JPEG2000 Anyone?

**jimhanus** · 06 February 2020, 10:59 PM

I know it's been quite a long time, just wondering if anyone has stayed up on where it's headed, if anywhere.

**AndFarr** · 06 February 2020, 11:44 PM

I've been playing with them lately as they seem like they should be the obvious choice, given that they can resolve many more shades of color, fewer artifacts, and in my experimentation, smaller in file size. However, the format isn't universally supported so that is the major drawback.

I tried to upload a jpg2000 image file into this message and it was rejected as an unsupported file type.
Sheesh !

**jimhanus** · 07 February 2020, 10:01 AM

AndFarr,
Thank you for your info. Very enlightening.

Jim

**pauland** · 07 February 2020, 10:23 AM

Jpeg2000 - the Betamax of jpeg formats..

**handrawn** · 07 February 2020, 11:27 AM

even svg took its time....

**jimhanus** · 07 February 2020, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

Jpeg2000 - the Betamax of jpeg formats..

**MarcT** · 07 February 2020, 01:44 PM

Kind of sad, it even supported transparency.

Marc

**TheeeDragon** · 14 February 2020, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

Jpeg2000 - the Betamax of jpeg formats..

big smile from me !

**jeebes** · 16 February 2020, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by pauland

Jpeg2000 - the Betamax of jpeg formats..

Could not agree more.

The JPG 2000 was never intended to replace the ubiquitous JPG format and the standard has not been updated for 7 years.

For transparency support there is the PNG file format which, IMHO, is better than the lossy JPeg2000 and is equal to the the lossless JPeg2000.