![]() While the rest of the camcorder industry evolved from analog 8mm to digital MiniDV video tape, Sony gave us Digita8. Sony refused to adopt the MP3 and/or WMA standard insisting that people wouldn’t mind ripping their CD collection into a format that was incompatible with all other digital audio devices. Does your Sony digital camera take the MemoryStick, MemoryStick DUO or MemoryStick Pro DUO? Get it right or it might not work in your camera. While the MemoryStick format has been around for a while, it has gone through many generations. Sony’s special memory for their digital cameras. Whether the costs were due to high licensing fees by Sony or something else, VHS won the war. Most people agree that the standard was superior, but much more expensive. Let’s take a quick look back at the long line of Sony proprietary technology… BetaMax Typically the Sony proprietary standard is not any better than the existing standard. With each new Sony format comes licensing issues.Ĭompanies must pay Sony to utilize their technology. Sony has a long history of creating their own standards and unsuccessfully trying to get the rest of the world to adopt them. It all began with BetaMax and it continues with Blu-Ray and the digital book. ![]() The ATRAC format is only the latest proprietary Sony technology to fade into obsolescence. Sony tried to make their devices and format more popular by releasing new players every few months for a while surprisingly that didn’t work. Sony’s devices were clunky at best and the obscure conversion format meant that users had to use included software to convert their CDs into the ATRAC format. There were only a few problems with this line of thinking. ![]() Sony saw Apple succeeding with their own format and device and figured they could do the same. ![]() While the rest of the world committed to MP3 and WMA or Apple’s music format for iTunes, Sony made up their own format only supported by their devices. Sony announced their latest casualty this week by discontinuing their proprietary ATRAC audio compression file format. Apple introduced the Mac and Sony gave us the Walkman.įrom that point on, Apple has had only a handful of market failures and Sony has had nothing but. Apple and Sony both got off to a great start in the early 80s. For every Apple device that becomes a standard there is a Sony technology that becomes obsolete. ![]()
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