What do you think of Google's new image format?

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DarkLordofthePenguins

Posted 04 October 2010 - 09:47 AM

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Google's new VP8-based image format could replace JPEG

Do you think this will really supplant JPEG as the standard for lossy bitmap graphics compression?

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Posted 04 October 2010 - 03:18 PM

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It depends on how hard it will be to implement, both for viewing in web pages and creating the files with editors.

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Posted 04 October 2010 - 03:44 PM

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Google has been relatively successful so far, I find no reason to doubt this new image format will be good, stable, and efficient. I could, of course, be wrong.

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Posted 04 October 2010 - 09:38 PM

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Especially with the cost of bandwidth in a majority of specialized infrastructures today a better format would be most welcomed. A "big company" is all that we needed, to put out the format and advertise it. Theora formats were lucky to be included as an HTML5 spec, it's good to see another one come into the mix.

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Posted 06 October 2010 - 10:56 AM

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Wow, never thought of new image formats... It is a great idea.
PS. Is Chrome OS a good system? I think of switching to linux, any recommendations for an OS I might like?

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Posted 06 October 2010 - 03:44 PM

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AdvMutant said:

Wow, never thought of new image formats... It is a great idea.
PS. Is Chrome OS a good system? I think of switching to linux, any recommendations for an OS I might like?

Chrome OS is a minimalistic OS that is stripped of everything except for the Chrome browser and a media player, which means it does everything online. It's an attempt by Google to make the next giant step forward in the move towards cloud computing. It's good to have on a netbook that you want to carry around with you so you can stop and check your email or Facebook when you're on the run, for instance. But it's not a fully functional OS. If it's Linux itself you're interested in, I would suggest using one of the mainstream distros like Ubuntu, Debian, or Mandriva.

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Posted 24 October 2010 - 03:43 PM

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Could be good... I hate JPEG Every time i save a image it ruins it.
I spent a couple of boat rides working an a map then accidently saved it as a JPEG now its al blurry.
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So yeah Google's image format might be good.

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