Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation ( Sony Electronics in the U. S .), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Mobile Communications ( formerly Sony Ericsson ), and Sony Financial.

is a computer-generated imagery-based animated television series, based on Sony's best-selling video game franchise of the same name ( known as " Ape Escape " in the U. S .).

Sony's principal U. S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. ( one of the largest film & television companies in the world ), Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Sony Music Entertainment Inc .( one of the largest recorded music companies in the world ), Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( the music publishing company the world's largest with more than 34 % of the world ).

Sony Electronics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the largest component of Sony Corporation of America, the U. S. holding company for Sony's U. S .- based electronics and entertainment businesses.

eDRAM is used in IBM's POWER7 processor and in many game consoles and other devices, including Sony's PlayStation 2, Sony's PlayStation Portable, Nintendo's GameCube, Nintendo's Wii, Nintendo's Wii U, Apple Inc .' s iPhone, Microsoft's Zune HD, and Microsoft's Xbox 360.

Technical details of Sony's digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention, held on March 13 – 16, 1979, in Brussels.

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 would eventually be replaced by cheaper systems using video compression, most notably Sony's Digital Betacam ( still heavily used as a electronic field production ( EFP ) recording format by professional television producers ) that were introduced into the network's television studios.

Cameras such as the Arri Alexa can capture 2K resolution images, the Red Digital Cinema Camera Company's Red One and Red Scarlet can record 4K, the Red Epic 5K, and Sony's F65 CineAlta camera can record 4K down-sampled from 8K.

" The film has been released on the UMD format for Sony's PlayStation Portable.

Sony's last reported subscription numbers were given as " more than 430, 000 players " on 14 January 2004.

Running such an emulator is a violation of EQs end user license agreement and could result in a player being banned from Sony's EverQuest servers if caught doing so.

In plotlines mirroring the negative reaction of non-commercial artists to the commercialization of the art form by companies like IBM ( and, later, Sony itself ) the Rakugaki Ōkoku series ( 2003 – 2005 ) for Sony's PlayStation 2 revolves around an anonymous hero and his magically imbued-with-life graffiti creations as they struggle against an evil king who only allows art to be produced which can benefit him.

Sony's DVD features the uncut Japanese version, and the optional English dub track is from Toho's international version.

It is possible to execute unsigned code on Sony's PlayStation Portable homebrew | PlayStation Portable.

" Hello world " is also used by computer hackers as a proof of concept that arbitrary code can be executed through an exploit where the system designers did not intend code to be executed — for example, on Sony's PlayStation Portable.

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.

In 2007, the Advertising agency TBWA decided to use Moğollar's late 1960s track, Garip Çoban ( translated-Lonesome Shepherd ; written by Murat Ses ) in the This is Living advertisement campaign for Sony's PlayStation 3.

The invention of the compact cassette in the 1960s, followed by Sony's Walkman, gave a major boost to the mass distribution of music recordings, and the invention of digital recording and the compact disc in 1983 brought massive improvements in ruggedness and quality.

In another side effect, Square Co. ( now Square Enix ) executives have suggested that the price of publishing games on the Nintendo 64 along with the degree of censorship and control that Nintendo enforced over its games, most notably Final Fantasy VI, were factors in switching its focus towards Sony's PlayStation console.

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.

Later models have been credited with spurring competition in the previously stagnant Palm market, closing many of the gaps that existed between Palm OS PDAs and those powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, particularly on the multimedia front, but also with Sony's proprietary application launcher interface.

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.

It has also been responsible for localizing a number of non-Square titles, including Capcom's Breath of Fire for the SNES and Sony's Wild Arms 3 for the PlayStation 2.

Sony's anime satellite channel, Animax also aired the series, both in Japan and on its various worldwide networks, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.

However due to supply shortages of the Samsung-produced displays, certain HTC models will use Sony's SLCD displays in the future, while the Google and Samsung Nexus S smartphone will use " Super Clear LCD " instead in some countries.

They sign to Sony's S. M. A. R. T.

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

There is anecdotal evidence that some TV stations purchased ED-Beta equipment as a low-cost alternative to professional Betacam equipment, prompting speculation that Sony's management took steps to prevent its consumer ( ED-Beta ) division from cannibalizing the sales of its more lucrative professional video division.

On reflection, Yasuhide Kobayashi, vice-president of Sony's Japan Studio, believed the North American box art and lack of an identifiable English title led to the game's poor sales in the United States, and stated plans to correct that for the release of The Last Guardian.

Though sales were not as high as Sega expected ( which could be explained by the success of Sony's Playstation console over the Saturn ), they were substancial enough for Sega to allow the series to continue with the 1996 sequel Panzer Dragoon II Zwei.

With Sony's greater hardware sales came greater third party support ; ultimately the PlayStation won the era virtually unopposed.

* Breaking news: Sony's UMDs aren't selling well News story about the disappointing UMD sales.

First-party developers may either use the name of the company itself ( like Nintendo ), have a specific division name ( like Sony's Polyphony Digital ), or have formerly been an independent studio before being acquired by the console manufacturer, such as Rare or Naughty Dog.

On October 20, 2008, Sony's catalog division Legacy Recordings released the album Playlist: The Very Best of Fuel on their Playlist series.

A year before, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound was installed in several theaters since the parent company used it as a marketing ploy to promote Sony's cinema sound division, which shut down in 2002.

Through Sony's international division, Blood + was licensed for distribution in multiple regions.

In August 1995, Hirai joined Sony's computer and video game division, Sony Computer Entertainment America.

By May 1998, Drabinsky had lost control of Cineplex to the Bronfmans ' Seagram and its MCA division, which subsequently merged Cineplex Odeon Theatres with Sony's Loews Theatres.

Following the release of Twisted Metal titles produced by Sony's 989 Studios division, Sony handed off the franchise to newly formed developer Incog Inc. Incog Inc. was founded by several previous employees of SingleTrac, the developer responsible for creating the Twisted Metal franchise, including several of the key developers behind the first two Twisted Metal games.

In the late 1980s, Sony's Broadcast & Professional Products division would solve this problem with a track-ball /" Centipede " video game-type controller on their Digital Multi Effects DME-9000, code-named " SYSTEM G ." The $ 250, 000 + device would in real time allow a flat image to be extruded with texture while real-time video was mapped onto it ( no waiting for renders ).