The first short was included as a special feature on Sony's 2001 DVD release of The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T. All but the second were included in the special features of the two-disc special edition of the DVD Hellboy ( released July 27, 2004 ), as the cartoon can be seen playing on TV monitors in the background in several scenes.

This proved to be a costly mistake for Toshiba ( and the format's co-developers, NEC and Microsoft ), and the AOD ( Advanced Optical Disc ) format, later renamed HD DVD, lost a brutal format war with Sony's Blu-ray Disc ( BD ) format.

26 episodes of a Lenore Animation were created for Sony's website ScreenBlast, these are no longer available on Screenblast, but can now be seen on Dirge's site Spooky Land Roman Dirge wrote for his friend, and fellow Slave Labor Graphics artist Jhonen Vasquez's Invader ZIM, and on the back of the second Invader ZIM DVD it says " Made with 100 % more Dirge " with a picture of him on it, Invader Zim style.

Several disc formats that were intended to improve on the performance of the DVD were developed, including Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD, as well as HVD, FVD and VMD.

The AIP version has been replaced in the North American home video and television markets ( including Sony's DVD ) by Toho's international version, titled Godzilla vs. Hedorah.

More recently, though, Sanyo decided against supporting Sony's format, the Blu-ray Disc, and instead gave its backing to Toshiba's HD DVD.

Rings Around the World was released on CD, vinyl, MiniDisc and DVD on 23 July 2001 in the United Kingdom on Sony's Epic imprint and was the world's first simultaneous album / DVD release.

In previous releases, the video editing portion of the professional suite could be purchased separately from Sony's DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring software, DVD Architect Pro ( previously called DVD Architect ; DVD Architect Studio is the consumer version ), then a package called ' Vegas + DVD ' became available while Vegas 7 was out.

The DVD release was released by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and was one of the first films to employ Sony's ARccOS Protection copy protection.

Before the Dreamcast was released Sega, " confirmed that Dreamcast owners will one day be able to upgrade the GD-ROM drive to DVD ," as information indicated Sony's anticipated successor to the PlayStation, the PlayStation 2, would use the DVD format with its much larger capacity 4. 7 GB single-layered up to 8. 7 GB double-layered discs compared to the 1. 2 GB capacity of the GD-ROM.

These plans never materialized during the significantly shorter production run of the Dreamcast compared to the more successful sixth generation era consoles led by Sony's PlayStation 2 which included a DVD drive out of the box.

Soon after the closure of the CLIÉ line, Sony stopped providing original installation drivers, including Sony's version of Palm Desktop for the CLIÉ, which are necessary for Hotsyncing with the PC and otherwise taking advantage of the handhelds ' many features for which a PC may be required.

DCC was never a competitor to DAT in recording studios because DAT was already established and as it was launched at the same time as Sony's Minidisc format ( which has random access and editing features ) it was not successful with consumers either.

The development team was unable to provide Ueda's cover or the additional features such as the two-player mode in time for Sony's planned North American release date, but included them for the later releases in Japan and PAL regions.

The DS uses ARM processors at relatively low clock speeds and has far less computational power compared to Sony's competing PSP, yet has many features of modern technology built in ( such as 802. 11b, compatibility with Game Boy Advance games and touchscreen functionality ).

Some units add features not found on other models, such as S-Video sockets on some Grundig units, and TOSLINK output on Sony's.

Sony's states that the " Extras " function will remain disabled on Asian PSPs until the features are officially launched in the region and gives no reason for the option being disabled aside from that it is not yet launched.

Pro Logic II system also features a mode designed specifically for video gaming, and it is frequently used in game titles for Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCube and Wii as an alternative to digital surround formats such as Dolby Digital, or DTS.

The Net Yaroze lacks many of the features the full PlayStation developers ' suite provides, such as advanced hardware, software, libraries, tools and Sony's extensive technical support ( including live telephone support ).

The current release, Havok Version 2011. 2, released in September 2011, is known to work on Microsoft Windows, Xbox and Xbox 360 ; Nintendo's GameCube and Wii ; Sony's PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable ; Linux ; and on Mac OS X. Licensees are given access to most of the C / C ++ source-code, giving them the freedom to customize the engine's features, or port it to different platforms although some libraries are only provided in binary format.

In comparison to Sony's MiniDisc format, there are a number of features lacking ; the sliding shield which prevents direct disc contact on MiniDiscs is absent from all UMDs released, though it is an option according to the ECMA specification.

Before the release, it was a popular topic among gamers due to its unique features such as Bluetooth, a 1. 3 megapixel camera, SMS & MMS, GPS and GPRS ; all things which its competitors, Sony's PSP and the Nintendo DS, did not have at the time, as well as the Tapwave Zodiac and the ill-fated N-Gage.

Muvico opened an 18-screen theater in Rosemont, IL on September 14, 2007 which features Bogart's Bar and Grill and the Premier Theaters on the upper level and was the first theater in the country to have Sony's SXRD 4K digital projectors in all auditoriums.

The phone also features Sony's Mega Bass technology.

Sony's CineAlta 24P HD cameras are a series of professional digital video cameras that offer many of the same features of a 35mm motion picture film camera.

* S series – Sony's budget line of cameras ( usually have basic features such as face recognition ).

Although SNK's American home entertainment division quickly acknowledged that the system simply was incapable to compete with the 3D-able powerhouse systems of the day like Sega's Saturn and Sony's PlayStation, SNK corporate of Japan felt they could continue to maintain profitable sales in the Japanese home market by shortening the previous system's load-times.

Topped out on 2 September 1998, the Sony Centre was formally opened on 14 June 2000 ( although many of its public attractions had been up and running since 20 January ), in another grand ceremony with more music-this time with Sony's Japanese Chairman Norio Ohga himself conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Near the city of Nitra is Sony's Japanese factory.

Contrary to most Walkman lines, Sony Ericsson Walkman Phones did not support Sony's proprietary audio format, ATRAC ( with all of its variants, except certain Japanese models supporting ATRAC ).

Sony's release of its Betamax unit to the Japanese market in 1975 placed further pressure on the MITI to side with the company.

According to Sony's own history webpages, the name came from a double meaning: beta being the Japanese word used to describe the way signals were recorded onto the tape, and from the fact that when the tape ran through the transport, it looked like the Greek letter beta ( β ).

Matthew was an alum from Sony Corporation where he was an audio research engineer in Sony's Broadband Applications Laboratories as well as a translator for English speaking management and Japanese speaking engineers in the Corporate Technology Division.

But JVC in particular decided to go with its own format ( despite Sony's appeal to the Japanese Ministry of Trade and Industry ), thus beginning the format war.

Before it could be released, however, Matsushita cancelled the project in mid-1997, unwilling to compete against fellow Japanese electronics giant Sony's PlayStation due to the failure of the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer console.

When the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn were released, Victor Ireland met with then-President of SCEA Bernie Stolar to discuss translating and publishing Sony's Japanese launch SRPG Arc the Lad.

In terms of its long lasting impact on the video game industry, perhaps the most intriguing aspect is Wyn Holloway's claim that Lucasfilm had their frequent partner Sony lined up to manufacture their version of the system, this being contemporaneous with Sony's development of the SNES-CD for Nintendo, which ultimately led to the first PlayStation.

The now-obsolete 3 / 4 " U-matic systems use a heterodyned ~ 688 kHz subcarrier for NTSC recordings ( as does Sony's Betamax, which is at its basis a 1 / 2 ″ consumer version of U-matic ), while PAL U-matic decks came in two mutually incompatible varieties, with different subcarrier frequencies, known as Hi-Band and Low-Band.

Tracks can be split, combined, moved or deleted with ease either on the player or uploaded to PC ( only with the latest version of Sony's PC based SonicStage V4. 3 software ) and edited there.

A PlayStation 3 version was announced to be part of the Splinter Cell Trilogy which was released in September 2011 as part of Sony's Classics HD series.

Another mobile port of a previously released game was shown at Sony's PlayStation Meeting on January 27, 2011, where Hideo Kojima demonstrated a possible portable version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the upcoming PlayStation Vita.

Datel also did a version for Sony's PlayStation console, which uses the Parallel I / O port on the back of the console, not found on the Series 9000 models of the system or the slimline PSone system.

After this version was featured in a 2005 advertisement for Sony's Bravia brand of televisions, it was released as a single in January 2006.

In April 1999, a version for Sony's PlayStation was released.

At this time, EQEmu is not compatible with the most recent version of the client which is available through download with Sony's patcher.

However, the most recent version of EQEmu will operate with the client available after direct install from Sony's Everquest Titanium-series CDs.

However, purchasers of the retail box version were rewarded with an in-game item ( a magic bag ), starting Sony's trend to include in-game items as incentive to purchase retail copies of their expansions.

" Nevertheless, at E3 in 2010, Newell appeared on stage at Sony's keynote ; while acknowledging his past outspoken comments on console development, he discussed the open nature of Sony's PlayStation 3 platform, and announced Portal 2 for the console, remarking that with Steamworks support it would be the best version for any console.

A PlayStation 3 version was announced to be part of the Splinter Cell Trilogy which was released in September 2011 as part of Sony's Classics HD series.

A HD-remake version titled Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, is available for purchase on Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade and Sony's PlayStation Network.

The version was unissued at the time but was included in Sony's 2006 anthology, Legends of Country Music: The Best of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

A remastered version, ( 495353 2 ) with slightly altered artwork, was released in 1999 as part of Sony's Clash reissue campaign.

During that same press conference it was also announced that this new version would feature support for Sony's motion controller ( now officially named " Move ") and the game was demoed using the controller.

A remastered and expanded version was released by Sony's Columbia / Legacy imprint in the United States in 2006.