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Originally Posted by sil
oh, like JPEG200 was the nail in the coffin for JPEG, and PNG was the nail in the coffin for JPEG? Nope, JPEG is too easy and robust a format to go away, maybe for official iphone camera app users but not many who rely on that.
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A technically better format with significant marketing push behind it could well be different, but we'll have to wait and see.
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Originally Posted by Steffen
That didn't seem to hinder JPEG's adoption.
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There were several companies that asserted they had patents that were infringed by JPEG and some managed to collect license fees, but I don't think any of the claims that have been finalised were successful.
LZW compression, as used in GIF files, was patented and did cause some grief (IIRC, PNG was a reaction to this). The patent was held by Unisys and has since expired.