Paul wasn't picky about the format, saying at one point he'd be happy with a telegram or a Tweet.

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Carbon-Nomex might be prone to point-puncture, but glazed into panels in this format, a good solid smack means precisely nothing to it.

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What Amazon has done is created a market at a certain price point and begun to condition readers to use a different format, digital vs. paper.

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Sony demonstrated the system using feeds from an F65 4K camera earlier this year at NAB, but was only able to present a simulation at that point, with pre-recorded output cropped from larger-format footage.

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Another sticking point is that this unit records in a unique high-def format that you can't play on any other device.

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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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At one point, there were 500 Groupon copycats, serving up the same kind of deals in the same kind of format, in the United States.

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