A case against JPG

[J-Excel]

Didn't the patent holders for jpg say they were going to start charging for the use of the jpg format a few months ago? I remember something along those lines.


EDIT: yeppers (googled it)... http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupda...875443,00.html

[dunbar]

I work for a company involved in digital image printing..... lossy compression, image format and such are terms I am accustomed to hearing in our graphics department.
PNG format? I am not accustomed to hearing about PNG inside my employers realms - not at all - but I already knew about it from Linux - seems that Linux likes PNG for such things as Icons and wallpaper. Now I have a website to send them to.

Nice work OuTpaTienT!

[GroundZero3]

very informative article out!

good work!

[J-Excel]

I was a Dreamcast h4x0r. The first time I heard of PNG was when a util came out to put your own logo on the DC splash screen. It used the PNG format.

[SpookyEddy]

Nice article, may be worth mentioning that you can actually get perfect quality jpeg compression if you opt to use "lossless jpeg" (obsolete, poor compression ratio & not well supported) or, I think, jpeg-ls (better compression but also has poor support). I assume you are talking about baseline jpeg compression, which is indeed incapable of ever producing "perfect" quality output. Not that it really matters, I was just bored at work

Later

eddy

[JayMan]

Hey does anyone know much/anything about jpeg2000? Cuz photoimpact allows that as a format, has the option for lossless compression.

Never really used it tho, figured nothing much would support it since i had never heard anything about it .

JayMan

[fatal xception]

Excellent article, Out...thanks.

[Mitchell]

Nicely done!

[Theophylact]

Thanks! Will try.

[Martoch]

Thanks KK...