For example, a news organization may want to have a "high priority" transcoding pipeline for breaking news stories, or a User-Generated Content website may want to have separate pipelines for low, medium, and high resolution outputs to target different devices.

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Whether you accept Tyler's points or just consider this a sign of Microsoft copping some 1080p pleas, it's clear that just like ESPN and ABC they have picked 720p as their target resolution for HDTV, but whether that is high definition enough to satisfy consumers remains to be seen.

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Other co-sponsors of the resolution include Spain, which was the target of a deadly commuter train bombing on March 11, the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Romania.

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The US on Tuesday tabled a UN resolution - agreed with China - on new sanctions that would target the North's diplomats and cash transfers, in response to the test.

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"Ministers must be clear that there has been no decision to target individuals, which would be beyond the terms of resolution 1973, in order to allay the country's inevitable concerns about changes to military tactics and increased scope of UK military action, " he added.

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The point is that Android, Symbian, webOS, Windows Phone 7, and the rest of the pack should be able to advance with almost total disregard for the hardware business, knowing they're resolution-independent (within reason) and they can expect to target an ARMv6 or ARMv7 core.

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In future, the scientists hope to improve the resolution of the cameras and use the technique to observe how the penguins target the krill.

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