However the latest ( and possibly the last ) portable Hi-MD model, the MZ-RH1 is broadly similar in volume to many voice recorders ( which usually do not offer PCM recording ) and is smaller than other professional recorders such as Sony's own PCM-D50.

On March 1, 2007 Kotaku reported – as a follow-up to an interview with the Game Developers Conference executive director, Jamil Moledina, who said that Sony's Phil Harrison's keynote would make PlayStation 3 owners " very happy " – a rumor from an anonymous tipster that the PlayStation 3 would be releasing " PlayStation Home ," an achievement and virtual avatar add-on.

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

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.

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.

The players used Sony's proprietary ATRAC format, and were available in a number of capacities, up to 1 GB.

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 MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems, introduced in 1992, that were both targeted as a replacement for the Philips analog cassette audio tape system: the other was Digital Compact Cassette ( DCC ), created by Philips and Matsushita.

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.

Enough copies of Chronicles were sold to warrant a second release as part of Sony's Greatest Hits in June 2003.

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.

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.

Initial development efforts were conducted for Sony's Columbia Pictures Sound Department under contract with Semetex Corp. of Torrance, California.

Both games were created for Sony's PlayStation video game console.

Apple often makes use of new or unusual hardware systems ; they were the first vendor to make widespread use of Sony's 3. 5 " floppy drive, and they devised their own Apple Desktop Bus system for keyboards and mice, their own LocalTalk networking system, the high-speed FireWire serial interface for storage and video transfer, the 30-pin iPod dock connector, and non-standard display interfaces such as ADC, Mini-DVI, and Mini DisplayPort.

After the expiration of Sony's Trinitron patent, manufacturers like Mitsubishi ( whose monitor production is now part of NEC Display Solutions ) were free to use the Trinitron design for their own product line without license from Sony although they could not use the Trinitron name.

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 ).

In 2006, Zaxxon games were included as bonus game on the Sega Genesis Collection for Sony's PlayStation 2 and PSP consoles.

Most of today's Big Six control subsidiaries with their own distribution networks that concentrate on arthouse pictures ( e. g., Fox Searchlight ) or genre films ( e. g., Sony's Screen Gems ); several of these specialty units were shut down or sold off between 2008 and 2010.

Their ad campaign was perceived by the community to be shallow enough that it insulted Sony's target audience by implying that they were shallow enough to fall for it.

The re-releases were digitally remastered personally by Scholz after he heard ( not directly ) that the remastering project was to be handled by Sony's team, which he felt was unacceptable.

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel was released for the Game Boy Color, and several titles were released for Sony's PlayStation Portable.

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.

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.

When they found out, Sony's executives were furious.

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.

Discman was the product name given to Sony's first portable CD player, the D-50, which was the first on the market in 1984, and adopted for Sony's entire portable CD player line.

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 January 26, 2006 Sony announced that it would discontinue AIBO and several other products as of March, 2006 in Sony's effort to make the company more profitable.

The DV standard, which debuted in 1996, has become widely used both in its native form and in more robust forms such as Sony's DVCAM and Panasonic's DVCPRO as an acquisition and editing format.

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 November 15, 2005, Felten and J. Alex Halderman showed that Sony's method for removing XCP copy protection software from the computer makes it more vulnerable to attack, as it essentially installed a rootkit, in the form of an Active X control used by the uninstaller, and left it on the user's machine and set so as to allow any web page visited by the user to execute arbitrary code.

The MZ-RH1 was targeted to a more general customer on Sony's consumer electronics sites and comes with no microphone bundle.

The writer was eventually dismissed and replaced with John Sayles, who, according to Moore, took Sony's orders of " making more of an American Old West film ".

Very occasionally, a more deadpan Dave would appear: on a story regarding Microsoft's intention to ensure that the Xbox marketing budget outweighed Sony's PS2 expenditure, Dave remarked that, " Money is the most important thing.

Many older video game systems do not allow games from different regions to be played, however more modern consoles, either leave protection to the discretion of publishers such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 or discontinue its use entirely like Sony's PlayStation 3.

However, Lik-Sang replied once more that their legal representatives spent over a year to contest the UK's court jurisdiction and tried to defend against Sony's allegations of parallel importation and copyright infringement, and that Sony launched duplicate actions in different countries.

In 2000, Soul Reaver was added to Sony's " Greatest Hits " list, and more than 1. 5 million copies were sold by 2001.

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.

On the other hand, Justice Breyer, joined by Stevens and O ' Connor, claims " a strong demonstrated need for modifying Sony ( or for interpreting Sony's standard more strictly ) has not yet been shown ," primarily because " the nature of [...] lawfully swapped files is such that it is reasonable to infer quantities of current lawful use roughly approximate to those at issue in Sony.

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 ).

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 ).