Formats Quotes

Alan, Aylwin and I believe these changes will achieve greater clarity in our operating management and align this corporate structure with our vision of Sears Holdings... Our goal is to build one company with multiple ways of connecting with our customers, including our various store formats, online offerings, service relationships, and credit products. - Edward Lampert

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. - Jeff Lanctot

[Ultimately, though, Cuban and Wagner are betting that offering multiple formats won't cut into any single format's sales, because they appeal to different audiences.] Our argument is that people want to go to the movie theaters because they want to go to the movie theater... It's not about seeing it just because it's not at home. I have food at home, too, but I still go to restaurants. - Todd Wagner

[Tapers, as I've said, I love you. Your cause is righteous. There is nothing wrong with offering audiophiles music in dense, memory-heavy formats that sound great when pumped through awesome speakers. But I implore you to make an effort to distribute your recordings in a medium of lesser fidelity, as well.] I think that if there's something you like... that you think ought to be there in a hundred years, deserves being part of the human heritage, you almost have a moral responsibility to see that it gets digitized and put in as many places as possible. - John Perry Barlow

[Stern's departure comes as stations are thinking of switching from music formats, which Stern's show complements, to talk programming, which has been a boon to AM radio.] It's ironic two things are going on at the same time... There's a real predisposition in FM radio to entertaining new talk formats, just as they're losing their major talk talent. - Michael Harrison

[Mike Rogers, general manager for desktop and office productivity software at Sun, said the company listened to beta testers and users of trial copies of the new suite to give it the features and capabilities wanted by businesses.] We really believe that 95 percent of Microsoft Office users will find what they need here... We have set the bar very high on interoperability and the ability to bring [Microsoft Office file formats] into this seamlessly. - Mike Rogers