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Gripes: MP3 converter costs $15 extra, and the CD-burning software uses a proprietary format.
At the moment, the most attractive (or least unattractive) formats in the UK include AZW (Amazon's proprietary format), BbeB (Sony's proprietary format), ePub, MOBI/PRC (MobiPocket), and PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format).
Each company's books are in its own proprietary format, and you can never sell or donate them.
While Apple's music store makes tunes available in a proprietary format, iPods can play music purchased at certain other stores, usually in MP3 format.
We handle retrieving, parsing and transforming incoming feeds from whatever strange proprietary format our partners choose to give us into something that our CMS can digest.
To fight the proprietary format, JVC convinced its major stakeholder Matsushita, Japan's largest electronics manufacturer, responsible for the Panasonic and National brands, to back VHS.
(Sony, by contrast, made its first digital music players compatible only with files in Sony's proprietary format, and they bombed as a result).
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Another key bugbear: Vita is awash with proprietary formats.
It is a relatively immature market where there are no common standards, just rival proprietary formats.
Audio and video programmes based on proprietary formats such as Windows Media Player are another challenge.
The company had a reputation on Madison Avenue of being unresponsive and forcing advertisers to use its own proprietary formats.
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