Microsoft Introduces WDP Image Format
A direct competitor to JPEG for in-device image storage, the new format promises much smaller file sizes than JPEG with image quality similar to JPEG 2000. Microsoft today introduced Windows Media Photo, a new image format using the WDP file extension that promises "image quality comparable to JPEG 2000 with computational and memory performance more closely comparable to JPEG." The WDP compression algorithm is efficient enough to run in-device...
