Comments on: Stoked for HD Photo

By: Mitchel Tyrell

Mitchel Tyrell — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:47:45 +0000

Hey Ryan, you should check this out about HD Photo
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=297447

By: Ryan Block

Ryan Block — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:23:33 +0000

When it finalizes under Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise that means it’s free IP afaik, although I suppose they would continue to control the standard. They want people to develop for it, that’s the whole idea. As for Flickr, well, it’s less about whether photo sharing services support it, and more about whether the browsers do.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:31:28 +0000

1. Will it be safe to write software for, or will we be sued into oblivion or otherwise limited?

2. Does it work on Flickr?

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:55:31 +0000

Yeah, JPEG 2000, that was sad, wasn’t it?

By: Titanas

Titanas — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:24:03 +0000

IMHO the user base and the vast majority of applications and products designed and built for JPEG will take a while till it's phased out. I assume that an overlap will be introduced with products supporting the HD Photo format but don't forget what happened / what is happening with MP3 and OGG for instance. It would also be interesting to see what the chip manufacturers have to say for hardware encoding / decoding of the format, power consumption, integration with existing chip technology etc. An interesting reference is "Microsoft claims that HD Photo offers a "perceptible image quality comparable to JPEG 2000 with computational and memory performance more closely comparable to JPEG and delivers a lossy compressed image of better perceptive quality than JPEG at less than half the file size, and that the lossless compression compresses images 2.5 times"."