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    Sony AGAIN ???

    Sony throws party for Vaios, fakes Blu-ray demo
    Sony throws party for Vaios, fakes Blu-ray demo
    http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/sony-throws-party-for-vaios-fakes-blu-ray-demo/
    Who'd you think you were fooling, Sony? You go throw some big huge party celebrating the 10 year birthday of the Vaio and the launch of the Vaio UX Micro PC and your new flagship Blu-ray playing AR series 17-inch powerhouse laptop, replete with demo of early Blu-ray title House of Flying Daggers. 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? We hope at least it was playing back a high def trailer, or something; now go to your room, you're gonna have some serious alone time, little mister.Update: To be honest, we never thought this one would take off the way it has, but it looks like we underestimated the forensic skills of the collective. The latest word is that someone claiming to be from Sony has posted a comment on Gearlog saying that there were two laptops, one with the DVD-R of "House of Flying Daggers," and the other with the Blu-ray version, so that folks could make a side-by-side comparison. Gearlog's reporter apparently popped the latch on the DVD version, and didn't check the Blu-ray one. We have no way to independently verify this version (or Gearlog's original take), though Notebook Review does have some pics clearly showing two laptops on display at the Sony shindig. All of this leads us to one conclusion: Next time, Sony should just invite us to their parties, and we'll get it straight. And we may even like the tinfoil-flavored cake, too.


    Who'd you think you were fooling, Sony? You go throw some big huge party celebrating the 10 year birthday of the Vaio and the launch of the Vaio UX Micro PC and your new flagship Blu-ray playing AR series 17-inch powerhouse laptop, replete with demo of early Blu-ray title House of Flying Daggers. 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? We hope at least it was playing back a high def trailer, or something; now go to your room, you're gonna have some serious alone time, little mister.

    Update: To be honest, we never thought this one would take off the way it has, but it looks like we underestimated the forensic skills of the collective. The latest word is that someone claiming to be from Sony has posted a comment on Gearlog saying that there were two laptops, one with the DVD-R of "House of Flying Daggers," and the other with the Blu-ray version, so that folks could make a side-by-side comparison. Gearlog's reporter apparently popped the latch on the DVD version, and didn't check the Blu-ray one. We have no way to independently verify this version (or Gearlog's original take), though Notebook Review does have some pics clearly showing two laptops on display at the Sony shindig. All of this leads us to one conclusion: Next time, Sony should just invite us to their parties, and we'll get it straight. And we may even like the tinfoil-flavored cake, too.
    "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."
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    http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/17/11993.aspx

    PC Magazine's Lance Ulanoff would like to set the record straight about yesterday's Blu-ray fiasco. Here is what he had to say:

    Did Sony have a commercial Blu-ray content disk there or not? That's the big question regarding Sony's now infamous 10-year anniversary party. Many people, including Sony, say I got the story—all five relevant sentences of it—wrong.

    Yes, there were two AR laptops with Blu-ray drives on that table, each one with a crowd of people waiting to see it. Between the laptops was a placard noting that these were both the current models of the AR, the first laptop with a Blu-ray drive. There was no indication in words or print that this was some sort of visual comparison, as Sony has suggested. I scooted as close as I could to the laptop on the left side, took a bunch of photos and then pressed eject on the Blu-ray drive and out popped the drive and DVD+R. I took a photo because I was surprised, amused and a tad disappointed.

    As you may know, this story has created quite a fury of activity across the web on Slashdot, Engadget, and Digg. While it's true that I did not check the drive of the second AR laptop, I thought both laptops were showing the same thing and saw no need to investigate the second seemingly duplicate setup.



    Earlier today, I spoke with a Sony PR rep about what, the company says, I should have seen. According to Sony, there was a demonstration going on there and the laptop on the right-hand side had inside it a Blu-ray disc that was "not final master." I'm not sure what that would have looked like. I wish I had seen it.



    The rep did not know why the left-hand laptop had a DVD+R instead of a commercial DVD. He said, "We're still trying to find out. Obviously, internally we own the rights to [that movie]." However, he thinks it may have had something to do with wanting to get the right kind of content playing on the standard DVD laptop so Sony could show off an "apples to apples comparison."



    The Sony rep believes I should have come straight to him when I saw the DVD+R. Had I thought this was a momentous discovery, I would have. But the fact that I found no Blu-ray disc was, to me, humorous and not some indication of bait and switch.
    "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism."

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      From a slashback

      Gearlog.com has retracted a previous accusation against Sony regarding their alleged use of a DVD+R instead of a Blu-Ray disc in a demonstration. In the original announcement, Gearlog.com claimed that Sony was using a DVD+R to demonstrate Blu-Ray technology, in an attempt to show that Sony was not ready to market the product.

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