Some see this as a shift in the attitude towards digital film, which had previously been considered inferior in quality.

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Government-supported industries end up suffering from excess capacity, making products that are inferior in quality to those produced by overseas competition, and yet too costly for local consumers.

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However, if your vehicle doesn't have a factory-fitted USB port, connecting your MP3 player can often result in a maze of wires, inferior sound quality, and no remote control function.

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While the professors have made quite a stir in the press, Corning points out that the fiber produced by the professors has not come up to the quality of the existing Corning fiber--inferior in the important broad band qualities needed for carrying the varied communications of the future.

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As we'll see shortly, the quality of medical care that Americans buy is often inferior to the treatment people get in other countries.

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