This too shall pass, whatever will eventually become the standard, will be lossless, as it became with audio.
An 2 hour uncompressed 3840x2160 24 bit image stream at 120 fps is just shy of 20 TiB, which seems like a lot, it's more than some people have in their systems..
Let's say that 4 TiB is reasonably widespread.. Then that super extravagant movie clip is about 5 times the size of your average drive, what a waste!!!1one
well, sure, right now, but not in the future..
Point: in 1996 my harddrive had a formatted capacity just shy of 1 GiB of space Now my copy of the 1979 movie "Alien" takes up 16 GiB, or 16 times the size of my 1996 drive, which is even more extreme.
So sure, clever (lossy) image compression has its place in history, but it is going to fade, just as with audio, a lossless compression format will be the future.
well, sure, right now, but not in the future.. Point: in 1996 my harddrive had a formatted capacity just shy of 1 GiB of space Now my copy of the 1979 movie "Alien" takes up 16 GiB, or 16 times the size of my 1996 drive, which is even more extreme.
So sure, clever (lossy) image compression has its place in history, but it is going to fade, just as with audio, a lossless compression format will be the future.