"Transcoding will play a bigger role, " said Mr Erensen, referring to the potentially real-time transfer of one format to another.
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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.
We all know that 1080i has the higher resolution, so why bother offering another format like 720p?
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In the early nineties Sony was caught up in another format battle, this time about who would control what would become the DVD market.
If another format comes along, it could mess that up.
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However, if you've ripped CDs into AAC using iTunes, you will be able to play them back in the NW-E005 without having to convert them into another format first.
To think that mobile could kill off another media format would completely miss the benefit of mobile devices.
Another smaller format, Neighborhood Market, is being rebranded Walmart Market.
Of the three one-day competitions, the Friends Provident Trophy begins on 19 April with yet another change of format, now including quarter-finals after the group stage.
From another perspective, the resolution format of the newly-developed display is nearly twice the resolution of today's high-resolution smart phone displays.
The biggest fuss in college football won't be any serious reform, but a future playoff format that will mostly serve to pump another flood of cash into the sport.
One of them argues that the search engine is anti-competition in the way that it favors its own offerings for various services, while another argues that the very format is pro-competition and pro-consumer.
Another benefit of the modular delivery format favored by the new wave of executive MBA programs is that distance from the campus is no longer an issue.
But if manufacturers opt for a rival candidate, it may just become yet another acronym to fall victim to the format wars.
Most stores accepting mobile payments usually have to take just one format, whether it's Google Wallet, Square or another flavor that you probably can't use.
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Another issue is ensuring that the data is stored in a format that makes it available in centuries to come.
Gress looks for ways to sidestep jazz's usual performance format, wherein the band plays the melody, several members take solos one after another, and then they play the melody again.
Another sticking point is that this unit records in a unique high-def format that you can't play on any other device.
Vinyl record sales are declining to be sure, another victim of digital downloading, but a new group of listeners are embracing the format: hipsters.
Another member of England's World Twenty20 squad to benefit in the one-day format is Michael Yardy, whose impressive bowling display in the Caribbean earned him a slot in the longer format of the game.
Another artist, Cory McAbee, reappropriated three elements people were already used to seeing on a small format -- photo-montage, computer loops and a surveillance camera setting -- to make a repetitive-obsessive music video set in a convenience store.
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