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Friday, September 18, 2009
Software

Giz Explains: Microsoft, Standards And Damned Standards

4:00AM Matt Buchanan | The other week, we explained how Apple influences a ton of what goes on in tech by shaping industry-wide standards. This week, we’re gonna look at Microsoft and what’s it’s done with standards. More »
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Cameras

JPEG XR Means Faster Burst Shooting for Less-Than-Pro DSLRs

1:30PM Matt Buchanan | One obvious way to speed up continuous shooting bursts on DSLRs is to drop the image format down to JPEG, which takes less processing power to deal with than RAW. But, since JPEGs are compressed, you lose a lot of info, which doesn’t cut it for a lot of photo folk. Canon and Casio think Microsoft’s JPEG XR (formerly HD Photo) might be the middle-ground solution, especially for cheaper DSLRs.
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
Design

Microsoft’s HD Photo Is Official JPEG Successor, Redubbed JPEG XR

11:20AM Matt Buchanan | Microsoft’s HD Photo standard is now officially tapped to become JPEG’s successor by the Joint Photographic Experts Group, but it’ll be known as JPEG XR. XR stands for extended range, given the wider colour palette and finer gradations it can show. Other benefits include in-camera imaging processing support and, supposedly, better compression. Besides losing its Windows-y name (in a former life, it was Windows Media Photo) it’s dropping proprietary control by Microsoft to become as neutral as JPEG is now. Though support’s already built-in to Windows Vista, it’ll take a year to get standardized, at which point large-scale adoption will probably start picking up steam. [Cnet via Electronista] More »
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