The materials use a standard format and have been modularized for easy "mixing and matching".
We partnered with the White House, SCE, and Sempra to make energy data available for our customers, using a standard format.
With its own copy-protection system, Google joins the ranks of DRM-heavies Apple Computer and Microsoft, which some say hurt consumers and their own profits by not freeing up digital content into a single, standard format.
The lack of data sets received on a regular basis, the lack of an industry standard format for data set composition, and the composition of data sets that were unformatted or too large for computers to process without crashing.
With its own copy-protection system, Google joins the ranks of DRM-heavies Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), which some say hurt consumers and their own profits by not freeing up digital content into a single, standard format.
Warner Home Video will continue to release its titles in standard DVD format and Blu-ray.
The pictures can be exported into the standard JPEG format for use in other software, but then they lose their ability to be refocused.
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.
In addition to security and speed, SWIFT offers a standard interface to reach pretty much any bank in the world with a standard message format to provide completely automated processing of payments, straight-through processing (STP) in industry terminology.
While both the Mobile Digital Scribe and ZPen would be more palatable if they captured natively into a more standard file format such as JPEG or PDF, both do a solid job of recording pages of notes and line drawings.
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In order to get a critical mass of videos up on its site, Google may have compromised its chance at being the herald of a standard, open format--a mission the public would surely have viewed as decidedly not evil.
This whole frustration goes for several other file types as well, such as movies, images and even files that use the standard Google Doc format (Gdoc spreadsheets, for instance, can be emailed in PDF format, but can't be directly saved onto your device that way by default).
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CDs and, once a standard for a secure format is set, let visitors download their music.
And while widescreen televisions deliver a superior picture quality to the standard 4:3 format, they are still the exception.
The draft standard only covers the format of the content, not a copyright protection and distribution specification, said Kawell.
Microsoft claimed that the articles contained inaccuracies on an open-source document standard and a rival format put forward by the software giant.
This helps when watching programs in the standard 4:3 format.
Surprise, surprise, Microsoft is using its new player in an effort to squeaze Real and make its own Windows Media format the standard for digital audio on the Web.
The fingerprints are stored in a cryptic format on a standard PC, which he insists could not be reconstituted to create the actual print.
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.
Booktype can format for a series of standard book sizes, then spit out several file types, including pdf, epub, mobi, odt and html files.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has met to issue a draft international standard of a new video-compression format that is twice as efficient as current standards.
ENGADGET: MPEG drafts twice-as-efficient H.265 video standard, sees use in phones as soon as 2013
This standard 9.5mm drive leverages Advanced Format, which increases the physical sector size from 512 bytes to 4, 096 (4K) bytes to improve drive capacities and error correction capabilities.
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Like the HC1, the HC3 records up to 1080i onto standard mini-DV cassettes in HDV format, but it ups the ante with stills up to four megapixels (and even simultaneous widescreen 2.3 and 4:3 1.7 megapixel stills while shooting video), although it has a lower gross pixel count, no manual focus ring, and we've heard grumblings of a "noisier" picture.
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First, one cannot simply take a standard University course and port it to the online format.
And if you want a new CD player, why spring for a new format when DVD is likely to become the standard?
Hong's first challenge was to round up enough affordable fare to fill airtime and the equipment and engineers to format it for digital cable, the new standard.
Of course, the new format will cost more to produce than your standard next-gen disc, and we're not quite sure this isn't all madness to begin with, but we suppose we'll have to play the game if we don't want to end up buying every title in triplicate.
ENGADGET: Three's company: Warner patents all-in-one hybrid disc HD
In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.
ENGADGET: Sony says it's open to creating a single DVD standard
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