Studios knew how to leverage this format to drive viewers into the theaters.
Okoro Media Systems has been Blu-ray savvy for some time now, but apparently it's looking to bring the peace with a dual-format combo drive in its BX series of HTPCs.
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Dane-Elec has also cleverly includes both the Mac and PC reader software for its file format on the flash drive.
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This standard 9.5mm drive leverages Advanced Format, which increases the physical sector size from 512 bytes to 4, 096 (4K) bytes to improve drive capacities and error correction capabilities.
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These PVRs differ from most, however, as they can record content from television or any other attached source (i.e. a camcorder), and transfer the video in MPEG4 format directly to an attached USB flash drive.
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Seagate also says that the new drive supports 4k sector sizes (Advanced Format HDD).
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Those most likely to see the performance problems are those building their own computers or swapping out an old drive for one that uses the new format.
So obsolete, in fact, that it may quickly join the ranks of such Sony success stories as the hard drive floppy disk and the Betamax video format.
Through the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (Idema) all hard drive makers have committed to adopting the 4K advanced format by the end of January 2011.
It is now in its twenty-third season, on Fox, and the format has barely budged: viewers ride with police officers as they drive around, in search of perpetrators.
Even though our local Target, Wal-Mart and K-Mart didn't have any next-gen format movies or stand alone players, they all had the Xbox360 add-on drive.
Hard drive makers have begun an education and awareness campaign to let people know about the advanced format and to warn about the problems it could inflict on users of older operating systems such as Windows XP.
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