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.

savageorange said:
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Internet speeds are improving everywhere all the time. It's less and less of a factor, though that might just be the fact that I'm a privileged Westerner speaking. Even so, I have read a bit about technologies like JPEG 2000, which can apparently losslessly convert from JPG and get like a 40% size decrease. I just wonder why something like that hasn't happened already, given how audio and video technology has developed.

I'm just a dork when it comes to compression so this sort of thing interests me. I'd like to see some developments in an area that's remained rather stagnant.

I'd also point out that larger screens just keep getting cheaper and cheaper. It was 1080p, then 1440p, then 4K.