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Microsoft shows off JPEG rival
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| 24 May 2006
| Joris Evers
Posted on 05/25/2006 10:29:34 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:29:38 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:30:06 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Of course, you have to install Microsoft Eyeballstm to see them.
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:31:55 AM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: ShadowAce
It's a great money making opportunity for Micro$oft. Think of future versions with DRM built in!
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:32:43 AM PDT
by
blowfish
To: atomicpossum
To: ShadowAce
Didn't read it all.
Backward compatible?
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:34:54 AM PDT
by
Radix
(Stop domestic violence. Beat abroad.)
To: Radix
Backward to what? This is a brand new spec.
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:35:37 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
JPEG is the standard, is it not? Virtually every Internet graphic is in JPEG format (with a few GIFs thrown in). Personal digital cameras format pics in JPEG. So, why does Microsoft think it's necessary to come up with a new format?...Oh yeah. *Monopoly*
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:38:33 AM PDT
by
Kenny Bunkport
(As the Democrat Party becomes more evil, the GOP becomes more stupid. What's a voter to do?)
To: ShadowAce
Microsoft perhaps had come up with a better name... these things will be called WiMP's in no time flat!
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:39:12 AM PDT
by
Fudd
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:40:43 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: atomicpossum
Actually, you have to license "Microsoft eyeballs", which is sold as a web based service. Microsoft will see things for you, and then assign someone in India to describe them to you in incredible detail. All for pennies on the dollar compared to an American performing the same service.
Periodically, they will "upgrade" the package by describing it to you in another language more suited to the esoteric features of the picture being viewed, and for another small upgrade fee you can then have that translated back to a language you understand.
Resistance is futile.
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:40:58 AM PDT
by
tcostell
(MOLON LABE)
To: blowfish
I shudder to think of DRM being applied to still photos, but the concept is nothing new. Film photographers have used all kinds of techniques to keep proofs from being stored or copied.
Hight res digital images now have watermarks, some visible, unless you buy the rights. The companies that make watermarking software charge a fee per image. If Microsoft gets into this business, it will just be another competetor.
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:41:18 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
I stay from Microsoft proprietary formats. They pissed me off when they threatened to sue the author of VirtualDub over his support of WMV.
To: antiRepublicrat
I am not so sure that M$ is any longer helping the market place or the advancement of technology.
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:45:56 AM PDT
by
DonaldC
To: ShadowAce
Another incompatible brick in the archive wall...
We are almost guaranteed, at this point that the next generation, certainly the following one, will be unable to view images we all are carefully attempting to preserve.
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:49:47 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: martin_fierro
Sorry, all my pictures are incompatible with the new "improved" formats...
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:51:15 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: Kenny Bunkport
It's the standard for high-content images (photos, etc.). GIFs serve an entirely different purpose (low-content-- logos, etc.).
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:55:37 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: ShadowAce
"JPEG" will be replaced "WiMP?"
Well, since its Microsoft...
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posted on
05/25/2006 10:56:59 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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