Sony Fakes Blu-Ray Demo? 305
twasserman writes "Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine reported on Sony's recent event showing the new VAIO AR desktop with a Blu-Ray drive, observing that Sony faked the high-def demo by using a plain old DVD+R of House of Flying Daggers. Even before the rootkit fiasco, Sony has seemed increasingly desperate, but the general consensus seems to be that Sony is looking pretty sad and pathetic." Update 03:07 GMT by SM: Many users are calling shenanigans on this one since there were two laptops side by side, one with the Blu-Ray demo and another for comparison. Independent confirmation or negation has yet to surface, so take with the requisite grain of salt required when reading any news.
Re:Too many holes... (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't know why Sony would want to use a Verbatim DVD+R for their demo, but I know I use Verbatim recordable media for integrity and reliability. I've still got circa 1997 2x CD-R Verbatim DataLifePlus discs that are still working perfectly. In fact, even with physical abuse, the discs have withstood the test of time, storage, and transportation for nearly a decade and have retained their resilliency. The only other recordable media I own that have proved nearly or equally as capable has been the Kodak DS InfoGuard CD-R.
A little off-topic, I know, but given the third question, I thought it relevant.
Re:It's probably NOT fake... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:It's probably NOT fake... (Score:4, Interesting)
Too bad those rack-mounts are PS3 devkits! With all the faked Sony bashing, it's clear why no one pays attention when they do do something crooked.
Re:Here's the problem... (Score:3, Interesting)
I can't believe all this hate for Microsoft / Sony / person of the week here.
There is no discussion here anymore just a hate circle jerk. It was funny when only 10% of the posts were trolls, and now 50% of the posted front page content is trolling.
Re:A blogger faked a fake... (Score:2, Interesting)
You may have been sarcastic, but you really hit the nail on the head as far as my opinions are.
Journalists are inept, stupid people who study to become good at writing, and never, ever to be good at what they're writing about; in other words, it's a whole industry based on being good at faking knowledge (kinda like college in other words).
Bloggers, on the other hand, are for the most part random people with random opinions. While they are almost as frequently wrong and incompetent as journalists, they're much closer to a cross-section of the populace and are thus not as prone to systematic partial incompetence as journalists are. Now, bloggers will for the most part write about subject that interest them, and for the most part, this means subjects they actually have a modicrum of knowledge about. If the "community" of random bloggers agree on something, I'm much more inclined to take it seriously than if the heterogenous society of 'not good enough to be a real writer, and too stupid to get into the university'-journalists.