From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Ho hum...Yet another MS attempt to own a market. Won't happen anymore than
with the MP3.

Again it's the "good enough" factor i.e. for the vast bulk of
people with digicams, the quality right now is if anything too good (images
are too sharp & realistic & the filesizes are too large).

Adam

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> I wonder if you'll have to submit your photos for wga certification?
>
> http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8636
>
> Microsoft will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards
> organisation (ISO) that it says offers higher-quality images with better
> compression.
>
> Although JPEG is aging, it has been modified to help keep it up to date. The
> latest JPEG 2000 format features better image quality while also supporting
> lossless and lossy compression. The original JPEG did only lossy.
> Time will tell whether HD Photo can supplant JPEG by gaining the support of
> printer, camera and application vendors. But Microsoft is supporting the
> format in products such as its Windows Vista and XP OSes and has already
> gained an important vendor ally.
>
> In the next two months, Adobe and Microsoft will release plug-ins for the
> CS3 and CS2 versions of its widely used Photoshop program for Vista, XP and
> Apple's OS X. Also, Microsoft also has built a HD Photo Device Porting Kit
> so hardware manufacturers can support it.
>
>

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