Most of the golf he plays is in a club tournament setting, which means a match play format, the mano a mano of golf.
In fact, there are players online who refuse to play one format or the other, and fortunately STCO provides dynamic statistics for both Basic and Advanced play.
So LG Electronics decided why not give consumers the device that can play either format?
Gaming devices that play one format or the other add about 1.6 million to the tally, mostly Blu-ray, but not everyone uses gaming devices for movies.
In the match-play golf format, nearly every early round match is a tossup, with the higher-seeded golfer only winning at a 58% rate in the first two rounds.
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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.
As Adam Curry says, every single digital player can play this mp3 format.
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Creativity can be done within the soap genre, of course -- there are opportunities to "play with the format, (and) maybe the genre itself needs to be retooled to be more hip, " O'Neil says, pointing out that's how "Days of Our Lives" is staying afloat.
Some might say this observation is intuitive, and it is not isolated to the two-legged format because teams who play more games are also penalized in a single match format.
It followed up with the VideoNow Color, which uses a proprietary format to play back grainy, low-resolution, color video at a low frame rate.
The JVC can record and play in standard DV format and convert its own high-def recordings on the fly for playback at lower resolution on old-fashioned TVs.
It all started when Hasbro released the portable, disc-based VideoNow player, which used a proprietary format to play back grainy low-resolution monochrome video at a low frame rate.
It converts nearly every common video format into a format it can play, right inside its website.
The ICL, in which eight teams play each other in a Twenty20 format, has been rivalled by an officially backed event called the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Pioneer's DV-AX10 model also comes with the ability to play SuperAudio CD discs - a format developed by Sony and already commercialized that is battling with DVD Audio for the place as the successor to compact disks.
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With its early audio players, the company actually expected customers to dutifully convert (using software that is generously remembered as buggy) all of their song files into a proprietary format that the players could play.
The format, 72 holes of stroke play, will be the same as in regular professional events.
Kumar is convinced that the new format has an important role to play.
Another sticking point is that this unit records in a unique high-def format that you can't play on any other device.
Another aspect of golf culture in Europe, the U.K and Australia that promotes faster play is the widespread use of the Stableford format.
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The usual format of the qualifiers is to play home and away legs, but this time Egypt offered to host a tournament instead.
The eight franchises will play each other in a round-robin format, with the top four sides qualifying for semi-finals on 30 and 31 May.
If either format is used to store and play back live HD content, it will have to be 1920x1080i (interlaced again) to be compatible with the bulk of consumer TVs.
Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine got onto Billick's staff in 2002 by getting someone to convert some 5, 000 play diagrams Billick had stored in an Apple format into a more easily transferrable program.
Under that format, teams will be guaranteed to play each other at least once every four years.
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One tweak it will bring is the "double box" commercial format that keeps the game on while ads play, which is expected to be used frequently on the new channel.
This week the President of Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, called for the European domestic leagues to be reduced to 16 teams to free up more time for the top European clubs to play each other, possibly in some kind of Superleague format.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and the Pac-12's Scott noted that the presidents will consider a plus-one championship format in which two teams are selected after the bowls to play in a championship game.
The playoff format was changed for this year, with the plan to play No. 18 three times, then move to the par-4 16th, where Shin finally won last year, but Kerr made sure the huge gallery that lined the closing fairway got to see it end.
So now if Media Center can play the file, it can also convert it on the fly to a format that your extender supports.
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