ATRAC was also used on nearly all FLASH memory Walkman devices until the 8 series but is now only used in Sony's MiniDisc devices ( as of November 2008 ) as ATRAC is fundamental to the MiniDisc specification.

Compression artifacts occur in many common media such as DVDs, common computer file formats such as JPEG, MP3, or MPEG files, and some alternatives to the compact disc, such as Sony's MiniDisc format.

It was also a direct competitor to Sony's MiniDisc ( MD ) but neither format toppled the then ubiquitous analog cassette despite their technical superiority.

* Philips ' Digital Compact Cassette ( DCC ) vs. Sony's MiniDisc ( MD ): both introduced in 1992.

Sony's MP3 file support still means that the MP3s themselves had to go through SonicStage to be put on the device, and could not just be copied on the discs outside of SonicStage as you can with data files on Hi-MD ( or Hi-MD-formatted MiniDisc media ).

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.

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.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

It was developed by Sony's 989 Studios and its early-1999 spin-off Verant Interactive, and published by Sony Online Entertainment ( SOE ).

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.

On December 5, 2006, it was announced that Jackson and Livingstone were planning to release a new series of video games based on Fighting Fantasy for Nintendo DS and Sony's PSP.

ATRAC1 was first used in Sony's own theater format SDDS system in the 1990s, and in this context is a direct competitor to Dolby Digital ( AC3 ) and DTS.

Sony's WM-10 was even smaller than the cassette itself and expanded to hold and play a cassette.

For high-quality studio recording, all of these formats were effectively made obsolete in the early 1980s by two competing reel-to-reel formats with stationary heads: Sony's DASH format and Mitsubishi's continuation of the X-80 recorder, which was improved upon to become the ProDigi format.

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.

On November 4, 2010, it was confirmed that he had been cast as Uncle Ben in Sony's 2012 reboot of the Spider-Man film series, The Amazing Spider-Man, directed by Marc Webb.

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.

There was also interest from Sony's Columbia Records label for distribution in the US.

A sequel to The Neverhood was released in 1998 for Sony's PlayStation video game console entitled Skullmonkeys.

Though the system was initially very successful, it eventually lost much of its market share to Sony's PlayStation.

His voice was part of what enticed Sony's Epic / Immortal Records, and the band was signed in 1996.

Probably Sony's most famous example of lock-in was the Betamax VCR system.

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 sale was completed on November 9, 1989 after Sony's acquisition of Columbia Pictures Entertainment a day earlier.

During the 1980s, the cassette's popularity grew further as a result of portable pocket recorders and high-fidelity (" hi-fi ") players, such as Sony's Walkman ( 1979 ), which used a body not much larger than the cassette tape itself, with mechanical keys on one side, or electronic buttons or display on the face.

Today, a majority of release prints for major studio films still are created with all three digital tracks -- Dolby Digital, DTS and Sony's SDDS ( each digital track uses different film geography so all three, as well as the analog track, can coexist on one print ) -- but most professionals in the industry now consider SDDS a dying system.

RCA's Canadian unit ( formerly Berliner Gramophone Canada ) is Sony's oldest label in Canada, as it was only one of two Canadian record companies ( Compo Company, now Universal Music Canada, is the other ) to survive the Great Depression.

In the professional and broadcast video industry, Sony's Betacam, derived from Betamax as a professional format, became one of several standard formats ; production houses exchange footage on Betacam videocassettes, and the Betacam system became the most widely used videotape format in the ENG ( Electronic News Gathering ) industry, replacing the U-matic tape format ( which was the first practical and cost-effective portable videotape format for broadcast television, signaling the end of 16 mm film — and the phrase " film at 11 " often heard on the six-o-clock newscast, before the film had been developed ).

According to Sony's press release of January 7, 1999, for the MiniDV format one frame is recorded onto 10 tracks, with the Digital8 format one frame's worth of information is recorded vertically onto 25 tracks.

With its eight million copies sold, GoldenEye 007 was also one of the most significant titles that helped the Nintendo 64 to remain competitive with rival Sony's PlayStation, though it eventually lost much of its market share.

There was little hope for the L600, however, for its speculated release date was during the peak of Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2, and Nintendo's GameCube, and it was just one of the many independently developed systems that would never rise out of obscurity and gain much popularity, as the three aforementioned systems had already secured the home console gaming market.

Three years after its 2000 release, Vagrant Story was selected as one of Sony's Greatest Hits.

The PlayStation 2 extended Sony's lead in the following generation, at one point holding a 65 % market share with 100 million units shipped.

* Sony's Picture Motion Browser ( PMB ) analyses photo, associates photos with identical faces so that they can be tagged accordingly, and differentiates between photos with one person, many persons and nobody.

GameDaily ranked him as # 17 out of their top 25 anti-heroes, and GamingBolt listed him as one of " 35 Characters We Want To See In Sony's Super Smash Bros ".

The Hyper Neo Geo 64 was conceived to usher SNK into the 3D era as well as to provide the hardware basis for a home system that would replace their aging Neo Geo, one that SNK hoped would be capable of competing with Saturn, Sony's PlayStation, Jaguar and the Nintendo 64 as well as systems such as the REAL / 3DO and Phillips CD-i.

In addition to their inhouse game team, Naughty Dog is also home to the ICE Team, one of Sony's World Wide Studios central technology groups.

Sony's PSP has been criticized for the lack of a second analog " nub " to accompany the left-hand one, a criticism that was later also leveled at Nintendo's 3DS.

Shortly thereafter, it was reopened with the intention of being one of Konami's first games for Sony's upcoming PlayStation console.

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.

On April 1, 2011, Sony's consumer electronics, game, and networked service businesses were reorganized into one group, named the " Consumer Products & Services Group.

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.

Sucker Punch is considered one of Sony's " platformer trio ", which also includes Naughty Dog, as well as Insomniac Games.

The GameKing II, on the other hand, is fashioned to look like Sony's PlayStation Portable, comes in more sober colors ( either black, grey, white or aqua-and although not shown on the packaging, yellow ones do also exist ), and uses 3 AAA size batteries, of which only 2 are used to actually power up the GameKing's hardware, while the third one serves to power up both its built-in audio amplifier ( a bit more powerful than the one on the original GameKing ) and its backlit LCD screen ( which can be turned on and off at will, depending on external lighting conditions, thus saving power ).

The company finally managed to get the rights to Arc the Lad and its sequels, which Sony's new management insisted that they bundle together as one game.

The group took their name from one of the teams in the PlayStation game Wip3out ( eventually securing Sony's blessing to use the name ).