Attached Link: Windows Media Photo link

Microsoft is promoting a new media format (.WDP) that will be an integral part of its upcoming VISTA OS. It is supposed to have a better quality at higher compression (clearer, smaller) than JPEG images. It has a host of other benefits as well, from retaining metadata, various colorspaces and even transparency. Is Windows trying to make JPEGs obsolete? Is that a good thing? Bad? It is a slow day here in the Forum so I thought I'd start this thread. Hey, anyone know why the Renderosity Galleries are so slow today?

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

*Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes, turn and face the strain, Ch-ch-Changes
*.. always something better around the corner..

i would imagine the conversion of the galleries has begun.. copying millions of images from one server to another causing a strain on the server in the way of site speed there

Ah, even more changes. Thanks, Rocket-Woman!

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

hi TwoPynts,

I could not answer your questions. As all new products, I prefer letting through some time and afterwards I look at comments in the computer forums...

kiss

 

I do hope they open up the format so other platforms may use them as well. Imagine what would happen if you're using it on your website and then a linux or mac user comes along and can't view it because MS doesn't expose the format.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
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I would think that if it was not open, it would be a potential minefield for anyone to use it. If they want a cross platform format.

Hopefully MS won’t be allowed to keep it just for MS users/systems but stranger things have happened.

Still it is far to early to speculate or even have an opinion, but I guess there is room for improvement to the current Jpeg standards. Time will tell.

 

Jpeg (love it or hate it) is a very well established format, so I would think it would take a long tome to replace it completely (if that is even possible) assuming that older browsers/software wont be able to display the MS format

 

They wouldn’t have made the cane if you weren’t meant to break the rules

yep & yep again.. ready for anything.. it's a wait & see.. & here's a CC post on the speed:

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2650488 

:unsure:

 

microsoft is in business to create obsolescence....create and re-create should be their motto  :)

So, who uses .png?          TomDart

I do for some things.

They wouldn’t have made the cane if you weren’t meant to break the rules

I think I've used .png -- maybe once?

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations