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Tuesday, May 16 2006

Sony fake Blu-Ray demo  by James B at 23:55

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Engadget has an interesting and tragic tale of a tech-demo gone wrong. While celebrating the 10 year birthday of Vaio, Sony demoed off demo of an early Blu-ray title: House of Flying Daggers. Blu-ray has arrived! Or has it...

And then you get done caught red-handed by a meddling reporter who discovered the Blu-ray playback is actually coming straight off a typical, normal old DVD+R. It's a sham, Sony, the whole thing's a sham! How are you gonna make a case for your laptop -- let alone Blu-ray as a format -- now that you tried to pawn off a DVD as a Blu-ray tech demo to a room full of industry professionals?

Sony have confirmed the PlayStation 3 will use Blu-ray discs as its media format.
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malis
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16 May 2006 23:58
quite funny
Stan
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17 May 2006 00:00
assuming this is true, yet another sony piss taking cock up tbh.
Mani
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17 May 2006 00:04
Wtf are they playing at, they really are a PR nightmare right now.
Maz
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17 May 2006 01:06
ewww blue ray, they shoulda been showing off HD-DVD
Tricky
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17 May 2006 08:11
I read this earlier in the evening, I was leaning towards fake, I mean if Sony were so outraged why did they let the press take lots of photos.
Tricky
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17 May 2006 13:31
Just read it -might- be fake, they were running a DVD vs BluRay demonstration and the second laptop was intentionally a DVD.
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17 May 2006 14:52
anyway you look at it this is the bigest back lash sony has suffered after the success of the PS2 and psp.
Tricky
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17 May 2006 15:01
A lot of bitter fans I guess, you'd expect most people to buy just one console so all those PS fans waiting while others buy a 360.. and now we have the price and underwhelming game demos at E3. TBH its nice having three big console players, if only for the sake of choice.
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17 May 2006 16:26
But a lot of fanboys will still get the PS3 and refuse the admit is bad.
Tricky
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17 May 2006 17:30
i don't think its necessary bad, just too expensive and will take time for developers to get used to the hardware


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