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.

ENGADGET: Switched On: More options for getting from scribble to screen

So if you pop in a DVD "infected" with Protect DVD-Video, it can't be read by Windows Media Player, Media Center Edition, or any DirectShow-based software, thanks to a Universal Disc Format that tricks your machine into believing that the IFO file is zero bytes long.

ENGADGET: Protect DVD-Video prevents discs from playing on your PC

The Palm Top requires the use of a proprietary file format that essentially splits the displayed image or video into three parts.

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