Although the format was capable of offering higher-quality video and audio than its consumer rivals, the VHS and Betamax videocassette systems, Laserdisc never managed to gain widespread use in North America, largely owing to high costs for the players and the video titles themselves.

Although the players were of good quality, the game imposed unusually high strain: Laserdisc players were designed primarily for playing movies, in which the laser assembly would gradually move across the disc as the data was read linearly.

Although programs can alter the position of the screen in memory, the non-linear format of the display means that vertical scrolling can only be done in blocks of 8 pixels without further work.

Although most audio file formats support only one type of audio data ( created with an audio coder ), a multimedia container format ( as Matroska or AVI ) may support multiple types of audio and video data.

Although the format now supports many audio encoding formats, it remains associated with the µ-law logarithmic encoding.

Although each country has made its own adaptations and changes to the format, the contestants are confined to a specially designed house where their every action is recorded by cameras and microphones at all times and they are not permitted to make any contact with the outside world.

Although the content of the document file is arranged in a format that the word-processing program understands, the user is able to choose the name and location of the file and provide the bulk of the information ( such as words and text ) that will be stored in the file.

Although its file format also allows for multiple such streams to be concatenated ( zipped files are simply decompressed concatenated as if they were originally one file ), gzip is normally used to compress just single files.

Although its use is not recommended for compatibility reasons, nevertheless much premastered material is produced in the format.

Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when Music Television's format was based on them.

Although these innovations are not all entirely new with Wadzinski, the book marks a significant advancement in published maze puzzles, offering expansions on the traditional puzzles that seem to have been fully informed by various video game innovations and designs, and adds new levels of challenge and complexity in both the design and the goals offered to the puzzle-solver in a printed format.

Although the show returned for the 1958 – 1959 season ( 5: 30 to 6: 00 pm ET ), these programs were repeats from the first two seasons, re-cut into a half-hour format.

Although the music in general did not meet the criteria for progressive rock, some songs adopted a dynamic format.

Although not directly comparable to SVG since it is a bitmap-based format, the Canvas element in HTML5 provides an approach to rendering dynamic graphics in HTML that is procedural rather than declarative: instead of specifying the shapes to draw in XML, the author executes drawing commands from a script.

Although generally skeptical of 3-D film as a format, Herzog premiered the film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in 3-D and had its European premiere at the 2011 Berlinale.

Although the first design was patented as early as 1908, the first commercial 35 mm camera was the 1913 Tourist Multiple, for movie and still photography, soon followed by the Simplex providing selection between full and half frame format.

Although never as popular as Super 8, the format existed in parallel.

Although the 8 mm format was originally intended for creating amateur films, condensed versions of popular cinema releases were available up until the mid 1980s, for projection at home.

Although primarily targeted at XML documents, xml: tm can be used on any document that can be converted to XLIFF format.

Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips ' decision in the face of pressure from Sony to license the format free of charge.

Although intended as a replacement for audio cassettes, the format was never widely adopted by consumers because of issues of expense and concerns from the music industry about unauthorized digital quality copies.

Although the show — a repackaging of somewhat dated British video game review shows ( mostly Gamer. tv )— was short-lived, it was a sign of the network's change of format from Game Show Network's " all game shows, all the time " to what eventually became " GSN: The Network for Games ".

Although there are some differences in the format of the Anında Görüntü Show, it is still very close to the original Whose Line Is It Anyway ?.

Although the AmigaGuide format is almost solely used for documenting Amiga programs, viewers are available for several other platforms:

Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into prominence in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around the medium.

Although now part of Greater London, almost all postal addresses used in any format, ( letter, online address etc.

Although it is implied that nuclear warfare has destroyed humanity, film critic Andrew Sarris notes that the episode's necessarily unrealistic format may have been what allowed its production to commence:

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Although it was a mere fragment of the victim's remains, it was enough.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.