Good thing Amazon's store is chock full of easily zoomable books in a proprietary format then, huh?
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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.
This bad boy plays nice with CF, MicroDrive, SD, SDHC, MMC, xD, MSDuo, MSPro, and nearly every other proprietary format that Sony has kicked out.
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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.
Larry explains that they move Google Video to a common codec format, to prevent frustrating video problems without committing to a proprietary format or a business partnership to do so.
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.
Sony once dominated the portable-music market with its Walkman, but since the onset of digital music it has handed control of the market to Apple by refusing to support the MP3 format, the pirates' favourite, in its players, and pushing its own proprietary format instead.
The Palm Top requires the use of a proprietary file format that essentially splits the displayed image or video into three parts.
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.
There's something immediately striking about Nintendo's Wii U proprietary disc format that's hard to notice in photos -- it's got rounded edges, both outside and in.
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Kindle only supports eBooks in its proprietary AZW format.
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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.
Audible's player uses a proprietary and noncopy format, so it offers more than 7, 000 mainstream books from prime publishers and prominent authors.
RealJukebox can save music in the universal MP3 format or a proprietary one, and at many different levels of quality.
The unit reads PDF files as well as Sony's proprietary (anyone surprised?) BBeB format (stands for Broadband Electronic Books).
Main Features: VPC-FH1A and VPC-HD2000A These highly advanced cameras not only offer a standard 1080i (interlaced) format (recording at 60 fields per second), but with the SANYO proprietary CMOS engine, recording is also available in an impressive 1080p (progressive) format, offering ultra-smooth, professional-looking 60 frames per second.
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The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
Indeed, it defies reason that consumer electronics companies invest millions in creating unifying industrial designs, proprietary protocols, and the flash memory card format du jour, while practically ignoring the lessons pioneered by Apple and perfected by Microsoft.
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Just a few decades ago, when the home video wars began, Beta was a superior format to VHS, but VHS was non-proprietary and less expensive to manufacture, so VHS won out until the dawn of the DVD.
One main reason: The company had a history of religious devotion to proprietary file formats, and took years to release a digital audio player that could handle the ever-popular MP3 format.
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