Posted by David Z on 11/30/05 04:07

Ok, but what about digital photos? All consumer digital cameras
automatically save the images in JPEG format, you don't even get a choice
about whether you want lossy or not.

"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
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> David Z (dave@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> Who on earth wants or needs a lossless signal? Who is still using WAV
>> audio
>> or Bitmaps for photos? Not many people I know.
>
> Then, you don't know anybody that cares about quality. I don't store my
> music files as WAV, but I do store them lossless (at about 2:1
> compression).
> For portable use, they get converted to MP3, but I still have the full-
> quality original when I need it.
>
> For video, I always save to lossless before editing my own stuff
> (temporary
> recordings that are having commercials cut can stay in MPEG), and quite
> often
> keep a copy of all but the worst original footage forever in a lossless
> format so that I can always go back and do it again.
>
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