Frogboy

JPEG: Time to pay up!!!

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Frogboy

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JPEG: Time to pay up!!!

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July 23, 2002 8:57 PM from

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Most of the images on this site use JPEG (.jpg) for images.

JPEG uses a patented algorithm to do its thing. Now, after many years of royalty free use of that algorithm, the holder of the patent wants to start charging money for it!

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Reply #26 July 26, 2002 1:14 AM from

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JPG is still useful over PNG in some situations, and therefore this will still be a loss. But as has been said, it won't affect those in the software arena as seriously as those working with hardware. Hopefully the new JPG2K will not have any problems of this sort.

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