> Anyone here willing to discuss the JPEG2000 format and its use in
> these groups?

It's simple: the JPEG2000 format isn't integrated in many newsreader, e.g.
Outlook doesn't understand it. AFAIK the JPEG2000 posted in binaries.images
wasn't viewable by many frequenters of these groups, and requiring IrfanView
with some update or some other app to view the image isn't really nice. But
it's not up to me, but to the Administrators.

My position would be: I won't be able to view the image "off the shelf", so
I'll most likely not see the images and thus won't be able to comment on
them. That aside, the newsgroups aren't meant to be a personal gallery with
100% accurate images, but rather a presentation platform from which you can
get comments and critique. If you want to really showcase the images, put
them on your website for download, and place a nice jpeg here. People
interested may still get the better version to comment on that. That's my
opinion.

> Personally, as I said, I would really like to see this format accepted
> for use in the image group. It seems that the arguments against it are
> mainly related to people's inertia to install the required software,
> but that personally smacks of laziness and allows the major software
> vendors to sit on their hands. If you sit still, you are going to find
> yourself more and more in difficulty trying to deal with what the rest
> of the graphics community is up to.

Well, my Internet Explorer doesn't show JPEG2000 either. And I'm not willing
to download every JPEG2000 image I find to view them with some image-app.
And I'm not so sure about "the rest of graphics community": I'm a frequent
visitor at the CGTalk Forums, and they're still using jpeg, and I haven't
heard of many people there being really annoyed by jpeg. Course, every now
and then there's a "with jpeg, some details get lost", but then they just
post another close-up.

Look at it this way: you want comments? Then supply the image so that people
may easily view them. You can't expect much when you're requiring people to
do "work" for free (downloading, starting the app, looking at the image).
But, as I said, it's up to the admins here.

Regards,
Tim

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"Tim Nikias v2.0"
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Email: tim.nikias (@) nolights.de

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