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- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -12/+155Ouch. Sony just pwned themselves. Good games.
- meltingrobot, on 10/12/2007, -12/+141I think that should be a sign that there is nothing wrong with the quality of current DVDs. I personally won't switch to Blu-Ray or HD-DVD for my media. I seriously hope they take off as well as DVD-Audio discs did. I mean, why trade up for a barely noticeable quality improvement for newer badder DRM.
- CatfishJones, on 10/12/2007, -4/+128If true, I don't care so much that Sony lied but that the journalist thought to eject the drive. I wonder how many others simply snapped a quick pic of the screen and walked on? Well done Mr. Lance Ulanoff. Well done.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+110notice they didnt use a sony dvd+r.. that is a verbatim and they are owned by Mitsubishi.
i guess sony media sucks? - Avogadro65, on 10/12/2007, -29/+124If it was a straight rip of the DVD, wouldn't this be a DMCA violation?
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -2/+86No, the next betamax was laserdisc in the US. Or maybe minidisc. Or maybe UMD.. Or maybe memory stick..
- furtwan1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+88classic. Sony and "smoke and mirrors" seem to be becoming synomous
- jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+67There's no such thing as Blu-ray CONTENT. There's only High Definition content, which we can already create at arbitrarily high resolutions. The whole point is actually having working Blu-ray STORAGE mechanisms and retrieval, of what could be ANY data, but most likely HD video.
- dolson, on 10/12/2007, -7/+68Next up on Digg, inside the PS3 devkits are really Xbox 360 hardware.
- Saintlink, on 10/12/2007, -9/+60Sony is so dead in the water. After the initial fanboi surge dies down for their technology I see this becoming the next betamax.
- aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48Exactly. It is really pointless, I am not going to repurchase the movies I already own even when I watch them on a High Def. They are great as they are, so what if i can see the air-brushed zits on actors faces even better, I already dished out 19.99+ on my films!
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47If they were highlighting blu-ray, it should have AT LEAST been a damn Blu-ray disk and not a DVD-R.
If the story is true, it doesn't exactly add credibilty to Blu-ray. - misxn, on 10/12/2007, -17/+56Interesting that they used a Verbatim disk and not a SONY DVD+R. Hmmmmm....
- JeffreyAtW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34But they're advertising blu-ray, not just HD.
- Flyerman85, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32really the only reason I would switch would be for computer storage, other then that I'm not buying anything
- rlutterb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33Lance Ulanoff is a long time editor at PC Magazine... unless the blogger lied about this being his story, I believe it. He's a reputable dude.
- pabster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Losing the disc, well, that's a good point. But at $25+ per blank, I'm sure you'll keep them close.
- muleking, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Sony just sucks.
I have a ps2 and plenty of games, but outside of that, Sony is just awful at everything have have done and attempted to do in the last few years.
They are anti-consumer, proprietary obsessed idiots, and its going to cost them in the end. - pabster, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35@rimco
I beg to differ. Personally I find DVD-Audio superior to SACD. (And not just because of the cost of SACD equipment :o)
As for Blu-Ray (and HD-DVD, for that matter) - the thought of being able to backup 25 or 50 gigs to a single disc is enticing ... until you see the DRM schemes and other nonsense these idiots are planning. Would you want 50 gigs of your precious data held hostage to Sony ("I'm sorry but you are not authorized to retrieve this content.") - deut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29You got to be kidding right? MiniDisc popular in Europe?
What planet did you just land from? Stores over here have stopped selling MD content years ago. - GoMe, on 10/12/2007, -12/+37THIS STORY IS A FAKE!
The laptop on the left was playing a movie from a Blu-Ray disc, and the one on the right was playing the same movie on a DVD-R. They did this so people can notice the difference in quality from DVD to BD. - threepio, on 10/12/2007, -11/+35Ninjas!
- furtwan1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24too late!
http://digg.com/gaming/PS3_exclusive_Assassins_Creed_was_running_on_360_at_E3 - hotdrop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Rofl just move evidence that theres something wrong at sony HQ or at least with blu - ray any way
- jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27To all you defending Sony on this. You're flat out idiots. What the hell is the point of putting HD content on a DVD for the demo? Were they showing off the laptop processor and screen resolution? They had a blu-ray box next to a supposed blu-ray drive, but turns out to have a dvd in it.
- TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23HAHA, that's hilarious. I was hoping Sony would get a good start with Blu-ray, but now it seems they are only digging themselves a deep deep hole.
- dallen, on 10/12/2007, -13/+32Pirates!
- StevethePirate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23um, both the ps3 and the wii were run off dev kits, and the early wii dev kit is a gamecube with some ram stuck in it. The wii is doing the exact same thing as the ps3 and there's nothing wrong with it.
- Ahnteis, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25>>No. That movie is owned by Sony Pictures, they can print as many as they want.
This part refers to copyright law, not DMCA.
>>And they don't need to "rip" it since they have the masters.
This is why DMCA isn't a problem for them. - diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -10/+27yes
- SanTe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19aplardi wrote:
> Exactly. It is really pointless, I am not going to repurchase the movies I already own even when
> I watch them on a High Def. They are great as they are, so what if i can see the air-brushed zits
> on actors faces even better, I already dished out 19.99+ on my films!
Same here. Built a substantial DVD collection... Already own a HDTV that supports 720p and 1080i... So my choices are a) buy into either HD-DVD or Blu-ray when a winner emerges and then spend hundreds on a new player and a small fortune replacing my DVD collection with the new format, or b) replace my DVD player with a new $200 one that properly upconverts DVDs (480i) to HD resolutions (720p and 1080i).
I chose "b":
OPPO OPDV971H 720p/1080i Upconverting HDTV-Ready DVD Player
http://www.oppodigital.com (the above model is currently featured on their home page)
More on this player from HKFlix.com:
http://www.hkflix.com/hardware/xq/asp/pid.90/qx/details.htm
It also: a) does PAL -> NTSC conversion, b) plays all regions, c) plays MPEG-4/DivX/XviD files, and d) automatically skips all of the anti-piracy propaganda ads from the MPAA, movie trailers, and FBI warnings that studios are saturating DVDs with these days.
Haven't received it yet but I'm very excited to see what it can do for my movie collection. Every AV forum I checked has raved about the picture quality this DVD player can produce on HD sets... - Avogadro65, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15"And they don't need to "rip" it since they have the masters"
I'm well aware they have the masters, but I don't think some marketer is going to have access to the masters to burn a copy. But that's also why I said "If it was a straight rip of the DVD." In that case, they would have to break the encryption, violating the DMCA.
But I could be wrong. - kemche, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21So how is sony going to fit the whole movie on DVD-R. the purpose of Bluray was to provide more space for HD Movies.
- afreytes, on 10/12/2007, -11/+25do you have proof of this?
- Joe_rigby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"The House of Flying Daggers" - both a movie and a scenario in a Sony office. = )
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Possibly, because in this case, THEY OWN THE MOVIE RIGHTS.
- rlutterb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@NeoTechni
I could demo you some high-def video from my laptop here at work if that were the issue. The point of the event was to display a working Blu-Ray drive using actual Blu-Ray media. - dmsteg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13jasqwerty said it... Blu-Ray and HD/DVD is all about storage capacity. Hi-Def video takes up alot of real estate and this new media is just a means to get all that information to the consumer in a convenient manner (ie... not having to swap out a disc half way through a movie or if you want to get to the extra content).
That said... it's still a little funny that Sony was showing off this new laptop with build-in Blu-Ray functionallity, yet they were not demonstrating the Blu-Ray technology itself.
Kinda like saying "this is what Blu-Ray can do... at least once we finally show it to you" - Lagged2Death, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15oGMo said:"Obviously the reporter couldn't actually tell that it wasn't HD content just by watching the video..."
How easy would it be, on a 17-inch LCD? I wouldn't bet any money that I could do it. - GrayOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This is what we should all be using right now. DVDs with Mpeg4 (Divx, Xvid, WMV9, h.264).
We already have HD on DVD: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
Am I the only person on the planet that bought Terminator 2 Extreme Edition. - theblackgecko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14To complete the triumvarate:
Zombies! - jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808590078/info: Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics
Somehow, that is probably going to be complicated to do. Dumbass ಠ_ಠ - stringycheese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11If the difference is unnoticeable on 17", then why exactly do I need one in my laptop/PC?
- shadcrkd, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18One word: Owned.
- rimco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I vaguely remember seeing that, and I think it was even posted on digg...
- gol706, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Not if you owned the rights to the movie, as Sony does in this case.
- chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12PS3 devkits running on Windows: http://digg.com/search?search=ps3+windows&submit=Submit
And as for trailers of demo's, just because the video or even the software running the demo is on Windows doesn't mean much. It is a demo after all.
Unless of course, they told or otherwise insinuated that the videos were being played directly from a PS3 *right now* instead of pre-recorded video or emulation/simulation. - warpdragon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Lovethoseshops, that is like adding DVD content to a CD. It isnt a file format but a media format.
- moylan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@PowerCow
sony media doesn't suck! it just costs more and with sony's profits as they are they probably couln't afford it. :-) - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1220G of pr0n storage per disc.
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