On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:48:50 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

>In article <404b7a76@news.povray.org> , Lutz-Peter Hooge <lpv### [at] gmxde> 
>wrote:
>
>> Unlikely, I doubt there is any sigificant market for graphics viewer
>> utilities even on windows. So I don't think support for jpeg2k will
>> be brought to other systems by commercial software.
>
>Actually, on Mac OS QuickTime supports it.  So in just about any decent Mac
>OS newsreader and web browser one can view the image inline.  Still, there
>is no value added by it being JPEG 2000 and in 16 bits per color component.

The value is in the better compression.

>Even the most fancy hardware money can buy these days offers more than 10
>bit of depth for display.  And I don't know about any hardware that uses
>more than 12 bit for gamma correction.
>
>    Thorsten
>
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