Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: New image format

Industrial One <industrial_one@hotmail.com> writes:
> On Nov 22, 10:18 pm, He's Late <betterl...@never.net> wrote:
>> Doesn't matter, he's way too late. The new HD Photo 16-bit-support
>> image format is already being supported in programs like PhotoLine
>> 32. It's already doing all that stuff.

Microsoft has a verrrry bad record of foisting really crappy data
formats on the world.

Previously they tried to foist a not-very-good HDR image format called
"scRGB".  Here's a detail description of HDR encodings that discusses
some of the problems with scRGB:

   http://www.anyhere.com/gward/hdrenc/hdr_encodings.html

"HD photo" seems to incorporate scRGB in some form, which doesn't bode
well for its suitability as an HDR encoding...

[Microsoft, of course, doesn't really care, as long as they own the
patents to everything, they're happy whether or not the result sucks.]

> > Started by Vista, one of the few things that Gates did right.
>
> Who are you? And Vista = reeking garbage masked by a sweet-smelling
> perfume.

Well at least that's one things most people can agree on:  Vista sucks.

-Miles

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