Sony' s blunder Blu-Ray demonstration?!

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Nitro
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Sony' s blunder Blu-Ray demonstration?! - May 21, 2006 06:45
Not a dig at Blu-Ray but just something i find fairly amusing!

Supposedly they tried to put on Blu-Ray demonstration and got caught out...


On one table Sony execs proudly displayed two ARs playing early Blu-ray content: The House of Flying Daggers (below). They even had the Blu-ray packaging. So exciting…but WAIT! I went ahead and ejected one of the Blu-ray drives to see my first Blu-ray disc. Instead, I found a crummy, old school DVD+R, complete with the Sharpie-written, House of Flying Daggers. Apparently even Sony can’t get its hands on Blu-ray content!


The original story can be found here...

http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/16/11622.aspx

Is it true?! Who knows. Funny though.
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RE: Sony' s blunder Blu-Ray demonstration?! - May 21, 2006 07:43
I heard about this recently, pretty amusing... The folks at Sony are a crazy bunch.
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RE: Sony' s blunder Blu-Ray demonstration?! - May 21, 2006 08:06
It seems Sony is run by a bunch of amateurs.
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RE: Sony' s blunder Blu-Ray demonstration?! - May 21, 2006 08:09
I wouldn' t think it' s true if it was though it' s bloody funny, certainly made me laugh.
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RE: Sony' s blunder Blu-Ray demonstration?! - May 21, 2006 11:21
It' s perfectly possible.

The disc wasn' t even one of Sony' s own though, that' s just hillarious.

Note that the site is affiliated with and the story also being reported by PC Mag. That lends some authenticity.
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RE: Sony' s blunder Blu-Ray demonstration?! - May 21, 2006 22:20
I Don' t doubt it being true to be honest. Let' s face it, what have sony done to deserve confidence that they actually did something right?
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