Philips also contributed eight-to-fourteen modulation ( EFM ), which offers both a long playing time and a certain resilience to defects such as scratches and fingerprints, while Sony contributed the error-correction method, CIRC.

In June 1985, the computer readable CD-ROM ( read-only memory ) and, in 1990, CD-Recordable were introduced, also developed by both Sony and Philips.

Under the leadership of Kazuo Iwama, Sony also started a big development effort on CCDs involving a significant investment.

It was also been ported to run on the Sony PSP platform by Rafael Cabezas with the last version ( 2. 1pre23_PSP_r1261 ) release on February 6, 2007.

The only clear-set rule is that ESRB AO-rated games will not be licensed on Nintendo consoles in North America, a practice which is also enforced by Sony and Microsoft, its two greatest competitors in the present market.

* Through the merger with Viacom, they gained U. S. rights to the majority of the Cannon Films library ( except Lifeforce, where some of said rights are owned by Sony via its initial US theatrical distribution by TriStar, once posting it on the website Crackle ), owned for other media by MGM ( who also posted Lifeforce on Hulu and Netflix ).

CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony ( not to be confused with MMCD, the pre-DVD format also co-developed by Philips and Sony ).

By 1993 the 32-bit 3DO platform was released with much developer interest and Sega and Sony let it be known that the Sega Saturn and PlayStation would be ready for the Japanese marketplace in late 1994, and Bandai was also readying the release of their Playdia system.

Sony, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, Fujitsu and Acer laptops were also affected by the defective batteries.

The Sony Classical release also featured an interactive CD-ROM component and website that complemented the work.

The restored print premiered in February 2011 at the Berlin Film Festival, and to promote the Blu-ray, Sony also had the print screened at AMC Theaters nationwide on March 19 and 22.

IBM and Sony have also used higher compression ratios in their marketing materials.

The French artist Fred Forest has also used a Sony Portapak since 1967.

Sony also claims that the battery can charge at a rate of one hour per minute of charging.

Sony Ericsson also launched the W900 ( considered the successor of S700 ) which in addition to the audio and camera capabilities of W800, also featured 3G video calling and streaming, better video recording ( 30 frames a second ), a larger display, and 470 MB of internal memory which can be expanded up to 2 GB.

During this time, Viola was also an artist-in-residence at Sony Corporation's Atsugi Laboratories.

Monterrey is also home to international companies such as Sony, Toshiba, Carrier, Whirlpool, Samsung, Toyota, Daewoo, Ericsson, Nokia, Dell, Boeing, HTC, General Electric, Gamesa, LG, SAS Institute, Grundfos, and Teleperformance, among others. The city is considered a Beta World City.

By 2007, because of the waning popularity of the format and the increasing popularity of solid-state MP3 players, Sony was producing only one model, the Hi-MD MZ-RH1 ( also available as the MZ-M200 in North America packaged with a Sony microphone and limited Macintosh software support ).

The main competitor to DVCPRO HD is HDCAM, offered by Sony.

The Sony PCM-F1 system debuted in 1981, and Sony from the start offered the option of 16-bit wordlength.

In the late 1960s, Aiwa and Sony offered headphones with a pair of microphones mounted on the headband.

As of 2008, Digital8 camcorders have been removed from the equipment offered by Sony.

Dwayne Wiggins, who had produced their first recordings as Destiny's Child, filed suit in 2002 against his former counsel ( Bloom, Hergott, Diemer & Cook LLP ) seeking $ 15 million in damages for lessening his contractual agreement with the group without his consent, effectively nullifying his original contract that offered Sony Music / Columbia Destiny's Child's exclusive recording services for an initial seven years, in exchange for " certain royalties ", instead of royalties only from the first three albums.

In response, Sony started development of the GDM ( Graphic Display Monitor ) in 1983, which offered high resolution and faster refresh rates.

Sony offered two outboard Beta Hi-Fi processors, the HFP-100 and HFP-200.

Since 2010 new products of Sony ( previously only using Memory Stick ) and Olympus ( previously only using XD-Card ) are offered with an additional SD-Card slot.

In the United States, the service offered is generally on-site, whilst in the rest of the world it typically involves collection of the notebook by a courier, often DHL, for servicing in a Sony repair center.

Sony re-entered the market in 2007 with the introduction of XDCAM EX, a product that offered similar recording modes to XDCAM HD, but instead recorded onto SxS memory cards.

She was then offered a WC into 2010 Sony Ericsson Open in Miami but declined it due to another injury.

As compensation, Sony Online Entertainment offered players 3 months of Gold Membership in the online fantasy role-playing games EverQuest and EverQuest II.

The only media faculty to be recognized all over Gujarat, once accredited as third at all-India level in March 2001 for its courses offered and the strong alumni networking viz Sony, SAB TV, Zee NEWS, NDTV, AAJ TAK, India Today, ETVNetwork, Sahara Samay, Times Now, Times of India, Indian Express, BBC, 1 TV, Forbes India, Hats OFF productions, NewsX, Star Radio City, Big FM, Radio Mirchi, S FM, My FM and many reputed broadcast companies from the Western world.

Drivers have been created to make it work with many computer operating systems, however, Linux is the only OS which has drivers installed yet no official drivers have been offered by Namtai, Logitech or Sony for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS or Linux.

Following her departure on Australian Idol, Paulini was offered many recording contracts, but ultimately accepted a four-album deal with Sony BMG Australia.

A few years and a string of local performances later, the group came to the notice of members of popular Japanese rock band Judy and Mary and were offered a recording deal with Sony Japan's Pop Artist imprint in 1999.

The band was saved from further legal action by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who offered to provide assistance with legal negotiations and also asked Metallica's longtime attorney to try to defuse the situation with Sony.

The company survived the dot-com bubble and offered online legal music downloads in February 2005, backed by EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG.

Despite differences in branding, native progressive modes offered by Canon and Sony are fully compatible, with both companies adhering to HDV specifications for recording native 1080p video.

Apart from regular seasons offered by The National Ballet of Canada at the Sony Centre from 1964 to 2006 and frequent visits by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the theatre has welcomed a diverse range of international dance companies.

Even the official site, which became unavailable since September 2007 ( possibly connected to Sony Online Entertainment's takeover of Sigil Games Online on 15 May 2007 ) and right now only contains a short biography about Brad McQuaid, offered only a shareware version of the game for download.

After King appeared on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, Sony Records offered her a deal with Epic records ' Red Ink label.

In the United States, Cingular Wireless ( now AT & T Mobility ) offered the Nokia 6340 and Sony Ericsson T62u to customers who wished to have a GAIT mobile phone ( although these phones are no longer marketed through AT & T ).