Meanwhile, Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976.

Later in 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc.

Digital video was first introduced commercially in 1986 with the Sony D-1 format, which recorded an uncompressed standard definition component video signal in digital form instead of the high-band analog forms that had been commonplace until then.

Digital Cinema Initiatives ( DCI ) was formed in March 2002 as a joint project of many motion picture studios ( Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, and Warner Bros. Studios ) to develop a system specification for digital cinema.

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.

At far left and far right, outside the perforations, is the Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS soundtrack as an image of a digital signal.

High-end videoconferencing hardware made by companies such as Sony, Polycom, Tandberg, and LifeSize via the LifeSize Networker can bond up to 8 B-channels together ( using a BRI circuit for every 2 channels ) to provide digital, circuit-switched video connections to almost anywhere in the world.

A Casio 1. 8 in color TFT LCD, which equips the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P93A digital camera | digital compact cameras

The Sony CLIÉ ( pronounced " KLEE-AY " Latin ) was a series of personal digital assistants running the Palm Operating System developed and marketed by Sony from 2000 to 2005.

As part of the Blu-ray production, Sony gave the film a full 4K digital restoration, which included scanning and cleaning the original negative ( removing emulsion dirt and scratches ).

By 2005, Sony had relaxed the restrictions in its SonicStage software to allow unrestricted digital transfers to and from Hi-MD and the computer.

After the runaway success of Apple's hard-drive-based iPod, Sony lost much of the portable digital audio market to the iPod and similar devices from other companies.

Sony had originally intended for Digital Audio Tape ( DAT ) to be the dominant home digital audio recording format, replacing the analog cassette.

Relegating DAT for professional use, Sony set to work to come up with a simpler, more economical digital home format.

By the time Sony came up with MiniDisc in late 1992, Philips had introduced a competing system, DCC ( the digital compact cassette ).

At far left and far right, outside of the # Perforations | KS-size perforations, is the Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS soundtrack as an image of a digital signal.

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.

One of the most significant examples of a PCM adaptor-based system was the Sony PCM-1600 digital audio mastering system, introduced in 1978.

* Digital Still Camera, a prefix used by Sony in all Cyber-shot digital camera models

A 1969 radio alarm clock ( Sony Digimatic 8FC-59W ) with an early digital display

Simultaneous with Sony Pictures's release of the film, its soundtrack was released by Sony subsidiary Columbia Records, while the corporation's digital effects division Sony ImageWorks issued a CD-ROM videogame version for DOS, Mac and Windows 3. x.

Later, higher scale integration electronics was applied ( mainly by Sony ), simplifying and even removing the intermediate opticals, up to a point to reduce the size of video cameras for domestic use until convert them in handy and full camcorders.

* Sony XDCAM family of cameras can record DV onto either Professional Disc or SxS memory cards.

In 1997, Sony bumped its Betacam series up to HD with the HDCAM standard and its higher-end cousin HDCAM SR. Panasonic's competing format for cameras was based on DVCPRO and called DVCPRO HD.

The future of the Digital 8 format is in question as Sony, the format's original backer, is the only company still producing Digital8 equipment, and currently Sony has no plans to develop new Digital 8 cameras.

The Vario-Tessar name has been used by Zeiss for various zoom lenses including that of the digital still cameras Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P100, DSC-P200 and DSC-w330.

Nikon has opted to use CCDs sourced from Sony in most of their low and mid range cameras and used a CMOS sensor in the flagship D2Xs / D2x.

* Holga HL-S-A 60mm f / 8 Holga lens for Sony DSLR cameras.

As reverse of DSLR cameras with high-definition video, in 2011 at least there are 2 Interchangeable lens camcorders which can capture Full HD video with full control of camcorder, Panasonic AG-AF100 and Sony NEX-VG10 both with big sensor, not as usual as non-professional camcorders.

* Sony professional cameras

SLR camera service operations were handed over to Sony starting on March 31, 2006 and Sony has continued development of cameras that are compatible with Minolta autofocus lenses.

Until the sale of Konica Minolta's Photo Imaging unit to Sony in 2006, Konica Minolta produced the former Minolta range of 35 mm autofocus single-lens reflex cameras, variously named " Minolta Maxxum " in North America, " Minolta Dynax " in Europe, and " Minolta Alpha " in Japan and the rest of Asia.

However, by 2004 Canon and Nikon had a whole range of digital SLR cameras and many serious photographers had already switched, thus leading Konica Minolta to withdraw from the market and transfer assets to Sony.

The Reds have a 10-year contract with the Daktronics company of Brookings, South Dakota and also have contracted with Sony for the high-definition video cameras and production equipment, which will be operated from a renovated control room.

UltraPort was designed in 1999 in response to the proliferation of many laptop computers from Sony, Fujitsu, and others that had built-in cameras.

It is used mostly in low-end consumer cameras and camcorders, though Sony also used it in some moderate cost professional cameras in the 1980s, such as the DXC-1800 and BVP-1 models.

On January 19, 2006, Konica Minolta announced that it was leaving the camera and photo business and that it would sell a portion of its SLR camera business to Sony as part of its move to pull completely out of the business of selling cameras and photographic film.

Sony also uses the ExpressCard / 34 form factor for the flash memory modules in its XDCAM EX / SxS based camcorders, making the copying of video data between these cameras and ExpressCard-equipped laptops easier.

For many cases Sony licenses its technology to a limited number of other vendors, which creates a situation in which it controls a cartel that collectively has lock-in on the product.

There are an increasing number of professional NLE's that can work with MXF files natively including Avid, Adobe Premiere Pro 3. 1 or above, Sony Vegas, and GrassValley EDIUS or via import operations like in Final Cut Pro using the Sony XDCAM Transfer plug-in.

The U. S. prosecutors claimed the accused were writing down number codes received from Atención, using Sony hand-held shortwave receivers, and typing the numbers into laptop computers to decode spying instructions.

The neighborhood is also home to a number of broadcast and music-recording studios, including the CBS Broadcast Center at 524 West 57th Street ( also the home of Black Entertainment Television's 106 & Park show ), Sony Music Studios at 460 West 54th Street, Manhattan Center Studios at 311 West 34th Street, and Right Track Recording's Studio A509 orchestral recording facility at West 38th Street and 10th Avenue.

Some Sony NTSC models were marketed as " Hi-Fi Ready " ( with an SL-HFR prefix to the model's number instead of the usual SL or SL-HF ).

Despite the sharp decline in sales of Betamax recorders in the late 1980s and subsequent halt in production of new recorders by Sony in 2002, both Betamax and SuperBetamax are still being used by a small number of people.

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.

Throughout the early 1990s a number of VHS tapes were released though Sony Wonder each containing 2 or 3 episodes, usually centered around a certain theme such as school, dating, sibling rivalry, etc.

in 2005 the film was released on DVD by Sony / Shout Factory ( catalogue number: 2028859 ) with a Bonus 20min interview with Julien Temple.

And I want it, it's number 1 on my list, and now Bob Osher, the President ( of Digital Production at Sony Picture Entertainment ), is like ' Hey, let's talk about Jack.

The catalogue number is 88697 322052 under both the Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Sony Classical labels with identical catalogue numbers.

Soon after being promoted to Senior Vice President of Product Development at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe ( SCEE ) in 2000, Harrison brought Marks to the division's headquarters in London to demonstrate the technology to a number of developers.

SACD was acclaimed by Sony marketeers as offering slightly better technical quality through its new PDM " bitstream " system and a greater number of SACD titles available.

The station has also seen a number of high profile presenters pass through its doors including Jonathan Overend ( BBC Radio 5 Live ), Tim ' Timbo ' Lloyd ( twice winner of Best Local DJ at the Sony Radio Awards ) and Mark Pougatch ( BBC Sport ).

A number of electronics companies such as Lexicon, Marantz, Mark Levinson, Onkyo, Panasonic, Pioneer, and Sony ( both its Computer Entertainment and Electronics divisions ) issued statements warning consumers about possible problems with playing DualDisc titles on their equipment.

Twelve Months, Eleven Days was released soon after the second single to little promotion and peaked at a disappointing number 34, which led to Sony recalling Barlow's ' greatest ' song according to critics, the scheduled third single from his second album " Lie to Me ".

In the 1980s, a number of manufacturers, including Sony, introduced cordless phones for the consumer market.

Under Liddle's editorship, Today won a number of awards: a Sony Silver in 2002 for reports by Barnie Choudhury and Mike Thomson into the causes of race riots in the north of England ; a Sony Bronze in 2003 for an investigation by Angus Stickler into paedophile priests ; and an Amnesty International Media Award in 2003 for Gilligan's investigation into the sale of illegal landmines, an investigation that attracted a lengthy legal action.

** Worldwide: August 2006: Dell recalls over four million notebook computer batteries, after a number of instances where the batteries, made by Sony, overheated or caught fire.