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50 unusual facts about Sony


Alexander Kronlund

Kronlund co-wrote Meja's million-selling debut album on Sony and co-wrote two songs for Britney Spears' second album, Oops!... I Did It Again.

Assassination of a High School President

This attracted a response in the media urging a theatrical release, and to avoid a direct-to-DVD release by Sony, who own the home video distribution rights.

Ayla Kell

Kell has appeared in many international commercials for Disney, Sony, Mattel, and Pringles.

Bat species identification

Some home camcorders made by Sony are sensitive to IR enabling an IR video recording to be made at low cost.

Birgit C. Muller

She resides in Beverly Hills, California and has worked in the film and television industry in the United States for Paramount, Sony, Disney and Universal Studios and others, with such noted directors as William Friedkin, David Lynch, Michael Bay, Francis Ford Coppola and Ridley Scott.

Cavalry Ground

The main boulevard of Cavalry Ground (also known as Jinnah Flyover Road) is a major commercial area with designer outlets, boutiques, banks (including Royal Bank of Scotland), bakeries, electronics shops (including Samsung and Sony Centre) and supermarkets.

Centurion Card

The card, available for personal and business use, offers services such as a dedicated concierge and travel agent; complimentary companion airline tickets on international flights on selected airlines with the purchase of a full-fare ticket; personal shoppers at retailers such as Gucci, Escada, and Saks Fifth Avenue; access to airport clubs; first-class flight upgrades; membership in Sony's Cierge personal shopping program and dozens of other elite club memberships.

Chucho Valdés

In 2008 Sony released an album of Chucho playing with his father Bebo Valdés.

Cinematography Mailing List

The CML has over 3500 members worldwide, including members of the American Society of Cinematographers, the British Society of Cinematographers, the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, etc. as well as representatives from most major equipment manufacturers, including Kodak, Fujifilm, Aaton, Arri, Panavision, Sony, Panasonic, etc.

Contrareloj

Originally released in 1986, Contra Reloj was Los Enanitos Verdes sophomore effort but the first that the group recorded for CBS (now Sony).

Dependeq

The artificial word "dependeq" is said having been created by Herbert Weissenbaeck after incidentally reading Jeffrey Robinson's Book "The Manipulators" while waiting for a delayed plane at London Heathrow Airport and studying the roots of other carefully crafted company names like "Sony" or "Compaq".

Engelina

In 1997 she moved from Århus to Copenhagen, where she met producer and disc jockey DJ Encore in 2000 through an employee at Sony/ATV Music Publishing, who suggested that DJ Encore's music would fit well with Engelina's vocal.

Evan Chandler

Chandler requested $60 million from Sony music so that he could record his own rebuttal album entitled EVANstory.

Game testing

For example, Sony publishes a Technical Requirements Checklist (TRC), Microsoft publishes Technical Certification Requirements (TCR), and Nintendo publishes a set of "guidelines" (Lotcheck).

Gimme That

After catching the eye of a girl near him, he falls asleep listening to "Poppin'" on his Sony Walkman Bean.

Heavy Metal Lover

According to the sheet music published on Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, It has a tempo of 116 beats per minute.

Immersion v. Sony

In 2002, Sony and Microsoft were sued by Immersion for patent infringement for the use of vibration functions in their gaming controllers.

Jamie Silberhartz

She also had a recurring role as Bonnie the receptionist on the CBS television show Without a Trace and has appeared in commercials for Life Savers, Pizza Hut ,and Sony.

Lullaby for Columbine

Within weeks of its inception, the Project garnered more than a quarter of a million dollars of support through in-kind donations from large corporations such as Sony Disc Manufacturing, Musicland and the National Digital Television Center to facilitate nearly all production, manufacturing and distribution phases of the record project.

Magic Cap

Several electronic companies came to market with Magic Cap devices, the most notable of which being the Sony Magic Link released in 1994 and the Motorola Envoy, also released in 1994.

Mainstream Records

In 1991 it was resurrected in order to reissue much of its holdings on compact disc and, in 1993, it was purchased by Sony subsidiary Legacy Records.

MBH Architects

The Sony PlayStation store at the Sony Metreon Entertainment Complex in San Francisco, CA was conceived and designed as both a retail outlet for the PlayStation consoles and games and as an arcade with video kiosks and a circular bar of monitors open for all customers to play.

Michael Cieply

In the 1990s, he worked as a film producer for Sony for eight and a half years where he was producing or in trying to produce movies and TV programs.

Mike Muir

Muir has criticized the band Rage Against the Machine, who are well known for expressing anti-corporate, left-wing politics in their lyrics, but are signed with Epic Records, a subsidiary of Sony, a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation.

Mocedades

In 1980 Mocedades signed up to CBS Records, now Sony, and recorded more songs for the Spanish-speaking market, including "Ay Amor!" ("Oh Love") and "Amor de Hombre" ("Love of Man"), which was the first Mocedades track to enter English-speaking charts since the smash hit "Eres Tú".

Mohamed Toihiri

Outside of his academic career, he has worked for Sony and TDK as Director for Public Relations, in Paris.

Nely Galán

Her newly formed company branched out launching networks for ESPN, MGM and Sony as well.

Nicolas Babin

Managing Director for Sony Europe(Etak a unit of the Sony group) in London (1997–2000)

Nigel McCulloch

In June 2007, McCulloch considered taking legal action against Sony because of their PlayStation game Resistance: Fall of Man.

NQ Mobile Inc.

NQ Mobile also cooperated with Nokia and Sony and both pre-installed NQ products in their companywide mobile phones.

Ooh Yeah!

In 2009, Sony Music Custom Marketing Group released a triple pack of Hall & Oates albums.

Oscar Ravina

In a career spanning more than four decades, Mr. Ravia recorded solo and chamber music for many record labels, including: Orion, Orion I, RCA Victor, Columbia, Vox, Serenus, Nonesuch, CBS, Spectrum, Crystal Records, New World Records, Sony, and Centaur Records.

Outernauts

Developed by Insomniac Games, it is the developer's first social video game, as well as their first game for a non-Sony platform.

Pete Vuckovic

He was quickly signed by Sony Records and spent 2 years writing and recording an album for his new project 'Elevation', they played a show in London with Vuckovic on guitar as well as releasing an E.P but by the time it was finally finished his A&R man had left the company, Vuckovic was dropped and the album never released.

Pye Ltd.

In the early 1970s Sony and Hitachi launched UK colour televisions that cost less than £200.

Rudolf Buchbinder

2012: Echo Klassik in German music award as Instrumentalist of the Year (piano) and the album Beethoven: The Sonata Legacy issued by RCA Red Seal/Sony

S/PDIF

The name stands for Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format (more commonly known as Sony Philips Digital Interface), Sony and Philips being the primary designers of S/PDIF.

Scott J. Bolton

Dr. Bolton has worked with a number of corporate sponsors dedicated to space science educational programs, including Lego, Universal, Sony, and Time-Warner.

Scratch Track

A tour which had Scratch Track headlining small venues and open as a special guest to the band O.A.R., which was inspired by their appearance on Sony PlayStation’s MLB 06: The Show for the song Hands Together.

The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

In 2006, a janitor working for Sony/ATV Music Publishing claimed to have found Williams' unfinished lyrics inside of a Sony-owned dumpster.

The Man Called Flintstone

However, owing to licensing complications between Warner Bros. (current owners of the Flintstones property) and Sony (current owners of then-Flintstones distributor Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems), only a Canadian release occurred; a United States release was canceled and would not be rescheduled until the rights issue was cleared in August 2008.

Thomas Smolej

ZOOM – Children's exhibition, Österreichischer Rundfunk, Servus TV, McDonald's, Nissan, Sony, ÖAMTC, Dulcolax, Alpla, 3, T-Mobile, IKEA, Kurier (Tageszeitung), Schwarzkopf (Haarkosmetik), Schartner Bombe, NÖ-Card, Vereinigte Bühnen Wien.

Tilt.tv

At times the show has gathered mixed feelings amongst gaming fans and there have been grumblings about the program being biased (Tilt.tv has at various times been sponsored by both Sony, Nintendo and Electronic Arts; currently it is sponsored by EA) and having hosts that generally have no gaming background.

Tomoko Namba

She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's So-net while she was a consultant at Mckinsey.

Un-D-Nyable Entertainment

Virgo was the featured vocalist on a Sony/So So Def Records album release "So So Def Bass All Stars" that sold over 560,000 units in the US.

Vicki Butler-Henderson

She has recorded voice overs for radio and television advertisements, including Wrigleys Extra Thin Ice and Sony Centres.

WDGC-FM

The cart machines at the North studio were replaced with Sony minidisc systems and a non-linear computer based audio editing program.

Will Horton

By October, it was confirmed that Will would come out as gay, receiving support from both NBC and Sony.

Wuxi New Area

It is home to many such companies such as hard disk maker Seagate, the Japanese electrical giant Sony and Matsushita Electric among others.

Zarina Screwvala

UTV has been credited with the production of content for India’s top entertainment channels like Zee TV, STAR TV and Sony.


2009 Sony Ericsson Open

The 2009 Sony Ericsson Open was the 25th edition of the Miami Masters tournament and was held at Tennis Center at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne near Miami, Florida.

Aisling Stephenson

This led to a number five in Japan with the boy band W-inds track Im a man along with a track entitled Used to be released on Sony artist Timothy James's album "Make it happen" She has written and released material ranging from jazz, RnB, pop, house and soul and toured with Roots Manuva and performed with Matthew Herbert's big band, Omar, Eska Mtungwazi and the late Lynden David Hall.

Badacsonytomaj

The town's name was recently used in a viral promotion by Sony to promote a new feature in their PlayStation 3 Home Service.

Bokeh

Lens manufacturers including Nikon, Minolta, and Sony make lenses designed with specific controls to change the rendering of the out-of-focus areas.

Boutique

For example, before the release of the Wii, a Time Magazine article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.

Christy Gibson

During her time with Sony Music Thailand, Gibson also recorded an album jointly with Swedish luk tung singer Jonas Anderson, called Rum-tone, Rum-thai.

DJ Delicious

A variety of successful remixes and commissions followed in the next few years: these were released under a large number of different pseudonyms on Urban/Polydor, Sony, and WEA.

Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia

These include many international global players such as 3M, BP, Ericsson, Ford, LG Electronics, QVC, Sony, Renault, Toyota, and Vodafone.

Elise LeGrow

Her first self-titled EP contains songs written with Sony/ATV artists Jon Levine, Ron Sexsmith and Stefan Skarbek.

Energy Saving Trust Recommended

Over 250 large, medium and small companies are currently members of the scheme including Hitachi Digital Media Group, Sony, Epson, John Lewis Partnership, Home Retail Group, Next, Samsung, Beko, Glen Dimplex, Baxi, Electrolux, Pure radios, Indesit, Knauf Insulation, Panasonic, Smeg and Aga Rangemaster.

ILCE

Sony ILCE camera, a designation used by Sony since 2013 for mirrorless interchangeable-lens digital system cameras with E-mount

Jack Tretton

After joining the Sony Corporation in March 1995, Tretton was a member of the team that founded PlayStation in September of that year.

Jerry Perenchio

The company sold to Coca-Cola in 1985 (who at the time was the parent of Columbia Pictures, now owned by Sony) for $485 million in Coke shares which later doubled.

Krypteria

Ji-In Cho, was chosen as the lead vocalist for the song and Sony/BMG, decided to re-release an edited version of their first album under the same name.

Leila Steinberg

As a veteran music industry executive she served as a marketer with Atlantic Records, Sony, Def Jam, Tommy Boy, Interscope, and Relativity.

Lobotomy Software

PowerSlave received enough success to help Lobotomy secure a contract to port the game over to the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation.

Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

The album was released on September 23, 2008 on his own record label Martyr Inc, with distribution by Hickory Records/Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Ludia

The company works with the owners of game show properties such as FremantleMedia, Sony, CBS, BBC Worldwide, Mark Burnett Productions and Disney to create video games based on game shows such as The Price Is Right, Family Feud/Family Fortunes, Press Your Luck, Pyramid, Hollywood Squares, Hole In The Wall, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, The Weakest Link and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Manu Chhabria

Dubai was at that time an obscure backwater, and in 1974, Chhabria was able to bag a contract with Sony, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, for Jumbo Electronics to become the sole distributors of Sony in the UAE.

Martin O'Brien

Previously he produced Good Morning Ulster and Sunday Newsbreak, winning a Radio Academy Sony Award.

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

In the field of art and design, NTU has links with a wide range of companies, professional bodies and institutions on an international level, including Apple, Arcadia Group, Broadway, Fashion Institute of Technology, Marks & Spencer, Ralsey Group Limited, Association of Illustrators, Sony, and Sophie Stellar.

Oswaldo Romano Junior

Segurar.com has now Jose Augusto Correa (Crival/FGV) and Rodrigo Veloso (onedrinks.com) as co-founders, and Aber Whitcomb (MySpace), Ashwin Navin (BitTorrent,Flingo), Paul Bragiel (I/O Ventures), Tommy Mottola (Sony Music), Michael Farello and Scott Dahnke (Catterton Partners) on the advisory board.

Paul Hollins

He has been heard on advertising campaigns for companies as diverse as Cadbury, Sony, TrafficMaster and Universal Music.

Piers Gibbon

He had a regular spot on Resonance FM where he and David McCandless received a Sony Award nomination for the documentary series The Good Drugs Guide.

Pieter Bustijn

Harpsichord in the Netherlands, Bob van Asperen (Sony B00000277E, 1991) – Recording of only Suitte No. 5 in g minor

PlayStation 4 technical specifications

The PlayStation 4 uses a semi-custom accelerated processing unit (APU) developed by AMD in cooperation with Sony and is manufactured on the TSMC 28 nm process node.

Psy-S

Frontman Masaya Matsuura went on to create several famous video games for the Sony PlayStation.

Resistance: Fall of Man

Sony and Insomniac Games have since become embattled with the Church of England for using interior shots of Manchester Cathedral to recreate the building within the game, as well as "promoting violence" within the building.

Segagaga

The game also references things associated with Sony's PlayStation and PlayStation 2 and there is as a strange cameo appearance from Ralph Macchio of Karate Kid fame, who in various mecha-forms,can be fought in one of the R&D departments and persuaded to join your team.

SoapCity

However the channel would never air after being beaten to the market by ABC/Disney's SoapNet, and because of distribution problems with Sony's Game Show Network.

Sony Ericsson Naite

It is a relatively cheap candybar phone that is placed at the bottom of Sony Ericsson's Greenheart range.

Taya Marquis

Taya wrote and performed the main theme song for Sony's video game,"The Agency", which was nominated at the 2009 Hollywood Music Awards for Best Original Song in Video Game.

The Brilliant Green discography

These were released through Sony Music Records from 1997 until mid 2000, when the band moved to Sony sub-label Defstar Records.

The Poor

On 13 June 1994 they released a debut album, Who Cares, on the Sony label, which peaked at No.

Throwing It All Away

A music video for the song was composed of soundcheck footage and shots of the band traveling whilst on their Invisible Touch tour of North America, much of which was filmed by Phil Collins on his 1985 Sony Handycam.

TriStar Productions

It was jointly announced on August 1, 2013 by Rothman, Michael Lynton, the CEO of Sony Entertainment and co-chairman and CEO of SPE, and Amy Pascal, co-chairwoman of SPE.

UIQ Technology

UIQ Technology, established in 1999, was owned jointly by Motorola and Sony Ericsson.

Ultra high definition television

On July 2, 2013, Jimmy Kimmel Live! recorded in 4K Ultra HD a performance by musical guest Karmin and the video clip will be used as demonstration material at Sony stores.

WEGA

Sony says that the FD Trinitron WEGA was named after a star ('Vega' in English) in the Lyra constellation, and made no reference to the original WEGA firm.

What's New

What's New, a PlayStation Network feature that displays news related to Sony's software and events