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.

In the summer of 2004, Sony announced that new CLIÉs would, from then on, be manufactured and available only in Japan, and in the spring of 2005, Sony announced the total termination of its CLIÉ line of products.

Due to technical delays, DAT was not launched until 1989, and by then the U. S. dollar had fallen so far in relation to the yen that the introductory DAT machine Sony had intended to market for about $ 400 in the late 1980s now had to retail for $ 800 or even $ 1000 to break even, putting it out of reach for most users.

In 2012, the company announced that Sony and Fujifilm offer of forming a capital alliance and the company would downsizing imaging business portfolio and then will focus on Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera ( MILC ).

Schenker then passed the tape along to Sony Music executive Andy Slater.

Since then, over 1, 400 movies have been mixed in Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, and as of early 1999 over 6, 750 movie theaters were equipped with SDDS.

Alabama then signed a five year writing contract with Sony / ATV Tree.

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 ).

Clinton then signed with Sony 550 and released T. A. P. O. A. F. O. M.

Since then, Sony has also used lock-in as a business tool in many other applications, and has a long history of engineering proprietary solutions to enforce lock-in.

Fishbone was then dropped by Sony Records.

The Columbia Pictures empire was sold on September 28, 1989 to electronics giant Sony for the amount of $ 3. 4 billion, one of several Japanese firms then buying American properties.

RCA Records ( originally The Victor Talking Machine Company, then RCA Victor ) is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment.

In 1980, international label CBS Records International, ( now Sony Discos ), then Julio Iglesias ' label, signed her up into their line-up.

WebTV then proceeded to close a non-exclusive WebTV set-top box distribution deal with Philips, which provided competitive pressure causing Sony to change its mind, to resume its relationship with WebTV and also to distribute WebTV.

McGee then took the Live Demonstration tape to Sony America and invited Oasis to meet with him a week later in London, at which point they were signed to a six-album contract.

Mauresmo then reached the semifinals of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, where she lost to the eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.

Mauresmo then lost in the third round of Tier I events, the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California and the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida.

In October 2002, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft jointly filed suit against Lik-Sang, resulting in the company shutting down for two weeks, and then reopening sans the disputed products.

She then reached the final of the Sony Ericsson Open for the third consecutive year before losing to World No. 1 Serena Williams.

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

Once output as Operation Triunfo winner on 11 February 2002, then began her musical career by signing a 3 album record deal with Sony BMG Music, RCA Records and Vale Music.

They pointed to a 2002 story where Sony Ericsson hired actors to pose as tourists that asked passers-by to take their photo, as a gimmick to show them the camera's features.

Sony Ericsson used stealth marketing in 2002 when they hired 60 actors in 10 major cities, and had them " accost strangers and ask them: Would you mind taking my picture?

Instead of piecing together the title with filmed assets from their movie ( directed by Robert Longo ) of the same name, Sony hired Propaganda Code director Douglas Gayeton to write and film an entirely new storyline for the property.

In 2005, he was hired by Sony Pictures to develop a script based on Marvel Comics ' Killraven.

The next day, Sony also announced that it reached an agreement with Guber-Peters Entertainment Company, Inc. ( NASDAQ: GPEC ; formerly Barris Industries, Inc .) to acquire the company for $ 200 million when Sony hired Peter Guber and Jon Peters to head CPE.

After graduating from the International Christian University in August 1984 with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree, Hirai was hired at CBS / Sony Inc. ( now Sony Music Entertainment ( Japan ) Inc .), where he was involved in marketing international music within Japan.

After completing the album, Sony hired Bojan Bazelli to direct the song's music video.

When Sony let go of Stolar, and Sega hired him, Ireland finished up his Saturn projects and moved the company to the PlayStation, where they released the most single titles on a console ( 10 titles ) in their history.

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.

The Sony PlayStation Portable uses two processors based on the MIPS R4000 processor.

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.

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 ).

Americans Peter Campus ' Double Vision combined the video signals from two Sony Portapaks through an electronic mixer, resulting in a distorted and radically dissonant image and Jonas ' Organic Honey's Vertical Roll involved recording previously recorded material as it was played back on a television — with the vertical hold setting intentionally in error.

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.

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 ).

This container is used primarily on Windows-based computers, though Sony offers two tapeless recorders, the HDD-based HVR-DR60 and the CompactFlash-based HVR-MRC1K, for use with DV / HDV camcorders that can record in DV-AVI format either making a file-based copy of the tape or bypassing tape recording altogether.

On September 28, 2012, Olympus and Sony announced that the two companies will establish a joint venture to develop new surgical endoscopes with 4K resolution ( or higher ) and 3D capability.

For these first two years, the Australian Record Company ( ARC ), now known as Sony Music handled the Australian distribution.

GSN's rerun programming comes primarily from two sources: FremantleMedia and GSN parent company Sony.

In particular, in the broadcast church service near the start of the episode the inability of any of the congregation to recite the Lords prayer correctly was replaced with a request for two girls in the front row to turn off their Sony Walkmans.

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.

Sony is frequently at the heart of format wars, in which two or more such cartels battle to capture a market and win the lock.

After releasing two more studio albums ( The Art of Rebellion and Suicidal for Life ), the band broke up and severed ties from Sony and Epic in 1995.

Sony discontinued the ED-Beta product line in the U. S. market after less than two years, handing S-VHS a victory by default, if it can even be called that.

Sony Classics issued a recording of Piano Music for Four Hands by Czerny 45936 with the piano duo Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen in 1991, and the CD label Analekta released a recording of two Czerny Piano Sonatas, as well as his Funeral March on the Death of Beethoven, Op.

In the wake of this, Francis recorded two duets for the German Herzklang label ( a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment ) with Peter Kraus with whom she had already worked several times in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The thirty songs contained on the initial releases were re-licensed over the following two decades to multiple record labels, most notably Sony Music, which packaged the songs in CD form in 1991 ( although the product was withdrawn the following year as legal action was pending from The Beatles ).

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.

Although originally, IMAX considered using two Sony 4K projectors.

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

MGM and Danjaq, LLC, owners of the franchise, sued Sony Pictures in 1997, with the legal dispute ending two years later in an out-of-court settlement.