Friday, January 26, 2007
HD photo
CNET news has a reasonably informative article on Microsoft's HD Photo format, formerly known as Windows Media Photo. It's intended to compete directly against JPEG, and claims several advantages, including built-in thumbnails, greater compression with equivalent quality, 16 bits per color, and optional lossless compression (which is also available in JPEG but is little used).
The article says that "HD Photo uses Microsoft's scRGB color space, which spans a much wider gamut of possible colors than the universally supported but widely derided sRGB scheme." This isn't much of a claim, since no one's going to use sRGB for quality work in any format.
# posted by Gary McGath @ 4:10 PM 
