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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Basic timeline of Sony

This post is a basic timeline of Sony. There are 24 events listed below chronologically.

Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita found Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (1946)
TR-55 transistor radio (1955)
TR-6 transistor radio (1956)
TR-63 transistor radio (1957)
Renamed to Sony (1958)
TV8-301 television (1960)
TC-50 cassette recorder (1969)
VP-1000 videocassette recorder (1971)
Walkman stereo cassette player (1979)
Sony Life insurance (1979)
CDP-101 compact disc (1981)
Sony Mavica electric camera (1981)
Begins producing lithium-ion batteries (1991)
Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed (1991)
PlayStation (1994)
Memory Stick (1998)
PlayStation 2 (2000)
Sony Bank (2001)
PlayStation Portable (2004)
PlayStation 3 (2006)
PlayStation Vita (2011)
PlayStation 4 (2013)
PlayStation VR (2016)
PlayStation 5 (2020)

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