Sony Pictures offered its 2008 Will Smith film "Hancock" and its animated 2009 "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" early to users of its Bravia TV before the films were out on DVD.
Papa Mau faced its own challenges, including long stretches of cloudy days that made it difficult for its two solar panels to collect enough energy to power its sensor arrays.
Two years later, the latest forecast from the FDIC is for partly cloudy skies as the failed bank is nursed back to health and taxpayers supply liquidity to its subsidiaries.