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Home Theater Term of the Week - SACDHome Theater Term of the Week - SACD SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc) is a high resolution audio disc format developed by Sony and Philips. Based on Direct Stream Digital Recording (DSD), SACD provides for more accurate sound reproduction... In this article: Super Audio Compact Disc, DVD, and Sony |
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PR Newswire | September 03, 2008
Sony's Wired AV Receivers Serve as Hub for Multi-Room High-Definition Entertainment
...source. The model will be available in September for about $2,000. Sony also announced a new Super Audio CD and compact disc player complementing the new ES receivers. The single-disc SCD-XA5400ES incorporates an uncompressed digital...
In this article: Super Audio CD and Blu-ray
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD Super Audio CD (SACD) is a high-resolution, read-only optical audio disc format developed by Sony and Philips Electronics , the same companies that created the Compact Disc. SACD is designed to provide high-resolution audio in...
In this article: DVD, Super Audio CD, Quantization, PlayStation 3, Compact Disc, Pioneer, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Burden of proof, and Blu-ray Disc
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Cnet | March 26, 2009
Betamax to Blu-ray: Sony format winners, losers
...was better, but it was too large and cumbersome. Elcaset was a flop. Speaking of which, Sony-Philips teamed up again to create the Super-Audio CD, which premiered in 1999. Indeed, the supersounding discs bested CD and offered backward...
In this article: Blu-Ray, Steve Guttenberg, HD DVD, Betamax, DVD, MiniDisc, Toshiba, Philips, and Popcorn
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Thriller (album)
...the album. Sony also hired sound engineer and mixer Mick Guzauski to work with Jackson on creating 5.1-channel surround sound mixes of Thriller, as well as all his other albums, for release on the then-new Super Audio CD format. Despite...
In this article: Thriller, Michael Jackson, Billie Jean, MTV, Beat It, Rolling Stone, Off the Wall, Time, The Girl Is Mine, and Thriller 25
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The Register | November 06, 2008
Sony pitches blue-laser Compact Disc revival
Sony pitches blue-laser Compact Disc revival Sony failed to tune the masses into its better-than-Compact-Disc format, Super Audio CD, so it's having another go, this time with technology derived from Blu-ray Disc. Dubbed Blu-spec CD, the...
In this article: Blu-ray Disc, Compact Disc, Super Audio CD, DVD, Itunes, SanDisk, and Sony Music Entertainment
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
DualDisc
...24-bit, high sample-rate DVD-Audio. The biggest competition to DualDisc is the hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD), which was developed by Sony and Philips Electronics , the same companies that created the CD. DualDiscs and hybrid SACDs are...
In this article: DVD, Dvd-audio, United States, Recording Industry Association of America, Philips Electronics, Dieter Dierks, SonyBMG, Sony Music, and In Your Honor
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Engadget | August 27, 2008
Sony debuts $1,500 SACD player with HDMI output - Engadget
...digital audio reproduction than the Red Book audio CD. Introduced in 1999, it was developed by Sony and Philips Electronics, the same companies that created the Compact Disc. SACD is in a format war with DVD-Audio, but neither format...
In this article: Engadget, Dvd-audio, Pink Floyd, Japan, Super Audio CD, Compact Disc, BlueRay, Too little, too late, and Silver
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
Analog recording vs. digital recording
...felt that further evaluation tests were necessary . The Super Audio CD (SACD) format was created by Sony and Philips, who were also the developers of the earlier standard audio CD format. SACD uses Direct Stream Digital, which works quite...
In this article: Quantization, Amplitude, Laserdisc, Dvd-audio, Compact Disc, and Philips
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eFluxMedia | July 16, 2008
Movies: The New Battleground For Sony's PS3 And Microsoft's Xbox 360
...was upgraded. Sony is selling already a 80 GB PS3, which was released lat year in August, abut unlike the new, announced model, that one has four USB ports, Super Audio CD support, Flash card readers, and PS 2 compatibility. This model will...
In this article: Microsoft, Xbox 360, PS3, E3, Netflix Inc., MGM, United States, and License
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Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. (FY2008). Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its name is derived from sonus, the Latin word for sound.
Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its five operating segments—electronics, games, entertainment (motion pictures and music), financial services and other. These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation (Sony Electronics in the U.S.), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Ericsson, and Sony Financial. As a semiconductor maker, Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. The company's current slogan is make.believe.
- Name:
- Sony Corporation
- Type:
- TYO: 6758
- Location:
- Minato, Tokyo, Japan
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Founded:
- 1946 in Japan
- Stock Symbol:
- SNE
- Industry:
- Consumer electronics
- Entertainment
- Services:
- Financial services
- Key People:
- Howard Stringer,
- Products:
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- Chemicals
- Blu-Ray
- Semiconductor
- Communication & information-related equipments
- Sony Music
- Battery
- PlayStation
- Consumer & professional electronic equipments
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Electronic devices & components
- Revenue:
- ¥7.730 trillion / $79.618 billion
- Operating Income:
- ¥ −227.8 billion / $2.087 billion
- Net Income:
- ¥ −98.9 billion / $1.019 billion
- Assets:
- $230.5 billion
- Equity:
- $50 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 180,500
- Subsidiaries:
- List of the subsidiaries
- Market Cap:
- US$ 50 Billion (2009)
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