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 ).

In 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio ( the first to be fully transistorized ), and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony ( sonus is Latin for sound, and Sonny-boys the most common American expression ).

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.

In doing so they have designed and produced, logos and illustrations, shoes, and fashion for the likes of Nike, Adidas, Lamborghini, Coca Cola, Stussy, Sony, Nasdaq and more.

Nintendo and Philips had established an agreement to co-develop a CD-ROM enhancement for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System due to licensing disagreements with Nintendo's previous partner Sony ( an agreement that produced a prototype console called the Play Station ).

Besides Philips, several other manufacturers produced CD-i players, including Magnavox, GoldStar / LG Electronics, Digital Video Systems, Memorex, Grundig, Sony (' Intelligent Discman ', a portable CD-i player ), Kyocera, NBS, Highscreen, and Bang & Olufsen, who produced a television with a built-in CD-i device ( Beocenter AV5 ).

The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series.

In the 2000s, several car audio manufacturers have produced subwoofers using non-circular shapes from manufacturers including Boston Acoustic, Kicker, Sony, Bazooka, and X-Tant.

The aibo was mass produced by Sony.

The electronic versions by Baen are produced in five common formats ( HTML, Palm Pilot / Mobipocket / Kindle format, Rocketbook, EPUB / Stanza, Sony LRF, RTF and MS Reader versions ), all unencrypted in drastic contrast to the rest of the e-publishing industries strategy.

Popular digital multitrack recorders produced by Sony and Mitsubishi in the early 1980s helped to bring about digital recording's acceptance by the major record companies.

Additionally, a video game carrying the brand name HBO Boxing was produced for the Sony PlayStation.

The show was produced by The Garth Ancier Company and was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television Distribution ( 1993 – 1996 ), then by Columbia TriStar Television Distribution ( 1996 – 2001 ), Columbia TriStar Domestic Television Distribution ( 2001 – 2002 ), and Sony Pictures Television Distribution ( 2002 – 2004 ).

* Yo-Yo Ma Podcast Series produced by Sony BMG Masterworks

Distributed by Koch Records and Sony Music, the album marked Norwood's debut on the Epic Records label, and her reunion with long-time contributor and mentor Rodney Jerkins, who wrote and executive produced most of the album.

In 2007, Nickelodeon began a four-year development deal with Sony Music to produce music-themed series for the channel, help fund and launch albums in conjunction with the label tied to Nickelodeon shows and produce original songs for the programs to be released as singles as result ; the only series produced under the partnership that was greenlit as a series, Victorious debuted in 2010, though a similar hit music-themed sitcom, Big Time Rush that debuted the same year features a similar partnership with Columbia Records, though with Columbia only being involved with the show's music, Sony Music became involved with that show's production midway through its first season.

which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television.

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.

Video monitors are the only remaining Trinitron products being produced by Sony, at a low production rate, although the basic technology can still be found in downmarket televisions from 3rd parties.

Sony engineers were unable to make a version of Chromatron that could be reliably mass produced.

Among similar products, Sony produced the KV-1311 monitor / TV combination.

The last Sony Betamax VCR was produced in 2002.

In 1999, she signed to Sony Discos and was introduced to Rudy Pérez, who produced her first Spanish-language crossover album Llegar a Ti.

Contrary to most Walkman lines, Sony Ericsson Walkman Phones did not support Sony's proprietary audio format, ATRAC ( with all of its variants, except certain Japanese models supporting ATRAC ).

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ") — from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the Digital Theater System | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right ).

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or quad track )- from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound ( SDDS ) ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby Double-D logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the DTS ( sound system ) | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right.

When these were cancelled as part of the wider Trinitron shutdown in 2007, professionals forced Sony to re-open two of the lines to produce the 20 and 14 inch models.

In addition to Sony and Sanyo, Beta-format video recorders were also sold by Toshiba, Pioneer, Murphy, Aiwa, and NEC ; the Zenith Electronics Corporation and WEGA Corporations contracted with Sony to produce VCRs for their product lines.

In 1988, Sony would again push the envelope with ED Beta, or " Extended Definition " Betamax, capable of up to 500 lines of resolution, that equaled DVD quality ( 480 typical ).

Encoded using NHK's MUSE " Hi-Vision " analogue TV system, MUSE discs would operate like standard Laserdiscs but would contain high-definition 1, 125-line ( 1, 035 visible lines ) ( Sony HDVS ) video with a 5: 3 aspect ratio.

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ")- from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the Digital Theater System | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right.

Sonic Foundry sold the Vegas, ACID, Sound Forge, CD Architect, Siren, VideoFactory, ScreenBlast, and Batch Converter product lines to Sony Pictures Digital in July 2003.

Its formation marked the merger of the Sony Classical and BMG Classics ( including RCA Red Seal ) product lines.

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ")- from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right.