In October 2001 Metreon, in partnership with Sony's anime television network, Animax, was host to an anime festival, in which numerous anime titles were broadcast across its Action Theatre.

Animax, being Sony's first attempt to offer a 24-hour anime channel in Latin America, it was planned to broadcast the series in two formats.

However the channel would never air after being beaten to the market by ABC / Disney's SoapNet, and because of distribution problems with Sony's Game Show Network.

In Japan, Sony's So-net channel aired several TechTV programs until the fall of 2005 ( they aired reruns after May 2004 ).

" 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.

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.

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.

Consumers also had no interest in purchasing sequels to the earlier 3DO games that disappointed them, and the pricing of 3DO software forced 3DO supporters to eventually flock to Sony's PlayStation for next-gen video gaming.

They were only implemented in Sony's short-lived MD-based camcorder as well as a small number of MultiTrack Recorders ; Sony's MDM-X4, Tascam's 564 ( which could also record using standard MD-Audio discs, albeit only 2 tracks ), and Yamaha's MD-8, MD-4, & MD4S.

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.

Original ATRAC3 at 132 kbit / s ( also known as ATRAC-LP2 mode ) is the format that used to be used by Sony's Connect audio download store ( now defunct ).

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

As of 2010, Microsoft has also released the Kinect, similar to Sony's EyeToy, both of which use cameras to detect the player's motions and translate them into inputs for the game.

In conjunction with the album's release, the group also offered up the track " Come on Down " featuring Flavor Flav for remixing on Sony's Acid Planet website.

Sean also made appearances in film, featured in the cast of Michael Jackson's 1988 Moonwalker and portraying a teenager experiencing visions of various M. C. Escher paintings in Sony's 1990 promotional short-film Infinite Escher.

" Back Again " is also featured on Sony's MLB 06: The Show.

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.

Li-poly batteries are also used in small digital music devices such as iPods, Zunes, and other MP3 players and the Apple iPhone and iPad, as well as gaming equipment like Sony's PlayStation 3 wireless controllers.

Ladybug Mecca has also guest appeared on " Spreadin ' Rhythm Around " on Legacy / Sony's Billie Holiday Remixed & Reimagined Album.

It has also been included as the background music for a number of Sony's commercials for the PlayStation 3.

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

Video 2000 ( or V2000 ; also known as Video Compact Cassette, or VCC ) is a consumer videocassette system and analog recording standard developed by Philips and Grundig to compete with JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax video technologies.

They also designed the packaging for Sony's AIBO.

He was also featured in commercials for MLB 06: The Show, a video game for Sony's PlayStation 2, where a camera crew followed him around as he performed his daily duties, such as buying coffee and picking up his laundry.

Sony's pricing of US $ 3. 50 per song track also discouraged many early adopters of the service.

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.

That summer, Tyler starred in a commercial for Sony's Cyber-shot camera, which also included the Aerosmith song " The Grind ", a new song featured on Honkin ' on Bobo.

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.

Starting with the NW-S series, Walkmans feature Sony's new proprietary port called WM-PORT which is a USB 2. 0 compliant 22-pin connector.

After losing a large portion of the market to other companies, Sony's latest attempt to revive the Walkman brand involved a series of music-centred mobile phones marketed under the former Sony Ericsson brand.

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.

Sony's Xplod series of car audio CD players support ATRAC CDs.

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.

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

A series of new experimental systems followed, including the Plasmatron and experiments with Organic light-emitting diodes and other technologies, but Sony's attempts to introduce a best-of-breed system all failed.

* Killzone ( series ), a series of shooter games for Sony's PlayStation consoles

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.

In 1998, towards the end of production for the 7th series, the show was looking set to be re-commissioned ; viewing figures were still strong, and the show was finding a new audience, benefiting from the emerging PlayStation culture with the success of Sony's console bringing gaming into the mainstream.

The Getaway 3 is the third instalment of Sony's The Getaway series for the PlayStation 3 console.

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.

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.

* Backwash, a 2010 web series starring Joshua Malina, Michael Ian Black, and Michael Panes and featuring many celebrity cameos, distributed via Sony's Crackle

On November 21, 2011, it was announced on Sony's PlayStation Blog that the Jak and Daxter series would be re-released on PlayStation 3 as part of an HD collection.

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 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.

Some of their most popular games were released for Sony's PlayStation console, including the Battle Arena Toshinden series, early Choro Q games and Guardian's Crusade.

After a contractual dispute with the developer of the first two games in the series, SingleTrac, Twisted Metal development duties were handed over to Sony's in-house development team, 989 Studios.

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