The small screen format and variable delivery speeds force us to think differently about the medium.
However, his films have been released in the big-screen IMAX format, which has similarly expensive tickets, but is less widespread.
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Lenssen does not plan to port his games to laptops, desktops or video game consoles, noting that he prefers the tablet format and touch-screen.
He believes that newspapers are easy to replace because their format is adaptable to the screen but reading longer passages of texts with images are not.
"It doesn't quite feel like being at the concert but it does feel like the next best thing, " said Screen Daily editor Wendy Mitchell of the 3D format.
As for the video player we had to stick to MP4 format and nothing larger than the screen's resolution -- the standard iPod video settings worked like a charm (we had 900kbps and 30fps encoded by Xvid).
"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.
"Right now the future is looking kind of cloudy, " said a sales representative at a San Francisco Bay Area Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ) when asked about the HD DVD format on President's Day, despite a pitch for the format blaring from a big-screen television on the other side of the store.
On the 21:9 screen you can watch a movie in its original format, for an engrossing cinema-like experience.
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The E900 is a little more budget and has a 4x optical zoom lens, a 2-inch LCD screen, and can also shoot in the RAW format.
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With a screen of classic proportions and projection equipment for every format from 16mm to 70mm and high-definition digital 3-D, the theater will provide an unsurpassed filmgoing experience.
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It also offers a progressive-scan, wide-screen, 60-frame-per-second MPEG-2 format that delivers far less resolution than full-fledged HD, but may work well when transferred to DVD.
The growing popularity of big-screen, high-definition TV sets -- which can play either format, depending on the player you buy to go with it -- suggests that consumers are eager to watch cutting-edge, super-crisp movies.
Plus, the format of the programs would allow more information to be displayed on the screen, but here lies the problem.
One new device, which Cisco calls the "Media Experience Engine, " lives in a company's data center and translates video data from one format to another so that it can be displayed on anything from a smart phone to a telepresence screen.
So instead of the lock screen, you'll see Cover Feed, which is essentially Facebook's Newsfeed presented in a highly visual format.
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