{"id":19,"date":"2007-01-31T04:03:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/hd-photo-will-be-awesome-in-2010\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:29:36","slug":"hd-photo-will-be-awesome-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/hd-photo-will-be-awesome-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"HD Photo will be awesome&#8230;  In 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Nack&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/01\/hd_photo_format.html\">post<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/billcrow\/archive\/2006\/11\/17\/introducing-hd-photo.aspx\">HD Photo<\/a> reminded me that I wanted to write something about this.  HD Photo is part of Vista and used to be called Windows Meda Photo.  It&#8217;s a new file format for representing images, which looks to be superior to JPEG in every way except one.   Apparently, Microsoft holds some <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/billcrow\/archive\/2006\/06\/30\/651898.aspx\">patents<\/a> on HD Photo which don&#8217;t expire until (at least) 2010.  That means that it won&#8217;t be possible to build open source implementations of HD Photo.   There is a lot of code out in the world that relies on an open source JPEG decompressor, and that code isn&#8217;t going to be able to do HD Photo for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Technically HD Photo sounds great, and as a photographer I can easily appreciate the benefits of the new format.  But this reminds me of the whole proprietary RAW format issue.   People are recording their life in their photos, and it&#8217;s important for them to know that they will be able to bring those photographs forward with them no matter what file format they chose.   I think that Microsoft could set themselves apart as a leader here by changing the licensing of HD Photo.  They&#8217;ve already <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/billcrow\/archive\/2006\/11\/17\/introducing-hd-photo.aspx\">done it once<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1012_3-6154067.html\">opened up PDF<\/a> this week.  It would be awesome for photographers and the users of digital pictures if Microsoft would do the same for HD Photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Nack&#8217;s post on HD Photo reminded me that I wanted to write something about this. HD Photo is part of Vista and used to be called Windows Meda Photo. It&#8217;s a new file format for representing images, which looks to be superior to JPEG in every way except one. Apparently, Microsoft holds some patents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[134,140],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-photography","tag-open-source","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phUVc-j","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}