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HD Photo Device Porting Kit 1.0 (also known as Windows Media Photo)

Time: 12:36 EST/17:36 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein

HD Photo is the new name for Windows Media Photo. Both names refer to the exact same file format. The Windows Media Photo name is still used to describe the implementation of HD Photo in Microsoft Windows products. HD Photo is used in XML Paper Specification (XPS) to delivers a lightweight, high performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding. It delivers compression quality comparable with JPEG-2000 and more than twice the quality of JPEG. Most technologies in the JPEG XR Standard are based on the HD Photo file format. The JPEG XR Standard is also known as the ISO/IEC Standard 29199-2 and as the ITU-T Recommendation T.832.