Amid fierce competition, primarily from Toshiba ( the Walky ), Aiwa ( the CassetteBoy ) and Panasonic ( the MiJockey ), by the late 1980s, Sony upped the ante once again by creating the playback-only WM-DD9, launched in 1989 during the 10th anniversary of the Walkman ( five years after the WM-D6C ) and became the holy grail for a niche group of cassette Walkman collectors.

Sony attempted to license MD technology to other manufacturers, with JVC, Sharp, Pioneer, Panasonic and others all producing their own MD systems.

JVC originally collaborated with Sony Corporation and Matsushita Electric ( aka Panasonic, National in Japan ) in building a home video standard for the Japanese consumer.

Common values for field of view crop in DSLRs include 1. 3x for some Canon ( APS-H ) sensors, 1. 5x for Sony APS-C sensors used by Nikon, Pentax and Konica Minolta and for Fujifilm sensors, 1. 6 ( APS-C ) for most Canon sensors, ~ 1. 7x for Sigma's Foveon sensors and 2x for Kodak and Panasonic 4 / 3 " sensors currently used by Olympus and Panasonic.

Sony and Panasonic have created their proprietary versions of DV, which use the same compression scheme, but improve on robustness, linear editing capabilities, color rendition and raster size.

Canon and Panasonic call this format Frame Mode, while Sony calls it Progressive Scan recording.

The L-size cassette can be used in both Sony and Panasonic equipment ; nevertheless, they are often called DVCAM tapes.

* MXF-DV wraps DV video into MXF container, which is presently used on P2-based camcorders ( Panasonic ) and on XDCAM / XDCAM EX camcorders ( Sony ).

Camcorders that offer video transfer over USB usually do not deliver full DV quality-usually it is 320x240 video ( except for the Sony DCR-PC1000 camcorder and some Panasonic camcorders providing transfer of a full-quality DV stream via USB ).

Companies that have set up maquiladoras in Tijuana include Lanix, Hyundai, Sony, Vortec, BMW, Vizio, Toyota, Dell, Samsung, Kodak, Matsushita / Panasonic, Bimbo, GE, Nabisco, Ford, Microsoft, Cemex, Zonda, Philips, Pioneer, Airbus, Plantronics, Siemens, Jaguar, Pall Medical, Tara, Sanyo, Volkswagen and vimay.

Because D-1 was extremely expensive, the composite D-2 and D-3 ( by Sony and Panasonic, respectively ) were introduced soon after.

; MSX: Spectravideo, Philips, Al Alamia, Sony, Sanyo, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Hitachi, National, Panasonic, Canon, Casio, Pioneer, Fujitsu General, Yamaha, JVC, Yashica-Kyocera, GoldStar, Samsung / Fenner, Daewoo / Yeno, Gradiente *, Sharp / Epcom, Talent.

; MSX2: Philips, Sony, Sanyo, Samsung, Mitsubishi, Victor ( a. k. a. JVC ), National, Panasonic, Canon, Yamaha, ACVS / CIEL *, DDX *, Daewoo / Yeno, NTT, Talent.

; MSX2 +: Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic, ACVS / CIEL *, DDX *.

JVC, Panasonic, and Sony have sold industrial S-VHS decks for amateur and semi-professional production use.

DVD-ROM drives from Toshiba, Pioneer, Panasonic, Hitachi, and Sony began appearing in sample

As of 2003, there are two 24p HD formats: Sony 24p and Panasonic 24p.

On June 25, 2012, Sony and Panasonic announced a joint venture for creating low cost mass production OLED televisions by 2013.

A number of companies produce hardware such as Blu-ray players and media centres that support the Matroska container including Asus, OPPO Digital, Panasonic, LG, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, LaCie, and Western Digital.

The boombox was introduced to the American market during the mid-1970s, with the bulk of production being carried out by Panasonic, Sony, Marantz, and General Electric.

Most brands were manufactured in Japan, including Aiwa, Crown, Hitachi, JVC, Lasonic, Panasonic, Sharp, Sony, and Toshiba.

AVCHD is a high-definition recording format designed by Sony and Panasonic that uses H. 264 ( conforming to H. 264 while adding additional application-specific features and constraints ).

Grundig, Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp, Sony, Thomson and Toshiba along with now over

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

Most digital features to date have been shot at 1920 × 1080 HD resolution using cameras such as the Sony CineAlta, Panavision Genesis, or Thomson Viper.

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.

In a very short mid-2007 interview with Jamirotalk, drummer Derick McKenzie expressed his satisfaction with leaving Sony as the beginning of a period in which the band will have more creative control over their own work, together with plenty of room for experimentation and lack of pressure from a record company.

For example, a five-year-old 42 " Sony TV may have been bought by the customer for $ 1000.

Surviving parts of the former Hotel Esplanade have been incorporated into the north side of the Sony development, including the Kaisersaal which, in a complex and costly operation in March 1996, was moved in one piece ( all 1, 300 tonnes of it ), some 75 metres from its former location, to the spot that it occupies today ( it even had to make two right-angled turns during the journey, while maintaining its own orientation ).

Whilst the amounts involved have not been publicly disclosed, it is believed that neither Daimler nor Sony recouped all of their original investments ( what Daimler managed to get was reportedly well short ).

The long-term benefits ( or otherwise ) of these sales, remain to be seen, but whilst they may have baffled many people at the time, they may turn out to have been a shrewd move, as Daimler and Sony have avoided being saddled with something they might have found much harder to sell at a later date, just when they needed the cash the most.

Phones with Sony Ericsson Java Platform-8 have support for JSR 226.

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

Video art is often said to have begun when Nam June Paik used his new Sony Portapak to shoot footage of Pope Paul VI's procession through New York City in the autumn of 1965.

The names " Walkman ", " Pressman ", " Watchman ", " Scoopman ", " Discman ", and " Talkman " are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company.

Through Sony's effort to " certain meanings and practices which have become emblematic of -- which seem to stand for or to represent -- a distinctive ' way of life ': the culture of late-modern, post-industrial societies ", the Walkman remains, largely due to effective advertisement, a symbol of the freedom and portability that Sony sought to convey among the younger demographic.

Sony still makes CD Walkmans: the newer models are capable of playing ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and MP3 CDs, and have become progressively thinner and more compact with each revision.

Sony Ericsson president Miles Flint, claiming to have sold over three million Walkman phones, introduced their sixth Walkman branded phone, the W950, at the 3GSM Congress in 2006.

If not, production houses such as Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures can distribute their content to the different networks, and it is common that a certain production house may have programs on two or more rival networks.

There have been four versions of the ATRAC data reduction system, each claimed ( by Sony ) to more accurately reflect the original audio.

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.

To prevent the MITI from adopting Betamax, JVC made an attempt to have other companies accept VHS, and thereby work against Sony and the MITI.

ELP have signed a worldwide licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment.