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In 1961, Sony launched the world's first compact transistor VTR, the PV-100. In 1968, Sony launched the legendary color television set, Trinitron. The Trinitron was the reason that Sony had been the world's largest TV manufacturer in terms of annual revenue until 2006. [5] [6] In 1969, Sony launched Sony TC-50, a compact cassette recorder.
Sony's first product was an electric rice cooker in the late 1940s. [18]Sony began in the wake of World War II. In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in Shirokiya, [19] a department store building in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo.
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio conglomerate that produces, acquires, and distributes filmed entertainment (theatrical motion pictures, television programs, and recorded videos) through multiple platforms.
The following is a list of Bravia television products manufactured by Sony. In 2005 they discontinued their previous "WEGA LCD" line, and all Sony televisions are now known as Sony Bravia. Starting in 2013, the model year is encoded in a letter of the alphabet, so all 2015 models have a letter "C" in their name.
The PlayStation [a] (codenamed PSX, abbreviated as PS, and later PS1/PS one) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.It was released in Japan on 3 December 1994, followed by North America on 9 September 1995, Europe on 29 September 1995, and other regions following thereafter.
Sony is the tenth largest foreign direct investor in the United States, with investments worth more than $90 billion. [11] In 2021, more than half of Sony Corporation's revenue came from companies based in the United States. [12] Sony Interactive Entertainment headquarters in San Mateo, California
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In 1993, Sony and Sony Music Entertainment Japan jointly established Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) in Tokyo, which released the video game console PlayStation in Japan the following year and subsequently in the United States and Europe the year after.