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Sony and Walkman
In 1984, Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products.
* 1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette players, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of former Sony Ericsson mobile phones.
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.
Sony continues to use the " Walkman " brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the " Discman " name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s.
In March 2007, Sony extended the brand by launching its first all-digital, flash-based video Walkman, the A800 series, where A stands for " All in one, Advanced, and Attractive ".
In 1979, Sony began selling the popular Walkman in Japan, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee.
The advertising of the Sony Walkman served to portray it as a culturally " hip " item.
Sony accomplished the genius feat of mass individualized and targeted advertisement, enabling the Walkman to be recognized as an influential piece of technology.
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 Walkman WM-2 with plastic battery case and beltclip ( 1980 )
Originally marketed as the " Soundabout " in the U. S., the " Stowaway " in the U. K., and the " Freestyle " in Sweden, Sony soon had the new name " Walkman " embossed into the metal tape cover of the device.
The highest quality Sony Walkman recording cassette deck was the Walkman Professional.
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 still continues to make cassette-based Walkman devices in China for the US and other overseas markets, however they were discontinued in Japan only on October 23, 2010.
Every five years since the Walkman personal stereo was born in 1979 until 1999, Sony would celebrate by coming out with an anniversary cassette model on July 1.
However, cassette Walkman innovation would come to an end as during its 25th Anniversary, Sony chose to not introduce another limited run cassette model but instead, brought out the hard disk based NW-HD1 in 2004 to officially augur the death of the compact cassette.
In August 2006, Sony Canada began selling cassette Walkman personal stereos again, but this time they were only offering a basic model, the WM-FX197.
In October 2010, it was reported that manufacturing of the cassette-based Walkman would cease in Japan, but that Sony would continue production of the device in China to accommodate users abroad, including in the United States, Europe, and some Asian countries.
In recent years, Sony has dropped the Discman name and markets all its personal stereos under the Walkman brand.
The Sony GV-8 Video Walkman was introduced in 1989.
Sony decided to choose Memory Stick Video format ( which actually is H. 264 / MPEG-4 AVC format ) as standard for Walkman MP3 Video Player.

Sony and can
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.
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.
MIPS cores can be found in newer Cisco, Linksys and Mikrotik's routerboard routers, cable modems and ADSL modems, smartcards, laser printer engines, set-top boxes, robots, handheld computers, Sony PlayStation 2 and Sony PlayStation Portable.
The Sony PS-F5 / F9 ( 1983 ) uses a similar, miniaturized design, and can operate in a vertical or horizontal orientation.
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.
Software that can export audio in WMA format include Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Expression Encoder, Sony Sound Forge, GOM Player, RealPlayer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Soundbooth.
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.
Recordable MDs can be recorded on repeatedly ; Sony claims up to one million times.
The L-size cassette can be used in both Sony and Panasonic equipment ; nevertheless, they are often called DVCAM tapes.
Older Sony decks would not play large cassettes with DVCPRO recordings, but newer models can.
* Sony XDCAM family of cameras can record DV onto either Professional Disc or SxS memory cards.
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.
, Sony digital cameras and a number of other Sony products typically use Memory Stick cards that can be manufactured only by Sony, co-developer SanDisk, and select licensees.
Similarly this can discourage consumers with non-Sony merchandise from purchasing Sony products.
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.
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.
In fact, the view of Czerny as primarily a composer of didactic works is being challenged, as can be seen in the review cited below of a Sony Classical CD of some of Czerny's four-hand works.
The latest version is the HP iPaq h4350 Pocket PC, which can communicate through Bluetooth with their Sony Ericsson T610 GPRS-telephone.
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.

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