Thursday, July 30, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: The Future of JPEG JPEG XR from Microsoft Now an International Standard

HTTP:: The Future of JPEG JPEG XR from Microsoft Now an International Standard
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ISO/IEC 29199-2 might not say a lot to a lot of people, but the fact of the matter is that at least its consumer-friendly version is bound to get more attention in the future. Nothing else by the official designation of JPEG XR, ISO/IEC 29199-2 is an International Standard, as of mid-July 2009. Not only this, but JPEG XR is also an ITU-T Recommendation (T.832), Microsoft has noted. The simplest way to think of the new, approved ISO/IEC International Standard is as the future of JPEG. As ubiquitous as JPEG is currently across all devices dealing with digital images, the file format is not without its shortcomings, especially those associated with picture quality. In this regard, Microsoft has developed what it was initially referring to as HD Photo. “JPEG XR is the standardized incarnation of HD Photo, an innovative new format for digital photos developed at Microsoft, and first shipped in Windows Vista. There are a few minor differences between HD Photo and JPEG XR; the!
se changes were the result of some excellent work by the JPEG Committee that helped insure the highest possible quality for the approved standard,” Bill Crow, Microsoft Seadragon group manager at Microsoft Live Labs, revealed. Having been approved as an international standard, JPEG XR is, of course, ...
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