I tested the JPEG 2000 (JP2) format support in IrfanView 4 and was very surprised that it still demands payment or something and displays a nag box, even when saving a small picture. The loading of the tested 640*480 file was extremely slow both at moderate jpeg-level quality (141 ms) and lossless (266 ms), even compared to PNG (31 ms). The speed penalty is definitely noticeable with both several megapixel photo and any print job.
The storage space is so cheap now that more and more people are storing lossless audio and graphics, and keep original compressed MPEG-2 video without transforming (I intentionally did not use the term "lossless" here). Do you think a paid or patent-encumbered format has any chance of being accepted today? Even Microsoft renamed their wavelet format to HD so that it would seem more appealing during the today's HD-video craze.
The storage space is so cheap now that more and more people are storing lossless audio and graphics, and keep original compressed MPEG-2 video without transforming (I intentionally did not use the term "lossless" here). Do you think a paid or patent-encumbered format has any chance of being accepted today? Even Microsoft renamed their wavelet format to HD so that it would seem more appealing during the today's HD-video craze.
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