51.   Three years later, visitors to the Web site can purchase baseball, soccer, and celebrity cards that exist only in digital format.

52.   Two digital VCR formats are likely to reach consumers in the next year or so.

53.   Transferring these audio tapes to digital format will make the recordings more widely available to the public.

54.   Using data compression and encryption technology developed by Hughes, the movie film is converted into a digital format and transmitted to an orbiting satellite.

55.   Unlike music and film, books have yet to be popularly accepted in digital format.

56.   Very few generate enough revenue to cover the few hundred dollars it costs to convert their texts to digital formats.

57.   Video analysts cite various reasons, among them the lack of agreement on a single standard safeguard against piracy in digital formats.

58.   With a digital format, once something within a file or document is corrupted, the whole thing is gone.

59.   With the enhanced digital format, customers can receive four communications services anywhere in the country, using one handset that needs only one telephone number.

60.   Without the guarantee of that protection, a Warner Bros. executive testified in court, the industry would never have begun releasing movies in digital format.