The problem with a hot new technology is that standards and formats are up in the air.

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Different nations have different leagues with different standards of competition and different formats.

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Kodak has adopted industry standards for picture formats, and its digital cameras work with outsiders' software, like PictureWorks' Technology Photoenhancer, and the special modules of image editor Adobe Photoshop.

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Recognizing that simply publishing snapshots of government information is not enough to make it open, we need to improve the quality, accessibility, timeliness, and usability of our data and content through well-defined standards that include the use of machine-readable formats such as web APIs and common metadata tagging schemas.

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What's more, the Digital Entertainment Center , protects customers' existing technologies from obsolescence by supporting current video formats up to 1080p, and all major color and encoding standards including Mpeg2, Mpeg4, H.264, and VC1, and up-converting these to bit-rates as much as triple conventional HD rates, while incorporating full image and device security.

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