Sentence examples for more common formats from inspiring English sources

Whereas painting on dry plaster walls or screens is an ancient art in China, more common formats in the past millennium have been the vertical hanging scroll, perhaps derived from the Buddhist devotional banner, and the horizontal hand scroll, which may be of any length up to about 15 metres (50 feet).

You can convert the files to more common formats (.mp3 and.wav) by using an audio file conversion program.

As the show begins, you wonder why this isn't a more common format.

Soon users can export them from the proprietary video format to a more common format that can be viewed anywhere or saved to the device.

But I'm sure NBC could have made some backup video available in a more common format such as Flash or Quicktime.

As technology advanced, it became cheaper and easier to publish a newspaper, and the daily press came to dominate the weekly, which had once been the more common format for news periodicals.

Q. Can television shows recorded onto a disc with a DVD recorder play on other DVD players, or just on the one that recorded the shows? A. Watching a home-recorded disc on a different DVD player should work, if you use one of the more common DVD formats and prepare the disc properly when you're done recording.

Conveniently, I just got an email with a.dotm file attachment, which can't be previewed natively in iOS like some other more common Microsoft formats.

More problematically, when converted to one of the more common standard formats (e.g. WAV) they increased in size by a factor of 10.

The iPAQ also allows users to store music in the more common MP3 format as well as with an audio standard known as Advanced Audio Coding.

The Kindle does not support the more common "epub" format.