The period from 2000 to 2012 has included Sorayama's organic design of Sony AIBO robotic pet dog co-winning ( with Sony ) Japan's Grand Prize of best design awards ( the highest design award conferred by Japan ); Sorayama's Sony AIBO robotic pet design was placed into the permanent collections of MOMA and the Smithsonian Institute Museum ; MOMA's published book " Objects of Design " by Paola Antonelli included Sorayama's and Sony's AIBO along with other noteworthy designs where form and function combine in harmony.

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.

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

Some devices, such as Sony's Network Walkman, will only accept Memory Sticks which use MagicGate technology.

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.

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 ).

In season 3 of Sony's serialized reality program The Tester, these cockroaches are featured in the first episode's challenge Bug Out, where each contestant will have a square-glass box placed over their head with the cockroaches in them and then interviewed by the judges.

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.

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.

" 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Their main downfall would be Sony's stubborn resistance to supporting the ubiquitous MP3 codec in their early players and many users found it frustrating to convert their MP3 music collection to ATRAC3 for use on the Network Walkman, while Apple's iPod supported MP3 out of the box and came with the iTunes software.

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 has all but dropped the ATRAC related codecs in the USA and Europe and their SonicStage powered ' Connect ' Music Service ( Sony's equivalent of iTunes ) on 31 March 2008.

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.

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.

Sony's ATRAC codec differs from uncompressed PCM in that it is a psychoacoustic lossy audio data reduction scheme and is such that the recorded signal does not require decompression on replay.

The latest versions of Sony's ATRAC are ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus, both of which are true lossy compression schemes and both require decompression on replay.

Many of the battery powered robots on the market today can find and connect to a charging station, and some toys like Sony's Aibo are capable of self-docking to charge their batteries.

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

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.

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.

An example of this is Insomniac Games, which, until recently, had been developing games solely for Sony's PlayStation platforms despite being an entirely independent studio.

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

Sony's rear-projection televisions, either SXRD ( Silicon X-tal Reflective Display ) or LCD-based, were branded as Grand WEGA until Sony discontinued production of rear-projection sets.

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

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.

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 ).