MP3 files which is what hardware producers want or secure format only, which is what content producers want.
The books come in landscape format only (wide, not tall) and you get just one paper option.
Screens playing the movie in that format generated only 33% of its box-office receipts.
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In contrast, Amazon uses a proprietary file format that only allows users to read books they've bought using the Kindle, or Amazon-sanctioned Kindle software.
But, according to Jimmy Young, BBC bosses expected the revolutionary format to have only a brief life.
Warner Brothers exclusive backing of the Blu-Ray high-definition DVD format has not only warmed the hearts of Sony investors, it's good news for the companies that produce the expensive disc-making machines.
News like this is expected as gaming marches toward a digital only format, but the numbers are starting to add up, to the point where publishing giant EA has announced that digital sales of games and extra content will make up 20% of its revenue for the fiscal year.
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DVD-R: This is a one time only recordable format, similar to burning CDs with a CD-R.
The department stores believed they had the only retail format capable of effectively selling premium beauty and fragrance products.
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In its present format, the series only started in the early 1980s.
That display is also an electromagnetic induction touchscreen for poking at menus and scrolling, but more importantly, it supports stylus input for scrawling notes and annotating PDFs (the only file format it currently supports).
Live streaming of video is also now available in a UK-only embedded format, but live audio - as well as certain other content - may appear in the old pop-up player for the time being.
The draft standard only covers the format of the content, not a copyright protection and distribution specification, said Kawell.
This event is what it is -- the format being eight players, only men, indoors, round-robin -- it speaks for itself as being totally different from a grand slam.
"(It's) not clear so far whether Apple's new textbooks will be open formats (ePub etc.) or only in Apple format, " Mathew Ingram, a senior writer for the blog GigaOm, posted on Twitter after the event.
Sri Lanka side are relatively inexperienced in the 20-over format of the game having only played three Twenty20 internationals, the most recent of which was in December, when they lost to New Zealand by five wickets in Auckland.
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Evidently it's a format that works, so it only makes sense to offer a number of options based around the theme.
In the team format at worlds, a country may only enter three gymnasts per apparatus and all three athletes' scores count.
We need something to free us of this endless cycle of cookie cutter shooters that are only allowed to follow one format.
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Relying on the same saucy humour and the same catchphrases, it saw five of the original cast running a hotel but the format was looking tired and the series only lasted for 12 episodes.
Hey Sony, we don't think you should be running around making a big deal over 3, 000 lower quality songs on a player that should have came out in 2001, which only plays the proprietary ATRAC format.
Decades, centuries, millennia from now, when only cockroaches are left, which format will remain?
Optical discs in general have experienced a decline in unit sales for the last several years with only the new Blu-ray format increasing in sales.
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However, FBX currently only works for sidebar (small format) ads.
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Once Weinberger perfects his any-language chip, other developers could piggyback on it to program the devices for an even better consumer feature--the ability not only to adapt to any wireless format, but also to pick the network that is less jammed with other callers, avoiding dropped calls.
The Kindle Store facilitates impulse subscriptions, locks readers to a single seller, and shuts competitors clean out of the process. (In this respect Amazon appears to have learned well the lessons of its sometime rival Apple and its market-dominating iTunes Store.) The larger-format Kindle Amazon will reportedly introduce this week only seems likely to accelerate that process.
This is the only way the "risk adjusted" format of the index can work properly.
Paramount's recent announcement that it would (again) release future titles only in HD-DVD shifted that format's position in the high-definition disc war.
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Kindle only supports eBooks in its proprietary AZW format.
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