ISO may withdraw the JPEG standard

[cavingjan]

This is an interesting turn of events. I wonder which organization will make the motion and even more curious as to whether it would have the votes necessary to pass a withdrawal.
Here is the article.

 

[Electrode]

cool!

the only thing I'm starting to wonder is, what will the new standard for high-color inline graphics? PNG doesn't compress enough, and GIF and JPG are now proprietary (because of patent-whoring motherfvckers). What are we to do?

 

[cavingjan]

If the question of "what do we use now?" is being brought up now, that means that there isn't a replacement ready and the time it would take to get another standard setup (even a provisional one) through a standards orginzation prior to even going to the ISO level, isn't looking promising for the short term. The time frame would put it about the same time that the patents run out in 2003/4.

 

[SSP]

Yeah... what the heck are we gona use if they take down Jpeg? Those fsckers should go back to hell! This is only going to kill the format, and it'll be useless for them to keep the patent.

 

[Derango]

PNG is pretty much the leading contender right now, even though it doesn't compress as much. It is an open format, so we won't have to deal with any of this patent crap.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Derango
PNG is pretty much the leading contender right now, even though it doesn't compress as much. It is an open format, so we won't have to deal with any of this patent crap.

Maybe. GIF was open until the Unisys scum crawled from under their rock, JPEG was open until these nice folks showed up, even OpenGL is under attack from the patents MS bought from SGI. Open is only open until some greedy company does an IP search and finds something vaguely connected.

 

[Harvey]

Remember, it's The Register.

 

[cavingjan]

But assuming the Forgent claim is correct, ISO along with ANSI, ASTM and a variety of other standards organisations both in the US and abroad have similar rules so I can't see that part as being incorrect. How long before this happens would vary.

 

[Vinster]

This might speed up the transition to JPEG 2000. (Check the JPEG official site for more info.)

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: Vinster
This might speed up the transition to JPEG 2000. (Check the JPEG official site for more info.)

how good is this