesome.

Jin-Roh · 05-28-2006, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WidowMaker555

fuck computers im a caveman

eek:

Unknown_Sniper · 05-28-2006, 10:57 PM

[quote="Jin-Roh":087f1]Porn will never be the same.[/quote:087f1]

05-28-2006, 11:36 PM

awesome, i thought for sure that it would be bigger in filesize than JPEG/JPG.

Judas · 05-29-2006, 01:01 AM

[img]http://s92915907.onlinehome.us/39115283_l.gif[/img]

geRV · 05-29-2006, 01:24 AM

rock: beer:

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gerald.marley/14/stopthat.gif[/img]

CoMaToSe · 05-29-2006, 01:28 AM

goddamn M$ annoy:
STFU, Im taking the piss out of rampant anti-MS fanbois.

mr.miyagi · 05-29-2006, 07:17 AM

wicked, I like small innovations like this.

Whens Vista out anyway?

Are you all gonna upgrade when it arrives?

Do you currently have the small windows pirate copy star symbol in your system tray like I do now? biggrin:

[img]http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/3817/piratey3tn.jpg[/img]
spank:

Mr.Buttocks · 05-29-2006, 03:20 PM

No thanks. How long until they come out with DRM images?

Tripper · 05-29-2006, 03:50 PM

[quote="Short Hand":007f4]Awesome news for the graphics industry and for web as well.[/quote:007f4]

Not necessarily, seeing as it's called "Windows Media Photo" and the "graphics industry" uses MACs as the industry standard.