If it is discovered that these new suggested formats are themselves covered by existing patents, the final result may be a large number of incompatible formats.

But the new modems came in two dueling, incompatible formats, which have yet to be resolved with a common standard.

Like many video devices, camcorders come in many incompatible formats, including five analog and two digital tape-based systems requiring, for the most part, different cassettes.

When he finally gave in and brought out discs, he could not bring himself to relinquish cylinders, so resources had to be spread across two incompatible formats.

Among its most common uses is moving tabular data between programs that natively operate on incompatible (often proprietary and/or undocumented) formats.

Without advanced tools, it was impossible to distinguish these incompatible formats.

Today, incompatible formats for captioning, subtitling and other forms of timed text are used on the Web.

However, the current fragmentation of pathway information across many databases with incompatible formats presents barriers to its effective use.

But rival modem makers produced two incompatible formats.

Studio backing is important in the fight because Hollywood executives do not want to issue movies in two incompatible formats.