Re: raw pictures in mediacenter....not, although it could just be

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Both valid points, with the following observations...

- Jpeg + RAW eats up aprox. 30% of a DSLR's valuable memory, along with
camera performance - due to bufferering from shoot to shoot, having to
process / compress / write. (This is in the manual of a Nikon D300)

- Proposed alternatives are not really solutions, rather work-arounds, not
addresing the root cause of the problem, which is there's room for
improvement.

- The underestimated 1 percent, is probably the same 1 percent of WMC users
- more likely the high-end user, that owns a high-end WMC edition computer,
along with a high-end camera.

Bottom line, why wouldn't you want WMC make the pricut better, have the
native Pic Viewer able to support RAW and any other format for that matter?
It enhances the product and user experience, making it the one stop shop for
all media.

If you have a hi-def 16:9 - 1080p capable flat screen tv with 7.1 surround
system, you want to watch 1080p tv or movies someday, why settle for Standard
Definition 4:3 image with mono audio?


"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:

lsourdis wrote:
I think everyone is missing sferguso@xxxxxxxxx 's point:

Yes we know we can burn CDs and DVDs outside Windows Media Center, yes we
know we can view pics from outside Windows Media Center, but no, you CAN NOT
view RAW (NEF or other format) pictures when you want to put a slide show in
WIndows Media Center in your big 16:9 HD flat screen TV.

Major short coming that windows media center pictures viewer skips anything
that is not jpeg.

Windows Media Center Ultimate or XP, same thing - There's a proliferation of
pro-consumer cameras shooting in RAW format, therefore this is a need not a
want.

However, I believe that less than 1% of digital camera users store
photos in raw format. It's not an unreasonable tradeoff.

It isn't much of a hardship for "raw" users to create .jpg's of photos
to view a slideshow--in fact many cameras save a .jpg simultaneously
with the "raw" file.

Look how long it took for Photoshop--for which a much larger fraction of
users use raw format--to open raw images. Of course, the proliferation
of proprietary "raw" formats doesn't help...

-michael

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