On this particular day of this month, in the Year Of The Golden Pig, The
Old Bloke did state:

There is a higher depth jpeg (jpeg2000, I think) but I don't use it.
It's a rare format and I don't trust trust it to supported in 20 years time.

It's not even supported now, AFAIK. Haven't seen one in over a year, and
even then the poster got blasted for using it.

I think PNG will be around for a while; it at least is being used, but
mostly as a hi-res high-colour GIF would be because it has transparency
capabilities.

Filesizes are out of line, though. If they can get that under control, it
might hang around a while.

Meanwhile, the JPEG crowd (Joint Photographic Expert Group) are trying (or
were) to grab royalties as a propriety format. If they ever succeeded,
which is about as likely as me inheriting the British Crown Jewels, it
would be a revenue-neutral business.


SW


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Yes, there's a bitch that replies to me, kinda telling me the
problem's with the Canadian Shaw's personnel. But prescience pays off and
long as you violate the groups charter, or just Usenet's common decency,
I'll be there to report you. You being a traitor is a especial incentive.