[faissaloo]

well which is your favorite file type for the above?

[CoffeeFiend]

The question doesn't even make sense. They all have different purposes, they are for different needs.

.PNG is a modern-day GIF, for indexed colors (GIF still being useful for animated pictures)
.JPEG is a lossy format, for things with too much colors for an indexed format (photos mainly)
.TIFF is a lossless format
and you're missing .PSD, many other picture formats, and all the vector type stuff too.

.TXT is raw text.
.DOCX is simply a modern .DOC (which is best for antique versions of MS Office) i.e. formatted text
.RTF is more of a niche format which very little people use (along with .ODF, .WPD and others)

.avi is a ghetto but extremely common container (mainly used for older xvid and divx codecs) which says absolutely nothing of what's inside or its quality
.wmv is Microsoft's proprietary format
.MOV is Apple's proprietary Quicktime format
and you're missing the modern-day avi replacement: .mkv and also .mp4 (both often used for H.264/AAC content)

It makes absolutely no sense to pick just one option, and none are inherently better than the other two. They're all useful for different things, so you just use the one that works best for what you have to do. The question might as well have been:

What's best?

[ ] spoon
[ ] fork
[ ] knife

[ ] car
[ ] boat
[ ] plane

[ ] screwdriver
[ ] hammer
[ ] saw

[ ] bed
[ ] kitchen table
[ ] chair

[ ] refrigerator
[ ] stove
[ ] dishwasher

and so on. You're choosing between dissimilar things, used for different purposes, so it makes no sense to pick one over another.

[Tripredacus]

CoffeeFiend, on 09 January 2012 - 04:05 PM, said:

[ ] hammer
[ ] saw

I see, said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.

[faissaloo]

CoffeeFiend, on 09 January 2012 - 04:05 PM, said:

The question might as well have been:

What's best?

[ ] spoon
[ ] fork
[ ] knife

[ ] car
[ ] boat
[ ] plane

[ ] screwdriver
[ ] hammer
[ ] saw

[ ] bed
[ ] kitchen table
[ ] chair

[ ] refrigerator
[ ] stove
[ ] dishwasher

and so on. You're choosing between dissimilar things, used for different purposes, so it makes no sense to pick one over another.

well I can answer them for you!

1.spoon
2.car
3.hammer
3.bed
4.dishwasher

say you made a piece of artwork and wanted to save it to show your friend when you go to their house which picture format would you use?

This post has been edited by faissaloo: 11 January 2012 - 03:16 PM

[CoffeeFiend]

faissaloo, on 11 January 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

1.spoon
2.car
3.hammer
3.bed
4.dishwasher

Pfft. You got them all wrong

faissaloo, on 11 January 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

say you made a piece of artwork and wanted to save it to show your friend when you go to their house which picture format would you use?

I'd show it to them on nice fuji crystal archive paper or perhaps even a giclée or canvas print