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minus-squareAnyOldName3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·edit-23 hours agoThe compression technique it used was patented, and the licence fee was extortionate. By the time the patent expired, other, royalty-free, techniques were available that outperformed it.
minus-squareAnyOldName3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoOops. I’d somehow missed that there was now a third kind of JPEG.
The compression technique it used was patented, and the licence fee was extortionate. By the time the patent expired, other, royalty-free, techniques were available that outperformed it.You’re thinking of jpeg2000
Oops. I’d somehow missed that there was now a third kind of JPEG.