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Sony has historically been notable for creating its own in-house standards for new recording and storage technologies, instead of adopting those of other manufacturers and standards bodies. The most infamous of these was the videotape format war of the early 1980s, when Sony marketed the Betamax system for video cassette recorders against the VHS format developed by JVC. Sony launched the Betamax videocassette recording format in 1975. In 1979 the Walkman brand was introduced, in the form of the world's first portable music player.n 1983 Sony launched the MSX, a home computer system, and introduced the world (with their counterpart Philips) to the Compact Disc (CD). In 1984 Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products. In 1985 Sony launched their Handycam products and the Video8 format. Video8 and the follow-on hi-band Hi8 format became popular in the consumer camcorder market. In 1987 Sony launched the 4 mm DAT or Digital Audio Tape as a new digital audio tape standard.In 1986 they launched Write-Once optical discs (WO) and in 1988 launched Magneto-optical discs which were around 125MB size for the specific use of archival data storage.
 and many more till 2005.

Masaru Ibuka co-founded the company what we now call Sony. As many other big companies, Sony’s history started low, with Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka founding Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation 1946. Masaru Ibuka is not as known as Akio Morita is, possibly because Ibuka left the company in 1976, 30 years after having found it (Bill Gates left Microsoft after 30 years as well). There is no particular reason for Ibuka’s leave, albeit at that time he was 68 years.
He didn’t have health issues and had lived 89 years. However, even after his leave, he maintained close ties with Akio Morita and was regarded as an “advisor” for the company. Do you know where this financial giant had started? In 1945, Masaru Ibuka decided to start a small, local business – a radio repair shop. He did so in a bomb-damaged building from Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1945. After one year, Akio Morita joined and they found together the father of the mighty Sony.

Sony Corporation , commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It ranked 87th on the 2012 list of Fortune Global 500.Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics products for the consumer and professional markets.
Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its four operating segments – Electronics (including video games, network services and medical business), Motion pictures, Music and Financial Services^. 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 Mobile Communications (formerly Sony Ericsson), and Sony Financial. Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders and third-largest television manufacturer in the world, after Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.