My understanding was that PNG is FLAC and JPG is MP3. We've seen so many advancements in both audio and video codecs (e.g. Opus and H.264 and H.265, as well as upcoming ones like VP1) yet images, which are simpler than everything aforementioned, is still the same old, same old. Very ironic. In 2023, we still use uncompressed .gifs.
Given how storage is dirt cheap and grows cheaper seemingly every week, I do wonder if we should just move to lossless for everything.
peacethroughpower said:
My understanding was that PNG is FLAC and JPG is MP3. We've seen so many advancements in both audio and video codecs (e.g. Opus and H.264 and H.265, as well as upcoming ones like VP1) yet images, which are simpler than everything aforementioned, is still the same old, same old. Very ironic. In 2023, we still use uncompressed .gifs.Given how storage is dirt cheap and grows cheaper seemingly every week, I do wonder if we should just move to lossless for everything.
Size is still important for web sites to get consistently good load times.
For the individual, storage getting cheaper means there is no significant demand for better image formats, so whatever better formats there are, why bother adopting them?
A drastic increase in display resolution is the only thing that comes to mind which would create that demand.
