Formats Quotations

Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'

When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

Security won't matter to consumers, ... The benefits have to be compelling enough to outweigh the costs. What we've seen has not been a slam dunk either way. Both are beautiful formats but there's a lot of beautiful content out there. Frankly, most people don't care. They want to know what they are watching is watchable.

For too long Latin America has been seen as a place to sell; in our view the market will emerge as one of the most creative in the next few years, and will be exporting formats back to Europe and the US.

IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers,

Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish,

I suspected that after Deal or No Deal became a hit, every company in the world would be gathering up formats and pitching shows to the networks. We felt we had a limited window of opportunity. So rather than wait for a show to be created in Holland or another country and slowly make its way around the world, we wanted to specifically develop shows for the United States.

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering what's nice about the physicality of them.

Today's radios come in all shapes and sizes and are used in the home, car, office and on the go. The largest change is the wealth of content and content formats now driving the development of radio technology.

Time is short, ... open to alternative formats if they help us achieve consensus.

The American people will have a unique opportunity to see in different formats both of these candidates, one of whom will be the next president of the United States.

We believe this means there is a significant opportunity to transition those who are buying music in physical formats to online music services, We also believe this transition will occur gradually. Today, online services may still be a secondary or tertiary source of music for most music consumers.

We are hopeful that we can still find a resolution. We still have time to find a way to avoid having two formats go to market, which isn't good for consumers or us.

This really all comes down to the basic theme of content sharing. We realize that this is a really important scenario, and that's why we're making the move to default XML formats that are fully documented.

The proposed policy is inconsistent with ongoing dialogues Microsoft is having with other Massachusetts state agencies about how Microsoft products can best meet their data and records requirements for a variety of data types - ranging from traditional documents to pictures, audio, video, voice, voice-over-IP, data, database schema, web pages, and XML information. As we look to the future, and all of these data types become increasingly intertwined, locked-in formats like OpenDocument are not well suited to address these varying data types - as the proposed policy itself acknowledges. It's this need for choice and flexibility that led Microsoft to design Office in a way that supports any XML schemas that a customer chooses, a capability lacking in less functional formats.

We want to make clear what the benefits of using ODF are for government users who have a strong concern the documents they are creating remain a part of their history and heritage, rather than being lost in a digital Alzheimer's as document formats change.

The deal would create an extremely powerful group with both mega-store and warehouse formats that should be the envy of the world.

With all due respect to Jay and Dave and everybody out there, they're doing very similar kinds of shows in formats that are nearly as old as television. I do believe those traditional formats are growing tired, and younger viewers are growing tired of them.

We would have liked a greater opportunity to explain how openness is possible with Office. We've found a very positive reaction to our open formats and our approach, and there's a growing awareness there.

We will continue to have this problem with drifting file formats and the loss of society's memory. That will continue to be a problem until there is a multi lateral baseline file format.

would mandate that state agencies use only open formats for the storage of documents by January 1, 2007.

We're going to experiment with different ad formats ... find out what they'll tolerate.

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.

Digital intermediate technology can provide the ultimate process for analog to digital restoration for both television and film libraries as it produces a single master file, enabling extraction and archival of all current, as well as future formats including internet and video on demand offerings. Use of digital intermediate technology rather than High Definition mastering for archival restoration also prevents the need for future restorations and further expenditures by our clients, helping to position Hollywood Intermediate to be a leader in end-to-end digital intermediate solutions.

Digital intermediate technology provides the ultimate process for analog to digital restoration for both television and film libraries as it produces a single master file, enabling extraction and archival of all current, as well as future formats including internet and video on demand offerings. Use of digital intermediate technology rather than High Definition mastering for archival restoration also prevents the need for future restorations and further expenditures by our clients, helping to position Hollywood Intermediate to be a leader in end-to-end digital intermediate solutions.

Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.

The success of competing formats depends on the availability of content. If the content from Hollywood studios is only available in one of the blue laser formats, then I don't see the other technologies being successful.

These discussions have centered on open formats particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative

These discussions have centred on open formats particularly as they relate to office documents, their importance for the current and future accessibility of government records, and the relative 'openness' of the format options available to us.

These engagements involve different priorities in very different business environments, yet they all reflect the need for technology and processes that help enterprises cope with rising volumes of content and formats in the face of compliance regulations, business needs and legal mandates. We?re pleased with our recent progress and excited to go forward in 2006 with this wide range of projects, which create further business momentum and solid references for additional prospects.

These chains are moving into more suburban areas, and their formats are cleaner and brighter. Dollar stores also have a particularly strong appeal to low-income families.

We've really heard the feedback that sharing documents across multiple platforms and long-term archiving are really important. People now have a couple options here, with the existing support for HTML and RTF, and now the new support for open XML formats and PDF.

Vision is obviously an issue for baby boomers. If you make the books more readable, then some of the audience who have moved to larger formats will return.

With document applications, there are few choices, which could be a problem in the long term because there are no guarantees with proprietary software that older formats will be compatible with those developed in the future.

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.

We've had an active, ongoing conversation with Microsoft since January about this, and they've been open to hearing our position, ... But I don't know one way or the other how they're ultimately going to react to this. Also, this isn't just about Microsoft. We're focusing on the formats here, not necessarily the software. But wouldn't it be nice not to have to remake the systems?

Both formats could be played in a number of countries at different times of the year to fit in with the overall demands on international teams.

Radio -- which has extremely valuable assets -- is our one segment that is not yet achieving acceptable growth. We have implemented a number of recent initiatives to change that, including the new Jack and Spanish formats which have shown good success. And we believe this week's announcement to add a powerful new morning show will greatly improve the performance of our drive-time programming in the nation's largest east-coast markets.

With the addition of Halo-View, which speeds up data display to accommodate today's high-data volume, extremely complex designs, Halo users now have a very efficient layout viewer to support large-scale data, super high-speed display and multiple formats ? all in one product suite.

Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?

Technology is going to reshape the food industry, although it's still too early to tell which formats will win.

A rush of spending, investing and deal-making marked the continued rise of digital advertising in 2005. The landscape in 2006 is already serving up another year of powerful developments, particularly as media continues to migrate online and new digital formats and technologies emerge and mature.

Not only are these fine wines presented in eco-friendly packaging, these smaller formats will give consumers the convenience and versatility in their wine drinking occasions.

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

The migration to next-generation high-definition optical disc formats is not going smoothly.

I like to come up with new formats that are tailor-made for each market. In Houston, we saw there was an opportunity to go after Latinos that were bilingual regardless of generation.

The future proliferation of video content available from a wide variety of sources in numerous formats and supported by a multitude of standards requires a flexible and feature-rich silicon platform now. Product developers in these very dynamic markets must be able to incorporate new features and functionality, at competitive price points, so the more programmable and the more integrated a chip solution, the better.

You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.

The eight companies meeting all the basic requirements deserve praise for making an effort to provide their online annual reports in formats that meet the varying needs of investors. Clearly, these companies are trying to communicate their financial information effectively on the Web.

The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance, ... Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth.

It's the old beta versus VHS dilemma. There's no way to know how long it's going to take for the general market to decide which formats will ultimately prevail. So while this shakes out, we're just going to listen to our customers and make sure we give them the movies they want in the format they prefer -- whatever the technology.

As we look to the future, and all of these data types become increasingly intertwined, locked-in formats like OpenDocument are not well suited to address these varying data types -- as the proposed policy itself acknowledges. ... We would advise the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to do a thorough evaluation of the costs and benefits before making such a major shift.

The ODF Alliance (Sun, IBM and their friends) apparently want to push ODF as an 'exclusive' standard to the detriment of all others vs. enabling choice among formats such as PDF from Adobe, Open XML, HTML and others.

We have a 24-hour dispatch center that both receives that weather information in various formats and have the ability to disseminate that out - both to our employees and to the public in the case of an emergency.

We got a lot of folks that are pretty excited about that. Every time there have been changes to any of the major playoff formats in sports ... it's not met with a resounding click of heels by everyone. But I would say at this point, we have most people on board.

There's a lot of interest in the portable formats and that may just reflect the hectic lives of people.