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Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's not just like jpeg with extra channels. It's technically far superior, supports loss less compression, and the way the decompression works would make thumbnails obsolete. It can even recompress already existing JPEGs even smaller without additional generation loss. It's hard to describe what a major step this format would be without getting very technical. A lot of operating systems and software already support it, but the Google chrome team is practically preventing widespread adoption because of company politics.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40168998