Microsoft will soon submit to an international standards organization a new photo format that offers higher-quality images with better compression, the company said today. The format, HD Photo (recently renamed from Windows Media Photo) is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year-old technology 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 HD Photo's lightweight algorithm causes less damage to photos during compression, with higher-quality images that are half the size of a JPEG.

- Source: [JXCP.net]

WMA didnt win over MP3 did it? Fuck MS.

^^Yeah, they also claimed that WMAs were half the size of MP3s - absolute bullchocolate (unless you're using like the worst MP3 encoder).

Heard about this before.  Microsoft seems to want to take over the PDF format as well.

screw them, i don't even use .doc or .xls anymore

that's pretty sad, oh hey someone forgot to mention wmv, avi is all the rage and wmv got left behind, pretty sad...

Ge64 Wrote:screw them, i don't even use .doc or .xls anymore

O_O  I use them for school though - don't have much of a choice.  Sometimes use .xls cause Excel's a pretty powerful and easy to use app (yeah, there's better around, but usually have a steep learning curve which I'm not prepared to take unless I'm specialising in that kind of job... satirically, I actually am studying commerce).

beaner2k6 Wrote:that's pretty sad, oh hey someone forgot to mention wmv, avi is all the rage and wmv got left behind, pretty sad...

Yeah, WMV sucks, but then, so does AVI.  I think MP4 will take over AVI, though MKV is currently the best container...

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Yeah, WMV sucks, but then, so does AVI.  I think MP4 will take over AVI, though MKV is currently the best container...

i was actually gonna put avi and mp4 but i wasn't sure cause only about 1% of all my downloads are mp4 and the rest are all always avi

by the way zinga thanks for making me a mod:yipi:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Heard about this before.  Microsoft seems to want to take over the PDF format as well.

They can have PDF :P

I've always wanted to use an HD something! I welcome HD Photo with open arms.

Also while MKV is a very good container format, its a pain in the butt to convert.

Why does beaner2k6 have more bux than I?

Congrats on making Mod Status and joining the other half of the forums... :)

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|-Anubis-| Wrote:Why does beaner2k6 have more bux than I?

cause i don't spend them;)

|-Anubis-| Wrote:Congrats on making Mod Status and joining the other half of the forums... :)

thanks:)

|-Anubis-| Wrote:Also while MKV is a very good container format, its a pain in the butt to convert.

Not really - it's actually easier to mux than AVI.

But there isn't much support for it (being open source), that's the main issue.