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Sony Fakes Blu-Ray Demo?
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.
So, wait a second. We've got some guy on some site that has pictures of a DVD in a drive, and this is somehow proof that Sony faked the whole thing? Aren't there just a few holes here?
Ah yes, the whole "They couldn't be THAT incompetent defense". Nice try, fanboy. Just because they are incompetent doesn't mean they didn't do it. The person who discovered this isn't just some random XBox blogger, this is a writer for a major magazine. Someone who would have alot to loose for just making stuff up. Someone does a little investigative journalism in tech for one and all the SonyBoys try to tear him down, instead of asking why Sony is resorting to smoke-and-mirrors
I'm not saying that Sony is the only one doing this kind of stuff. Not at all. But it needs to be exposed no matter WHAT company is doing it. Even if it happens to be your favorite company.