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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.

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Company TypeSoftware
Date Formed1958
Founder(s)
Masaru Ibuka
CEO
Howard Stringer
Website
Address

550 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10022
United States


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