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[Snuffy]

Microsoft formally announces HD Photo format

Microsoft have formally announced their new HD Photo format at the Photo Marketing Association International Conference in Las Vegas.



HD Photo is "a new file format for end-to-end digital photography that offers higher image quality, greater preservation of data, and advanced features for today?s digital-imaging applications."



Microsoft claims that HD Photo "offers the best solution for digital image editing and storage and unlocks the potential for digital photography on devices, applications and services".



Microsoft have announced that they intend to have HD Photo standardized, and will submit the format to an appropriate standards organization shortly.



News Source: Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...HDPhotoPR.mspx

According to Microsoft's press statement, "HD Photo offers compression with up to twice the efficiency of JPEG, with fewer damaging artifacts, resulting in higher-quality images that are one-half the file size.



"In addition, HD Photo offers increased image fidelity, preserving the entire original image content and enabling higher-quality exposure and color adjustments in the image. This new format offers the ability to decode only the information needed for any resolution or region, or the option to manipulate the image as compressed data."

[dazzlin]

Sounds cool. Hopefully, it works as well as they say.

[ProCookie]

if its as good quality as HD-DVD then i will be happy