Comments on: Microsoft hopes scRGB will improve photo colors

Technology called scRGB provides a new way to describe colors, and Microsoft hopes it will improve photos taken by digital cameras and shown on computers.

[yalahao]

Interesting

This is funny: the two comparing pictures here are both jpeg, aren't they?

I doubt the difference we see here is because of the different color spaces, or different Photoshop processing...

[Ilgaz]

Windows only

MS, stop joking. Where is the OS X support mentioned? The OS of
DTP Pros, movie pros not getting support eh?

Good luck with your new standard (!).

[three_toed_frog]

Ugh. Blind rage.

The point of making something a "standard" is to get everyone to adopt it.

Microsoft has no control over what Apple does or does not include in their OS. ScRBG implementation would fall upon Apple to integrate it into their OS.

[inachu]

International standards body will hate this.

Of course current browser will not be able to view these picture but a red X will be shown instead.

I can feel Microsoft trying to cripple the internet already.

[KTLA_knew]

Like a book!

Man, glad I'm not the only one smart enough to realize MS has cleverly gone to all this effort in an attempt to destroy the internet!

[HaveSomeTea]

Will it make the Blue Screen of Death bluer?

How about the Xbox Red Ring of Death, will it make it a really nice red?

[ewelch]

Zero chance of succeeding

Nobody serious about photography is going to take Microsoft's
faux-open file format as an alternative to TIF or PSD. Adobe
certainly isn't going to help them. They are competitors.
Microsoft is trying to kill off PDF with some lame technology.

As for adopting this new color space, if it proves to be superior
to AdobeRGB I'll be happy to use it. It's not hard to implement in
software. But getting camera makers and professionals to buy
into something that is not superior is going to be impossible.

As for the sample photos showing the difference between jpeg
and Microsoft's HD (buzzword complaince is not enough, stop
ripping off High Definition's caché Microsoft!) substitute for JPEG
is bogus. I could make any jpeg look as good as the photo on
the right, and with a little manipulation make the one on the
right look like the one on the left.

It's utter nonsense to claim jpegs can't produce good quality
images. Be that as it may, RAW is the future of serious
photography. I can only imagine Microsoft will probably try to
pretend this new format is like a RAW file format.

[bemenaker]

If it's in the cameras, it'll fly

Camera makers are already talking about switching to this color space. That will put it out there. JPG's aren't bad, but JPG2000 is way better, but unfortunately, not that widely used. TIFF, is high end stuff only, PSD is for manipulation, and Raw is raw, great to work with, but you don't use raw as your final format to display.

[brownshawny]

Then should the monitor that displays scRGB images also have to equip the same color gamut specification as scRGB ? I don't think there'll be any monitor which could display beyond 0 and above 1 (in terms of c/g).

Or can I just put my 3 year old Samsung Syncmaster, with Windows 7 running on it? Then does W7 automatically show wide color gamut (=scRGB) ?