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• Microsoft's HD Photo format considered for new JPEG standard

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: Hd Photo, Hdphoto, Jpeg, Jpeg Xr, Jpegxr, Microsoft, Standard, Windows Media Photo, Windowsmediaphoto

  Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) is contemplating standardization of its "HD Photo" format for still images (tentatively named JPEG XR), which was introduced with Vista. Originally called Windows Media Photo, the new format apparently offers higher compression efficiency, better image fidelity, and more flexible editing options in both lossy

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• Microsoft's HD Photo picked to succeed JPEG

  Published: November 2, 2007, 10:16 pm

  Tags: Hd Photo, Hdphoto, Jpeg, Jpeg Xr, Jpegxr, Jpg, Jpx, Microsoft, Windows Media Photo, Windowsmediaphoto

  Laptops The venerable JPEG image-compression standard is about to get a little bigger -- the international committee that regulates the standard just approved the creation of a format called JPEG XR based on Microsoft's HD Photo spec. The Joint Photographic Experts Committee started looking at standardizing HD Photo last month (formerly

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• Microsoft's HD Photo Is Official JPEG Successor, Redubbed JPEG XR [Next Gen]

  Published: November 2, 2007, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Gadgets, Hd Photo, Jpeg, Jpeg Xr, Next Gen, Photography, Photos, Standards

  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 color 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

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• Microsoft's HD Photo Is Official JPEG Successor, Redubbed JPEG XR

  Published: November 2, 2007, 9:20 pm

  Tags: Creative, Jpeg, Jpeg Xr, Microsoft, Photos, Standards

  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

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

  Published: February 6, 2008, 10:30 pm

  Tags: Cameras, Burst Shooting, Canon, Casio, Digital Cameras, Dslr, Hd Photo, Jpeg, Jpeg Xr, Microsoft

  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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