In 1996 Sony responded with its own professional version of DV called DVCAM.

The band entered a lawsuit against their label in order to break from their contract, to which Sony responded with a lawsuit of their own.

Shortly after the announcement of S-VHS, Sony responded with an announcement of Extended Definition Betamax ( ED-Beta ).

Sony responded with the FD Trinitron, which used computer controlled feedback systems to ensure sharp focus across a flat screen.

Sony, the publisher of the game, responded by saying " Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is aware of the concerns expressed by the Bishop of Manchester and the cathedral authorities ... and we naturally take the concerns very seriously.

Sony responded in a statement saying that Lik-Sang had not contested the case, thus incurring no legal fees, and had not paid any damages or costs to Sony.

Over the course of 2005 Sony released six different versions of the firmware and hackers typically responded to it by downgrading to avoid the new security updates.

* dvf – a Sony proprietary format for compressed voice files ; commonly used by Sony dictation recorders.

Morita was an advocate for all the products made by the Sony Corporation.

The first official home video releases of Beavis and Butt-Head were two VHS tapes titled There Goes the Neighborhood and Work Sucks !, distributed by Sony Music Video and MTV Home Video in 1996 in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

* Cell ( microprocessor ), a microprocessor architecture developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM

Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the mid and late 1970s.

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.

This capacity was reportedly specified by Sony executive Norio Ohga so as to be able to contain the entirety of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on one disc.

* Digital Audio Tape cartridge, a recording and playback medium introduced by Sony in 1987

A CD-R ( Compact Disc-Recordable ) is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony.

The CD-R, originally named CD Write-Once ( WO ), specification was first published in 1988 by Philips and Sony in the ' Orange Book '.

The first system implementing machine improvisation by means of Markov models and style modeling techniques is the Continuator, developed by François Pachet at Sony CSL Paris in 2002.

In September 2011, a new album called " My Heart " was released by Sony in the UK ; the American release came out in December 2011 distributed through City Hall Records.

* Betacam SX, Betacam IMX, Digital Betacam, or DigiBeta — Commercial video systems by Sony, based on original Betamax technology

* HDCAM was introduced by Sony as a high-definition alternative to DigiBeta.

It was developed by Sony's 989 Studios and its early-1999 spin-off Verant Interactive, and published by Sony Online Entertainment ( SOE ).

In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by TATS CRU in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami to market its handheld PSP gaming system.

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.

A second game bearing the anime TV series title Stand Alone Complex was released in November 2004 on PlayStation 2, developed by Sony Computer Entertainment and Cavia and published by Bandai.

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 similar series, SingStar, published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, is particularly popular in the European and Australasian markets.

Sony then pioneered the XDCAM, the first tapeless video format, in 2003, introducing consumers to the Professional Disc ( PFD ).

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 1984, Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products.

Eventually, Sony managed to mass produce CCDs for their camcorders.

In this campaign, taking notice of the legal problems of the IBM campaign, Sony paid building owners for the rights to paint on their buildings " a collection of dizzy-eyed urban kids playing with the PSP as if it were a skateboard, a paddle or a rocking horse.

After leaving Sony, the band began to work on their seventh project, and several collaborations and side-projects.

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.

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.

Recent Sony Ericsson phones support MNG files in their themes.

United States fair use law, as interpreted in the decision over Betamax ( Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios ), dictates that consumers are fully within their legal rights to copy videos they own.

Meanwhile, other corporations, such as Sony or Disney, simply open their own chains of stores, preventing the competition from even putting their products on the shelves.

According to Sony Pictures, " The objective for our Anonymous program, as stated in the classroom literature, is ' to encourage critical thinking by challenging students to examine the theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's works and to formulate their own opinions.

US intellecutal property rights are owned by Lionsgate, as successor-in-interest to Canadian-financed films by producers John Dunning & Andre Link and their company Cinepix ; Lionsgate has in turn licensed DVD rights to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The second largest part went to Sony, who erected their new European headquarters on a triangular site immediately to the north of Daimler-Benz and separated from it by the re-routed Potsdamer Straße.

Daimler and Sony caused a major surprise on 2 October 2007 when both announced that they were putting their respective complexes at Potsdamer Platz on the market.

Sony meanwhile, put their decision down to a need to review their global strategy in the face of a fast-changing worldwide economic climate.

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 ).

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.

Square was one of the many companies that had planned to develop and publish their games for the Nintendo 64, but with the cheaper costs associated with developing games on CDs for the Sony PlayStation, the games were instead made for PlayStation.

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

To add to the near-future look, Sony contributed prototypes of their new products for the film.

Rather confusingly the publishers themselves are sometimes referred to as third-party developers in the context of their relationships with the console manufacturers ( Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo ).

Without the huge marketing budgets of mainstream publishers, their products almost never get as much recognition or popular acclaim as those of larger publishers such as Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo.