HD Photo Now JPEG XR
Back in March I mentioned that Microsoft is trying to standardize it’s HD Photo format as the official successor to the ever so popular JPEG format. Well it’s now looking to become JPEG XR.
Suprisingly it’s still not listed on Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise where Microsoft lists things it won’t sue over. Hopefully they will update that soon. My understanding from what I’ve read is that’s the intent.
It’s a pretty interesting thing going on. Video on the web has improved by leaps and bounds over the years from a tiny grainy video object that took a decade to load, to instantly loading and still improving quality Flash / Windows Media / QuickTime. Photos on the other hand have been using JPEG for pretty much a decade. Most photography buffs don’t seem to fond of JPEG because it can degrade picture quality, but still love services like Flickr.
Will JPEG XR spark a photo revolution by allowing better quality?
Tags: flash, hd-photo, image, jpeg, jpeg xr, licensing, microsoft, open specification promise
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Will Firefox support JPEG XR? It would be great if it could before IE.
Or are you waiting until (if) it gets standardized?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I’m virtually certain it will wait until it’s standardized before it’s even considered.